APTP in the News
Oakland progressives hopeful for change during annual MLK Jr. Day march
Raquel Maria Dillon | KCBS Radio | January 16, 2023
“We’ve been sold a whitewashed, sanitized version of King. King was a militant. King believed in interrupting business as usual. King put his body on the line.” –APTP co-founder Cat Brooks
Day Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Comes With Call to Action in Oakland
Valena Jones | NBC Bay Area | January 16, 2023
“Hundreds of people took to the street, some marching, some creating caravans, to city hall. APTP explained that while they are celebrating new progressive leadership in the city, they want to see changes.
They advocate for no new OPD funding, investments in mental health services and much more in their 10-point list of demands.”
Oakland crisis center opens to handle mental emergencies without police help
John Ramos | CBS Bay Area | January 14, 2023
"‘We're making a promise to this community with the opening of these doors,’ said APTP co-founder Cat Brooks as she announced the opening of ‘The People's House.’ The new brick-and-mortar community center will offer health and wellness services, from massage and herbal medicines to psychological counseling from volunteer mental health professionals.
‘I really see it as a healing center, right'?’ Brooks said. ‘A balm in a community that has been devastated by everything from gentrification to environmental pollution to poverty to gun violence.’”
Brontë Wittpenn, photographer / The Chronicle
How a ‘ragtag group’ grew to open an Oakland community center
Caroline Said | San Francisco Chronicle | January 14, 2023
“Our model started to impact the public narrative. So foundations and founders were looking at us like, ‘Oh, they’re doing mental health response about law enforcement (and) first responders’ work.... Folks wanted to invest in the work we were doing.” – APTP co-founder Cat Brooks
On ‘Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy Weekend,’ the Anti Police-Terror Project Opens New HQ
Nastia Voynovskaya | KQED | January 13, 2023
“‘For decades Oakland has been at the vanguard in the fight for Black liberation,’” [APTP co-founder Cat] Brooks said in a statement to KQED. ‘It’s time we reclaim that distinction. That’s why APTP is opening The People’s House in the birthplace of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. It’s on their shoulders we stand, and through studying their service to the people, we draw our inspiration for our 21st Century Survival Programs like Mental Health First. We take care of us.’”
The People's House: Opening of Resource Center Kicks Off MLK Weekend in Oakland
Valena Jones | NBC Bay Area | January 13, 2023
‘I hope we will be able to meet their needs in ways that the city and the state does not. I hope that they will take ownership of this space and help define what it is supposed to be. We hope to be respite for our most vulnerable folks,’ said [APTP co-founder Cat] Brooks.”