Richmond residents and later East Oakland residents fought for more than a decade against a proposed crematorium project for their cities. Their campaign and the ultimate permitting of the crematorium reveals the inadequacies of the local land use permitting process in protecting community health, despite [More….]
Ernesto Arevalo is the Northern California Program Director for Communities for Better environment (CBE). In this interview with Jess Clarke he talks about CBE organizing for Green Zones planning for neighborhoods in East Oakland, California. [More….]
East Oakland is a vibrant community with a largely African American and Latinx population. It is also a highly industrialized area. The 880 freeway crosses through the heart of the neighborhood, where diesel trucks filled with goods drive to and from the Port of Oakland. [More….]
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