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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…
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)…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…