Oakland Justice Coalition General Meeting

The next general meeting of the Oakland Justice Coalition. Join us to talk politics in Oakland, endorsements, campaigns, elections, ballot initiatives, canvassing, the Renters’ crisis in Oakland and next steps.

Come learn about the candidates we have or soon will be endorsing in races for school board and City Council. Come learn what you can do to join the fight for a fair and just Oakland for workers, renters, homeowners and the homeless, school parents and school kids.

Directions: go directly across 14th St. from City Hall at the crosswalk, continue in about 20 yards, it’s the building diagonally to your left.

Agenda:

2) Introductions

3) National Overview of Racism Crisis and The Movement’s Response – Tur-Ha Ak
Questions
Discussion

4) Progress On Our Issues – Where We Stand Today and The Next Steps
Police Accountability – Rashidah Grinage
Protect Oakland Renters – James Vann
No Coal In Oakland – Michael Kaufman

5) Candidates for City Council and School Board
Noni Session – District 3 City Council
Questions
Discussion and Vote Whether OJC Endorses
Ben Lang – District 3 School Board
Questions
Discussion and Vote Whether OJC Endorses

6) What Can OJC Do to Concretely Support Our Candidates? Dan Siegel
Questions
Discussion

7) 2016 Presidential Election – Report from the Bernie Sanders Campaign
Experiences on the National Platform Committee – Carroll Fife
Experiences as a California Sanders Delegate – Shimeko Franklin

We’re building a people’s movement driven by the power of organizations with different goals coming together as one to support each other and build collective strength. We have anchored our 2016 work in three demands, all captured in ballot initiatives proposed by community-led grassroots organizations.

- Strengthen rent control and other tenant protections to stabilize rent prices and stop displacement of Black, Brown and poor people from the community they helped to build; as proposed by the Oakland Tenants Union and Citywide Network
- Create a police commission with the authority to fire the police chief and conduct independent investigations of incidents of police violence; as proposed by the Coalition for Police Accountability
- Establish a $20 minimum wage by 2020 and fair scheduling regulations, and mandate enforcement for both; as proposed by the Oakland Livable Wage Assembly