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orishaproject: At Babalawo Obafemi’s Orisa Shrine in Oakland’s Fruitvale district, one entire wall features a mural depicting several of Ifa’s divine entities. The high priest Orunmila (top center) watches over the opon ifa divining tray. He’s surrounded by (clockwise) the orishas Obatala, Shango, Oshosi, Eshu Elegba, Yemoja, Oya, and Oshun. Oakland artists Ras Terms and Safety First painted the mural. By Christopher M. Johnson/The Orisha Project 2012.

orishaproject:

At Babalawo Obafemi’s Orisa Shrine in Oakland’s Fruitvale district, one entire wall features a mural depicting several of Ifa’s divine entities. The high priest Orunmila (top center) watches over the opon ifa divining tray. He’s surrounded by (clockwise) the orishas Obatala, Shango, Oshosi, Eshu Elegba, Yemoja, Oya, and Oshun. Oakland artists Ras Terms and Safety First painted the mural. By Christopher M. Johnson/The Orisha Project 2012.

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anticapitalist: Crime Rates Drop During the Occupy Oakland Encampment In this graph, the upper pink line tracks the previous three-year average crime rate for each week, while the lower blue line tracks the rate for 2011. As you can see, there’s quite a bit of fluctuation from week to week—but except for the duration of the encampment, the 2011 rate closely tracks the trend from previous years. Apart from the usual dip in September coming a week late, the up vs. down trend is a perfect match. But the first four weeks of the Oakland Commune are a clear aberration. The normal trend in crime for October is virtually flat, but in 2011 those four weeks saw a cumulative 40% drop in crime. In fact, the fourth week—the week of the General Strike, with its notorious incidents of window-breaking and vandalism—was actually Oakland’s most crime-free week in all of 2011 (and possibly much longer—I only checked the stats through the beginning of the year). But was Occupy Oakland really the cause of this precipitous drop in crime? Correlation doesn’t prove causation—but as a downtown resident, the cause was clear as night and day. (Read More) Really nice chart showing affect of Occupy Oakland on local crime.

anticapitalist:

Crime Rates Drop During the Occupy Oakland Encampment

In this graph, the upper pink line tracks the previous three-year average crime rate for each week, while the lower blue line tracks the rate for 2011. As you can see, there’s quite a bit of fluctuation from week to week—but except for the duration of the encampment, the 2011 rate closely tracks the trend from previous years. Apart from the usual dip in September coming a week late, the up vs. down trend is a perfect match.

But the first four weeks of the Oakland Commune are a clear aberration. The normal trend in crime for October is virtually flat, but in 2011 those four weeks saw a cumulative 40% drop in crime. In fact, the fourth week—the week of the General Strike, with its notorious incidents of window-breaking and vandalism—was actually Oakland’s most crime-free week in all of 2011 (and possibly much longer—I only checked the stats through the beginning of the year).

But was Occupy Oakland really the cause of this precipitous drop in crime? Correlation doesn’t prove causation—but as a downtown resident, the cause was clear as night and day.

(Read More)

Really nice chart showing affect of Occupy Oakland on local crime.