Oakland Post November 11 - 17, 2020

Isaiah Thornton Montgomery: “Mississippi’s Booker T. Washington” Page 2

Pelosi Press Conference to Introduce Legislation to Establish a Commission on Pres. Capacity Page 8

Matters of Breath and Death, I am An Environmental Justice Voter

A Domestic Violence Survivor’s Reflection on Pain Page 13

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

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Weekly Edition.

Edition. Nov. 11-17, 2020

Who is Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ Successor and the Next Senator From California?

Kamala Harris’s Monumental Accomplishment Celebrated From Her Roots in India, Jamaica, Oakland and Berkeley The tiny Indian village of Thulasendrapuram, where Kamala Harris’ grandfather is from, erupted in celebration Sunday morning, shooting off fireworks and offering prayers over the Biden-Harris victory, the Associated Press reports.

Groups swarmed into the streets of the village of just 350 people, some carrying signs that read, “Congratulations Kamala Harris. Pride of our village. Vanakkam America.” The state food minister then led about 100 people in a 20-minute prayer at the Dharma Sastha temple during which the idol of Hindu deity Ayyanar was washed with milk and laced with flowers. For more pictures and story. go to page 8.

Oakland Police Commission Interviews Four Finalists for Police Chief Position

LeRonne Armstrong

By Post Staff

The Oakland Police Commission and Mayor Libby Schaaf held a virtual candidates’ forum last week to allow the public to meet the four finalists for Chief of Police.

To view the November 5 forum, go to www.facebook.

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Jason Lando

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com/MayorLibbySchaaf/videos/3697975826934982 Under the city’s procedures, Schaaf will make the final selection of the next chief. She can pick one of the four current applicants or reject them all and ask for new candidates.

The current slate submitted applications in response to a

job posting that was written by the Police Commission seeking leaders who want to “dismantle mechanisms of discrimination.

The four candidates are: LeRonne Armstrong, who presently serves as deputy chief at the Oakland Police Dept., is a native of West Oakland. A graduate of Castlemont

High School, he has longstanding ties to the city’s Black community.

Armstrong started at OPD in 1999 as a patrol officer after working for four years in the Alameda County Probation Dept. He was been involved Continued on Page 12

Union-Backed School Board Candidates Finish Strong Against Billionaire-Supported Candidates

By Zack Haber

As final votes are being tallied, Oakland School Board candidates backed by the Oakland Education Association who ran on platforms against privatization, cuts, and public school closures hold significant leads in the race, poising them to win against candidates who were backed by political action committees that spent between two to three times more money on their campaigns.

District 1 candidate Sam Davis, District 3 candidate VanCedric Williams and District 5 candidate Mike Hutchinson, have each thus far secured between 10-13% more votes than their opponents Austin Dannhaus, Maiya Edgerly and

Mike Hutchinson, who is poised to win the District 5 School Board election, speaks at a protest against NewSchools Venture Fund outside of an invitation only fund raising dinner for the organization at Oakland’s Marriott at City Center on May 8, 2019, a few months after the Oakland Educator Strike. NewSchools Venture Fund is a billionaire backed organization that has invested in Oakland Charter Schools. Photo courtesy of Rex LC and East Bay DSA.

Leroy Roches Gaines.

Dannhaus, Edgerly and Gaines received major cam-

paign donations from PACs including Go Public Schools and Power2Families, which

are funded in large part by billionaires like Michael Bloomberg, Bill and Linda Gates, and Alice and Jim Walton, all of whom encourage the development of charter schools. None of the incumbent school board members eligible to run for reelection this year chose to.

“I knew, even years ago, the only way to counter money power is with people power,” Hutchinson said.

Starting in 2012, Hutchinson began fighting school closures when he founded Oakland’s Public Education Network in reaction to school closures that included Santa Fe Elementary, a school he had attended.

In 2016, Hutchinson ran Continued on Page 12

Rep. Karen Bass

Rep. Barbara Lee

Mayor London Breed

CA Atty. Gen. Xavier Beccerra

Secretary of State Alex Padilla

Mayor Robert Garcia

By Kiki California Gov. Gavin Newsom will most probably select a replacement to fill the term of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. The term will be up in 2022.

Newsom could make history by appointing the first Latinx senator from the state of California. California is 38.1% Latinx according to the 2010 Census and 5.8% Black.

Harris was the second Black woman in the history of the United States to be a senator: Carol Mosely Braun (D-Illiniois) was the first from 19931999. Currently, Harris is the only Black woman senator.

Another choice Newsom could make would be to appoint a candidate who would be the first senator from California who is openly gay.

Newsom could also side-

step the appointment and call for a special election or a placeholder until the 2022 election.

Candidates on the short list: Black women: U.S. Rep. Karen Bass (DLos Angeles) Bass, 67, was on the short list as Biden’s VP pick and is the head of the Congressional Black Caucus. She was also speaker of the California Assembly prior to her election to Congress in 2010.

Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) Lee, 74, has been in Congress since 1998 and is the former chair of both the Congressional Black Caucus and the Progressive Caucus. She worked for the late Ron Dellums and served in the California Assembly and State Senate.

San Francisco Mayor LonContinued on Page 12

Rebecca Kaplan Wins Re-Election to At-Large Seat on Oakland City Council

By Chris Wedge

Rebecca Kaplan has retained her At-Large seat on the Oakland City Council. With unofficial results showing her with a lead, her opponent called her on Monday morning to concede the race congratulating her on her new term on the Council.

Also congratulating Kaplan on her victory was fellow Councilmember Nikki Bas. “Congratulations to my friend and colleague,” Bas said. “No one is more qualified for this position than Rebecca who has been solving neighborhood issues from securing more funds to combat illegal dumping to improving air quality with cleaner trains, trucks and cranes and the free Broadway Shuttle.

Bas hailed Kaplan as a champion for public safety and police accountability, developing civilian responses to mental health crises, pushing for gun control and authoring the current ballot measure to

Rebecca Kaplan At-Large

strengthen the independence of the civilian Police Commission.

According to Bas, Kaplan’s track record shows she will represent everyday Oaklanders across the city and stand up to billionaire bullies who don’t want to play fair or pay their share.

“I look forward to our continued relationship and to our vital work on the Council to move Oakland forward,” Bas Continued on Page 12

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Liza – Getting Back on the Road to Success

By Simon Johnson

The Re-entry program run

by A Safe Place is designed to provide support for women who have been incarcerated and re-enter our community.

Liza is one of those women and we wanted to share her story of how the program has put her back on the road to success.

Liza, a former community

college office assistant, was released from jail in January of this year after a three-month sentence. While incarcerated, the East Bay resident lost her home and custody of her children. For the first time in her life, she was homeless and her only option was to live in her car.

“It was terrifying,” she recalled. “I couldn’t go to a nice

area without the police being suspicious. If I went to the areas with other homeless people, they are on drugs, and very scary.”

