499 14th St #300
Oakland, CA 94612
USA
The next general meeting of the Oakland Justice Coalition. Join us to talk politics in Oakland, endorsements, campaigns, elections, ballot initiatives, canvassing, the Renters’ crisis in Oakland and next steps.
Come learn about the candidates we have or soon will be endorsing in races for school board and City Council. Come learn what you can do to join the fight for a fair and just Oakland for workers, renters, homeowners and the homeless, school parents and school kids.
Directions: go directly across 14th St. from City Hall at the crosswalk, continue in about 20 yards, it’s the building diagonally to your left.
Agenda:
- Overview, analysis, and discussion of nationwide police terror against black and brown communities
- by Tur-Ha Ak from Community Ready Corps (CRC) and the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP)
- Status & next steps on issues & ballot measures
- Police Accountability – Rashidah Grinage
- Protect Oakland Renters – James Vann
- No Coal In Oakland – Michael Kaufman
- City Council and School Board candidate endorsement discussion & member vote (Candidates will speak briefly)
- Noni Session – District 3 City Council
- Ben Lang – District 3 School Board
- Discussion on how OJC can further support endorsed candidates with Dan Siegel
- 2016 Presidential Election – Report from the Bernie Sanders campaign
Experiences on the National Platform Committee – Carroll Fife
Experiences as a California Sanders Delegate – Shimeko Franklin:
We’re building a people’s movement driven by the power of organizations with different goals coming together as one to support each other and build collective strength. We have anchored our 2016 work in three demands, all captured in ballot initiatives proposed by community-led grassroots organizations.
- Strengthen rent control and other tenant protections to stabilize rent prices and stop displacement of Black, Brown and poor people from the community they helped to build; as proposed by the Oakland Tenants Union and Citywide Network
- Create a police commission with the authority to fire the police chief and conduct independent investigations of incidents of police violence; as proposed by the Coalition for Police Accountability
- Establish a $20 minimum wage by 2020 and fair scheduling regulations, and mandate enforcement for both; as proposed by the Oakland Livable Wage Assembly