The Oakland School Board’s proposal to shut down or merge 16 schools in Oakland over the next two years was met with a quick and angry mobilization by the Oakland community. The schools threatened are disproportionately in the “flat lands” of Oakland that serve poor...
It is now almost the middle of October, and we’ve been back at school since the beginning of August. The Oakland School District had the entire summer to prepare for our return in the middle of a pandemic, but little was done to guarantee the safety of students and...
A letter from a teacher I am a teacher at an elementary school in East Oakland, California. East Oakland may only be 10 minutes from downtown, but it is like traveling through a vortex – from clean streets to smoldering piles of garbage, from new developments to...
From an Oakland Resident Here in the so-called United States we are at just over a month of shelter in place ordinances due to COVID-19. We here in California have benefited from a statewide eviction moratorium for renters. In so-called Oakland (actually the land of...
From an Oakland Kaiser Worker You have me as an essential worker You have me ‘til death do us part from work “Essential” – you call me Dispensable – you make me feel BUT I know deep in my veins You are nothing without me OR anything...
