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Have We Grown Numb to the Sound of Gunfire?

Last week, as the Pastors of Oakland and the NAACP held a prayer vigil seeking proactive solutions from the community and our elected officials, we witnessed a week of an unprecedented wave of violence, killings andOurcrime.pastors, community chaplains and civil rights groups have come together to lift up our voices seeking an end to this season of reckless violence. Sadly, this week was another bloody week here in Oakland as four more innocent lives were taken by senseless acts of reckless, unwarranted violence.

The call has gone out to

our city officials, a cry has gone out to law enforcement and a call has gone out to our mayor: “Stop the Violence!”

It appears we’ve grown numb to the sound of gun fire. Have we grown numb to the cries of grieving mothers who have been yelling for justice for shattered families

and the tears of our children?

It seems as if the cry of outrage is growing faint. We’ve fallen into a frighten ing pattern.We’ve become reactive rather than proactive. We wait for a body to drop in the cold of the streets before we become inflamed with righ teous indignation.

If city officials have not risen to the level of righteous indignation — if they cannot or will not do anything to ad dress the violence in the city right now, why should we trust them with a greater re sponsibility? The Scriptures teach us that “For to whom much is given, much is re quired.”It’sup to communities,

City Councilmember Thao Announces $2 Million Investment to Revitalize Parks in East Oakland

Training Youth on How-2 End Hostilities

The idea of How-2 end vio lence has its origin in the bow els of Theprison.ideawas the result of the principled thinking of those who have spent years and decades behind prison walls seeking ways to end the senseless wars and violence that amounted to the loss of life with seemingly no end in sight.

Thus, together these princi pled thinkers began a dialogue among themselves that led to a historical document imple mented in 2012 called “The Agreement to End Hostilities” akaCollectively,“AEH.” this document created a bridge between the ethnicities and gang-related groups to end hostilities within the prison population. For the most part, it worked within the penal system. Violence was tempered to such a degree that the administration got behind thisSincedocument.thesuccess was so ap parent, we, the Formerly Incar cerated Giving Back (FIBG) and other non-returning citi zens have established a parallel society called “Artivist” end ing hostilities in the communi

ties we came from. It is called the agreement to come home, AEH Street Strategic Team © Youth Resource Center.

We believe the solution rests with past proven results; not merely wishful thinking that has proven to be quite ineffec tive in addressing the violence that is happening almost daily.

The California Prison Focus K.A.G.E. Universal and FIBG are working in concert to halt

Why Sarah Syed is My Choice For AC Transit Board of Directors, Ward 3

On Tuesday I had the plea sure of joining Assemblymem ber Mia Bonta, Pastor Billy Dixon Jr., and community and faith leaders gathered at Ar royo Viejo Park to announce a $2 million investment into East

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As a mayoral candidate, I want to see Department of Vio lence Prevention’s (DVP) cur rent budget of $28M doubled to $56M. That would allow us to create a Behavioral Health Unit that supports our neigh bors and families who are at the center of this crisis. Let’s vote for City officials who will fund it at a level that can rise to the challenge of this moment.

Law enforcement is what we do to people. Public safety is what we do with people.

The City of Oakland has an agency that is charged with leading and coordinating our prevention efforts with people, aptly called the Department of Violence Prevention (DVP), which is loosely patterned on

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Oakland parks that I secured in recent state budget allocations signed by Governor Gavin Newsom.This$2 million investment will help revitalize and cel ebrate parks serving some of Oakland’s most marginalized

communities, including Ar royo Viejo Park, Tassafaronga Park, and Verdese Carter Park.

I know that East Oakland has experienced decades of systemic and environmental racism, and it is important that we invest equitably into our neighborhoods including our

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The challenge of inequitable transportation access is felt by tens of thousands of residents in inner East Oakland and communities of color across the Bay Area.

These challenges are com pounded by the legacy of redlining, which systematically denied Black and Brown residents access to homeownership and lending pro grams. Ultimately, the American dream of homeownership, invest ment in communities and building generational wealth was blocked.

the Richmond Office of Neigh borhood Safety, a model that I helped launch in 2008. Over a five-year period, homicides in Richmond decreased by 70%.

Instead of vaguely following its structure, let’s properly implement the pieces that are proven to reduce violence in ourAstreets.votefor me is a vote to fully implement the Mobile

Assistance Community Re sponders of Oakland, known as MACRO. This initiative shows substantial promise as its staff works to intervene in non-violent 911 calls, freeing up police services to address violent criminal behavior. We should create a community ambassador team that employs formerly incarcerated, return ing neighbors who know the streets.To further illustrate just how disconnected our leaders are, there was a shooting near Frank Ogawa Plaza during a City Council meeting on Na tional Voter Registration Day. City Council took a brief recess and then immediately resumed business as usual. While gun violence rampaged outside, they were inside discussing

As the AC Transit board presi dent, a challenge I am confronted with is that traditional transit plan ning practice has ignored the pervasive issues of segregation, displacement, and exclusion from opportunity. Although the impacts of redlining can be felt in almost every aspect of life: from access to high quality education, to job op portunities and even healthy food options, our region doesn’t invest in transit service to repair past harms.

Last week, aboard an AC Tran sit bus, U.S. Transportation Secre tary Pete Buttigieg toured Oakland as part of his new effort to repair the damage done by large federal transportation projects, like free ways, which divided neighbor hoods where people of color were the majority of the population.

