Month: November 2018
Oakland Unified Looks at Closing Up to 24 School
By Ken Epstein The Oakland Unified School District’s Board of Education is moving ahead with a “Community…
Opinion: Climate Change Intensifies Injustice in East Oakland
Posted in Climate change, Environment, Equal Rights/Equity Mask Oakland and Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) deliver breathing masks to local…
Castlemont High Celebrates Coming Out Day
By Zack Haber This year, Castlemont High School celebrated National Coming Out Day for the first time….
Oakland Race & Equity Dept. Report Calls for End to Systemic Racial Disparities
Affordable housing protest at Oakland City Hall By Ken Epstein City Councilmembers this week took the “first step”…
Clergy Leaders Endorse Desley Brooks While Mayor and Developers Raise Money to Defeat Her
Posted in Affordable Housing, Business, Desley Brooks, Economic Development, Elections & Voting Rights, Elections 2018, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Homelessness, Housing/Foreclosures, Illegal dumping, Immigrant Rights, Labor, Politics, voting rights Brooks’ opponents are spending nearly…
Report: Oakland Can House 2,000 Homeless People in 6 Months “If Political Will Exists”
Real number of homeless in Oakland is over 9,000 A number of Oakland groups released a “Community-Based…
Bernie Sanders Endorses Jovanka Beckles for Assembly
Posted in Charter schools and privatization, Economic Development, Elections 2018, Environment, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Health, Housing/Foreclosures, Illegal dumping, Immigrant Rights, Labor, LGBT, Politics, Responsive Government, Richmond Senator Bernie Sanders endorsed Jovanka Beckles for…
No on AA: Congress of Neighborhoods, East Bay Times Oppose Schaaf’s Education Initiative
“It’s not clear where the money is going, for there is no plan,” says the newspaper By…