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‘Know Your Rights’: Immigrant support increases across South Bay amid ICE deportations
By Lauren Martinez Tuesday, January 28, 2025 To watch video report, Click Here. SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) — ICE arrests are ramping up and so are efforts to protect immigrant community…

East Bay teacher facing controversy for showing off Pride flag, inclusive books in 1st grade class
In the video, Ramirez shows off her Pride flag and some books in her classroom, and a poster saying, “We need diverse books.” By J.R. Stone Tuesday, February 4, 2025…

A look at the debated diversion program for defendants with mental disorders
A relatively new treatment program is available in California for people with a mental illness who have committed a crime, rather than jail or prison. By Lyanne Melendez Tuesday, February…

Families in SF shelters afraid to end up on streets as the city implements 90-day stay limit
Families in San Francisco shelters are receiving letters to let them know they can’t stay there longer than 90 days. By Luz Pena Wednesday, February 5, 2025 8:44PM SAN FRANCISCO…

Fremont to vote on controversial homeless ban that also prohibits ‘aiding’ or ‘abetting’ camps
On Tuesday, Fremont city councilmembers will vote on an ordinance that will make it illegal for encampments to be on most public property. By Lauren Martinez Tuesday, February 11, 2025…

As President Trump declares a border emergency on Day 1, California’s targeted immigrants lie low
by Wendy Fry January 20, 2025 In summary Along the California-Mexico border, immigrants at risk of deportation are seeking to live undetected through an unprecedented crackdown. But a returning President Trump…
Local Organizations
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Color Of Change is the nation’s largest online racial justice organization.
We help people respond effectively to injustice in the world around us. As a national online force driven by 7 million members, we move decision-makers in corporations and government to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people in America.
Black Organizing Project
The Black Organizing Project is a grassroots organization in Oakland working on issues of racial, social, and economic justice
People's Kitchen Collective
People’s Kitchen Collective is a food-centered, Oakland-based political education project offering educational workshops, exhibitions, and community dining events to discuss social justice issues.
East Oakland Collective
The East Oakland Collective (EOC) is a member-based community organizing group invested in serving the communities of deep East Oakland by working towards racial and economic equity. They are also currently collecting money to bail out protesters and bringing meals to those on the front lines of protesting.
OCCUR
OCCUR is a community capacity building organization supporting the economic development and civic inclusion of marginalized communities.
Ella Baker Center
Ella Baker Center is a grassroots organization in Oakland that focuses on shifting resources away from incarceration and punishment toward opportunities.
La Cocina
La Cocina is a nonprofit working to solve problems of equity in business ownership for women, immigrants, and people of color. They are also currently raising money for a COVID-19 relief fund to help business born out of their program.
Mandela Grocery Cooperative
Mandela Grocery Cooperative is a worker-owned grocery store located in West Oakland working to strengthen and diversify the local economy. They source from local entrepreneurs and farmers in California with a focus on black and brown farmers and food makers. Their Karma Jar fund helps people in need purchase food.
Cycles of Change
Oakland-based creates healthier East Bay communities by helping youth and adults gain tools for more environmentally and economically sustainable living through school-based bicycle education, job training, watershed education, and community earn-a-bike programs. By exploring our neighborhoods and beyond on bicycles, we are more connected to the people and the land that sustain us.
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