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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,…

Super Bowl Football

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

HumanImpact

Thursday Streets Time with The Human Impact

Held every Thursday until July 25, join The Human Impact team as they walk the streets to spend time with friends experiencing homelessness. Go out with nothing but yourselves, focusing on creating friendships and building trust. At The Human Impact, enter into relationship with those experiencing long-term homelessness because friendship heals. When volunteers love others…

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Community Cleanup: Greenspace Dallas

Build a new trail with Greenspace Dallas at Kiest Conservation Area. Thanks to WFAA, the organization is able to expand the nature trail at Kiest Conservation Area in Oak Cliff. They need help building it by removing all of the trash and invasive species from the path. Join this Saturday and pitch in to pitch…

50 Years of Seattle Pride: Posters of Pride

In tribute to 50 years of Seattle Pride, MOHAI is proud to display a collection of Pride posters illustrating the intense organizing by Seattle’s LGBTQ+ community to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall uprising each June.

Seattle Pride Parade 2024

Seattle’s 50th Pride Month celebration celebrating over 250 local and national community groups, non-profits, and companies.

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For Oak Cliff Food Distribution 2024

Oak Cliff exists in a food desert and our community faces extreme disparities in health outcomes. We need volunteers weekly to support food justice initiatives.

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Streetside Showers

Volunteer Descriptions and Responsibilities Minimum age to volunteer on-site is 14 years old. For volunteers under 14, off-site projects are a great option! Visit the bottom of our volunteer page to see what off-site opportunities we offer. Please be sure to bring water for yourself as your volunteer experience will be outside and we want to make sure all of…

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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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