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Oakland: Protect Essential Service Workers Now!
April 16, 2020
We are all depending on service workers during the shelter-in-place. By protecting them, we protect the public. Oakland City Council is set to vote in April. Urge them to VOTE YES to expand paid sick days for ALL with NO loopholes, and ensure folks can return to work after the shelter-in-place! Sign the petition today at bitly.com/PaidSickDaysOak.
All of us are dependent on frontline, essential service workers like delivery people, grocery clerks, restaurant & hospitality workers, ride-share drivers, janitors, warehouse workers, and security officers to feed us and provide us with what we need to survive. Those workers – who...Read More
COVID-19 Resources for Workers
March 23, 2020
RESOURCES FOR WORKERS
(ver la informacion en Español más abajo)
You may qualify for a program that can cover a portion of your lost wages due to COVID-19.
- My hours are reduced because of COVID-19.
Moving Towards a Moral Budget in Oakland
September 6, 2019
Moving Towards a Moral Budget in Oakland
The Town came closer than ever to passing a People’s Budget in 2019“A city’s budget is not just an economic or political document. It’s a moral document, a statement of our values...Read More
Congratulations Oakland Workers!
August 28, 2019
Measure Z’s new wage increase took effect on July 1, 2019. All hotel workers in Oakland will now receive $15 / hour with health benefits or $20 / hour without health benefits. On July 1st, hotel workers in Oakland got
Concord Housing Justice Fight Continues!
August 22, 2019
Tenants and workers gather to protest high rents in May Day rally Hundreds of Concord residents poured into the streets for the annual May Day rally and march on May 1.Their message was that the City Council must pass rent
Join Us for Venceremos 2020!
May 22, 2019
*** SAVE THE DATE ***
Venceremos 2020 is on its way!
Please join us in celebration the evening of Thursday, September 10th from 6:00-9:00pm.
To Sponsor the event, please fill out and return one of these forms:
$2,500 and ...Read More
White People Must Fix White People
October 27, 2017
Between the political attacks on our communities from the Trump administration and the fires, hurricanes, and earthquakes, there is hardly anyone that hasn’t woken up feeling flattened in the past year. The hate and racism that people have experienced throughout history has been magnified. We are in the fight of our lives. But to say that this hate is new is coming from a place of privilege.
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Ban the Box for Racial Justice
October 27, 2017
When we met in 2014, I was canvassing to raise Oakland’s minimum wage, and John was working as a Burger King security officer. He had recently been released after spending one-third of his life in prison and was focused on...Read More
Immigration Wins in Contra Costa County
October 27, 2017
A few months ago, a friend was visiting her parents and placed a Black Lives Matter sign in her old bedroom window. Her family lives in the heart of Contra Costa County, but given their liberal values, she thought they wouldn’t mind it. Yet when she recently returned, it was gone. As someone who grew up in that part of the East Bay, I recognize the dynamic: people are liberal, yet not willing to stand up for racial justice....Read More
FAME: Resistance Through Faith
October 27, 2017
On January 28, 2017, when news began to spread that immigrants and refugees were being detained at U.S. airports, many of us knew we had to go to SFO and stand up against this injustice. Why did we do this? For the members of the Faith Alliance for a Moral Economy (FAME), it is our faith which calls upon us to Resist – to become the justice that the world so needs....Read More