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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…
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…
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)…
Opinion: Reflection on Tuesday’s City Council Meeting
Posted in Responsive Government By Cathy Leonard It is clear that these councilpersons, with the exception of Councilperson-at-Large Rebecca Kaplan,…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Oakland Unified Looks at Closing Up to 24 School
By Ken Epstein The Oakland Unified School District’s Board of Education is moving ahead with a “Community…
Opinion: Climate Change Intensifies Injustice in East Oakland
Posted in Climate change, Environment, Equal Rights/Equity Mask Oakland and Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) deliver breathing masks to local…