Residents of underserved com munities are the experts in under standing what they need. Unfortu nately, the number of local political leaders who are ready to invest in transportation equity are few and far in between. Therefore, we have

this violence by using a plan of action with proven positive results. All resources go to ad dress and cease this destruction that confronts the very society that we live in.

Will solutions manifest when you apply proven pro grams that create a pathway for truly addressing the prob lems, not sugar-coating them?

The FIGB, African Ameri can Sports and Entertainment Group, and the Oakland Post News Group are intersecting in solidarity to bring change instead of reshuffling the prob lem.We have a plan for this change to stop the violence and restore justice. In the coming weeks, we will respond posi tively to the Oakland Post’s challenge to those seeking to get elected in our community to offer solutions to end the violence, find jobs and develop affordable housing our com munities and provide health and mental services to there will be more information on AEH solutions reported in this column.

Interfaith Faith Council of Alameda County Laments

Gun Violence in Oakland

The headline in the Sept.20, 2022, East Bay Times read, “‘Everybody was devastated’: Four people killed, five others wounded in string of violence across Oakland.” The article began, “A torrent of violence during an 18-hour stretch Mon day evening and Tuesday left four people dead and five other people wounded by gunfire across Oakland, including three men who had just finished praying at a local mosque and a teen girl who was left gravely injured.”

The Interfaith Council lifts its voice in lament over these deaths and this violence. We cry out “How long O Lord, how long, must our city live in the deadly grip of guns and gun violence? How long will the fear of our loved ones being hit by a bullet cause parents to worry, grandparents to be anxious and children to live in terror?’

With all the shocked and grieving members or our com munity, and with the devastated members of the Oakland Is lamic Center, we call on those who committed these crimes to turn themselves in, we call on our leaders to redouble their efforts to bring violence to an end, we call on those who glo rify the use of weapons to reconsider their stance and we call on those of us who can exert some influence on those most likely to shoot to plead with them to put down their guns.

We long for the day when the faith communities of Oak land are united in peace. Today, we acknowledge that we are united in grief even while we are united in our commitment to bring about a better day. To this end we will pray, organize, and labor.

Rev. Jim Hopkins, ICAC Co-Founding Board member Rev. Ken Chambers, ICAC Founding President

Oakland City Council President Pro Tempore Sheng Thao joins Assemblymember Mia Bonta, Pastor Billy Dixon Jr., Louie Butler Jr., President, Oakland Babe Ruth Cal Ripken Baseball League, and community members who were invited to the press conference. Photo by Brandon Harami, Policy Director for Councilmember Sheng Thao. Rev Phyllis Scott Left to right: Minister Founder of K.A.G.E. Universal, Execu tive Director of California Prison Focus and Richard Johnson, President of the Formerly Incarcerated Giving Back are work ing with community groups to present solutions to violence, es pecially with youth. Photo by Jonathan “Fitness” Jones.
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Vivien Theodore Thomas: Overcoming Barriers Imposed By a Segregated Society

At a time when a Black man wearing a white coat walking across the segregated Johns Hopkins University campus raised several eyebrows and sparked negative commen tary, receiving a job offer in the surgery department was im possible for Vivien Theodore Thomas (1910–1985. Instead, he was classified as a janitor.

Even without medical train ing, Thomas played a crucial role in developing surgical techniques to overcome te tralogy of Fallot, a cause of blue baby syndrome, a condi tion where a baby’s skin turns blue because of an insufficient amount of hemoglobin in the blood. He would also devel op techniques and tools that would lead to today’s modern heartBornsurgery.inNew Iberia, La., Thomas, the grandson of an enslaved person, grew up poor. By age 19, he was working as a carpenter’s apprentice and in a private infirmary while putting money away for college and medical school tuition. He’d enrolled as a premedical stu dent at Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial College, but the bank crash that year wiped out his savings, leaving him no choice but to drop out.

He would later, however, become a scientist and edu cator, several of his students eventually becoming heads of surgery departments across the country.In1930, Thomas began working at Vanderbilt Univer sity as a laboratory assistant under Alfred Blalock. On the first day, Thomas’ skillful tech

niques impressed Blalock as he assisted during an experimen tal surgery on a dog. Thomas was soon allowed to perform similar procedures on his own.

In 1941, when Blalock took on a position as surgeon-inchief at Johns Hopkins, he asked Thomas to join him as his assistant. Thomas then became instrumental in developing the procedure used in the blue baby surgery. He also assisted in training several surgeons in the delicate techniques neces sary for heart and lung opera tions.Thomas became a legend to many of the young surgeons he trained. “Even if you’d never seen surgery before, you could do it because Vivien made it look so simple,” Denton Cool ey told Washingtonian maga zine in 1989. “There wasn’t

a false move, not a wasted motion, when he operated.” Cooley was a heart and cardio thoracic surgeon famous for performing the first implanta tion of a total artificial heart.

Although Thomas garnered respect from the surgeons he trained and the Black labora tory technicians, he was se verely underpaid. To supple ment his income, he sometimes resorted to bartending, often at Blalock’s parties. But af ter negotiations on his behalf by Blalock, Thomas became the highest paid technician at Johns Hopkins and the highest paid African American on the institution’s payroll.

