Mar 6, 2023
Note from Oakland Rising: Regardless of people’s past choices and lifestyles, it does not give police and prisons the right to kill someone. We acknowledge how framing in the media is complicit in dehumanizing Black, Indigenous, People of Color in order to...
Mar 3, 2023
Last week I moderated the first discussion in The REAL People’s Fund’s 3-Part Build Better Series. REAL stands for revolutionizing our economy for all local people. We’re talking about a regenerative economy because we are taking on the extractive...
Mar 2, 2023
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, Mar 2, 2023 Press Contacts: Joshua Stickney, Ella Baker Center, [email protected], 405-315-4151 Michael G. Bare, CURYJ, [email protected], 347-239-3656 OAKLAND – The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights released the following...
Feb 27, 2023
Frankie Ramos, Deputy Director of Campaigns and Organizing of Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice and Jose Bernal, Organizing Director of Ella Baker Center joined us this Monday Meals to talk about the Alameda County Landscape. Learn more about the power...
Feb 24, 2023
The Oakland Progressive Alliance (OPA) is a community-labor coalition of over 12 community, labor, housing and youth organizations, representing thousands of Oakland residents and the greater Bay Area. OPA and our undersigned allies strongly condemn the increasingly...