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Mayor Libby Schaaf's $50 million initiative will give secondary education scholarships to Oakland's low-income students and college savings accounts to every baby born to a low-income family. Mayor Schaaf joins host Cecilia Lei to talk about how the ambitious initiative will end generational poverty, and what it means for her legacy as mayor. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf joins Chris Merrill as he fills in for Nikki Medoro to discuss the potential of the A's waterfront ballpark moving forward. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mayor Libby Schaaf is announcing a program Tuesday that will give 200 struggling households about $700 a month with no strings attached. The privately funded subsidy comes as Oakland continues to grapple with a sharp increase in unhoused residents during the pandemic. Chronicle reporter Sarah Ravani joins host Cecilia Lei to explain how it may help the city's homelessness crisis. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Thirty years ago, a small, mostly-extinguished grassfire was stoked by a hot, dry wind that ignited a firestorm in the Oakland and Berkeley hills killing 25 people and destroying more than 3,400 homes. As the Bay Area remembers the Tunnel Fire, we talk to Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf about the lessons the city and firefighters learned from the tragedy and her own memories of that fire which destroyed her family home.
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State of the Bay checks in with Mayor Libby Schaaf about Oakland's new guaranteed income pilot and other news. Then Dr. Allison Briscoe-Smith and Dr. Ralina Joseph discuss their new book, "Generation Mixed Goes to School, Radically Listening to Multiracial Kids."
In episode 108 of the American Reveille Podcast, we show you what real racism is. There are over 435,000 people who live in Oakland California. 10,000 of these people are white and are among the poorest of the poor. They are excluded from financial assistance for being the wrong skin color. Do not be mad at anyone other than the elites in this country... they are the ones pitting us against each other. By the way, illegal aliens qualify! Let's talk!Please check out this episodes sponsor LIFE CHANGE TEA and use promo code JAMES for free shipping - http://ow.ly/FsXe50DOz2JSUPPORT US:Donate - http://ow.ly/9ckY50DA5c2Newsletter - http://ow.ly/3ha850DFm0oVIDEO:YouTube - http://ow.ly/enQk50DA5bnRumble - http://ow.ly/BVx550DA573Odysee - http://ow.ly/utOG50DA571AUDIO:Apple Podcasts - http://ow.ly/Nlsw50zvkUTSpotify - http://ow.ly/gOON50zPya7SOCIAL:Parler - http://ow.ly/QNma50AwfEgGab - http://ow.ly/w3kq50DA56ZInstagram - http://ow.ly/BN7h50DA56YMinds - http://ow.ly/Y6bO50DA572AR Website - http://ow.ly/eO3g50DA5bo
At a Wednesday press conference in Chinatown to discuss a series of disturbing robberies and assaults targeting Asian seniors and neighborhood shops, Mayor Libby Schaaf criticized City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas’s approach to public safety. With Bas standing behind her at the gathering, Schaaf said that a budget proposal drafted by Bas last summer—a plan that was voted down—would have cut police services and made crime in Chinatown even worse.Bas, whose district includes Chinatown, responded to Schaaf in a Facebook livestream filmed with District 3 Councilmember Carroll Fife last night. Bas said she felt “attacked” by the mayor and added that what Schaaf said about her budget plan was “just not true.” Bas noted that recent cuts to OPD, which removed police officers from some parts of the city, including Chinatown and downtown, were made by Schaaf and City Administrator Ed Reiskin in December—not by her and the rest of the council.Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Summit Properties NW and Reynolds & Kline Appraisal as he takes a look at this developing topic.Support the show (https://buymeacoff.ee/seattlepodcast)
Joshua Pawlik, in a photo from his family On this show: 0:08 – Belarus is seeing massive uprisings and street protests against President Alexander Lukashenko, as the results of the presidential election are disputed. We hear more about Belarus' history and the power of the working class there from Steve Crowley, chair of the Department of Politics at Oberlin College and a scholar of labor and political transformation in Eastern Europe. 0:34 – A major bill eviction moratorium bill, AB 1436, is expected to move to a vote in the state legislature. Tenants' rights groups say it's the last, best piece of legislation to halt a “tsunami” of evictions expected to take place because of nonpayment due to job losses during the Covid-19 pandemic. We host a debate: Shanti Singh (@uhshanti) is communications coordinator for the statewide renters' rights organization Tenants Together, and Debra Carlton is executive vice president of state government affairs and compliance for the California Apartment Association. 