Libby Schaaf will go down as one of the worst mayors in Oakland’s history. By nearly every metric, she has decreased community safety and increased human suffering of those already most marginalized.
Read MoreOn Tuesday, Oakland City Council will consider increasing the Oakland Police Department’s benefits and wages — on top of the $12 million budget increase they already voted to give the department.
Read MoreAPTP co-founder Asantewaa Boykin featured on Unapologetically Black Unicorns podcast, July 12, 2022
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Read MoreThe Oakland Progressive Alliance (OPA), a broad coalition of community, labor and housing organizations, is calling on the mayor and city council to invest in housing, public services for Black and Brown communities, and real community safety instead of more wasteful police spending.
Joined by the Oakland Tenants Union and homeless advocates, OPA sent this letter to City Council demanding several critical adjustments to the mid-cycle budget.
Read MoreThe Anti Police-Terror Project is here to support our Sacramento community in the wake of last night’s mass shooting. We are making Mental Health First Sacramento, our mental health crisis hotline, available immediately. If you are impacted by last night's shooting, please call: 916-670-4062. Our team of trained volunteers are able to listen and provide resources.
Read MoreNeoliberals and the state seized on the conviction of Derek Chauvin as an opportunity to spin a narrative that America was marching toward post-racial bliss so protesters could stop marching in the streets, quit embarrassing the U.S. on the international stage, and go home. Even President Joe Biden said the Chauvin verdict could “be a moment of significant change.”
Slow down, Joe.
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Read MoreYay America. You got it right on Wednesday. An almost all-white jury told Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan that is not, in fact, self-defense to hunt, corner and execute Black people because you don’t want them breathing in your neighborhood.
All three of them, guilty for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery.
Read MoreFor the second time in a year, the globe watched to see whether there would be justice for Black life in an American courtroom. The first, of course, was the trial of Derek Chauvin, who murdered George Floyd in May 2020, resulting in worldwide uprisings. The result was a conviction. Chauvin was sentenced to more than 22 years in prison for kneeling on Floyd’s back for almost nine minutes while Floyd cried for his mama and said, “I can’t breathe.”
Not so on Friday.
Read MoreIn three courtrooms, in three American cities, the same familiar scene is unfolding. With arrogance, disdain, and even laughter, white men who have committed egregious acts of violence in the name of white supremacy are supposedly facing consequences. But rather than criminal trials—or in the Charlottesville, Virginia, case, a civil trial—we are watching how baked into the justice system white supremacy really is.
Read MoreStories and updates from the APTP Sacramento team.
Read MoreStories and updates from the APTP Sacramento team.
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