Johns Hopkins University presented Thomas with an hon orary doctorate in 1976. How ever, because of certain restric tions, he received an Honorary Doctor of Laws, rather than a medical doctorate. Thomas was also appointed to the fac ulty of Johns Hopkins Medical School as Instructor of Sur gery.He died of pancreatic cancer in

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Through Ads and Advocates, Battle Over Calif. Gambling Propositions Heat Up

Clint Thompson, a Santa Monica resident in his 30s, wouldn’t say he has been inun dated with advertisements sup porting or denigrating Proposi tions 26 and 27, but he sees an ad focused on one of the leg islations each time he turns on his“Itelevision.usually watch the news during the day — NBC — and on NBC, Prop 26 or Prop 27 comes on every other com mercial break per show,” said Thompson, an actor, who ad mitted he hasn’t researched the sports gambling proposi tions. “Both of the props seem to have good things with them. The commercials seem to have reasons why you should say ‘yes,’ or ‘no.’”

Prop 26 would legalize rou lette, dice games, and sports betting on Native American tribal lands if approved by vot ers in the Nov. 8 election. It is backed by over 50 state Native American tribes.

Prop 27, supported by sportsbooks DraftKings, Fan Duel, BetMGM, Fanatics, PENN Entertainment, and WynnBet, would give those sports betting companies the reins in sports gambling in the Golden State and allow online gambling.Ifpeople like Thompson feel the advertisements from the campaigns for and against the propositions seem to be flooding the television and radio airwaves — and to be ever-present on social media (Watched a YouTube video lately?) — they might be right.

The dueling propositions have raised a combined $400 million for advertising lead ing up to Election Day this

November. That has led to ads backing and slamming the two propositions to be front and center in all forms of media Californians consume.

Dinah Bachrach of the Ra cial Justice Allies of Sonoma County, a group supporting Prop 26, said the proliferation of ads supporting Prop 27 is concerning.“Theyare all over the place,” Bachrach said. “Gam bling is already a pretty big business, but to be able to do sports gambling online is dan gerous because it hurts what tribal casinos have been able to do for their communities in theAccordingstate.” to Bachrach, Prop 26 protects the sover eignty of native tribes. “It’s a really important racial justice issue,” she said. “Indian ca sinos provide a tremendous amount of financial support for the casino tribes and the non-casino tribes, and they contribute a lot locally and to

theBachrach’sstate.” organization is one of several civil rights or African American organiza tions that have thrown its sup port behind Prop 26.

Santa Clarita NAACP spokesperson Nati Braunstein said in an email, “The NAACP supports Prop 26, which would legalize retail sports betting at California tribal casinos only and opposes Prop 27 which would allow online sports bet ting via mobile sportsbooks.”

Kathy Fairbanks, speak ing for the Yes on 26/No on 27 coalition, composed of California Indian tribes and tribal organizations, and other partners, said winning the ap proval of every potential voter, including Black Californians, is their goal.

Yes on 27 – Californians for Solutions to Homelessness, the campaign arm of Prop 27 backers, had not returned Cali fornia Black Media’s requests for comment for this story as of

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press time. Prop 27 proponents say in ads and the Yes on 27 website repeats that the initia tive would help solve Califor nia’s homelessness crisis.

Prop 27 imposes a 10% tax on adjusted gross gaming revenue. Eighty-five percent of the taxes go toward fight ing California’s homeless and mental health challenges. Nongaming tribes get the remain ing 15% of tax Organizationsrevenue.suchas Bay Area Community Services, Sacramento Regional Coali tion to End Homelessness, San Diego Regional Task Force on Homelessness, and individuals including Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, Bay Area Com munity Services CEO Jamie Almanza, and Middletown Rancheria of Pomo Indians Chairman Jose “Moke” Simon are listed as Prop 27 supporters on the Yes on 27 website.

San Bernardino County Voting to Leave California; Establish 51st State

On Nov. 8, San Bernardino County voters will be presented with a choice on their ballot — leave the state of California and create the 51st state or remain the largest county in the nation.

A consortium in San Ber nardino is the latest group of people proposing to alter the boundaries of the state of Cali fornia. The group wants the county to secede from Califor nia and create a 51st state that would be called Empire.

According to real estate de veloper Jeff Burum, a member of the group, San Bernardino County is not getting its fair share from the state of Califor nia. The movement is supported by some local mayors such as Acquanetta Warren, mayor of Fontana, and Bill Velto, mayor of Upland.“Wecannot continue to beg, and crawl…to get resources for our county...Let’s step out and be bold about it and let the people decide what they want to do.” Fontana Mayor Acquanetta Warren told the San Bernardino Board of Supervisors.

Board of Supervisors Chair man Curt Hagman said, “I’m frustrated, too. I’m frustrated with the state of California. It’s becoming, more and more, ‘one size fits all’ for the greatest state in the Burumnation.”claimed the move has “overwhelming” support. But he is basing his assessment on a survey of 400 San Bernardi no County residents by Wallin Opinion Research.

There are more than 2.1 mil lion people living in the county. San Bernardino is the fifth-most populous county in California and the largest in the nation by area. Geographically, it is larger than Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey and Rhode Island combined.

The issue was first brought up at a meeting of the San Ber nardino County Board of Su pervisors. And it has continued to be discussed at Board of Su pervisors meetings over the past few

Whilemonths.Board Chair Hagman supports the move, Supervisor Joe Baca Jr., said he disagrees with the effort.

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What Can We Say of TheseTwo Things?

During the funeral for Queen Elizabeth II, I reflected more about the Queen as a woman of faith, a tribute to the kind of Christian lady she was than the jewels, her riches and fame; the fu neral service emphasized her life of service as a Christian woman.

