Newsletters
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February 2024
In This Newsletter:
Opening statement on how the myth of homeownership was intentionally developed through New Deal housing programs, and how this history led to a two-tier housing market and our present day housing crisis. Part one of a three-part series on housing.
Also: Community meetings on traffic safety, open seats on citizen commissions, and Black History / Black Futures Month film screenings.
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October 2023
In This Newsletter:
Opening statement on community safety, what has worked and hasn’t worked, and how crime stories are complex.
Also: Funding secured for the Department of Violence Prevention, Activate Oakland grants, and opportunities for community input. -
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July 2023
In This Newsletter:
Opening statement on the end of the American empire, what we’re seeing in response, and the unglamorous, day-to-day work required to build alternate systems rooted in deep love and care for all.
Also: What was redlining and urban renewal, what is in Oakland’s new budget, West Oakland health clinics, and more. -
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May 2023
In This Newsletter:
Opening statement on what is racism and how racial discourse is being co-opting to stoke division and undermine concern and support for historically-marginalized communities.
Also: Black New Deal Study moves forward, District 3 honors Mike Cheng of the Asian Prisoner Support Committee, rent registry now live, vacancies for citizen boards and commissions, and more. -
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March 2023
In This Newsletter:
Opening statement on how we can build a positive housing program that increases homelessness services and sites, uses public lands for public use, and addresses displacement.
Also: Abandoned vehicles now addressed by civilian employees instead of OPD, eviction moratorium, tax reductions for small businesses, and more. -
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February 2023
In This Newsletter:
Opening reflection on lessons from the past as some dynamics and tactics utilized to stifle Black progress, particularly around power and control, never truly went away; what we can learn from COINTELPRO today.
Also: Fitzgerald Park Clean-Up; Tax Reductions From Progressive Taxation; New Efforts To Research and Create Resources For Harassment In Local Politics and More. -
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January 2023
In This Newsletter:
Where We Landed 2022 and Where We’re Headed 2023; January Posts Regarding Threats Of Violence Increases; Grants; Events and more.
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December 2022
In This Newsletter:
Ballot Measures And Continued Organizing; Year End Legislation: Oakland On The Path To A Public Bank and Increased Public Funding Through an EIFD; and more.
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October 2022
In This Newsletter:
Public Safety Solutions in the Short- and Long-Term; Updates On The Wood Street Encampment; District 3’s Public Safety Townhall; Universal Basic Mobility Pilot - Free Transit Passes For West Oaklanders; Rent Registry Workshops; West Oakland Nest Community Clean-Up - Wednesday October 26th; West Oakland Farmers Market Diverting Food Waste; Images From In The Community
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September 2022
In This Newsletter:
A Deep Dive Into Ballot Measure Q; Article 34 Authorization; Three Solutions To Wood Street; District 3 Public Safety Townhall on Oct 8th; West Oakland Farmers Market - Get The Word Out and more.
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September 2022
In This Newsletter:
The Department of Violence Prevention Receives A Grant For $6 million; Honoring Bill Russell; 80 Street Improvements Throughout Oakland Have Begun; OakDOT Hiring For Crossing Guards; Algae Blooms in Lake Merritt; Thursday LIVE - Reviewing Oakland Municipal Ballot Measures in November’s Election; Save the Malonga Arts Center. -
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July 2022
In This Newsletter:
New Social Housing In Oakland May Become A Reality; On The Path To A Black New Deal In Oakland; Municipal Ballot Measures Passed This Month; Reflections On The Emerald New Deal; Reflections On Public Safety And Crime In Oakland and more.
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May 2022
In This Newsletter:
Learning From The Alabama’s Civil Rights District; Update On How City Council Passed Legislation To Protect Oakland Renters From High Rent Increases And What This Means For The Average Tenant; Oakland’s General Plan; Townhalls On The Fair Share Business Tax, Parking Meters And More.
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May 2022
In This Newsletter:
Resolution Approved To Study The Feasibility Of Housing 1000 Unhoused Residents At The North Gateway Parcel; Scheduling A Vote On The Record High Allowable Rent Increase Being Considered By Oakland.
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April 2022
In This Newsletter:
Black New Deal Spotlights - Co-op Member Adrionna Fike Presents on Community Economics
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April 2022
In This Newsletter:
Black New Deal Spotlights - Artists Refa Senay and Rashida Chase Present on Arts & Culture
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April 2022
In This Newsletter:
Black New Deal Spotlights - Education Chela Delgado Presents on Education -
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March 2022
In This Newsletter:
Black New Deal Spotlights - Professor C.N.E. Corbin Presents on Environmental Disparities; West Oakland Waterfront Ballpark Development - Howard Terminal; Oakland General Plan - This Saturday; City Council Effort to Increase Youth Summer Jobs; Oakland’s Big Business Tax; Oakland Running Festival -
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March 2022
In This Newsletter:
Black New Deal Symposium Spotlights - Professor Nikki Jones Presents on Public Safety; Professor Brandi Summers and Alan Dones Present on Housing; Community Foods Townhall
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February 2022
In This Newsletter:
The Year Ahead for My Office: Refunding Communities Through Restructuring The Business Tax, The Black New Deal, A Public Bank; Housing Policy for Social Housing and North Gateway; and Arts & Culture -
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February 2022
In This Newsletter:
Statement and Resolution on Oakland School Closures -
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January 2022
In This Newsletter:
Accomplishments of 2021
Lives
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Oakland's FY 23-25 Budget Passes
Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas and I debrief on how the budget process unfolded, our approach and commitments to community, and how all of this is reflected within the new budget.
