Residents decry conditions at Wood Street Community Cabins
By Bradley Penner on “The City of Oakland needs to step up. It starts bringing us to the table to have conversations about policies that are being made about us. Not for us.”
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Oakland Public Works jobs performed by workers trading labor for incarceration, documents reveal
By Jamie Omar Yassin on The City of Oakland’s Public Works Department uses people sentenced to incarceration to do dumping remediation, vegetation management, and other
Encampments sue the City of Oakland
By Anita de Asis Miralle aka Needa Bee on On March 6, the City of Oakland backed down from evicting the residents of a homeless encampment on a plot of land at the corner of E12th Street and 22nd Avenue in East Oakland. This happened after one resident filed a lawsuit on behalf of himself and the six other residents.