Community leaders, including some doctors, say Alameda County might be reopening too fast
“We’re watching a future disparity in the making,” said one doctor pushing for more transparency.
Oakland
Oakland public schools could phase out their police force by December
The plan for what that could look like will include input from community members, school staff and the police department.
‘De-fund the police’: Protesters march to Oakland mayor’s house
A rally led by Oakland youth focused on calls to cut the budgets of city and schools police.
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Oakland’s old Lake Merritt Lodge will become a COVID-19 homeless shelter
Advocates hope Alameda County will buy other empty buildings to become housing for unsheltered Oaklanders, too.
From civil unrest to outdoor gallery: How local artists are transforming Oakland
Over the past two weeks, a battered downtown Oakland has been transformed by street art depicting messages of unity and resistance.
Erik Salgado and Brianna Colombo were apparently unarmed when CHP officers shot them in East Oakland on Saturday
Three CHP officers shot and killed Erik Salgado and wounded his pregnant girlfriend Brianna Colombo. In a statement released late Tuesday, OPD said the officers opened fire after Salgado rammed his car into CHP vehicles.
Advocates push back on plan to spend parks and homeless services funds on Oakland police
The decision on how to spend Measure Q funds comes as activists are calling on local governments to “defund the police.”
Rep. Barbara Lee wants to form a racial healing commission to reckon with 400 years of systemic racism
The U.S. has never created a federal body to address the impact of slavery, and systemic racism in black communities.
Oakland children march for Black lives: ‘I just really want to spark a change’
Around 4,000 youth and their families marched around Lake Merritt on Sunday in response to the George Floyd protests and in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.
For 9 years, the Black Organizing Project has been campaigning to remove police from Oakland schools. Will it finally happen?
Organizers think this could be a turning point for removing police from Oakland schools. OUSD is the only Alameda County school district with its own police force.
Black activists with deep Oakland organizing roots reflect on a week of protest
Carroll Fife, TurHa Ak, John Jones III and Refa One on how this moment compares to movements of the past, and what comes next.
Oakland’s curfew in context: The long history of curfews against anti-racist movements
To understand why countless Oakland residents will gather to defy the curfew tonight, it’s important to understand how curfews have long been used to quell pain and fury in communities of color.
