Oakland Post, Week of March 9 - 15, 2022

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Chauncey Bailey Way Renaming at the Spot Where He Was Slain

Post Editor Chauncey Bailey was honored with the renaming of 14th st. in Downtown Oakland from Broadway to Lake Merritt, Saturday March 5 before a crowd of more than 100 family and frends who traveled from many cit-

ies from coast to coast to commemorate his journalistic legacy. His son Chauncey Bailey Jr, at the right above, said he, as a media specialist and public relations expert for his company CBIII Productions, would join with the

Post News Group to help honor and continue his father’s legacy. See photos on page 3 and visit www.postnewsgroup. com for coverage of the ceremony.

Oakland Post “Where there is no vision, the people perish...” Proverbs 29:18

What the A’s Stadium Plan Will Do to Oakland’s Port, Its Workers and the California Supply Chain Opinion

By Farless Dailey

California ports are by far the busiest of any state, handling about 40% of all containerized cargo that enters the U.S. The Port of Oakland, the sixth-largest U.S. container port, handled nearly 1.1 million 20-foot equivalent unit import containers in 2021, the most in its 94-year history. It exported another million containers. The Port of Oakland is the economic engine that drives Northern California, exporting produce from the Central Valley, wine from Napa and Sonoma valleys, and computers and other electronic devices from Silicon Valley. On the import side, it receives cargo from Asia, mainly China. It provides 84,000 jobs in its logistic chain. At the nexus point of this global trade are port longshore workers who load and discharge the ships 24/7 throughout even the deadliest phases of the pandemic. Despite doing that onerous, and often dangerous work, a worldwide supply chain back-

Pastor Phyllis Scott

Rev. Antoné Hicks

Farless Dailey is president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 10.

up has occurred, in part due to increased demand for imports. The supply chain has never been tasked with moving more cargo than now. Containerhandling equipment is in short supply. Workers are pushed to the limit, and higher costs and delays are plaguing the system. Distribution between the docks and inland warehouses is problematic because of the lack of truck drivers and chasContinued on Page 10

Christin Dale, ESQ.

.Evangelist Madlynn Johnson

Bishop Terrence L. Millican

Pastor Marcus Brown

Dr. Kathy Brown-Logan

Rev. Ora Hicks

Willadeana White

Rev. Yollanda Mcclarty

Evangelist Gwendolyn Perry

Evangelist Bea Williams

Pastors of Oakland’s Community Chaplaincy Program Brings New Counselors Into the Fold

11 program graduates prepared to aid and console victims of trauma in Oakland streets By Post Staff

As homicides skyrocketed in Oakland last year, Pastor Phyllis Scott realized anew that the city needed help from

community members to stem the tide of death and heal the real and raw emotional wounds in the community. Continued on Page 10

California Commission to Examine Oakland A’s Howard Terminal Proposal By Post Staff

Zoom meeting will be held Wednesday, March 16

A committee of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC), the Seaport Planning Advisory Committee (SPAC), is scheduled to hold a Zoom meeting on the morning of Wednesday, March 16 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., focusing on the Oakland Athletics’ proposal to remove the Port Priority Use Area designation from Howard Terminal at the Port of Oakland. The BCDC is a California

Port of Oakland state commission dedicated to Francisco Bay and is comthe protection, enhancement, prised of 27 members repreand responsible use of the San senting port, regional and state

stakeholders appointed by agencies throughout the Bay Area. Generally, BCDC must approve any portion of development projects within 100 feet of the bay shoreline. The Seaport Planning Advisory Committee (SPAC) considers amendments to the Seaport Plan and provides recommendations to BCDC based on technical expertise. On Jan. 17, 2019, BCDC initiated an update to the San Francisco Bay Area Seaport

Oakland Education Association President Keith Brown.

The Public Employment Relations Board (PERB), a quasijudicial administrative agency that administers collective bargaining statutes and conflicts over contract enforcement between school districts and other public agencies and their labor unions, has issued a strongly worded complaint against the Oakland Unified School District, saying it “failed and refused to bargain in good faith

(with the teachers’ union), in violation of (state law)” when it decided in January to close schools. Last month, PERB agreed to fast track an Oakland Education Association (OEA) Unfair Labor Practice charge over “illegal school closures.” After evaluating the union’s charge and OUSD’s 300+ page response, PERB issued a complaint against the district, which will be heard this spring by an administrative

Black Past: Women Pillars in the Black Church and Media Advocate for Health, Education Part 2 By Rev. Dr. Martha Taylor

Nannie Helen Burroughs [18791961] was just 21 years old when she earned a national reputation after delivering a powerful speech, “How the Sisters are Hindered from Helping:” “We come not to usurp thrones nor to sow discord, but to so organize and systematize the work that each church may help through a Woman’s Missionary Society and not be made poorer thereby. “It is for the utilization of talent and the stimulation to Christian activity in our Baptist churches that prompt us to service. We realize that to allow these gems to lie unpolished longer means a loss to the denomination. For a number of years, there has been a righteous discontent, a burning zeal to go forward in His name among the Baptist women of our churches…We unfurl our banner upon which is inscribed this motto, “The World for Christ. Woman, Arise, He

Nannie Helen Burroughs, in 1900, at the National Baptist Convention, in Richmond, Virginia. Public domain photo.

calleth for Thee.” Someone in the audience shouted out “Why don’t she sit down! She’s always talking. She’s just an upstart.” Burroughs responded, “I might be an upstart, but I am just starting up.” This was the beginning of the Women’s Convention Auxiliary and the beginning of Women’s Day in local churches. Burroughs, an educated woman with degrees, founded the National Training School Continued on Page 10

Oakland Native, Journalist and Activist Jesse Douglas Allen Taylor, 73

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State Public Employment Relations Board Files Complaint Against OUSD for Closing Schools By Ken Epstein

58th Year, No. 38

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law judge with the authority to stop school closures. In a new development, PERB has now ordered OEA and OUSD to mediation on March 18. According to PERB’s complaint issued on March 4, OUSD failed to consult affected school communities and the Oakland Education Association (OEA), although consultation and a one-year planning Continued on Page 10

Attending a book launch, Jesse Douglas Allen Taylor signed copies of his book, “Sugaree Rising,” which was published in 2012.

Jesse Douglas Allen Taylor, a well-loved novelist, activist and journalist, died on Feb. 28, 2022, at the age of 73. He was born on April 28, 1948, in Oakland, California, to parents Ernest Anthony Allen and Maybelle Audrey Allen. A graduate of Castlemont High School, he became active in the West Coast civil rights and African-American freedom movements in the

mid-1960s. He attended the old Merritt College Grove Street campus, serving as an officer in one of the first Black student unions in the nation. After serving as a poll observer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the historic Selma, Ala., freedom elections in the fall of 1966, Taylor moved to South Carolina in 1969 where Continued on Page 10


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