1:08 – A new report by an independent monitor appointed by a federal judge has issued a scathing rebuke of Mayor Libby Schaaf and the Oakland Police Department for its response to the killing of Joshua Pawlik. It brings into question whether the police department is unable to review or investigate itself. Darwin BondGraham (@DarwinBondGraha) joins us, he is the news editor at Oaklandside. 1:20 – Ashley McBride (@ashleynmcb) reports on education equity for nonprofit newsroom The Oaklandside, and gives us an update on how the Oakland Unified School District's reopening is going, from families without internet and technology to tune into online classes, to new ways of counting attendance, and enrollment hurdles. 1:34 – Investigative reporting has uncovered horrifying practices by U.S. immigration agents in Texas, including the separation and deportation of child asylum-seekers, and systemic sexual abuse by ICE agents. We're joined by a journalist uncovering these stories: Lomi Kriel (@lomikriel) is a reporter with ProPublica and the Texas Tribune. Read her recent reporting: Federal agents are expelling asylum seekers as young as 8 months from the border, citing COVID-19 risks ICE Guards “Systematically” Sexually Assault Detainees in an El Paso Detention Center, Lawyers Say The post Federal monitor issues scathing report criticizing Oakland's police department & mayor for response to killing of Joshua Pawlik; Eviction moratorium bill moves forward in CA appeared first on KPFA.
Libby Schaaf was born in Oakland and is a graduate of Skyline High School. She holds a B.A. in political science from Rollins College and a J.D. from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. Her professional experience includes working as an attorney, as the Chief of Staff to former Oakland City Council President Ignacio De La Fuente, as an aide to former Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown, as the Director of Public Affairs for the Port of Oakland and as the Senior Policy Adviser for Community & Economic Development of Oakland, California. Libby Schaaf is the Mayor of Oakland in California. Schaaf assumed office in 2015. Schaaf's current term ends in 2023. Schaaf ran for re-election for Mayor of Oakland in California. Schaaf won in the general election on November 6, 2018.
0:08 – The NYPD's budget is nearly $6 billion. How do activists go about defunding it? We talk with Alex Vitale, professor of sociology and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College, and the author of The End of Policing. Vitale has been outspoken this month in calling to defund NYPD. 0:34 – On Wednesday, three Oakland councilmembers sent a letter to Mayor Libby Schaaf demanding that she order Oakland Police to cease their use of tear gas against protesters. Meanwhile, medical professionals are sounding the alarm about dangerous respiratory irritants increasing illness and the risk of Covid-19 transmission. Dr. Peter Chin-Hong is an infectious disease specialist at UCSF. He helped to coordinate a petition asking law enforcement to stop using tear gas on protesters because of the Covid-19 pandemic. 0:38 – We take your calls about protester safety during the time of coronavirus and police repression. 1:08 – Will SF stop police with histories of abuse from getting jobs in the city? San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin and SF Supervisor Shamann Walton are pushing a resolution that would prevent the hiring of “problem cops” – officers with misconduct on their records. Boudin is also leading a push to bar police unions from pouring cash into prosecutor elections. 1:22 – Vallejo Police shot and killed 22-year-old San Francisco resident Sean Monterrosa on Monday night while he was kneeling. Brian Krans (@citizenkrans), independent journalist and contributor to Open Vallejo, gives an update on what we know about the killing. 1:34 – Who's benefiting from relief from the Treasury during the coronavirus crisis? David Dayen (@ddayen) of The American Prospect talks about why the stock market is recovering, but workers aren't. 1:52 – An estimated 8,000 people took to the streets of Oakland last night in a protest called “Fuck Your Curfew,” in defiance of the county-wide 8PM curfew in Alameda County, and in protest of police repression Monday against young people protesting police brutality. Lucy Kang (@ThisIsLucyKang) and Ariel Boone (@arielboone) report from Oakland. Photo from Indybay. The post Alex Vitale on how to defund the $6 billion NYPD; Medical community demands police stop tear gassing protesters during Covid; SF could stop hiring cops with misconduct records appeared first on KPFA.
Mayor of Oakland Libby Schaaf.