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Visiting West Oakland Health Center
In-person tour of the facilities and services at the West Oakland Health Center
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Visiting Chappell Hayes McClymond’s Health Clinic
In-person tour of tour of the facilities and services at Chappell Hayes McClymond’s Health Clinic in District 3
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How Racial Discourse Gets Co-Opted & What Is AAPI Hate
May 2023 - Both locally and nationally, racial discourse has been co-opted to divide communities and undermine support for historically-marginalized communities by creating antagonism and division between them. Mike, Tony and many more are joining forces to raise awareness about what is true solidarity and what are the divisive tactics being used to undermine it.
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Building A Positive Housing Program Through Legislation and Organizing
March 2023 - How Carroll and the District 3 office are building a positive housing program that increases homelessness services and sites, uses public lands for public use, and addresses displacement.
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Violence & Harassment On The Rise In Local Politics
February 2023 - With national research showing that local government is increasingly becoming a platform for uninhibited expressions of hostility toward elected officials, with women and people of color finding that the present continues to mirror the past, what does this mean for the work we’re trying to do?
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Where We're Going 2023
January 2023 - Reviewing 2022, what we accomplished and how that’s set us up for 2023.
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Reviewing Local Ballot Meassures
September 2022 - Election season is upon us and in this LIVE I share information and answer questions regarding local municipal ballot measures.
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Cannabis Equity With Chaney Turner, Chair of the Oakland Cannabis Commision
July 2022 - An impromptu Live on Cannabis Equity with Chaney Turner, Chair of the Oakland Cannabis Commission as my guest.
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Public Safety with MACRO and APTP
June 2022 - Live in conversation with Elliot Jones, Program Manager from the Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland (MACRO) Program as well as Jame Burch from the Anti-Police Terror Project. We talk about where the program is currently at and the state of public safety overall in Oakland.
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The Fair Share Business Tax With CP Nikki Bas
April 2022 - Join CP Nikki Bas and CM Fife for an informal discussion on their business tax proposal and hear from special guest Sara Hinkley, from UC Berkeley Labor Center on the impact the new revenues could have on city services.
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Waterfront Ballpark at Howard Terminal With Guests
March 2022 - We continue to discuss the Waterfront Ballpark Howard Terminal project here and specifically dig into more details around what a ballot measure seeking voter approval could look like.
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Waterfront Ballpark Howard Terminal Community Townhall
March 2022 - An in-person townhall on the development of a Waterfront Ballpark at Howard Terminal in Jack London Square.
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A Black New Deal For Oakland
February 2022 - We discuss what is the Black New Deal.
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Looking to the Year Ahead and A Black New Deal
February 2022 - I look at the year ahead and take additional time to discuss the Black New Deal legislative framework my office plans to work on this year.
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Reflecting on 2021
January 2022 - I reflect on 2021 and all the work my office accomplished in our first 12 months in office.
The Black New Deal Symposium
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Public Safety
Professor Nikki Jones’ presentation on how public safety at its root is an issue of lacking supportive social institutions for Black youth and adults.
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Housing
Professor Brandi Summers and Alan Dones presentations on the history and present day state of housing policies and market pressures that have made housing inaccessible to Black Oaklanders.
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Environmental Disparities
Professor C.N.E. Corbin’s presentation on the history and present state of environmental disparities affecting lower income Oaklanders as a result of public policies and market pressures.
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Education
Educator Chela Delgado’s presentation on the history and present day effects of school closures on Black students.
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Arts & Culture
Artists Refa Senay and Rashida Chase’s presentations on the significance of having Black artists at the vanguard of arts & culture production in their communities.
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Community Economics
Co-op member Adrionna Fike’s presentation on how worker co-ops support their communities and what they need to flourish.
Community Services
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Oakland Community Land Trust
The OakCLT acquires housing, land, and other critical community-serving real estate and stewards them in a trust to ensure that they remain affordable forever. Oaklanders can own or rent homes on land that the OakCLT owns and maintains.
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West Oakland Health Center
For over fifty year, this health center on Adeline and 7th has been providing a wide range of services from adult medicine to optometry, serving patients with or without insurance.
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Chappell Hayes McClymond’s Health Center
Run by UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital at the McClymond’s High School Campus, this clinic serves patients under 24 years old with a wide spectrum of adolescent health services including including mental health.
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Oak 311
If you observe problems related to our beautiful infrastructure such as: parks, trees, buildings, abandoned vehicles, roads, sidewalks, utilities, street lights, traffic signals and other service issues, or a problem with another public agency: e.g. - Caltrans, you can call 311 Non-Emergency City Services.
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C.A.R.E.S. Navigation Center
C.A.R.E.S. (Community Assessment, Referral and Engagement Services) Navigation Center is a place that individuals suspected of committing a low-level offense, and who may display mental health or substance use struggles, can be transported to rather than jail. There they meet with a peer support specialist, are assessed by a clinician and connected to a supportive service.
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West Oakland Farmers Market
Every Sunday, you can visit this community resource located on Peralta Street between 18th and 20th for fresh, healthy, and nutritious produce and goods.