At this low point, Liza made contact with A Safe Place. The program staff immediately arranged temporary accommodation in a hotel room where Continued on page 10

Re-Entry Program ARE YOU RETURNING TO THE COMMUNITY POST INCARCERATION?

Learning Black History Year-Round

Henry “Hank” Louis Aaron: Surviving on the Diamond

By Tamara Shiloh

It was the close of the 1972 baseball season. Thirtyeight-year-old Henry “Hammerin’ Hank” Aaron, an Atlanta Braves outfielder, had 673 career home runs. The possibility of breaking Babe Ruth’s record of 714 homers was a reality—but much of America wasn’t ready.

Appalled that a Black man could break Babe’s record, many spewed hatred. As the 1973 season began, Aaron received nearly 1 million letters. Death threats against his family, investigated by the FBI, called for armed guards.

CNN reported that baseball fans threw rocks; wore mops on their heads to mock the Black players; and threw black cats onto the field.

Some of the bitter messages Aaron received read: “Retire or die. The Atlanta

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himself only two homers shy of breaking Babe’s record.

Braves fans, anticipating the 1974 season, stood and cheered for five minutes. The hatred from others intensified.

Aaron would tie Babe’s record with his first swing of the 1974 season. On April 8, 1974, baseball history was made when he broke Babe’s total home run record. About this experience, Aaron wrote: Henry ‘Hank’ Aaron. Wiki- “I couldn’t believe I was pedia photo.

Hank Aaron and this was Atlanta, Ga. I thought I’d never Braves will be moving around see the day.” the country and I’ll move with Throughout his career on them … You will die in one the diamond, Aaron faced inof those games,” and “I hope dignities at every turn. When you don’t break the Babe’s Aaron was signed with then record. How do I tell my kids Milwaukee Braves in 1956, that a n–– did it?” white members of team ate When the press exposed in restaurants in the South; the hate mail, letters of sup- Black players took their port trickled in. Aaron began meals on the bus. When travreceiving standing ovations eling, they stayed in separate during the games. towns; public accommodaDuring the final game of tions were segregated. Some the 1973 season, Aaron found Florida newspapers refused to print pictures of the Black players.

“Little by little, one by one, the fans accepted [Black players]. Not all of them, but enough to make a difference … and we were part of the reason why,” Aaron wrote about his experience in the Sally League.

Aaron grew up in a poor area of Mobile, Ala., dubbed Down the Bay. Baseball was his obsession, playing fastpitch softball at school and pickup games with neighborhood kids. He was kicked out of school because he cut too many classes to spend time listening to Dodgers games on the radio in the local pool hall. One of its team members, Jackie Robinson, who was the Continued on page 10

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November 6, 2020

NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY for the EAGLE ROCK AGGREGATES OAKLAND TERMINAL PROJECT DRAFT SUPPLEMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT (Draft SEIR) (State Clearinghouse No. 2001082058) and NOTICE OF TWO (2) PUBLIC MEETINGS December 9, 2020 at 10AM and 6 PM (duration 1 hour each) Project Title: Eagle Rock Aggregates – Oakland Terminal Project Project Sponsor: Eagle Rock Aggregates Proposed Project Location: Submerged lands in the water area immediately adjacent to Berth 22 and approximately 18 acres of backlands behind and adjacent to Berths 20, 21, and 22 in the Port of Oakland (Port) - Oakland Army Base (OAB) Redevelopment Plan Area in Oakland, California.

Background: Eagle Rock Aggregates has existing marine terminal operations along the west coast of the United States and Canada, including existing operations within the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Eagle Rock Aggregates provides high-strength construction aggregates (i.e., sand and gravel) that are used for housing, infrastructure, and commercial developments, such as high-rise structures and transportation infrastructure. The construction aggregates are sourced and processed in British Columbia, Canada. They are then loaded onto ocean-going vessels (OGVs) and transported to various destinations along the United States West Coast, including the Port of Long Beach and various locations in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Proposed Project: The proposed project includes the construction and operation of a construction aggregates import, storage, and distribution terminal to receive handymax and panamax-sized1 self-unloading ships delivering up to 2,500,000 short tons of construction aggregates per year (tpy; Proposed Project). Initially, the terminal would receive three different sized construction aggregates: 1/2” rock, 1” rock, and concrete sand. The Proposed Project would occupy Berth 22 for vessel and barge operations and approximately 18 acres for construction aggregates stockpiling and distribution on the backlands of Berths 20, 21, and 22, all within the Outer Harbor Terminal in the Port’s Oakland Army Base (OAB) Redevelopment Plan Area in Oakland, California.

Similar to existing Eagle Rock Aggregates operations elsewhere, construction aggregates would be offloaded from self-unloading OGVs and conveyed to stockpiles using an overhead conveyor system. The construction aggregates would then be (a) loaded from stockpiles to trucks using front-end loaders and transported offsite to concrete ready mix plants and other regional destination facilities or (b) loaded from stockpiles to waterborne barges using a similar conveyor system for transport to other regional destination facilities.

As part of the Proposed Project, Eagle Rock Aggregates proposes to: • Install electrical infrastructure, construct and install a receiving hopper and overhead conveyor system for both the receipt of construction aggregates from OGVs and for the transport onto barges, install truck scales, install a scale house (approximately 3,000 sq. ft.), and make site entrance improvements; • Operate a bulk marine terminal for construction aggregates, receiving up to 48 OGV calls per year2 and up to 2,500,000 total tons of construction aggregates per year; and • Maintain up to three construction aggregate stockpiles, each up to 40 feet in height with a storage capacity of 329,000 tons.

Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires that the Port of Oakland (Port), as the Lead Agency with the principal responsibility for approving the project, conduct an environmental review of the project. The Oakland Army Base Area Redevelopment Plan Environmental Impact Report (2002 OAB EIR) described and disclosed the potential environmental consequences associated with adoption and implementation of the Oakland Army Base Redevelopment Plan (OAB Redevelopment Plan). The 2002 OAB EIR was certified by the City of Oakland as the lead agency in July 2002. In September 2002, the Board of Port Commissioners adopted CEQA Findings and adopted the Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (MMRP) of the City’s 2002 OAB EIR as being applicable to projects within the Port jurisdiction of the OAB Redevelopment Plan area. In 2012, the City of Oakland, in consultation with the Port, issued an Initial Study/Addendum to the Redevelopment EIR to evaluate proposed changes to the redevelopment plan, including more detailed information on the Project. The resulting updated Standard Conditions of Approval/Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (SCA/MMRP) was adopted by the Board of Port Commissioners on June 21, 2012 (Resolution No. 12-76). The OAB Redevelopment Plan includes improvements intended to increase the efficiency of maritime operations to enable the Port to achieve its targeted capacity for cargo throughput.

