Thank you Dr. Kimberly Mayfield, Oakland Deputy Mayor, for joining us to share about the Talking Transitions Project survey. Learn more about the project and fill out the survey here.

We need as many Oakland residents living the flatlands to share and fill out the survey. The results will directly inform and impact the types of services the city will provide in Housing and Homelessness, Economic Opportunity, and Public Safety. Watch to learn more.

Thank you to Hakim Owen, Underground Scholars Policy Fellow, who joined us to talk about AB 280 the CA Mandela Act. Mercury in Retrograde was messing with our tech but hopefully you can listen in to the deep and rich conversation to learn more about how the prison system is another form of slavery and how solitary confinement is inhumane and how this legislation is trying to change that system. Email [email protected] to learn more info about some upcoming events including a lobby day in Sacramento.

Today was one the liveliest conversations and participation from the audience! We talked about trash but more importantly CLEAN UP. Thank you to Chaney Turner @social_life from @beyondequity and @townbizoakland and Tonya Love @tdlove5 for joining and all that you do for Oakland.

Sign up to join the Clean Up day on Sunday, August 27 1-3 pm @ 105th and International (aka E14th)!

We had Criminal Justice/ Police Practices Attorney at the ACLU Foundation of Nor Cal, Allyssa Victory, Esq., join us to talk about the ACDA Table’s Mental Health and Diversion Town Hall happening THIS THURSDAY (8/17). Learn about alternatives to incarceration and punitive punishment, and community-based responses to mental health needs in Alameda County.

Thanks to Ty Kyser with Causa Justa Just Cause and Thomas Alexander with Oakland Tenants Union for joining us today to breakdown what happened, what’s happening, and what is going to happen with the Eviction Moratorium, and the impacts of it ending in July. Be sure to reach out to East Bay Community Law Center, Bay Area Legal Aid, Centro Legal de La Raza, The Eviction Defense Center, and API Legal Outreach if you received an eviction notice. Housing is a human right everyday, not just when people can pay their rent.

Check out our Monday Meals segment on Police Accountability with Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice Organizer, Amanda Blanco, and Decarcerate Alameda County Organizer Cynthia Nunes. We discussed police accountability in both Oakland and Alameda County, and next steps to ensuring transparency between police departments and our communities.

Thank you for your unwavering support and active participation in shaping Oakland's City Budget for the upcoming 2023-25 fiscal year. And we thank our allies with whom we strategized and worked side-by-side in the Oakland People's Budget Coalition, the Defund OPD...

“We know this is a problem in our community, right? We know that our children are disappearing, being taken from us in various different ways and for various different reasons. Because their bodies are in a system that does prioritize trying to sustain systemic racism, that our bodies are seen as disposable and usable for whatever.”- Pecolia Manigo

We now stand strong with a base of 50,000 supporters and are proud to share some highlights from our 15 years of political power building.

Did you know that just like here in Oakland, Alameda County continues to grossly overfund policing while not doing enough to address our housing, mental health, and substance use disorder crises? We spoke with Tash Nguyen from the Care First Community Coalition about their work organizing to defund Alameda County’s jail and criminal legal system, so that we can build power towards resourcing life-affirming resources like permanent supportive housing, community-based mental health care, living wage jobs for care workers, and more.