Jun 28, 2021
LISTEN ON KPFA WEBSITE HERE Fast forward to 1:34 Last Thursday, June 24, the Oakland City Council took a major budget vote to reduce the size of a planned increase in police spending and divert resources to non-cop emergency response alternatives, after a year of...
Jun 28, 2021
by Mallory Moench, Rachel Swan | SF Chronicle | June 26, 2021 The mood felt tense as two dozen kids, ages 6 through 13, filed into Curt Flood Field to do stretches and bleacher runs Friday afternoon. Shortly before practice started, shots...
Jun 25, 2021
LISTEN ON KPFA WEBSITE HERE Fast forward to 1:50: Oakland’s biennial Budget is up for a big vote today. Cherri Murphy is a faith-rooted organizer with Faith Alliance For A Moral Economy, an initiative of the East Bay Alliance For A Moral Economy join us to discuss...
May 26, 2021
記者陳程威/屋崙報導 2021-05-26 02:00 蘇克茲認為,佛洛伊德之死表明警察制度的失敗,亞裔也是受害人。(記者陳程威/攝影) 25日是非裔男子洛伊德(George Floyd)遭受警察暴力執法死亡一周年紀念日。佛洛伊德之死,引發全美大規模要求社會正義的遊行示威,以及關於社會安全的討論。與此同時,自新冠疫情爆發以來,針對亞裔的仇恨犯罪也在全美不斷上升,根據「Stop AAPI...
May 20, 2021
KQED | Nastia Voynovskaya | May 19 A mural in downtown Oakland by T. Banks (@reallyfebanksy). (Cianni Jackson) With the grief and isolation of the pandemic, many have referred to artists as “second responders” to the crisis. It was the creative people in our...
May 17, 2021
Oakland News by Hyphenated Republic on patreon.com | MAY 16, 2021 Mayor Libby Schaaf unveiled her proposed FY 21-23 budget last Monday in an often-contentious Special Budget meeting that sometimes resembled a training webinar more than a budget presentation. The...