Per Sections 15162 and 15163 of the CEQA Guidelines, a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (SEIR) to the 2002 OAB EIR as Addended has been prepared as the CEQA document for the Proposed Project. The Draft SEIR identifies potentially significant impacts of the Proposed Project related to Aesthetics, Air Quality, Geology and Soils, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hazards and Hazardous Materials, Hydrology and Water Quality, Land Use and Planning, Noise, Transportation, and Utilities, Energy and Service Systems. It is anticipated that the project will not result in the need for supplemental review per CEQA Guidelines Section 15162 for Agricultural Resources, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Mineral Resources, Population and Housing, Public Services, and Recreation.

Public Review Period: The Port of is making the Draft SEIR available in accordance with CEQA for a minimum 45-day review and comment period.

During the comment period, comments may be submitted in the following ways: • By mail to: Attn: Khamly Chuop, Port of Oakland, Environmental Programs and Planning Division, 530 Water Street, Oakland, CA 94607.

• By email to Khamly Chuop, Port Associate Environmental Planner/Scientist at kchuop@portoakland.com with the subject “Draft SEIR Comment”.

• Verbal comment at the voicemail box of Khamly Chuop at (510) 627-1758. Please leave name.

• Oral testimony at the public meetings to be held on Wednesday, December 9, 2020 from 10AM – 11AM and 6PM-7PM. The comment period begins on Friday, November 6, 2020 and ends on Monday, December 21, 2020. Comments must be received electronically or postmarked on or before December 21, 2020 at 5PM. After the public review period, the Port will prepare a Final SEIR, which will include responses to comments received during the comment period.

Public Meetings: Following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (herein referred to as COVID-19) in California (and globally), on March 17, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced directives to address the need to slow the spread of COVID-19 including prohibiting gatherings of any size. In addition, Governor Newsom issued Executive Order N-33-20 on March 19, 2020, which orders all individuals living in the State of California to stay home or at their place of residence, effective immediately and until further notice. In order to comply with the Governor’s directives and Executive Order N-33-20, and to protect public health, the traditional in-person format of the public meetings will be changed to a “virtual” format held online and via telephone.

The virtual public meetings are scheduled for December 9, 2020 from 10AM - 11AM and 6PM – 7PM and will be held in a “virtual” webinar format that will be recorded. The link for the virtual public meetings is provided below.

Zoom Meeting Link: https://portoakland.zoom.us/j/96131032833 Meeting ID: 961 3103 2833 One tap mobile: +16699009128, 96131032833# US (San Jose) Dial by your location: +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) Meeting ID: 961 3103 2833 Find your local number: https://portoakland.zoom.us/u/adQnhdBCek The public meetings will provide members of the public an opportunity to provide formal oral testimony and are scheduled at two different times in order to accommodate varied schedules for those that would like to participate. All requests for reasonable accommodations and language services must be submitted 72 hours in advance of the scheduled meeting date; please contact Laura Arreola at larreola@portoakland.com.

Para información en español llame al (510) 627-1135. 有關中文信息,請致電 (510) 627-1135 Copies of the Draft SEIR: Please visit the Port webpage (https://www.portofoakland.com/community/environmental-stewardship/publications/) to view and download an electronic copy of the Draft SEIR. You may also request a copy of the Draft SEIR by emailing Khamly Chuop at kchuop@portoakland or leaving a message at (510) 627-1758.

In addition to posting the Draft SEIR on the Port of Oakland’s website, printed copies of the Draft SEIR are be available at the following Oakland public library locations, if circumstances allow, during hours the facilities are open (open days/hours may be reduced for compliance with COVID-19 public health and safety directives).

Oakland Libraries: • Main Library. 125 14th St., Oakland, CA 94612 • West Oakland Branch. 1801 Adeline St., Oakland, CA 94607 • Asian Branch. 388 9th St., Oakland, CA 94607 • Golden Gate Branch, 5606 San Pablo Ave., Oakland, CA 94608 • African Museum and Library, 659 14th St., Oakland, CA 94612 In addition, a printed copy the Draft SEIR and related documents may be reviewed, Monday through Friday, 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM at 530 Water Street, Oakland.

To view the document, please check with the Lobby Reception.

Note regarding Federal Requirements: No federal funds will be used for construction of this project; thus this project is not subject to review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) or Department of Transportation Act Section 4(f).

Figure 1. Project Site Location within Oakland

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1:00p.m. p.m.––2:00 2:00p.m: p.m: FoodDistribution Distribution 1:00 Food SUNDAY SERVICES SUNDAY SERVICES 7:00 p.m.: Ministry 7:00 p.m.: Music Ministry Rehearsal “Let theMusic redeemed ofRehearsal theLord Lordsay sayso....” so....”Psalm Psalm107:2.

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Sunday School .....................................................9:30 a.m.

10:00 a.m.–2:00 –2:00 p.m.: PraiseDance Danceand andChoir ChoirRehearsal Rehearsal 10:00 a.m. p.m.: Praise TUESDAYS :CHOIR REHERSAL 6:30PM TUESDAYS :CHOIR REHERSAL 6:30PM Worship. . ...............................

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NewMembers MembersOrientation Orientation..........9:30 ..........9:30a.m. a.m.

New Members Orientation ..........9:30 a.m.

New Members Orientation ..........9:30 a.m.

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PrayerHour Hour....................... .......................6:00 6:00----7:00 7:00p.m. p.m.

Prayer Hour .......................

6:00 7:00 p.m.

Prayer Hour .......................

6:00 7:00 p.m.

Prayer Usher Board (1st & 3rd) ..............7:00 p.m.

Usher UsherBoard Board(1st (1st& &3rd) 3rd)..............7:00 ..............7:00p.m. p.m.

Usher Board (1st & 3rd) ..............7:00 p.m.

Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday

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Noon/7:00 p.m.

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Brotherhood (1st (1st & & 3rd) 3rd)..............6:00 ..............6:00 p.m. p.m.

Brotherhood (1st & 3rd) ..............6:00 p.m.

Brotherhood (1st & 3rd) ..............6:00 p.m.

Brotherhood Teachers’Meeting Meeting........................5:45 ........................5:45 p.m. p.m.

Teachers’ Meeting ........................5:45 p.m.

Teachers’ Meeting ........................5:45 p.m.

Teachers’ Junior Mission (3rd) ....................6:00 p.m.

Junior Mission (3rd) ....................6:00 p.m.

JuniorMission Mission(3rd) (3rd)....................6:00 ....................6:00p.m. p.m.

Junior Mother’s Board Board (2nd) (2nd)..................1:00 ..................1:00 p.m. p.m.

Mother’s Board (2nd) ..................1:00 p.m.

Mother’s Board (2nd) ..................1:00 p.m.

Mother’s WMU (1st, (1st, 3rd, 3rd, & & 4th) 4th)................1:00 ................1:00 p.m. p.m.

WMU (1st, 3rd, & 4th) ................1:00 p.m.

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Pastor’s Aid (2nd).........................6:00 p.m.

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Male Chorus .................................6:00 p.m.

