“Right now, we have an opportunity. There’s an open seat… It’s important for us to do our homework and see who’s most aligned with what you believe, with what you think.”

Vote YES on Measure T – Invest in Our Oakland – to save essential city services and provide protections for small businesses without increasing the tax burden on residents and homeowners.

Learn how to use RCV when you vote in the General Elections. This year you may now rank your top 5 choices (previously top 3) for local seats including mayor, city council and school board. RCV allows you to choose the top five candidates who most align with your values, and allows voters to elect someone who garnered the overall support of the majority of voters – all while avoiding expensive primary elections.

Kaiser Permanente mental health workers are entering their 5th week of an open-ended strike, making history as the longest mental health strike in U.S. history. We stand in solidarity with caregivers as they invest time and lost wages to demand systemic change and...

Thanks to Angelo Sandoval and Nifa for joining Oakland Rising today to talk about their event, Night Out for Safety and Liberation, at Josie De La Cruz Park in Fruitvale from 4-6 pm. If you want to volunteer, reach out to Angelo Sandoval at [email protected]....

At this Monday Meals, we had City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas and City Councilmember Dan Kalb join us to talk about the Oakland Fair Elections Act and Invest in Our Oakland Act + affordable housing measures on the November ballot....

Watch our Community Info Session recording to learn more about two important measures on the November ballot that will help build political power in the flatlands and generate resources for important community services and programs for years to come. Learn...

(Spanish and Chinese below) Last week, our sister organization, Oakland Rising, hosted a primary election debrief where we got into the nitty and gritty details of how the Primary Election results will directly impact the Town and shape the General Election on...

Jon Bean and liz suk covered preliminary election results for the June 7th Primary. They discussed the implications for several seats and which seats might need to go to the November General Election to be decided.

Thank you to our Election Day volunteers and our outreach team for their daily work at the doors and over the phone to educate and mobilize voters to the ballot box. This spring, we held conversations with 1,120 new or unlikely voters in Oakland. As mail-in-ballots...