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Ken A. Epstein

Defend and Transform Oakland’s Public Schools

By Post Staff The Post Salon co-sponsored a community dialogue on schools Sunday, Dec. 9. along with…

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Ken A. Epstein

Opinion: City Agency Set to Seize Black Veteran’s Home

Posted in Berkeley, Gentrification, Homelessness, Housing/Foreclosures, Probate court reform, Racial profiling, Responsive Government Leonard Powell is facing “an unconscionable and unwarranted debt” Leonard Powell (right)…

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Oakland Pays Tribute to Outgoing Councilmember Desley Brooks

Posted in Desley Brooks, Economic Development, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Homelessness, Housing/Foreclosures, Illegal dumping, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated “Desley was the lightning rod who took all the bad energy…

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Ken A. Epstein

Report: How to House Oakland’s Unhoused Within Six Months

City workers and police officers evict homeless residents Thursday afternoon, Dec. 6, from Housing and Dignity Village,…

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Ken A. Epstein

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”…

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Ken A. Epstein

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…

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Ken A. Epstein

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…

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Ken A. Epstein

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…

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Ken A. Epstein

Attacks on Desley Brooks Are “Shameful and Dishonest,” Say Community Leaders

Posted in Affordable Housing, Against White Supremacy, Desley Brooks, Economic Development, Elections & Voting Rights, Elections 2018, Gentrification, Homelessness, Housing/Foreclosures, Illegal dumping, Libby Schaaf, Police-Public Safety, Politics, Racial profiling, Responsive Government, Sanctuary City, voting rights…

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Ken A. Epstein

UN Report Says Oakland Guilty of “Cruel and Inhumane Treatment” of Homeless

Posted in Affordable Housing, Community, Environment, Gentrification, Homelessness, Housing/Foreclosures, Libby Schaaf The United Nations Special Rapporteur to the Right to Adequate Housing, Lelani Farha, released…

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