This Week in Resistance from Oakland to Sacramento
Starting with Friday, January 5th, we have a very busy activist week coming up–important stuff from sanctuary to rent control, coal to electoral organizing, it’s…
Media Advisory: Oakland Holds 1st Police Commission Meeting since passage of Measure LL
City of Oakland Holds Inaugural Police Commission Meeting Oakland, CA.-On Wednesday, December 13 at 6:30 pm in the City Council Chambers, the Oakland Police Commission…
Tell the Oakland City Council-Time for a Fair Contract!
Oakland City workers are headed into a 5th day of a strike for a fair contract; a contract that includes wages that keep up with…
Progressive Women and the Franken Divide
Senator Al Franken has resigned – and it could be argued that he had lost his powerful voice anyway after so many allegations of groping…
The Upside Down, Welcome to Oakland
If you haven’t heard of the series, Stranger Things, you’re missing out but you can attend Oakland City Council meetings, no subscription required, and find yourself…
Oakland Goes Through the Looking Glass Again-the Oak Knoll Decision
“’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.” The Mad Hatter’s…
Notice: New Information–Join our Complaint–No Complicity with ICE in this Sanctuary City
Breaking: Although the complaint has been removed from next Tuesday’s agenda by Council Members Annie Campbell Washington and Abel Guillen with no new date, we…
James Vann on the Oakland A’s Proposal
Guest blogger James Vann submitted this post to the East Bay Times but they rejected it saying that it was too “broad [a] critique” of…
Wellstone Democratic Club on the Laney Proposal for the A’s Stadium
This letter from the Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club was sent to the Peralta Trustees and the Oakland City Council and Mayor with serious concerns on…
“The Force” & the Oakland Police Accountability Coalition: A Story Untold
Many members of the Oakland Police Accountability Coalition, some of whom have worked on police reform for decades, have struggled to reconcile the portrayal of the…