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The 2023 Oakland Teachers Strike: An Assessment

Heath Madom Stansbury Forum
Statewide education funding is the barrier to the kind of schools we want, ones with small class sizes and more support and resources for students. We won’t achieve this kind of transformational change without an intervention at the state level. 

Can Oakland’s New Leaders Save Its Schools and Port?

Ken Epstein, Kitty Kelly Epstein Convergence
Candidates who pledged to make Oakland work for everyone swept the November elections. They face two huge hurdles to making that real: proposals to close more schools, and to build a stadium plus luxury housing at the Port of Oakland.

How Oakland Tenants Forced Their Landlord To Turn Over the Keys

Mathilde Lind Gustavussen Jacobin
The city of Oakland’s longest rent strike has ended in victory for tenants. They didn’t just win necessary repairs or rent control; they decommodified their housing, getting profit-motivated landlords out of the picture altogether.

Friday Nite Videos | August 20, 2021

Portside
The Dailyshow-ography of Lindsey Graham. Bob Dylan | With God on Our Side. How the Immune System Actually Works. Homeroom | Documentary. Baby Bats Babble, Much Like Human Infants.

Homeroom | Documentary

Do not discount the voices of young people. #HomeroomOnHulu (premieres Aug 12) follows Oakland High School’s class of 2020 through a year of pandemic and growing demands for systemic change. 

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