Saying goodbye to Queen Mother, the celebration of her life of service, was the final moment, the final chapter of a lady who was blessed by God to live 96 years and reigned as Queen for 76 years. Prime Minister, Liz Truss read a portion of the biblical text from John 14, “In my Father’s House are many mansion…. An other reading from Revelations 21:7…”and God shall wipe away all tears…. for the former things are passed away.” Archbishop Welby concluded with the words: “Service in life, hope in death, all who follow the queen’s example and inspiration of trust and faith in God can say with her, we will meet again.”

According to some historical accounts, when Elizabeth be came Queen, she asked God for wisdom, a reminder of the re quest King Solomon made to the Lord as recorded in I Kings in the Bible. Solomon asked for wisdom. The Lord was pleased and gave King Solomon three gifts; wisdom, and a discerning mind. Secondly the Lord gave Solomon what he had not asked for, riches and honor. Thirdly, King Solomon was given a long life with the condition that he walk in the ways of the Lord and keep his commandments. Queen Elizabeth’s request for wisdom was honored by God; she displayed wisdom, she was rich with honor, and she lived a long life. It seems that God’s favor rested upon the

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an author journalist who focuses on faith, wrote the following: “In 1989, the Queen used Jesus’ story of the Good Samaritan to illustrate her encouragement that we should love one another. “It’s not very difficult to apply that story to our own times and to work out that our neighbors are those of our friends, or complete strangers who need a helping hand…. How might Christ’s message about loving our neighbors as ourselves be Howheeded?”dowe shed biblical truth on structural racism in Amer ica? Can America take pity and bandage the wounds of people who have fallen on hard times? Since Republican Governors Ab bey (Tex) and DeSantis (Fla) are chartering airplanes and buses to transport thousands of immigrants (now called migrants) to Democratic governed sanctuary cities, questions of whether the people were treated as less than human have arisen since many did not speak English, nor did they understand what was going on when they were told the big lie they would receive prear ranged help. Where are the migrants living now? Can America be the Good Samaritan? What has happened to moral leadership? Are our elected leaders remaining faithful to the words on the Statue of Liberty “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, …Send these your homeless, to me…...”?WEmust also ask ourselves about the words of the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal……., especially since we know that these words on the Statue and the Preamble are not applied equally to all peoples.

In the great English writer Charles Dickens’s novel “Tale of Two Cities”, the question of whether we can love our neighbors as ourselves is posed. Dickens’ novel opens with “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…”. This novel reminds us of Eliza beth II’s desire for wisdom as she served in the midst of royalty. And, as we watched the rich, who live the best life of luxury, bury the Queen, and then observe how migrants struggle under the worst of times with the heavy yoke of structural racism. In both stories, there are divisive realities. What then shall we say to these things?

Fighting an Unjust System, The Bail Project Helps People Get Out of Jail and Reunites Families

As public support for criminal justice reform con tinues to build — and as the pandemic raises the stakes higher — advocates remain adamant that it’s more im portant than ever that the facts are straight, and every one understands the bigger picture.“The U.S. doesn’t have one ‘criminal justice sys tem;’ instead, we have thou sands of federal, state, local, and tribal systems,” Wendy Sawyer and Peter Wagner found in a study released by the nonprofit Prison Policy Initiative.“Together, these systems hold almost 2 million people in 1,566 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 2,850 local jails, 1,510 juvenile correc tional facilities, 186 immi gration detention facilities, and 82 Indian country jails, as well as in military pris ons, civil commitment cen ters, state psychiatric hospi tals, and prisons in the U.S. territories,” the study au thors said in a press release.

With hundreds of thou sands of individuals locked up in jails almost daily, many find it challenging to payRecognizingbail.

America’s ongoing mass incarceration problem and the difficulties families have in bailing out their loved ones, a new or ganization began in 2018 to offer some relief.

The Bail Project, a na tionwide charitable fund for

pretrial defendants, started with a vision of combating mass incarceration by dis rupting the money bail sys tem.Adrienne Johnson, the re gional director for The Bail Project, told NNPA’s Let It Be Known that the organi zation seeks to accomplish its mission one person at a time.“We have a mission of do ing exactly what we hope our criminal system would do: protect the presumption of innocence, reunite fami lies, and challenge a system that we know can criminal ize poverty,” Johnson stat ed.“Our mission is to end cash bail and create a more just, equitable, and humane pretrial system,” she insist ed.Johnson said The Bronx Freedom Fund, at the time a new revolving bail fund that launched in New York, planted the seed for The Bail Project more than a de cade“Becauseago. bail is returned at the end of a case, we can build a sustainable revolv ing fund where philanthrop ic dollars can be used several times per year, maximizing the impact of every contri bution,” Johnson stated.

In addition to posting bail at no cost to the person or their family, The Bail Proj ect works to connect its cli ents to social services and community resources based on an individual’s identified needs, including substance use treatment, mental health support, stable housing and employment.

Battle Over California Gambling Propositions Heat Up

On the campaign’s Face book page, commenter Bran don Gran wrote under an ad vertisement photo that voting for Prop 27 was a “no brainer.”

“People are already gam bling using offshore ac counts,” he typed. “Why not allow CA to get a piece of the pie…money that will (hope fully) go to good use.”