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Mass Choir Rehearsal ..................7:00 p.m.

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New Oakland Mural Will Celebrate Diversity, Support Local Black Artists And Enhance Social Justice Efforts In The Community

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A partnership between Kaiser Permanente and ABG Art Group will produce a large-scale art piece that will be donated and permanently displayed at Liberation Park

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Large wooden panels outside a Kaiser Permanente building in downtown Oakland will soon be transformed into colorful art in support of the social justice movement and will ultimately be housed permanently in the Black Cultural Zone at the new Liberation Park.

Kaiser Permanente is donating the mural as part of its commitment to advancing equity, inclusion and diversity in our community. The partnership with ABG Art Group and the support being provided to local Black artists will result in a dynamic display representing racial equity and justice for all.

“Kaiser Permanente is dedicated to ending systemic racism in our nation and breaking down barriers to equality,” said Yvette Radford, vice president, Kaiser Permanente Northern California External and Community Affairs in the November 6 announcement. “As an organization with deep roots in Oakland, we want to do our part to help our community heal by showcasing the amazing contributions of Black artists and creating an inspirational-piece of art to remind us all of the importance of social justice, inclusiveness, and racial equity.”

Two well-known Oakland artists are currently creating the mural on wooden slabs outside of a Kaiser Permanente building on the corner of 20th and Broadway streets.

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Artist Rachel Wolfe-Goldsmith paints a mural highlighting equity and diversity on a Kaiser Permanente building at 20th and Broadway streets in downtown Oakland.

Kaiser Permanente is donating the mural as part of its commitment to advancing equity, inclusion and diversity in our community. The partnership with ABG Art Group and the support being provided to local Black artists will result in a dynamic display representing racial equity and justice for all. Photo credit: Kaiser Permanente Multi-media.

land’s leading producers of large-scale art installations and supports local artists in their efforts to beautify the city.

“We are honored and excited to partner with Kaiser Permanente and curate this amazing art installation,” said Sorell Raino-Tsui, director ABG Art Group. “Kaiser Permanente has shown their deep commitment to the art community by sponsoring this piece, and I couldn’t be happier to bring two of Oakland’s best AfricanAmerican artists together to create something special.”

Artists Rachel Wolfe-Goldsmith and Joshua Mays have deep ties to the Oakland community. Both have created some of the city’s most signa-

ture public art displays representing their cultural history and beliefs.

Wolfe-Goldsmith is an American painter and muralist, who is primarily self-taught.

She is a large-scale muralist and has created murals throughout the United States, Costa Rica and Australia.

She is excited about the creation of the mural: “Amidst uncertainty and unrest, it is a crucial time to use art to push culture forward.”

Mays is an American painter, illustrator and muralist whose work typically features Black subjects in fantastical settings. In 2018, San Francis-

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10619 Blvd., Oakland, CA 689-9544 State510 of Georgia Brad of coronavirus of the pandemic’s ciety’s shared administration of the patients church) anticipation atorium Act, to humanity. prohibit evicting number achieve greater civility and ra- retary same.”

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Berkeley’s Black Cultural Center Rainbow Sign is Where Kamala Harris’ Political Imagination Was Formed

U.S. Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris represents a range of “firsts” for a candidate on a victorious White House ticket, including being the first person of South Asian descent to be elected to the office, a milestone that residents of her ancestral village Thulasendrapuram, India, celebrated Sunday.

Indian women prepare a Kolam, a traditional art work using colored powder, congratulating U.S. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in the hometown of Harris’ maternal grandfather, in Thulasendrapuram, south of Chennai, Tamil Nadu state, India, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020. After rooting for Kamala Harris as President-elect Joe Biden running mate, people in her small ancestral Indian village woke up Sunday morning to the news of her making history. Photo by Aijaz Rahi, AP.

By Scott Saul, Professor of English and Co-authored with Tessa Rissacher

On March 31, 1972, the Black cultural center Rainbow Sign welcomed local press for Berkeley’s official proclamation of “Nina Simone Day.” At this staged convergence of Black artistic and political power, the mood was formal and celebratory at once. Multicolored curtains sparkled behind black balloons. Simone listened attentively in a gold lamé dress and sky-blue headscarf as Warren Widener, Berkeley’s first Black mayor and a frequent guest of Rainbow Sign, read from a decree that exalted her artistry, her every song “an anthem to Black people, for Black people, and about Black people.”

The director of the Bay Area Urban League announced an official campaign to make Simone’s song “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black” “the new

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris

Black anthem.” Simone, acknowledging the impact of the song, said that she was “pleased to be an instrument, to give it to my people. It does not belong to me.”

One of the children who had received the song was the young Kamala Harris, whose Indian-born mother regularly played “Young, Gifted, and

Black” (Aretha Franklin’s version, admittedly) on the record player in their living room.

Harris, 7 at the time of Nina Simone Day, frequented Rainbow Sign for several years with her mother and sister and absorbed there a sense of political responsibility—that to be “young, gifted, and Black” meant lifting up her commu-

nity.

“It was a citizen’s upbringing,” she writes in The Truths We Hold of her time at Rainbow Sign, “the only kind I knew, and one I assumed everyone else was experiencing, too.” (They weren’t.) Rainbow Sign was where she first “learned that artistic expression, ambition, and intelligence were cool.” It was also where she glimpsed a vision of Black empowerment, orchestrated by middle-class Black women with workingclass roots—women who had broken professional barriers and were now trying to mentor a new generation of young Black people to find a vocation for themselves and transform the institutions they joined.

Rainbow Sign plays a key role in the opening arc of Har-

ris’ memoir. By her own account, it’s the place where she first came into sustained contact with Black activists and started to see herself in that lineage. She spends less time, however, placing Rainbow Sign in the context of its era.

On the one hand, Rainbow Sign sponsored a radical vision of Black freedom through its arts programs: The center inspired Betye Saar’s The Liberation of Aunt Jemima and hosted exhibitions by the expat sculptor Elizabeth Catlett, including one featuring her iconic wooden sculpture of a fist. On the other hand, the political organizations hosted by Rainbow Sign tended toward the liberal side of the Black Power spectrum, calling for the integration of Black people

into American politics, with the understanding that better policy would follow.

Rainbow Sign’s unique fusion of culture and politics provided fuel for Harris’ rise as a politician whose every electoral victory has also been seen as a cultural breakthrough. But for Harris, as potentially the first Black, female vice president, that strategy of activism—pragmatic in orientation and at times lofty in tone—will be pressure-tested, just as Rainbow Sign was. The cultural center’s doors were open for only six years. Harris’ campaign will speak to the legacy those six years have left behind.

