Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated

Campaign supporters with Boudin buttons

Chesa Boudin Runs for SF District Attorney

Posted in Against White Supremacy, Equal Rights/Equity, Police-Public Safety, Racial profiling, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated, Responsive Government, Restorative Justice, Sanctuary City East Bay Civil Rights attorney Pamela Price…

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$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…

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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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Group posing outside Freedom & Movement Center

“Restore Our Rights” – End Disenfranchisement of Californians with Felony Convictions

Posted in Elections & Voting Rights, Equal Rights/Equity, Mass incarceration, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated, voting rights Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC) is hosting…

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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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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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Hold Sheriff Accountable for Human Rights Violations at Alameda County Jail, Says New Report

Posted in Economic Development, Mass incarceration, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated “Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with…

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Opinion: Re-elect Desley Brooks to City Council

Posted in Affordable Housing, Against White Supremacy, Community, Desley Brooks, Economic Development, Elections 2018, Equal Rights/Equity, Housing/Foreclosures, Labor, Oakland Job Programs, Politics, Racial profiling, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated, Responsive Government By Dan Siegel, Oakland…

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Councilmembers Delay Vote on Proposal for Construction Job Opportunities for Oaklanders

Pre-apprenticeship building trades trainees from the Cypress Mandela Training Center, which was founded by the Oakland Private…

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Port of Oakland Passes Groundbreaking Jobs Policy

After 21 months of negotiations with the local community, the Port of Oakland Board of Commissioners voted…

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