• Direct Action

  • Jan 11 2020
  • Length: 29 mins
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • Brown takes office as mayor of Oakland in 1999, with the goals of improving development, public safety, and schools. He learns that solving the city’s issues will take direct action: negotiating with neighbors, riding along with cops, and walking the hallways of the city’s schools. But critics say getting closer to the problems didn’t remove Brown’s blind spots. 
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