Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated

Ken A. Epstein

East Oakland Organizations Unveil New Grassroots People’s Agenda

East Oakland residents gathered in front of city hall his week to unveil a community-created East Oakland…

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Ken A. Epstein

Congress of Neighborhoods Seeks Community Power in East Oakland Flatlands

By Ken Epstein Hundreds of local residents packed into an elementary school gymnasium last Saturday to attend…

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Ken A. Epstein

“Unite Against Hate,” Say East Bay Leaders

Posted in Against White Supremacy, Berkeley, Equal Rights/Equity, Ferguson/Black Lives Matter, Labor, LGBT, Police-Public Safety, Racial profiling, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated, Responsive Government East Bay leaders speak at a press…

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Ken A. Epstein

New Citizens’ Police Commission Could Become Among Strongest in Nation

Posted in Equal Rights/Equity, Police-Public Safety, Racial profiling, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated, Responsive Government, Restorative Justice By Post Staff A selection panel made its final choices…

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Ken A. Epstein

Oakland Anti-Displacement Coalition Says “Speak Out to Stay Put!”

Carroll Fife (top left), a co-founder of the Oakland Alliance, spoke at a workshop on developing an…

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Ken A. Epstein

City of Oakland and Local Businesses Must Hire Oakland Now, Say Community Leaders

Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures, Immigrant Rights, Labor, LGBT, Oakland Job Programs, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated Speakers at the Post Salon on jobs for Oakland residents were (…

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Ken A. Epstein

Landmark Victory Curbs Long-term Solitary Confinement in California Prisons

Posted in Mass incarceration, Police-Public Safety, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated Family members of prisoners, demonstrators and lawyers celebrated last week’s landmark settlement reducing…

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Ken A. Epstein

We Must Speak Up” for Racial Justice, Say Teen Leaders and Rep. Barbara Lee

Posted in Education/Schools/Youth, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures, Immigrant Rights, Mass incarceration, Oakland Job Programs, Police-Public Safety, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated, Restorative Justice Calling for Black-Brown unity, a youth said, “The…

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Ken A. Epstein

Is America Hearing the Message Resonating from Behind Prison Walls?

Posted in Commentary, Equal Rights/Equity, Mass incarceration, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated By Troy William Commentary After reading articles written by Richard Johnson (in the…

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Ken A. Epstein

Nurses Back Bernie Sanders for President

Posted in Economic Development, Education/Schools/Youth, Elections & Voting Rights, Environment, Health, Labor, Police-Public Safety, Politics, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated, voting rights Candidate calls for an end to racism and mass…

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