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Shelly Scott, County Clerk [Deputy], Deputy 11/4, 11/11, 11/18, 11/25/20 CNS-3412486# MARIN COUNTY POST FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2020-149857 The following person(s) is doing business as: DREAMING WILD ENTERPRISES, LLC, 4001 BRIDGEWAY #477 SAUSALITO, CA 94965, County of MARIN. DREAMING WILD ENTERPRISES LLC, 4001 BRIDGEWAY #477, SAUSALITO, CA 94965 This business is conducted by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A /s/ JULIA CASILLAS This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Marin County on OCTOBER 13, 2020.

Shelly Scott, County Clerk By: S. OLIVA, Deputy 11/4, 11/11, 11/18, 11/25/20 CNS-3412035# MARIN COUNTY POST FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 149852 The following person(s) is doing business as: JUST AFTER MIDNITE MUSIC, 35 MILLER AVENUE #231, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941, County of MARIN. TAMALPAIS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, 35 MILLER AVENUE #231, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941 This business is conducted by A CORPORATION. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 10/06/2020 /s/ LINDA JHEE This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Marin County on OCTOBER 12, 2020.

Shelly Scott, County Clerk By: J. MANNION, Deputy 11/4, 11/11, 11/18, 11/25/20 CNS-3411605# MARIN COUNTY POST FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 149853 The following person(s) is doing business as: Re-Screenmobile, 531 Easterby St., Sausalito, CA 94965, County of Marin.

Re-Screenmobile Limited Laibility Company, 531 Easterby St., Sausalito, CA 94965 This business is conducted by limited liability company.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 08/19/2020 /s/ Tahkoda Sims, Managing Member This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Marin County on October 12, 2020.

Shelly Scott, County Clerk By: J. Mannion, Deputy 10/28, 11/4, 11/11, 11/18/20 CNS-3410227# MARIN COUNTY POST FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 149817 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Neptune Society of Northern California, 975 Diablo Avenue, Unit 104, Novato, CA 94947 County of MARIN S.E. Combined Services of California, Inc., 1929 Allen Parkway, Houston, TX 77019 This business is conducted by a Corporation The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 12/23/2013.

S.E. Combined Services of California, Inc. S/ Daniel Kleban, Vice President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Marin County on 10/05/2020.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 149882 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: High Tech Burrito, 199 E Linda Mesa Avenue Ste 6, Danville, CA 94526 County of CONTRA COSTA Mailing Address: 199 E Linda Mesa Avenue Ste 6, Danville, CA 94526 FFFC, Inc., 199 E Linda Mesa Avenue Ste 6, Danville, CA 94526 This business is conducted by a Corporation The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 11/30/2016.

FFFC, Inc. S/ Bernard Viggiano, CFO This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Marin County on 10/16/2020.

Shelly Scott, County Clerk [Deputy], Deputy 10/28, 11/4, 11/11, 11/18/20 CNS-3409219# MARIN COUNTY POST FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 149839 The following person(s) is doing business as: HER MISSION, 337 MARION AVENUE, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941, County of MARIN. SHARON DEMKO INC., 337 MARION AVENUE, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941 This business is conducted by A CORPORATION. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 10/01/2020 /s/ SHARON DEMKO This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Marin County on OCTOBER 8, 2020.

Shelly Scott, County Clerk By: J. MANNION, Deputy 10/28, 11/4, 11/11, 11/18/20 CNS-3408928# MARIN COUNTY POST FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 149843 The following person(s) is doing business as: My Marin Kitchen, 1425 Butterfield Road, San Anselmo, CA 94960, County of Marin.

The City Kitchen LLC, 1425 Butterfield Road, San Anselmo, CA 94960; California This business is conducted by limited liability company.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 04/01/2020 /s/ Caroline Fey Testa, Managing Member This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Marin County on October 9, 2020.

Shelly Scott, County Clerk By: J. Mannion, Deputy 10/28, 11/4, 11/11, 11/18/20 CNS-3408905# MARIN COUNTY POST FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 149842 The following person(s) is doing business as: Thibbit, 729 Cherry St., Apt 2, Novato, CA 94945, County of Marin.

Patricia Thibodeau, 729 Cherry St., Apt 2, Novato, CA 94945 Christopher Thibodeau, 729 Cherry St., Apt 2, Novato, CA 94945 This business is conducted by married couple.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a /s/ Patricia Thibodeau, Partner This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Marin County on October 9, 2020.

Shelly Scott, County Clerk By: J. Mannion, Deputy 10/28, 11/4, 11/11, 11/18/20 CNS-3408812# MARIN COUNTY POST FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 573600 Fictitious Business Name(s): BAYWOOD FILMS, 561 OAKLAND AVE #206, OAKLAND, CA 94611, County of ALAMEDA Registrant(s): MONIQUE DISMUKE, 561 OAKLAND AVE. #206, OAKLAND, CA 94611 Business conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL The registrant began to transact business using the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].) /s/ MONIQUE DISMUKE This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Alameda County on OCTOBER 7, 2020 NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration.

The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).

10/21, 10/28, 11/4, 11/11/20 CNS-3407883# OAKLAND POST FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 149797 The following person(s) is doing business as: ALLWOOD CO., 40 BROADMOOR AVE., SAN ANSELMO CA 94960, County of MARIN. JIM ROBINSON, 40 BROADMOOR AVE., SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960 This business is conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A /s/ JIM ROBINSON This statement was filed with the

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Shelly Scott, County Clerk By: J. GILARDI, Deputy 10/21, 10/28, 11/4, 11/11/20 CNS-3407823# MARIN COUNTY POST

PERIOD AND PUBLIC HEARING PRELIMINARY ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT REPORT Phase #2 Increment #3, 4, buildings & stadium/field of PEA Oakland Unified School District (District) is providing the local community with this Notice of Intent to Adopt a Preliminary Environmental Assessment (PEA), regarding Fremont High School Modernization Project.

As the Local Educational Agency (LEA), the District is the Lead Agency for purposes of California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) compliance.

The 30-day review period during which comments can be provided on the PEA begins on November 4, 2020 and ends on December 4, 2020.

Project Title and Location: The planned school site Fremont High School is located at 4610 Foothill Boulevard, Oakland, within Alameda County, California the Site is identified as Assessor’s Parcel Number (APN) 35-2404 -1 - 2. The Project Area is currently under construction on the Fremont High School campus and was previously developed with asphalt – paved driveways, concrete paved walkways, and landscaped areas. The Project Area layout is attached as Appendix A. (OUSD) has prepared a Preliminary Environmental Assessment (PEA) Report for the proposed school site in accordance with Education Code section 17213.1(a)(4) (B). The Draft PEA Report has been submitted to the California Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) for review, and the Draft PEA Report is available for public review and comment pursuant to Education Code section 17213.1 (a)(6)(A). The PEA document can be found at the following OUSD website: https:// www.ousd.org/Page/19537.

A bound copy of the PEA report is also available for review at the District’s Fremont site and OUSD offices by appointment only.