However, a statewide sur vey by the Public Policy In stitute of California (PPIC), conducted between Sept. 2 and 11 and released on Sept. 15, revealed that 54% of Cali fornia voters would vote “no” for Prop 27, while 34% would vote “yes.” Twelve percent of the respondents were “un sure.”The survey’s authors wrote that a strong majority of Re publicans wouldn’t vote for the proposition, compared to half of Democrats and inde pendents.“Regionally, majorities in the Inland Empire, Orange/

San Diego, and the San Fran cisco Bay Area would vote ‘no,’ while likely voters in the Central Valley and Los Ange les are divided,” they wrote. “At least half across most de mographic groups would vote ‘no.’ Likely voters age 18 to 44 (52%) and renters (51%) are the only two demographic groups with a slim majority voting ‘yes.’”

The survey, titled “PPIC Statewide Survey: Califor nians and Their Government,” did not ask participants about Prop 26. The Yes on 26/No on 27 coalition, said in a news re lease that the PPIC’s research confirmed what Prop 26 sup porters have said for some time.“Despite raising more than $160 million for a deceptive advertising campaign, Califor nia voters are clearly not buy ing what the out-of-state online gambling corporations behind Prop 27 are selling,” the state ment read.

Johnson noted that of ficials created cash bail to incentivize people to return to Instead,court. she said, judges routinely set cash bail well beyond most people’s abil ity to afford it, resulting in thousands of legally in nocent people incarcerated while they await court dates.

According to The Bail Project, Black Americans are disproportionately im pacted by cash bail, and of all Black Americans in jail in the U.S., nearly half are from southern prisons.

“There is no way to do the work of advancing pretrial reform without addressing the harmful effects of cash bail in the South,” said Rob in Steinberg, Founder, and CEO of The Bail Project.

“Cash bail fuels racial and economic disparities in our legal system, and we look forward to supporting the community in Greenville as we work to eliminate cash bail and put ourselves out of business.”Sinceits launch, The Bail

Project has stationed teams in more than 25 cities, posting bail for more than 18,000 people nationwide.

Johnson said the organi zation uses its national re volving bail fund, powered by individual donations, to payThebail.Bail Project has spent over $47 million on bail.

“When we post bail for a person, we post the full cash amount at court,” Johnson stated.“Upon resolution of the case, the money returns to whoever posted. So, if I posted $5,000 to bail some one out, we then help the person get back to court and resolve the case,” she con tinued.“The money then comes back to us, and we can use that money to help someone else. So, we recycle that.”

Johnson said eliminating cash bail and the need for bail funds remains the goal.

“It’s the just thing to do. It restores the presumption of innocence, and it restores families,” Johnson said. place a Legal Tonya Peacock: Phone: (510) 2724747 Fax: (510) 743-4178 All other Phone (510) 287-8200 Fax (510) 287-8247

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NOTICE TO TENANT: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an “eligible tenant buyer,” you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an “eligible bidder,” you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase.

First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call 800-2802832, or visit this internet http://www.qualityloan.com,websiteusing the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA22-914328-CL to find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee’s sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder,” you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately

for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, including if the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid to the Trustee. This shall be the Purchaser’s sole and exclusive remedy. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Trustor, the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the Beneficiary’s Agent, or the Beneficiary’s Attorney. If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right’s against the real property only. Date: Quality Loan Service Corporation 2763 Camino Del Rio S San Diego, CA 92108 619-645-7711

For NON SALE information only Sale Line: 800-280-2832 Or Login to: http://www.qualityloan. com Reinstatement Line: (866) 645-7711 Ext 5318 Quality Loan Service Corp. TS No.: CA-22914328-CL IDSPub #0180483 9/7/2022 9/14/2022 9/21/2022 9/7, 9/14, 9/21/22

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Cal Black Chamber of Commerce’s Biz Summit

2022 Offers Opportunities to Bid on Contracts

The California Black Cham ber of Commerce Foundation Inc. (CALBCCF) is offering “game-changing opportuni ties” for mini micro, micro, and small business proprietors of the state at the Economic Busi ness and Roundtable Statewide Summit

Under2022.the theme, “Pitch

Your Business,” the summit is scheduled to be held in Sacra mento on Friday, Sept. 30, and Saturday, Oct. 1, at the Em bassy Suites Sacramento Riv erfront Promenade.

Jay King, the president and Chief Executive Office of CALBCC, said the Economic Summit provides a different outlook and “a bold new jour ney into the ecosystem of busi ness and how it’s effectively done.”Startups or established busi nesses attending the summit will be able to present their ser vices to potential clients on the spot or set up a bidding process in the near future. Interested individuals will be able to ex plore employment opportuni ties at the two-day event.

“This is not the same format that it has been in the past,” King told California Black Me dia. “We’ve been working with California Transportation (Cal trans) and DGS (California De partment of General Services), to identify contracts that small er firms can bid for and win if not at the summit days after ward. We will have workshops but all of them are interactive.”

A workshop on how to pitch a bid will be held on the first day of the summit. The pitch presentation is scheduled to be done in front of a panel of cor

porate judges with the hope of winning investment capital.

The next day, the partici pants will pitch their business concept with a chance to land $50,000 in capital. Two sec ond-place winners will receive $25,000 each, and 10 functional businesses each have a chance at $10,000 in cash prizes.

“We are only awarding busi nesses in the state that have done all the hard work. It’s difficult running a small busi ness,” King said. “Because small businesses are micro (a business that makes less than $100,000 per year) or mini mi cro (less than $35,000 per year), especially in the Black sector, it’s extremely difficult. About 96% of the African American businesses fit that description.”

