Protect Our MACRO Victory & Police out of Special Events
However to ensure MACRO lives up to its transformative potential we need your support!
Please plan to make public comment tomorrow at 1:30pm at the Public Safety Committee meeting!
Where: Online : go to bit.ly/macro101221 at 1:30pm tomorrow
To make public comment: Public comment is taken under Item 1 of the agenda and each person is given typically 2 minutes to speak. When you login via zoom, click the “Raise Your Hand” button at the bottom of the Zoom window. The clerk calls names out, and unmutes you when you’re up. If you’re tuning in by phone, you can do the same by pressing *9. You’ll have to unmute yourself when you’re up by pressing *6.
Join the meeting
We need to make public comment to demand that:
- The City must move MACRO forward with all deliberate speed in order to implement this critical program & framework;
- The City must hold to their commitment to a higher pay scale for front line MACRO workers to ensure workers are able to invest long term in the program;
- The City must implement a community oversight board that ensures MACRO works in an effective, transparent and transformational way that centers the expertise of the people of Oakland;
- The City must pursue additional funding avenues and present a plan to expand and sustain MACRO so that this critical service can be accessible to Oakland residents 24/7.
Additionally we will be calling on the City Administrator Ed Reiskin to implement the council directive passed in July 2020 to move the handling of special events out of OPD, and have it done by civilians to end the prohibitive cost of police fees from stopping community events.
For events like First Fridays and others to continue, we must end the senseless drain by police staffing fees on events that are meant to benefit the community.
Hope to see you soon!
APTP
Anti Police-Terror Project is a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color. We support families surviving police terror in their fight for justice, documenting police abuses and connecting impacted families and community members with resources, legal referrals, and opportunities for healing.