Health

Ken A. Epstein

Actor Danny Glover Joins Kaiser Permanente Workers to Protest as Strike Nears

Posted in Health, Labor Hospital workers block street on Labor Day,, Sept.2., at Kaiser headquarters in Oakland, protesting as strike…

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Ken A. Epstein

Council Adopts Kaplan’s $3.2 Billion Budget

Posted in Affordable Housing, Arts and Culture, Business, Economic Development, Gentrification, Health, Homelessness, Housing/Foreclosures, Illegal dumping, Immigrant Rights, Labor, LGBT, Libby Schaaf, Oakland Job Programs, Police-Public Safety, Politics, Racial profiling, Rebecca Kaplan, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated, Responsive Government, Restorative Justice Bas…

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Ken A. Epstein

Opinion: Disguised Discrimination Against Black Workers Returns to City Council Agenda

Posted in Affordable Housing, Against White Supremacy, Economic Development, Equal Rights/Equity, Health, Housing/Foreclosures, Labor, Oakland Job Programs Hold Public Hearings Before Passing a Project Labor Agreement…

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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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Health Advocate Margaret Gordon

Health Advocate Margaret Gordon Receives West Oakland Health Trailblazer Award

Posted in coal dispute, Community, Economic Development, Environment, Equal Rights/Equity, Health, Oakland Job Programs, Responsive Government West Oakland Health is honoring Margaret Gordon, co-director of the…

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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

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

City Leaders Determined to Fight Against Coal Terminal

Posted in coal dispute, Community, Elections 2018, Health, Libby Schaaf, Rebecca Kaplan One of the many protests against the coal terminal held at the…

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Ken A. Epstein

Congress of Neighborhoods Says Mayor’s Illegal Dumping Proposal is “Insufficient”

Posted in Community, Elections 2018, Environment, Health, Illegal dumping, Libby Schaaf, Oakland Talks Trash “The time for partial solutions and unmet promises is over,” says…

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Ken A. Epstein

Anti-Coal Activists Announce Boycott of Phil Tagami’s Rotunda Building

Posted in Army Base Jobs, coal dispute, Economic Development, Health, Oakland Job Programs Young people join protest Tuesday at the downtown Rotunda Building…

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