Lead Agency: The PEA process is being completed with the oversight of DTSC. PEA and Supporting Documents are Available for Review at: OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT 955 HIGH STREET OAKLAND, CA 94601 (510) 255-0758 OUSD Fremont High School 4610 Foothill Blvd Oakland, CA 94601 (510) 255-0758 DTSC EnviroStor database: Additional site information can also be found at the following DTSC database web site: h t t p s : / / w w w. e n v i r o s t o r. dtsc.ca.gov/public/profile_ report?global_id=01880006 Public Hearing: A public hearing to discuss the OUSD Sub-committee, community and site staff Meeting that will be held on November 18, 2020, at 5:00 p.m. This will be a virtual OUSD meeting links can be found on project website at https:// www.ousd.org/Page/19537.

Appendix A. Phase II consists of a renovation of an existing two story building, construction of a new gymnasium building with VIM’s systems, extension of a parking lot and football stadium. Adaptations include grading and site flat work, retaining walls to prepare building pad, fire alarm and low voltage design to conform to Oakland Unified School District standards, and architectural finishes in response to site context.

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information concerning remote appearances. Parties must be present at least five (5) minutes before the scheduled hearing time.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: ALEX CHEN, 3478 BUSKIRK AVE., SUITE 300, PLEASANT HILL, CA 94523, Telephone: 925-906-1880

ALICE LONGORIA, 2443 FILLMORE STREET #3805713, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115-1814, Telephone: 310-804-1110

will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court on 12/02/2020 at 2:00 P.M. in Dept. 201 Room N/A located at 2120 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR WAY, BERKELEY, CA 94704.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 149772 The following person(s) is doing business as: GRAF HOME SERVICES, 333 LAUREL AVE., NOVATO, CA 94945, County of MARIN. DUANE GRAF, 333 LAUREL AVE., NOVATO, CA 94945 This business is conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A /s/ DUANE GRAF This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 25, 2020.

Shelly Scott, County Clerk By: J. MANNION, Deputy 10/21, 10/28, 11/4, 11/11/20 CNS-3407492# MARIN COUNTY POST FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 149975 The following person(s) is doing business as: Nippon, 68 Oak Springs Dr., San Anselmo, CA 94960, County of Marin.

Jonathan James Opris, 68 Oak Springs Dr., San Anselmo, CA 94960 This business is conducted by an individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A /s/ Jonathan James Opris, Owner This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Marin County on October 28, 2020.

Shelly Scott, County Clerk By: J. Mannion, Deputy 11/11, 11/18, 11/25, 12/2/20 CNS-3407417# MARIN COUNTY POST FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 149796 The following person(s) is doing business as: TENDER ROSE DEMENTIA CARE SPECIALITS, 1000 4TH ST. STE. 150, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901, County of MARIN. TENDER ROSE HOME CARE LLC, 1000 4TH ST. STE 150, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901 This business is conducted by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A /s/ JIM KIMZEY This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 30, 2020.

Shelly Scott, County Clerk By: J. MANNION, Deputy 10/21, 10/28, 11/4, 11/11/20 CNS-3406961# MARIN COUNTY POST FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 149890 The following person(s) is doing business as: VISO Trust, 635 San Geronimo Valley Drive, San Geronimo, CA 94963, County of Marin.

Valente Sherman, Inc., 635 San Geronimo Valley Drive, San Geronimo, CA 94963 This business is conducted by a corporation.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A /s/ Paul Valente, Chief Executive Officer This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Marin County on October 19, 2020.

Shelly Scott, County Clerk By: L. Vawter, Deputy 11/4, 11/11, 11/18, 11/25/20 CNS-3391725# MARIN COUNTY POST

GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF TRUTH ACT COMMUNITY FORUM The Alameda County Board of Supervisors will hold a public community forum to provide information and to receive and consider public comment, under Transparent Review of Unjust Transfers and Holds (TRUTH) Act (Government Code Sections 7283 and 7283.1), about access to individuals that has been provided to the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency by law enforcement departments under the Board’s jurisdiction in calendar year 2019.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Tuesday, December 8, 2020, at 2:00, teleconferenced from the Alameda County Board Chambers located on the 5th Floor of the County Administration Building, 1221 Oak Street, Oakland, CA 94612, the Board of Supervisors will convene a TRUTH Act community forum as a Special Meeting of the Board.

The Board of Supervisors welcomes you to its meetings and your interest is appreciated.

Due to the COVID-19 public health emergency, the County of Alameda has made several changes to protect the public’s health and prevent the disease from spreading locally. Accordingly, in-person participation at Board of Supervisors meetings is limited to essential County of Alameda personnel. The Board chambers will be unavailable to members of the public and non-essential County personnel.

Members of the public may observe and participate in meetings by following the instructions in the teleconferencing guidelines posted online at: http:// acgov.org/board/broadcast.htm.

The community forum will also be streamed live online and can be accessed by clicking the “View Now” link on the Alameda County Board of Supervisors’ website: https://www.acgov.org/board/.

If you require a reasonable modification or accommodation for a disability, please email the Clerk of the Board 72 hours prior to the meeting date at CBS@ acgov.org or call (510) 272-4949 or (510) 834-6754 (TDD).

11/11/20 CNS-3414115# OAKLAND POST PUBLIC NOTICE OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT 955 HIGH STREET OAKLAND, CA 94601 (510) 255-0758 PUBLIC COMMENT

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF SYDNEY ANN STRATHAUS CASE NO. RP20076165

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: SYDNEY ANN STRATHAUS A Petition for Probate has been filed by ANDREW ADAMS in the Superior Court of California, County of ALAMEDA. The Petition for Probate requests that ANDREW ADAMS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The Petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and PROBATE shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition NOTICE OF PETITION TO will be held in this court on ADMINISTER ESTATE OF 12/11/2020 at 2:00 P.M. in MAE Z. MEIDAY Dept. 201 Room N/A located CASE NO. RP20072162 To all heirs, beneficiaries, at 2120 MARTIN LUTHER creditors, contingent KING JR WAY, BERKELEY, creditors, and persons who CA 94704.

REMOTE may otherwise be interested MANDATORY in the will or estate, or both, APPEARANCE: The Court requires all parties who of: MAE Z. MEIDAY A Petition for Probate has wish to attend the hearing been filed by MARIAH on the above date and time, DELEON in the Superior including those who wish to Court of California, County of state objections, to appear by audio or video technology.

ALAMEDA. The Petition for Probate The parties should consult requests that MARIAH the court’s website for the DELEON be appointed as specific telephonic and video personal representative to applications available. The administer the estate of the parties may also contact the probate clerk in the decedent.

The Petition requests the respective department for concerning decedent’s will and codicils, if information any, be admitted to probate. remote appearances. Parties The will and any codicils are must be present at least available for examination in five (5) minutes before the scheduled hearing time. the file kept by the court.

The Petition requests If you object to the granting authority to administer the of the petition, you should estate under the Independent appear at the hearing and Administration of Estates Act. state your objections or file (This authority will allow the written objections with the personal representative to court before the hearing. take many actions without Your appearance may be in obtaining court approval. person or by your attorney.

