Equal Rights/Equity
Art Exhibit at Oakland’s Betti Ono Gallery Exposes Realities Migrants Experience in Detention
Posted in Arts and Culture, Economic Development, Education/Schools/Youth, Equal Rights/Equity, Immigrant Rights Visitors to the Betti Ono gallery exhibit “Visions from the Inside”…
The National Lawyers Guild Honors Local Attorney Walter Riley
Posted in Community, Equal Rights/Equity, Police-Public Safety, Racial profiling The National Lawyers Guild honored Oakland civil rights attorney Walter Riley at its…
End Jim Crow Segregation at Oakland Restaurants, Say Activists
Posted in Community, Economic Development, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Oakland Job Programs By Ken Epstein and Ashley Chambers Restaurants and hospitality businesses employ nearly…
Community Turns Up the Volume to Defend Residents and Businesses
Posted in Affordable Housing, Arts and Culture, Business, Economic Development, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures Activists demand “Development Without Displacement” after mayor’s staff says there is…
Oakland Anti-Displacement Coalition Says “Speak Out to Stay Put!”
Carroll Fife (top left), a co-founder of the Oakland Alliance, spoke at a workshop on developing an…
Oakland Petition: Neighbors Should Not Be Racially Profiling Neighbors
Posted in Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Police-Public Safety, Racial profiling By Ken Epstein Oakland community activist Ann Nomura and her family have begun…
Is Oakland a “Sanctuary City” for Its Sanctuaries?
Posted in Affordable Housing, Arts and Culture, Community, Economic Development, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures, Police-Public Safety, Responsive Government, Uncategorized Gentrifiers cause the city to use police and fines…
Churches Respond to Noise Complaints Filed Against West Oakland Church
Posted in Affordable Housing, Arts and Culture, Community, Economic Development, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures, Responsive Government Neighborhoods gear up to protest gentrification with a “joyful noise”…
Dan Kalb Proposes Law to Protect Renters from Landlord Harassment
By Ashley Chambers An ordinance was introduced at the city’s Community and Economic Development meeting this week…
City of Oakland and Local Businesses Must Hire Oakland Now, Say Community Leaders
Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures, Immigrant Rights, Labor, LGBT, Oakland Job Programs, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated Speakers at the Post Salon on jobs for Oakland residents were (…