The Economic Summit will feature Black chambers of commerce from across the state, including operations from Los Angeles, Fresno, Ba kersfield, San Francisco, Oak land, and San Diego.

Wells Fargo, Lyft, UC Davis Health, the city of Sacramento,

the Department of General Services, and the Black Small Business Association are Eco nomic Summit sponsors.

“The Economic Summit was created to bring ‘change makers’ together with minor ity-owned businesses with a mission to create meaning ful economic opportunities to increase spending with small businesses and strengthen the conversation of small business diversity, equity, and inclu sion,” King said.

The Summit is also set up to assist interested homebuyers. King said attendees will have a chance to see if they qualify for a home loan.

The summit will feature guest speakers Chris Horton, National Black Entrepreneur Project, Ann Tompkins, Direc tor of Professional Services at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis); and Mike Condrin, Chief Operation Of ficer at UC Davis.

The California Black Cham ber of Commerce Foundation, Inc. was created as a public

charity dedicated to education, training, community growth, and youth entrepreneurial de velopment. Its mission starts with educating local and statewide communities about the importance of financial litera cy.“We believe in diversity, eq uity, and inclusion,” King said. “We are not excluding any business sector, racial groups, or White, Asian, Latinos busi ness chambers. We know that they have the same challenges. We (CALBCC) are putting on display [an Economic Summit] that we would like to see from other chambers and entities across the state when we talk about diversity, equity, and in clusion. This means everybody to us.”For more information about the Economic Business Sum mit, registration, and hotel ac commodations, contact Angela Lowe of the California Black Chamber of Commerce at (916) 467-8878 or visit cbcc@ calbcc.org.

Mary Agnes English Sparrow, 102

Mary Agnes English Spar row was born in Beaumont, Texas, April 3, 1920. She graduated from Prairie View College, in Prairie View, Texas with a degree in Social Servic es 1941, but her passion was teaching. Mary followed that passion by teaching special ed ucation in Texas for 10 years.

Mary moved to Alameda, California in 1952 and was a very active member of the community. She continued her passion of teaching Special Education at Donald D. Lum Elementary School and Paden Elementary School, in Alam eda for 22 years.

Mary raised her three chil dren in Alameda. Her two sons, Frazier Sparrow II and Steven Sparrow, preceded her in death. Her daughter, Pamela Sparrow Lewis is an active community member.

Mary’s hobbies were gar dening, reading, attending plays, musicals, making won derful hamburgers and deli cious lemon pies. Mary had a love for people and took in so many family members.

Sunday, April 5, 2020, about 200 of Mary’s near and dear family and friends had planned to celebrate her 100th birthday, at the Albert H. DeWitt Of ficers’ Club. The family had planned a day fit a queen! But the COVID virus shutdown interrupted those plans. Mary was so looking forward to that celebration.OnSept.10, 2022, Mary de parted this life surrounded by loved ones. She will always be remembered for her big, caring heart. Mary’s unconditional love will truly be missed by all.

She was a giver, and Proverbs 18:16 tells us “A gift opens the way and ushers the giver into the presence of the great.”

Homegoing services for Mary will be held Monday, Sept. 26, 2022, at Chapel of Chimes Funeral Home, Cre matory & Columbarium, 4499 Piedmont Avenue Oakland, CAThe94611.“Quiet Hour” visitation/ viewing: 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. and funeral service: 12:00 The service will be live streamed from this hash:6B7BC20DBA2851F3com/events/viewer/78590/http://webcast.funeralvue.link:

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Just Say No to the A’s at Howard Terminal

What an abso lute mess! The City of Oakland promotes a baseball stadium and luxury real estate development at Howard Terminal for the Oak land A’s, but it has not completed a financial analysis of risk and benefits associated with the proj ect. It does not know what the project will cost, how it will be paid for, how many public dol lars will be spent, and how much the City is at risk for anticipated cost overruns that are likely be cause of changing economic conditions due to inflation.

This situation is worse than the Raiders debacle at the Oak land Coliseum. You would think that once burned, the City would make sure that would not happen again.But here we are.

Public funds from the city, county, state, and federal gov ernment will exceed $1 billion. Worse, because of changing economic conditions, the City now admits for the first time that anticipated cost overruns could pose a risk to the city of Oakland. The City Administra tor won’t say how much is at stake, because he doesn’t want

to “throw numbers around.” But a source close to the A’s said some estimates have pegged the cost to the city to be more than $300 million.Beforewe go further, let’s be reminded how we got here. Last spring, the voters of Oak land asked the City Council to place an advisory vote on the November ballot on whether any public funds should be spent on billionaire John Fisher’s baseball and luxury real-estate deal at Howard Terminal. That request was denied.

On April 28, 2022, Council member Noel Gallo convinced the City Council to unanimously vote to have an independent analysis done on the risks and benefits of the project. The analysis was scheduled to be presented to the public on Sept. 20. When the date came around for the report, the City had not done the analysis even though five months had passed since it wasOnapproved.Sept.20, after the meeting started, staff sent out an e-mail with an attached 18-page report that was chock full of new data and a dire warning that “signifi cant increases in costs are antici

pated and there are not yet suf ficient funds currently in-hand to cover the estimated costs of the off-site infrastructure (on the project). As a result, under the current structure, there is a risk that the City would be required to fund the remaining costs as well as any cost overruns, each of which may prove significant.” Councilmembers were stunned. They had been assured that the City would have no risks, but the report included an admis sion that the City could be at risk and the amounts may prove sig nificant. Councilmember Car roll Fife asked how much was at stake. The City Administrator refused to give an estimate.