Before taking certain very If you are a creditor or a important actions, however, contingent creditor of the the personal representative decedent, you must file your will be required to give notice claim with the court and to interested persons unless mail a copy to the personal they have waived notice or representative appointed by consented to the proposed the court within the later of action.) The independent either (1) four months from administration authority the date of first issuance of will be granted unless an letters to a general personal interested person files an representative, as defined in objection to the petition and section 58(b) of the California shows good cause why the Probate Code, or (2) 60 days court should not grant the from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a authority.

A hearing on the petition notice under section 9052 of will be held in this court on the California Probate Code.

11/30/2020 at 9:31 A.M. in Other California statutes and Dept. 202 Room N/A located legal authority may affect at 2120 MARTIN LUTHER your rights as a creditor. You KING JR WAY, BERKELEY, may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in CA 94704.

MANDATORY REMOTE California law.

APPEARANCE: The Court You may examine the file requires all parties who kept by the court. If you are wish to attend the hearing a person interested in the on the above date and time, estate, you may file with the including those who wish to court a Request for Special state objections, to appear Notice (form DE-154) of the by audio or video technology. filing of an inventory and The parties should consult appraisal of estate assets the court’s website for the or of any petition or account specific telephonic and video as provided in Probate Code applications available. The section 1250. A Request parties may also contact for Special Notice form is the probate clerk in the available from the court clerk. for Petitioner: respective department for Attorney

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11/11, 11/18, 11/25/20 CNS-3413498# BERKELEY TRI-CITY POST NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF OLIVER E. WILLIAMSON CASE NO. RP20077579

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: OLIVER E. WILLIAMSON A Petition for Probate has been filed by TAMARA E. WILLIAMSON in the Superior Court of California, County of ALAMEDA. The Petition for Probate requests that TAMARA E. WILLIAMSON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The Petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The Petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court on 1/26/2021 at 2:00 P.M. in Dept. 201 Room N/A located at 2120 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR WAY, BERKELEY, CA 94704.

MANDATORY APPEARANCE:

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The Court requires all parties who wish to attend the hearing on the above date and time, including those who wish to state objections, to appear by audio or video technology.

The parties should consult the court’s website for the specific telephonic and video applications available. The parties may also contact the probate clerk in the respective department for information concerning remote appearances. Parties must be present at least five (5) minutes before the scheduled hearing time.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: JON R. VAUGHT, 7677 OAKPORT STREET, SUITE 1140, OAKLAND, CA 94621, Telephone: 510-430-1518

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF AKIKO JANET MCCLENNAN CASE NO. RP20076311

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: AKIKO JANET MCCLENNAN A Petition for Probate has been filed by BETTY H. MCCLENNAN in the Superior Court of California, County of ALAMEDA. The Petition for Probate requests that BETTY H. MCCLENNAN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The Petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative

MANDATORY APPEARANCE:

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The Court requires all parties who wish to attend the hearing on the above date and time, including those who wish to state objections, to appear by audio or video technology.

The parties should consult the court’s website for the specific telephonic and video applications available. The parties may also contact the probate clerk in the respective department for information concerning remote appearances. Parties must be present at least five (5) minutes before the scheduled hearing time.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: ELIZABETH THOMPSON, ATTORNEY, 1615 BONANZA STREET, SUITE 305, WALNUT CREEK, CA 94596, Telephone: 925-9355566 11/4, 11/11, 11/18/20 CNS-3411408# BERKELEY TRI-CITY POST

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF DEBBRA WOOD SCHWARTZ AKA DEBBRA W. SCHWARTZ AKA DEBBRA SCHWARTZ CASE NO. RP20076365

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: DEBBRA WOOD SCHWARTZ AKA DEBBRA W. SCHWARTZ AKA DEBBRA SCHWARTZ A Petition for Probate has been filed by MARGOT DUFFY SCHWARTZ AND NOAH ALEXANDER SCHWARTZ in the Superior Court of California, County of ALAMEDA. The Petition for Probate requests that MARGOT DUFFY SCHWARTZ AND NOAH ALEXANDER SCHWARTZ be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The Petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The Petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court on 12/07/2020 at 2:00 P.M. in Dept. 201 Room N/A located at 2120 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR WAY, BERKELEY, CA 94704.

MANDATORY APPEARANCE:

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The Court requires all parties who wish to attend the hearing on the above date and time, including those who wish to state objections, to appear by audio or video technology.

The parties should consult the court’s website for the

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Election 2020: Results Show CA Your Water Supply and COVID-19: An Interview: May Not Be So Liberal After All Edgar G. Dymally, Environmental Specialist

By Dale Hunter

By Quinci LeGardye California Black Media

California’s unofficial 2020 proposition results have shown an electorate that is fairly moderate, supportive of business interests and concerned about issues affecting older citizens.

It also showed that there is limited support for progressive policies. Initiatives a majority of African Americans and young Californians supported such as affirmative action and rent control also fell short.

Prop. 16, the ballot initiative to reinstate affirmative action programs in California, failed with 56% of voters voting no.

The proposition would have allowed public universities and state and local governments to consider race, sex, ethnicity and national origin in their hiring, contracting or admission decisions.

Although supporters of the proposition argued that it would increase racial equity in the state, it faced heavy opposition.

With the no vote, affirmative action is still banned in California.

The most recent attempt at rent control also failed, with 60% of voters rejecting Prop.

21. The initiative would have allowed local governments to enact rent control on housing built over 15 years ago, while exempting landlords who own no more than two properties.

Instead, California’s statewide ban on new forms of rent control will stay in effect, at a time when millions of Americans are struggling with rent or facing eviction due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

After months of high spending and heated debate, Prop. 22 passed with over 8 million yes votes, as of November 8. Gig economy companies including Uber, Lyft and DoorDash are now exempt from AB 5, the California law that classifies workers. The companies will be allowed to continue classifying their drivers as independent contractors.

The Yes on 22 campaign received over $202 million in contributions, making Prop.

22 the most expensive ballot initiative campaign in California history. According to Ballotpedia, the top five donors for Yes on 22 were Uber, DoorDash, Lyft, InstaCart and Postmates, with Uber and Lyft spending over $50 million each.

their masks, begin to mix outside their households,” Newsom said. “We’ve seen some early indication related to Halloween.

I’m very sober about that and that’s what I was elected to focus on.”

The effects of the statewide increase in new cases are expected to trickle down to the county level and affect which businesses can reopen when the state modifies its pandemic reopening tier assignments on Tuesday.

A total of 10 counties are in the “purple tier,” the most restrictive section of the state’s four-tiered reopening system.

The next two tiers, red and orange, include 20 and 19 counties, respectively, including much of the greater Bay Area. The leastrestrictive yellow tier includes only nine counties, including San Francisco County.

Newsom said he expected to see multiple counties move into more restrictive tiers this week.

