Rebecca Kaplan
Mayor Created Oakland Promise by Approving Resolution While City Council Was on Summer Break
City Attorney memorandum says city rules “prohibit the mayor from approving ordinances during council’s annual recess” By…
$44.4 More Million for Homeless
Posted in Economic Development, Gentrification, Homelessness, Illegal dumping, Immigrant Rights, Labor, Libby Schaaf, Oakland Job Programs, Politics, Racial profiling, Rebecca Kaplan, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated, Responsive Government, Restorative Justice, Sanctuary City, Transportation Affordable housing, parks, illegal…
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…
Oakland May Name Road in Honor of Oscar Grant
Posted in Against White Supremacy, Community, Desley Brooks, History and remembering, Police-Public Safety, Racial profiling, Rebecca Kaplan Community leaders join together to endorse naming road…
New Year, New Leadership, New Oakland?
Rebecca Kaplan unanimously elected City Council President By Ken Epstein Oakland honored its newly elected city leaders…
Open Letter: Support Rebecca Kaplan for City Council President
Posted in Politics, Rebecca Kaplan Oakland City Council will be sworn in to office, including three newly-elected members. Immediately after…
Council Rushes to Approve Five-Year Police Agreement
Posted in Libby Schaaf, Police-Public Safety, Racial profiling, Rebecca Kaplan, Responsive Government, Uncategorized APTP activist James Burch tells City Council to stop putting the…
Community Wins Major Victory for Independent Police Oversight Commission
Posted in Community, Police-Public Safety, Rebecca Kaplan, Responsive Government By Ken Epstein The debate at the City Council meeting went on for hours…
Moratorium on Public Land Sales Goes to CED Committee
By Post staff The City Council’s Community and Economic Development (CED) Committee will hear a community-initiated proposal…
‘BBQing While Black’ Leader Kenzie Smith to Become Park Commissioner
Posted in Against White Supremacy, Community, Equal Rights/Equity, Racial profiling, Rebecca Kaplan Kenzie Smith (left) and Onsayo Abram at last Sunday’s “BBQing While…