East Bay Express By Darwin BondGraham On the same day that Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf released her comprehensive plan to address the city's housing affordability crisis, a coalition of tenant advocacy groups filed a voter initiative called the “Renters Upgrade” that,...

Oakland Voices By Saleem Gilmore In 2006, Jerry Brown was Mayor of Oakland, Arnold Schwarzenegger was Governor of California, and grassroots politics in Oakland was losing its voice. Local communities felt locked out of City Hall, their voices not being heard. From...

FiveThirtyEight By Ben Casselman When Richard Martin was convicted of felony drug possession two decades ago, he decided it was time to get clean and get a job. Getting clean was hard. Getting a job was even harder. He was a 40-year-old recovering addict with an...

KQED News By Cy Musiker On Nov. 4, Oakland voters will be ranking their top three choices from among 15 candidates running for mayor. As part of our Election Watch 2014 coverage, we’re previewing issues on the minds of voters — among them crime, gentrification and the...

Mercury News Center A marketing campaign to make people aware of the president’s new health care law includes a call center in Oakland and neighborhood canvassing. FollowContactSign up Get our email updates and stay connected.Donate Oakland Rising is a project from...

San Jose Mercury News By: Tracy Seipel When she answered her front door the other day, East Oakland resident Cynthia Williams, who's been unemployed and without medical insurance for nine years, was greeted by a bubbly 25-year-old woman wondering if she'd heard about...

SF Gate By: Becca Andrews In a quick four-minute window in between several other hot-button issues, Map 26 was chosen in the first public hearing for Oakland’s redistricting at last night’s City Council meeting. Map 26, which was submitted by Councilmember Lynette...

The Mercury News By Tracy Seipel When she answered her front door the other day, East Oakland resident Cynthia Williams, who's been unemployed and without medical insurance for nine years, was greeted by a bubbly 25-year-old woman wondering if she'd heard about the...

Oakland Local More than 70 Oakland residents came together on September 18th at Hub Oakland to share their vision for Oakland and ideas about new district boundaries for City Council and School Board. The event was hosted by the Oakland Votes coalition, of...

Oakland Local By Lanese Martin Oakland Rising This fall, Oaklanders may not be heading to the polls to vote, but the City Council will be making an important decision that will impact our future elections. This fall marks three years since the 2010 Census, and based...

Oakland Local By Esperanza Tervalon-Daumont Executive Director, Oakland Rising The beautiful possibility of Oakland is that there is real opportunity for everyone, not just people from some neighborhoods. Working together to build a 21st century Oakland we can be...

BeyondChron The last weeks of summer are supposed to be a lazy time, but hundreds of Californians have been hard at work throughout August and September preparing for November’s high-stakes elections. California Calls, a statewide alliance of 32 organizations, is...

Oakland Local Rose Morton, an Oakland ironworker, testifies in support of the good jobs plan at City Council by Kate O'Hara, Oakland Local, Posted: Fri, 10 Feb at 11:13 a.m.  Late Tuesday night, the Oakland City Council unanimously pproved a good jobs and community...

Oakland Tribune Learn more about . By Cecily Burt, Oakland Tribune, Posted: 08/17/2011 06:29:06 PM PDT, Updated: 08/18/2011 05:56:25 AM PDT The Oakland City Auditor has found that Oakland Rising, a nonprofit organization, did not misuse public funds it received to...

Ella's Voice By: Nwamaka Agbo The June 30 deadline is fast approaching for Oakland City Council and Mayor Jean Quan to pass a budget that closes the $58 million budget deficit looming over the city.  And organizations and staff of the Oakland Rising are pressing our...

Oakland Rising's Executive Director, Esperanza Tervalon-Daumont was recently honored with the Robert Redford Center's Art of Activism Award.  The Art of Activism is an Award and Event that "celebrates the work of extraordinary leaders."  It is designed to provoke,...

Mitchell Kapor Foundation Blog Learn more about . Jean Quan made history this week by becoming the first female and first Asian-American mayor of Oakland, CA. Her victory, decided by less than 2,500 votes (out of 106,000 votes cast), came as a result of Instant Runoff...

Oakland Local Wow, was this a great night!  Oakland Rising's Young Progressive Benefit Party displayed the many communities in Oakland who are excited about empowering one another for a better city in a vibrant Wednesday night party filled with happy people. "Only in...

SWOP Blogger On the heels of New Mexico’s June 1st Primary Election, Tomás Garduño, SWOP’s Director of Mass Base Political Organizing and Michael Montoya, SWOP’s Mass Base Political Organizer hopped on a plane to head out to Oakland, California to lend a hand in...

Oakland Local Learn more about . Today, OaklandSeens' Aimee Allison posted a note on her Facebook site that said that Councilmember De la Fuente, and his senior policy analyst and possible City Council candidate Libby Schaaf were trying to defeat IRV at tonite's city...

Learn more about . On Tuesday, Oakland's City Council finally voted to start using Instant Runoff Voting (IRV).  This means that Oakland will no longer have June Primary Elections for local elected officials, but rather a ranked choice election of candidates,...

Organizing Upgrade This article shares the perspectives of 5 organizers who answer the question:  How does electoral work support or undermine grassroots organizing efforts?  It includes incredible contributions from: Mattie Weiss, Wellstone Action and Erik...

Organizing Upgrade The new website OrganizingUpgrade.com runs a monthly "Fast Forum" column with the hope of drawing out new ideas and encouraging new voices to take a stab at the freshest challenges facing our community. This month, we asked four organizers for their...

Oakland Local All community stakeholders are invited to come to this introductory gathering with Oakland’s new Police Chief, Anthony W. Batts, to hear how he plans to approach the complex issues in Oakland. The hosts of the event are community leaders and a wide-range...

Oakland Local The City of Oakland has a 17% reported unemployment rate, foreclosures are high, and times are rough for almost everyone, but that doesn't mean everything in Oakland isn't going well--there's new vibrancy downtown, urban gardens and new initiatives to...