So, again, here we are. The voters said they wanted the right to weigh in on wheth er to spend public funds on the Howard Terminal project. The Council refused to place a measure on the ballot, saying no public funds would be spent and they preferred a financial review before such a vote could be scheduled. But the City never did the financial review.

This process has been a disas ter. Promises made have been reneged on. Assurances that no public funds would be used, and that the City would not have risks turned out to be false. Oak

land voters demanded the right to be heard on whether public finds should be spent, but they were turned down.

This is the same kind of in competence and lack of trans parency displayed during the Raiders deal. But the amounts at risk on this deal make the money spent on the Raiders look like chump change.

The Oakland City Council needs to put this on pause and figure out all the details before anything moves forward. Now, more than ever, City Council must insist on an independent fi nancial analysis on the costs and risks of the project. Since public funds are clearly being spent, and the administration now ad mits Oakland has financial risks, City Council needs to revisit the question of letting the voters weigh in. As Councilmember Dan Kalb said previously, if that requires a special election, so be it.

Is Council woke yet? They have been bullied, misled, and disrespected in this entire pro cess. Transparency be damned! Will they finally say “enough,” or will they continue to move forward with their eyes wide shut?

It is time to Just Say No!

Oakland Parents Join Statewide Coalition to Protest State-Imposed School Closings

Protesters shut down meeting of Gov. Newsom’s state-funded nonprofit

Parent Voices Oakland and other Oakland community groups this week joined with parents and community lead ers from Inglewood in South ern California to demand an end to state-imposed school closings and decades of budget cutbacks at the annual board meeting of the state-financed nonprofit, Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team (FCMAT).Atthemeeting on Wednes day, Sept. 21, held at the Los Angeles County Office of Edu cation in Downey, the com munity coalition demanded “that FCMAT change its racist policy course or, if they refuse, (we) demand that Governor Newsom hold this state agency accountable for their decades of racist public school closures and colonization of Black and Brown communities,” accord ing to a press statement that was released prior to the pro test.The protesters shut down the meeting. They scheduled a

meeting with FCMAT’s Chief Executive Officer Michael Fine.The coalition is “demand ing that the Governor recog nize progress and new fund ing wins and that he holds this state agency accountable for their decades of racist publicschool closures that continue to disproportionately impact schools and communities of color.”

Specific parent demands are:

• FCMAT reimburse local districts for costs incurred dur ing state takeovers of school districts including Oakland and Inglewood, among others;

• Newsom should create stable funding for majority student-of-color districts in his next budget;

• Newsom and state educa tion leaders commit to a multiyear approach to early and K-12 education to guarantee stability to the state’s class rooms;

• Restore local sovereignty to districts of color currently under FCMAT’s domination.

According to the parent co alition, up to now, FCMAT has received minimal public atten tion, and as a result, has not been held accountable for tar geting working-class districts of color in California for de cades with state takeover and receiverships.Reporting directly to the governor, FCMAT has forced districts into debt, utilizing audits to require unnecessary loans, exorbitant fees, and un achievable financial outcomes, according to the coalition press statement.

The Oakland Unified School District has remained under FCMAT’s domination since the state took over in 2003. Already, under FCMAT’s lead ership, more than 30 Oakland schools have been closed. Now, in the 2021-2023 school years, 13 additional Oakland schools have either been closed or are expected to close at the end of this school year.

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Law enforcement is what we do to people. Public safety is what we do with people.

Continued from page 1 the proposal to provide over $250M in public funds for the Oakland A’s Howard Terminal ballpark development.

While they were deciding how to spend our tax dollars without letting us vote on the matter, another tragic, sense less homicide took place liter ally outside the doors of City Hall.Two more killings happened that same evening in East Oak

land. Four others in the preced ing week in other parts of town. The crisis rages on with virtual silence from those charged with keeping up safety.

Data shows that only about 200 individuals are responsible for most of our violent crime.

In many ways, these individu als are both perpetrators and victims of the violence we see.

Prevention work is critical to our safety. Law enforcement resources should be focused

on the most serious, violent crimes. Our capacity to inves tigate, arrest and hold people accountable can be vastly im proved as we free up the human and technical resources to do so.

National Voter Registration Day was Sept. 20. Let’s use the tool of voting to bring solutions to our most challenging prob lems. Mail ballots will begin ar riving shortly after Oct. 10 and Election Day is Nov. 8. Register and make a plan to vote. Encour

age new voters to get involved. Encourage our returning, for merly incarcerated neighbors to vote. Let’s make the turnout for Oakland historic and address the safety crisis at hand.

You can register to vote at the California Secretary of State’s website at www.registertovote.

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Why Sarah Syed is My Choice For AC Transit Board of Directors, Ward 3

Continued from page 1 important ballot choices on Tues day, Nov. 8.

Sarah Syed, a candidate for AC Transit Board Ward 3, is the leader our region needs to turbocharge equitable cities. As a mixed-race woman, Sarah understands that access to transit is a question of equity. Through her work with the Bay Area Rapid Transit, the Valley Transportation Authority, and the Los Angeles County Metropoli tan Transportation Authority, as a transportation planner and engi neer of 20 years, Syed worked to

help underserved communities.

In Los Angeles, where 88% of riders are people of color, Sarah took on a heavily bureaucratic sys tem and planned enhancements to the routes disadvantaged riders were already using, including im proving service frequency to every 10 minutes on two lines, new bus shelters at nearly 400 locations, and improvements along six different streets to extend the sidewalk and improve street safety and accessi bility to bring better bus service.

