Our elected officials will vote on how to spend 10’s of Millions of our tax dollars this month. Right now, the Mayor’s budget would spend the majority of our money on police and police overtime. We and the ReFund Oakland Coalition believe we need funding to address Oakland’s biggest issues, including Read more…
Crosspost from Bay Rising Action. Battles between corporate and progressive Dems will only get more pitched between now and 2020. By María Poblet Our newly elected representatives just took their oaths of office. But for many of us who organize in the Bay Area, the dust has only just settled from Read more…
2019 is kicking off on the right foot as a record number of unapologetically progressive women of color step into power. From Oakland to the halls of Congress, women answered the call to public leadership and ran on their values – never wavering on their message of inclusion and equity for all. It’s a Read more…
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 Read more…