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VIDEO | Ian Kim Explains Green-Collar Campaign
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Our Executive Director, Mr. Jakada Imani, was a featured guest on The Rachel Maddow Show discussing the Mesherly trial verdict and justice for Oscar Grant.
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Our Executive Director, Mr. Jakada Imani, was a featured guest on Black Renaissance discussing the role of the Ella Baker Center in helping to bring about change and opportunity to our world.
Length: 3.46
Silence The Violence Day 2008 featured 27 vigils around the Bay Area and beyond, with the Ella Baker Center hosting a vigil at Defremery Park. Nearly 2000 people came out to call for an end to the senseless violence.
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Youth from all over Oakland and surrounding communities turned Ella Baker Center into a music recording studio. Over 65 youth and 20 volunteers created more than 70 songs over the course of the weekend. Channel 2 news covered the event.
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News coverage of our Green Jobs Now rally and concert. It drew over 400 people to Mosswood Park in Oakland for music, green technology showcase, and a chance to demand green economic recovery.
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Heal the Streets Fellows hold their first Solutions Salon about how to end violence in Oakland, with coverage by Channel 2 News.
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California Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero and California NAACP President Alice Huffman, among many others, describe why the Runner Initiative is bad for California and announce the formation of a coalition to defeat it.
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The long-awaited Oakland Green Jobs Corps, the employment pipeline providing "green-collar" skills training and jobs to young adults with barriers to employment, was publicly unveiled on October 20th, 2008 during a press conference at the Cypress Mandela Training Center.
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Silence The Violence once again took over McAfee Coliseum for Silence The Violence Day with the Oakland A's. Starting with a Tailgate BBQ / Resource fair followed by a moment of silence before the first pitch, we brought the issue of violence to a wider audience.
Length: 3.32
KTVU Channel 2 ran an excellent segment on our Emergency Vigil on February 15, 2008, broadcasting our message of hope and peace to the whole Bay Area.
Length: 2.36
Oakland's Green-Collar Jobs funding and the Richmond training program explicitly surfaced in the Democratic primary debates. KPIX covers this, with interviews from Nwamaka Agbo and Aaron Lehmer. (Jan 2008)
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Ella Baker Center turns into a music production studio as youth from across the East Bay come together to make music with a message: Silence the Violence.
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Ella Baker Center and Solar Richmond present green-collar job training in action as the Richmond Build and GRID Alternatives do a solar installation on an elderly homeowner's house.
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On June 12, we held a rally for the Oakland Green Jobs Corps. We demanded that Oakland City Council provide seed money for a training program to provide green pathways out of poverty. Thanks to YourTV 20.
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Van Jones speaks about the need for a "Clean Energy Jobs Bill" at Speaker Nancy Pelosi's press conference on February 21, 2007.
Length: 5.50
CBS5 and CBS13 report on the changes that are underway in California's youth prison system: Sally Lieber and Books Not Bars are working to shut it down and transition to county-run restorative facilities.
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Assemblywoman Sally Lieber talks on Mornings on 2 about her bill that would close the Division of Juvenile Justice, formerly CYA. She explains what it would take to completely shut down the abusive and corrupt system.
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As mothers joined Books Not Bars in demanding better access to their incarcerated children, the TV cameras were rolling. Watch the KCRA3 Sacramento coverage of the event.
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Our Mother's Morning/Mothers Mourning event attracted a lot of media attention. From around the Bay Area, news outlets helped mothers remember their lost loved ones.
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As mothers joined Books Not Bars in demanding better access to their incarcerated children, the TV cameras were rolling. Watch the Univision in Sacramento coverage of the event. (Note: this coverage is in Spanish with no subtitles)
Length: 14.47
See news coverage of 'Silence the Violence Day' on June 1, where people throughout northern California held candlelight vigils to honor those lost to violence.
Length: 5.53
Free Speech TV highlights the collaboration between Ella Baker Center and the Oakland Apollo Alliance in our effort to create a new model for revitalizing urban areas. (May 2006)
Length: 1.08
News coverage of our rally in support of oil independence in Oakland, and important step towards the "green collar jobs" vision of our Green-Collar Jobs Campaign Initiative. (October 2006)
Length: 3:19
News coverage of CYA guards beating two youth. As a fight between guards and youth comes into view of surveillance cameras, CYA guards kick and hit two youth as they lie face down on the floor.
Length: 8.08
Bay Area PoliceWatch responds to the San Francisco Police Departments notorious racist video scandal. (December 2005)
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