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Oakland mayor considering major shift to encampment approach: Here’s what to know

Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee is considering a major shift in strategy for handling homeless encampments, including paying unhoused to clean up. By Tara Campbell  Monday, February 16, 2026 OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) — Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee is considering a major shift in strategy for handling homeless encampments. She wants fewer sweeps and more city workers cleaning…

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San Francisco expands program to help unhoused find their way back home

San Francisco is expanding its “Journey Home” program to help unhoused return to their hometowns. By Lyanne Melendez  Tuesday, February 10, 2026 SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — For years, San Francisco has funded a program to send those who are unhoused back home. The program has been tweaked, renamed and expanded but all with mixed results. Now,…

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No ICE immigration operations planned in Bay Area during Super Bowl, officials say

By Zach Fuentes  Tuesday, February 3, 2026 SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Officials said there are no planned ICE operations surrounding the Super Bowl week in the Bay Area, as NFL leaders and law enforcement held a Tuesday press conference. Some of the Bay Area’s top law enforcement leaders gathered Tuesday to wrap up 18 months of…

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Pro-ICE billboard pops up in San Francisco ahead of Super Bowl

By Suzanne Phan Tuesday, February 3, 2026 SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — With millions of eyes on the San Francisco Bay Area for the Super Bowl, many wonder if federal officers will be looking to make arrests here. On Monday, several immigrant rights groups held a rally making it clear that ICE is not welcome in the…

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SF changes method to count unhoused; advocate believes it’s political, will lead to undercount

‘Point in Time’ count will now happen from 5 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Historically, it happened overnight. By Luz Pena  Wednesday, January 28, 2026 SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — For the first time in more than two decades, San Francisco is changing the way it counts the number of unhoused individuals on its streets. “This is a…

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San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie signs measure to create reparations fund for Black residents

Friday, January 2, 2026 SAN FRANCICO (KGO) — San Francisco is taking another step towards possibly paying reparations to some African-American citizens. Mayor Daniel Lurie signed a measure last week to create a fund to help Black residents harmed by past city laws. The measure, however, does not allocate any city dollars for those payouts; Lurie…

Local Organizations

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Black Earth Farms

We need clean land, clean water, clean air, and reparations for all colonized and oppressed peoples on the planet. Black and Indigenous Women, non-binary, trans, and queer folks are the leaders of the movement for food sovereignty and must be centered and uplifted in order to achieve true and absolute liberation.

 

Color of Change

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.

Upcoming Events

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Earth Day Clean Up 2024

Join Scottsdale Fashion Square, as we team up with Scottsdale Police Department, for an Earth Day clean up of Old Town Scottsdale! Let’s come together to make a positive impact on our environment by beautifying our local community around the center and surrounding areas! Meet at Capital One Cafe at 7am – we will provide…

Race to Cure Sarcoma

The Race to Cure Sarcoma (RTCS) brings together hundreds of members of the community who have been impacted by this disease. Each year, the Sarcoma Foundation of America raises awareness and funds for much-needed research, through RTCS events across the country.

The Boston Dyke March

Since 1995, the Boston Dyke March has remained committed to offering a non-commercial, intersectional, and fundamentally grassroots alternative to Boston’s Pride celebration. We strive to elevate voices marginalized in society and even within the lgbtq+ community.

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Out of the Darkness Overnight Walk

Every year suicide claims more lives than war, murder, and natural disasters combined, and yet suicide prevention doesn’t get anywhere near the funding given to other leading causes of death. It’s up to Walkers like us to make a difference. Together we can change the conversation about mental health and put a stop to this…

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11th Annual Get Tested Grab A Bite

We would love for you all to show up for Get Tested Grab A Bite. Just a heads up, it is normally REALLY HOT! Come prepared, LOL! We will have a cooling station for folx that over heat. But, a little information about the event is that we have GTGAB annually. It is a way…

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Hood Yoga

This is Yoga for the people! A safe space created for black womxn / black folk to explore beginner Yoga. All classes are 90-minute beginner sessions that include 25 minutes of journaling. Evening sessions are held in a heated room. Bring water, a towel, a journal, and an open mind and heart!

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Local Hero Spotlight

Members can nominate a local hero for recognition on their local LoveJustice.com city page!

Anyone and everyone can make an impact, and at LoveJustice we believe that they deserve to be recognized for their good, necessary work!

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