In this episode, Steve talks with Mayor Libby Schaaf, Mayor of Oakland since 2014. Oakland is a co-host of the AIDS 2020 conference this summer with San Francisco. They discuss how Oakland as a city has mobilized around and is investing in the conference, and what Mayor Schaaf wants to see emerge from AIDS2020.
A Dangerous Virus Plagues California Ever since Mayor Libby Schaaf decided to get the City of Oakland involved in what would otherwise be a civil matter disputed in the courts, things have progressively gotten worse. Now, a dangerous virus is spreading like wildfire in Oakland, San Francisco, and the Bay Area in general. It is far worse than Corona Virus... it spreads quickly, and is difficult to contain. Hopefully, the contagion will not spread to Tucson! Hear YESTERDAY'S podcast where I SAID this would happen! See the article direct at the Mercury News. Stay updated at www.KarlBuysHouses.com ! #tucson #housingcrisis #multifamily --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/karlbuysho/message
The Unpacking Gentrification: Leveraging the Shift in Communities Show will feature a panel discussion I lead with these voices of the community: • Jose Corona the Director of Equity & Strategic Partnerships, Office of Mayor Libby Schaaf, City of Oakland http://bit.ly/25bwzPF • Corrina Gould, Co-Organizer, Indian People Organizing for Change http://bit.ly/1Nz4Gck an • Junious Williams, CEO, Urban Strategies Council http://bit.ly/25bwIT4 • Deborah McKoy, Executive Director, Center for Cities and Schools http://bit.ly/250Q0Hg Please rate us on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts and share this story with your friends. Follow me @georgekoster and please email george@georgekoster.com with questions, comments and show ideas
A Berkeley councilmember was pulled over for running a light and suggested for the police officer to let him off scot-free, telling her he had just voted for a big raise for her union. It's the kind of thing that bolsters the sentiment of people who despise government and public officials. In The Breakdown, I take a look at the first debate of the Oakland mayoral campaign season with a focus on the difficulty Mayor Libby Schaaf faces in rebutting her challengers' argument that she has not done enough to keep the city's homelessness problem from exploding into a full-blown crisis. Subscribe the Steve Tavares Is Angry podcast on iTunes and Stitcher and listen on EBCitizen.com
If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, subscribe on our Patreon page for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show on iTunes. We can't do this show without your support!!! On this episode, Kumars interviews Oakland mayoral candidate and longtime community organizer Cat Brooks, cofounder of the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) and executive director of the statewide Justice Teams Network. After years of prolific and effective work combating police violence in Oakland, Cat is challenging incumbent Mayor Libby Schaaf this fall. Cat discusses the work of APTP, which takes a proactive approach to addressing police killings and corruption by holding public officials accountable, providing political education to the community, and supporting the victims of police terror. We hear how the organization is broadening its scope to address a myriad of needs of marginalized Oakland residents. Cat also describes how their approach has expanded statewide through the Justice Teams Network and is inspiring groups across the country and beyond. We hear how Oakland Mayor Schaaf's prioritization of white gentrifiers over people of color, poor people, and houseless people has emboldened individuals like #bbqbecky, #joggerjoe, and #permitpatty, in the same way Trump has emboldened his followers in the national context. We also discuss behind-the-scenes collaboration of Oakland Police with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids, even while Libby Schaaf publicly claims support for Sanctuary policies. Kumars asks Cat whether her campaign's policy proposals go far enough, and how she will respond when she's mayor and an energized APTP is protesting outside her door. Follow Cat on Twitter @CatsCommentary, and find out more about getting involved in the campaign here. A transcript for this episode will be provided upon request. Please send an email to deleteuracct @ gmail to get a copy sent to you when it is completed.
This week we’re sharing the last plenary session of the Rail~volution conference which was a panel discussion of three current mayors of major United States cities hosted by Maurice Jones of LISC. Mayor Libby Schaaf of Oakland, Mayor Bill Peduto of Pittsburgh, and Mayor Michael Hancock of Denver discuss transportation and innovation in their cities including civic focused non-profits, public-private partnerships, neighborhoods pressures and resilience.
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf joins Ray Ratto for an exclusive and in-depth discussion on the Raiders and A's stadium situation in Oakland after news Tuesday that a framework deal was made with the Ronnie Lott-led group to keep the Raiders in Oakland.