Jun 11, 2025
Chaney Turner of Oakland Rising discusses the Oakland City Budget with two special guests from the Oakland People’s Budget Coalition: Vanessa Riles, born and raised in Oakland, is a queer, fat, Black, disabled, womanist, activist, organizer and lay minister....
May 13, 2025
For this Monday Meals discussion we covered the latest updates on the state of the California and Alameda County budget and how this affects our local access to essential community resources. “There’s multiple budgets happening right now – the State...
May 6, 2025
“There is no Town without the fabric of the people that make it.” -Leon Sykes, Co-Founder of 510 Day For this Monday Meals discussion, we feature cofounders and organizer of the annual 510 Day celebration of Oakland’s culture and history of culture....
Apr 24, 2025
For our final discussion of our 101 series, we discussed the role of the School Board – who is the School Board? What is the School Board responsible for? How can we make our voices heard to impact the changes we’ like to see in our school district? Please...
Apr 24, 2025
Listen back on our discussion on the importance of voting in local elections ahead of the Oakland Special Election on 4/15. Please welcome our guest: Sloane Noel-Johnson! Sloane was born, raised and proudly resides in East Oakland. An artist at heart, she describes...
