Jaime Omar Yassin

Another short council meeting, following a trend in the new year of canceled committee and Council meetings and short Council agendas. Here's the big items: Council Weighs $0 Lease of Clinton Square Community Center to Trybe Inc. for Community Programming in Bid to Revive Moribund Community Anchor Council

A pivotal week for Bay Area Pro-Palestine action, on the streets and in the courtroom began last Wednesday with an hours-long protest that shut down the San Leandro location of weapons manufacturer L3Harris. The action, organized by healthcare workers and activists opposing the US supported Israeli genocide of Gaza, temporarily

OPD and DVP Admins Outline Failures within Previous OPD and DVP Administrations as Departments Vow to Implement Ceasefire Recommendations On Tuesday, Council members received a Ceasefire audit report and testimony from principals of the California Partnership for Safe Communities [CPSC], the organization that conducted an audit of Oakland’s Ceasefire

Independent Ceasefire Audit Finds Failures in Schaaf Direction and Armstrong Strategy Decisions An independent audit completed last month finds critical failures in the City’s Ceasefire program. The timeline of the program’s worst failures parallel with increases in Oakland’s gun violence that began in 2019. Completing the audit