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Posted on August 27, 2019
By Tia Katrina Taruc-Myers, Law Center Director of Legal Education Earlier this month, we hosted a Policy Cafe and Teach-In about How to Run for Oakland City Council. Mari Rose Taruc and Noni Session shared their experiences running political campaigns for Oakland City Council seats, and the Law Center provided a...
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Posted on August 26, 2019
By Erin Baldassari, The Mercury News In less than a year, a nascent Oakland organization grew from a small staff with some bright ideas and a website into group that is stewarding two properties for permanently affordable housing, with plans to soon acquire a third. How did they do it? By relying...
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Posted on August 1, 2019
Written by Tia Katrina Taruc-Myers, Director of Legal Education For our #PeoplePoweredLaw campaign, I set a personal goal of recruiting 10 Community Members to donate $10 per month as opposed to recruiting 10 donors to donate $100 today. Here’s a few reasons why: 1) Receiving Many Small Donations Makes Our Budget...
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Posted on July 15, 2019
“[Santa Clara is] the Center of What’s Possible, so Let’s Make [Coops] Possible” - Councilmember Debi Davis On Tuesday night, over fifty coop members and supporters from all over the Bay Area gathered for a learning session requested by the Santa Clara City Council who later unanimously voted to support...
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Posted on July 15, 2019
By Sophia Leswing, Law Center Summer 2019 Intern What does it mean to invest with a reparations lens? As a UC Berkeley undergraduate student minoring in Public Policy and passionate about racial justice, I frequently peruse the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society website for the latest research on...
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