Through her work with UCBerkeley’s Othering and Be

longing Institute, Syed is helping community-based organizations and local government agencies in eight communities across the state of California so that local equity leadership can drive the agenda of transportation planning to meet the priority concerns of underserved residentsAsyour next AC Transit Direc tor for Ward 3, Syed will champion policy-based interventions to close equity gaps, equitable hiring and personnel practices.

She will work to build broad, ethnically inclusive coalitions to

stand up for bus transit and com municate its value in ways that inspire members of the public and potential political allies.

When we improve bus service, we make our cities better places to live and help address some of America’s deepest problems.

Please join me, State Senator Nancy Skinner, Supervisor Nate Miley, the Alameda County Dem ocratic Party, the three Mayors in Ward 3, and three BART Directors in supporting Sarah Syed for AC Transit Ward 3.

Oakland Could Return Control of City Land to Indigenous Tribes

Oakland city of ficials will consid er a proposal that would cede control of a plot of land in Joaquin Miller Park to an Indigenous women-led land trust. Under the proposal, announced by Mayor Libby Schaaf earlier this month, the city would grant a cultural conservation easement to the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, which works to reclaim Indigenous stewardship of stolen native land in the East Bay, for five acres of the park, allowing the trust to permanently use the land for natural resource resto ration, ceremonies and cultural practices, and other purposes, though the city would retain legalTheownership.announcement comes amid a burgeoning national “Land Back” movement, in which Indigenous peoples are calling for return of control of Indigenous land back to native tribes. Oakland’s proposal, if passed, would likely mark the first such move by a U.S. city to do “Thisso. agreement with the city of Oakland will restore our access to this important area, allowing a return of our sacred relationship with our ancestral lands in the Oakland hills,”

Corrina Gould, a co-founder of the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust and Lisjan Tribal Chairwom an, said in a written statement. “The easement allows us to be gin to heal the land and heal the scars that have been created by colonization for the next seven generations.”“Ihopethe work we are do ing in Oakland with the Sog orea Te’ Land Trust can serve as a model for other cities working to return Indigenous land to the Indigenous commu nity we stole it from,” Schaaf said at a press conference an nouncing the plan. “Today is the day when we acknowledge the harm that government and

Corrina Gould, a co-founder of the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust and Lisjan Tribal Chairwoman.

colonialization has done to the first people of this land.”

The easement would allow the land trust “to immediate ly begin tending to the land, gather Native plants and foods, clean up the area, and perform environmental and natural habitat restoration,” according to a city press release. But he land trust’s long-term vision for the site, called Sequoia Point, is to create a “thriving, beautiful, ceremonial gather ing place and structure where Indigenous people and their guests can come together, and share cultural information and celebrations.”Theproposal grew out of a casual conversation between Schaaf and Gould back in 2018, when the two connected after Schaaf watched a docu mentary about native tribes fighting to protect sacred land in the East Bay, called Be yond Recognition, according to Oaklandside. It has several administrative steps to get through before it is approved.

City councilwoman Sheng Thao, whose district includes the park, held a community meeting last week where resi dents could give input on the proposal. Also last week, the project was considered by the city’s Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee (PRAC) and local stakeholder groups. City Council is scheduled to consider the proposal in No vember.

$2 Million Investment to Revitalize Parks in East Oakland

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parks. As someone who lived in public housing and apartments my entire life, I know that parks are our front yard and backyard and a place for us to build community and find time in nature.

For years the city has promised renovations and investments into these parks, including several unfunded capital improve ment projects, so I did what Oakland leaders are expected to do: find the money we need to fulfill these promises to East Oakland.

This is about getting Oakland back to basics. This is about clean and functional parks for our children, youth, and families to enjoy. This is about building stronger communities through activating safe public spaces we can all be proud of. This is about a cleaner, greener Oakland that is dedicated to healing communi ties impacted by environmental racism.

I know that many East Oakland residents have felt that their voices have not been heard, as if they have not been seen, but I am here to tell you that I see you and I hear you and this is just the beginning.Iamdetermined

to bring more investments into parks, open space, clean air and water, good schools, job programs, afford able housing, safe streets and more to our communities most im pacted by decades of underinvestment. This is about providing basic services to every Oakland neighborhood.

These investments will go toward many unfunded projects and needs in these parks and I look forward to working with the com munity to identify key areas of investment once the City accepts the grant awards. I am very thankful for the partnership of so many East Oaklanders who helped identify these needs with me and for Assemblymembers Mia Bonta and Buffy Wicks for being such strong partners in these efforts.

We can and will build an Oakland that works for everyone and this is just the beginning of that work.

Have We Grown Numb to the Sound of Gunfire?

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to the people of Oakland to demand and ensure that the seed of violence is identified and pulled out of our com munities. We must provide economic justice through jobs and affordable hous ing now for the good of the people.Let’s make our voices

heard. Let’s join together. Let’s not grow numb to the sound of violence.

If you’re interested in let ting your voice be heard, if you have a heart for peace — join in on the conversation.

Register for a city-wide con versation by calling (510) 689-9544.

Protesters from Oakland and the Inglewood school district in Southern California protest against school closings and budget cuts Wednesday, Sept. 21 at the annual meeting of the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team (FCMAT) in Los An geles County, demanding FCMAT and their respective county offices of education relinquish control of their districts.
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