The people of Oakland moved one step closer to realizing the goal of refunding resources to the community. After weeks of sustained protest and direct action, City Council unanimously approved a resolution last night to create an official task force to determine how to cut the Oakland Police Department’s budget by 50% next year.
Read MoreTuesday night, Oakland City Council had the historic opportunity to address the decades-long budget inequity that has left police with the lion’s share of our tax dollars and many residents without healthcare, housing, and critical social services during the pandemic.
Read MoreSurvey conducted by #DefundthePolice Coalition finds strong support for Councilmember Bas’s proposal to reallocate another $11.4M from OPD’s budget this year and form a Task Force of impacted community members to plan next year’s $150 million cut to the Department.
Read MoreA broad coalition of community organizations held a massive car caravan from the Port of Oakland to the mayor’s and city councilmembers’ houses in response to the pro-police, anti-community budget they adopted last week, over the cries of thousands demanding they defund the police and invest in community services.
Read MoreYesterday, Oakland City Council members rammed through a secret budget proposal without prior notice to their council colleagues nor the constituents they are elected to represent. Despite the testimony of hundreds of Oakland voters who participated in the June 23rd online meeting, five council members chose to push through a budget devoid of public support and in direct opposition to the thousands of people in Oakland and across the country calling on governments to divest from police forces and invest in programs that create real community safety.
Read MoreOver the past two weeks, thousands of Oakland residents have marched in the streets and flooded City Hall with calls and emails demanding that City Council #DefundOPD by $150 million during the current mid-cycle budget review and invest in Oakland’s Black and Brown communities.
Read MoreTake action by telling the Police Commission to #DefundOPD!
Read MoreToday in the early morning, a broad coalition of organizations held a series of coordinated actions to “wake-up” City Councilmembers at their homes and demand they #DefundOPD and #DefendBlackLife.
Read MoreWe see a lot of people posting about the statement/plan released by the LA, San Jose and San Francisco Police Associations (they are NOT unions). Here are our thoughts.
Read MoreTake action TONIGHT by telling Libby and the Police Commission to #DefundOPD!
Read MoreA collection of recent news stories featuring Anti Police-Terror Project.
Read MoreThe Alameda County Sheriff’s Department (ACSD) announced the 8pm-5am curfew has been lifted. Make no mistake—they didn’t end the curfew because it was ‘mission accomplished’ as Sheriff Ahern claims. They ended it because of a growing social movement against normalizing violent crackdowns of civil unrest; they knew the more they tried to silence us, the louder we’d be.
Read MoreOPD claims the #SitInForOurYouth was not violently policed because the people remained peaceful. We reject that assessment outright.
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