Month: June 2014
School District Wants to Sell School Property to Build Apartments
Posted in Community, Education/Schools/Youth, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures “We are not surplus,” said teachers and communit members who went to the Oakland school district’s…
Council Members Kill Police Accountability Measure
Posted in Community, Equal Rights/Equity, Police-Public Safety, Politics By Ken A. Epstein A push by a community coalition asking the Oakland City…
Councilmember Noel Gallo Takes Heat for Backing Police Accountability Measure
Posted in Police-Public Safety By Ken Epstein City Councilmember Noel Gallo is coming under a lot of pressure for…
OPD Close to Full Compliance on Court-ordered Reforms
Posted in Equal Rights/Equity, Police-Public Safety But the department still has much work to do to “institutionalize” progress By Ken…
Teach Tomorrow Oakland Honors Six Veteran Teachers
Posted in Education/Schools/Youth Teach Tomorrow in Oakland (TTO) last Saturday celebrated the first six of its educators to complete…
Larry Moore’s Three-Decade Fight for Justice
Posted in Community, Education/Schools/Youth, Equal Rights/Equity, Police-Public Safety “This adversity has made a stronger individual out of me, and I continue fighting…
Police Oversight Commission Clears First Hurdle
Posted in Police-Public Safety, Responsive Government By Ken A. Epstein A resolution that allows discussion and action on a proposed…
Gallo Backs Community Call for Police Accountability
Posted in Community, Police-Public Safety By Ken Epstein Councilmember Noel Gallo is pushing the City Council to consider placing a…
Kaplan Jumps into Mayoral Race
Posted in Elections & Voting Rights By Ken Epstein Ending months of speculation, Councilmember-at-Large Rebecca Kaplan has joined the…
Defeating Strom
Posted in Commentary, Community, Equal Rights/Equity The year we saved the Voting Rights Act By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor By the fall…