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We’re looking for people to join our exciting campaign advancing economic, racial, and environmental justice in East and West Oakland. We are building a team of social justice advocates to inform and mobilize thousands of voters via phone banking, texting, and door-to-door contact.

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Fair Elections Oakland

Let’s create an Oakland where our local electeds are more accountable to the community!

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Invest In Our Oakland!

A new modern progressive business tax for Oakland

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Alameda County District Attorney Race

The Alameda County District Attorney race is open for the first time in over a decade and has the potential to transform what public safety and justice look like for the next four years and beyond.

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Oakland Redistricting

New map incorporates our communities’ feedback and ensures strengthened representation for our Black, Latine, and API communities!

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Our Mission

Oakland Rising educates and mobilizes voters in the flatlands to speak up for and take charge of the issues impacting our lives. We are a multilingual, multiracial collaborative with deep roots in East and West Oakland’s…

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Our Vision

We envision an Oakland that realizes our shared dreams of health, happiness, safety and opportunity for all. A Town that stands for progress and sustainability, that models what is possible in American cities of the 21st century.

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The Collaborative

We connect progressive organizations and activists, community members, leaders, labor and faith-based institutions to Oakland’s progressive political electoral and movement building work.

4/25/22 Monday Meals: Supporting Small Business

Apr 25, 2022

Thanks to Ari Tanaka-Vasquez from Oakland Indie Alliance @oakindies and Jessie Nguyen from the REAL People’s Fund @realpeoplesfund for joining us to talk about the proposed progressive business tax in Oakland.

4/18/22 Monday Meals: Fair Elections Oakland

Apr 18, 2022

“For us to get people to say ‘actually my participation is going to make a difference’ – that is what is really exciting about this opportunity is that people now have another pathway to participate in a system that has previously locked us out and continues to create laws to keep us out.”

4/4/2022 Monday Meals: REAL People’s Fund

Apr 4, 2022

The REAL People’s Fund is a $10M community capital program offering equitable access to finance for small businesses in the historically disinvested East Bay community.

SLUDGE: Oakland Community Groups Launch Campaign to Fight Big Money in Elections

Mar 17, 2022

“We’ll see more grassroots candidates run more viable campaigns and see an increased turnout of low-propensity voters, those who have been left out will have a voice in Oakland,” suk said. “If it passes in Oakland, it can build a movement toward real campaign finance reform.”

High-Dollar Donors, Special Interests Continue To Dominate Oakland’s Local Elections

Mar 2, 2022

MapLight Releases New Analysis: “Campaign Cash: The Outsized Role of Money in Oakland Elections” FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, March 2, 2022CONTACT: Irene Rojas-Carroll, [email protected] OAKLAND, CA – High-dollar donors and special-interest groups continue…

94.1 KPFA UpFront: OUSD School Closures

Feb 9, 2022

Cat Brooks is joined by City Councilmember Carroll Fife, Pecolia Manigo , co-director of Bay Area Parent Leadership Action Network and member of the Reparations for Black Students Coalition, Maurice “André” San-Chez, teacher and hunger striker, and Oakland Rising’s Executive Director, liz suk.