The REAL People’s Fund invites you to join us for a 3-Part Build Better Series focused on building political power with our small business community in Oakland to learn how to participate in city decision-making that impacts all of our lives! Register Now I’ll be...

Oakland Rising Voter Engagement Director Jon Bean joined us this Monday Meals to talk about campaigns we're working on this year. Learn more about our plans with budgets for both the City of Oakland and Alameda County, implementation of the Democracy Dollars program,...

Are you passionate about building political power for and with BIPOC, immigrant, low-income, and formerly-incarcerated folks in Oakland and Alameda County? Want to build alliances with like-minded forces? Then you might be the perfect fit for Oakland Rising! We...

With your help, we were able to advance community-led solutions, strengthen Oakland’s racial and economic justice movement building work, and build the political power of working-class, immigrant, and BIPOC communities.

Cat Brooks joined us this Monday Meals to breakdown the final election results and talk about what the results mean for the future of Oakland. What will it mean to have a progressive leaning mayor and a progressive majority in City Council? “Investing in prevention is...

Leaders Saabir Lockett from our partner East Bay Alliance for Sustainable Economy and Jose Bernal from our partner Ella Baker Center joined us this Monday Meals to breakdown the preliminary election results. How will the election results impact us now and the future...

“When I came to Oakland Rising, I really started to have a different understanding about electoral power and political power, and using the electoral system to build more people power. It is a way to talk to people about issues in a way that grassroots organizing takes many years. I’ve come to really appreciate electoral work because of that.”

Shaketa Redden, Executive Director of Causa Justa::Just Cause, joined to discuss critical housing ballot measures to create a more equitable housing system in Oakland: Q, U, and V.

Thank you Ndidi Love from East Bay Anti-Displacement Collective for joining us on Monday Meals to talk about the how, where, when, why to vote. As Ndidi shared, “I always knew that my vote was the vote for my family’s subsistence and keeping that legacy alive. My mother did things to ensure that we can vote as Black people and Black women. And, so, I have to keep those things going.”

“We think that when some violence happens, increasing public safety or decreasing recidivism comes from police. No. Police are here to police, capture, subdue, and lock up. That’s what the police is here for. Public safety actually comes from investing in community…. the root cause of violence is the lack of resources, lack of investment within our communities, that will actually provide the opportunities for other avenues.” – Saabir Lockett