Jun 1, 2021
This May with Bay Rising, California Calls and We Are California, we launched our first field campaign since the beginning of the pandemic. The Healthy Future Program CA pushes for health equity, ensuring our most impacted communities have the access to and...
May 21, 2021
Launching this year, the Revolutionizing our Economy for All Local (REAL) People’s Fund is a community capital fund investing in creating economic and political power for the East Bay’s Black and Brown neighborhoods. Through the REAL People’s Fund, private, corporate,...
May 20, 2021
KQED | Nastia Voynovskaya | May 19 A mural in downtown Oakland by T. Banks (@reallyfebanksy). (Cianni Jackson) With the grief and isolation of the pandemic, many have referred to artists as “second responders” to the crisis. It was the creative people in our...
May 17, 2021
Oakland News by Hyphenated Republic on patreon.com | MAY 16, 2021 Mayor Libby Schaaf unveiled her proposed FY 21-23 budget last Monday in an often-contentious Special Budget meeting that sometimes resembled a training webinar more than a budget presentation. The...
May 14, 2021
Mayor Schaaf said a supermajority of residents want more police, but reform advocates say the public is really on their side. A police officer patrolling Lake Merritt in April. Credit: Amir Aziz by Darwin BondGraham | The OAKLANDSIDE | May 13, 2021 During her budget...
