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2018 Election Results

Results from the November 6 Midterm Election

What does it take to have public leaders who are accountable and responsive to the East Bay's most impacted communities? We believe that it requires recruiting, training and supporting leaders from our working class communities of color. To advance a much more aggressive agenda for progressive change, we need the help of leaders who apply social justice values to addressing issues ranging from affordable housing and land use to criminal justice, and who are accountable to other grassroots leaders in their communities.

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Bring racial & economic justice to our communities this Fall!

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Working together, everyday residents of Oakland's flatlands have the power to change the way our city is run.

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Preparing Electeds for Advancing Justice in 2019

Dec. 17, 2018

Oakland Rising and our collaborative partners hosted our post-election issues briefing with elected officials on December 14, 2018 at City Hall.

Movement Tech Graduation

Dec. 14, 2018

The Movement Technology Fellows completed the first year of the program with a Graduation and Presentation ceremony on Tuesday, December 11, 2018. Fellows started the program in April and working in collaboration with each other, their mentors, and counterparts at their home organizations, learned a series of new technical skills and developed...

Oakland demands immediate response to fire and housing crisis

Nov. 19, 2018

Dear Mayor Schaaf: We reach out to you as organizations working closely with the people of Oakland - particularly with low income communities of color, immigrants, people with disabilities, low wage workers, LGTBQ neighbors, unsheltered people, and people who were formerly incarcerated. Our communities are the ones impacted first and worst by...