“This is exactly why we designed the tier status the way we did,” Newsom said. “It was about being more and less restrictive, not based upon political whim, but based upon the data, based upon the epidemiology, based upon the facts on the ground... the tier system is working as it was designed.”

Edgar G. Dymally is a senior environmental specialist with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, a water wholesaler that delivers water to 26 member agencies that serve 19 million people across Southern California.

Prior to starting with Metropolitan in 1992, Dymally was a staff engineer with the state’s Office of Drinking Water. He is chairman of the Water Quality Committee of the Association of California Water Agencies, and an active member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Water Works Association, and TreePeople.

Dymally earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Long Beach State University, and he is the nephew of former California Lt. Gov. and Congressman Mervyn Dymally.

I spoke with him about his role at the Metropolitan Water District, the safety of our water supply during the COVID-19 pandemic, careers in the state water industry and more.

D.H.: What is your role at Metropolitan Water District of Southern California?

E.D.: There is an extraordinary number of state and federal regulations to ensure the safety of our drinking water.

My job for the past 25 years has been tracking and evaluating the impacts of these regulations on Metropolitan and other water utilities, providing input to regulatory agencies and lawmakers, and coordinating with staff to ensure compliance. Above all, my job, along with many others in the industry, is to protect public health.

D.H.: Should people trust that their tap water is safe to drink?

E.D.: Drinking water faces more regulations and safeguards than virtually any other resource, whether it’s air, water, soil, or food of any type.

Probably the shining example of public health protection in our country has been the regulation of drinking water over the past 50 years. Our drinking water is safe.

What sometimes frustrates water professionals is even with all the regulations and

in the future. “Therapy helped me tremendously,” she says, who is now in her early 30s.

“I’ve had moments of complete distress, but thanks to the therapy, I’ve been able to calm myself down, with breathing and meditation.”

While in therapy, the staff as A Safe Place helped her get her life back on track. First, they worked with her to recover her Section 8 housing status and then to find a new apartment where she now lives. The program also provided furniture and everything needed to set

up a new home for her family.

“It felt surreal when I got my furniture. I felt a little out of place. So thankful. This situation has really humbled me.”

Then, with the help of an attorney who works with the Re-Entry Program, Liza has successfully begun the process of regaining access to her children. The Re-Entry Program remains involved and will continue to support Liza into employment and back onto the road to success.

Simon Johnson is a program assistant for A Safe Place, a

victim-centered, trauma- informed organization providing a comprehensive program for survivors of domestic and intimate partner abuse. A Safe Place has turned its attention to fulfilling a tremendous gap in Alameda County, by addressing the complex needs of women post-incarceration.

If you need assistance or information about the Re-Entry Program, or want to talk to someone who is or has been abused call A Safe Place today at 510-536-7233 or 510-536SAFE.

at a drugstore, Aaron knew what he wanted to do with his life: play baseball.

“On the field, Blacks have been able to be super giants,”

Aaron said. “But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.”

About breaking Babe’s re-

cord, Aaron wrote: “I had to do it for Jackie [Robinson], and my people and myself and for everybody who ever called me a n––.”

Voters also struck down Prop.

23, which would have required dialysis clinics to have at least one licensed physician on site during treatment. Opponents of the proposition had argued that the ballot initiative’s passage would force multiple clinics to reduce hours or shut down due to the increased hiring costs.

Voters said no to rolling back previous criminal justice reforms, rejecting Prop. 20 by the widest margin, with 62% of voters voting no on upgrading several crimes to violent felonies and upgrading some theft crimes to be chargeable as either misdemeanors or felonies.

Voters also rejected replacing money bail with a risk assessment system, with 55% voting no on Prop. 25. Although it was billed as an attempt at serious bail reform, multiple social justice groups had concerns that the risk assessment system would lead to increased racial profiling against Black and Brown suspects awaiting trial.

Two propositions this year focused on voter rights. Prop.

17 passed with 59% of yes votes, giving parolees the right to vote upon release from incar-

ceration. With Prop. 17’s passage, tens of thousands of predominately Black and Brown parolees have regained their voting rights. However, Prop.

18 fell short, with 55% of voters saying no to allowing 17-yearolds to vote in primaries if they turn 18 by the next general election.

In both of this year’s propositions related to property taxes, voters resisted tax increases.

Prop. 15, which proposed an increase on property taxes for commercial properties to fund education and local governments, failed by a margin of about 425,000 votes as of November 8. Prop. 19 passed, with 51% of the vote approving tax breaks for property tax assessment transfers for homeowners over 55 years old, people with severe disabilities and victims of natural disasters.

Voters approved Prop. 24 to strengthen the California Consumer Privacy Act and establish and limit the use of sensitive consumer data among businesses. Also, Prop. 14 passed, approving the issue of $5.5 billion in state bonds to fund stem cell and other medical research.

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she stayed for a month. She was accepted into the re-entry program where she enrolled in individual therapy sessions that are the first step in the program.

A survivor of domestic abuse, first as a child witnessing her step-father’s abuse of her mother, she was abused physically and mentally by her spouse when she married at 17.

Part of the therapy program was to show Liza ways to break this cycle, giving her tools to avoid unhealthy relationships

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first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the U.S. was Aaron’s hero.

After hearing Robinson speak

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co Magazine named him as one of the “100 artists putting the East Bay on the map”.

Mays has created other murals in downtown Oakland and recognizes the importance of this piece: “With all that is un-

folding in the landscape, I’m thrilled to use this platform to express all that is available within the current moment. I expect, through color, texture and narrative, we create a piece that reveals and transmits much needed doses of hope, perspec-

tive and possibility.”

The mural will take about two weeks to create and will remain temporarily on display in downtown for several months before it is permanently moved to the Black Cultural Zone, inside the new Liberation Park,

which will showcase art that has cultural significance to the community.

Kerri Leedy is the public relations and media relations manager of Kaiser Permanente Northern California.

Edgar G. Dymally is a senior environmental specialist with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.

drinking water standards, even though billions of dollars have been invested to upgrade treatment facilities and protect source water quality, even though drinking water has never been safer, some people still don’t drink it.

I recommend people drink plenty of water, and tap water provides the best value for every consumer.

D.H.: Has the COVID-19 pandemic affected drinking water?

E.D.: No. The virus that causes COVID-19 does not present a threat to the safety of treated drinking water. Water treatment plants, including Metropolitan’s, use a multistep process of filters and disinfectants to remove or kill bacteria and viruses, including the virus that causes COVID-19.

Water agencies throughout the state are working hard to educate residents that their drinking water is not affected by the pandemic.

D.H.: Why is it important for residents to know which agency provides their drinking water?

E.D.: Your local water provider – who you or your landlord pays the water bill to – is the best source to speak to about your drinking water quality. They can tell you the steps to keep your water safe and address any concerns you have. If there is a problem, they are responsible for fixing it.

To better understand the source and quality of your water, you should talk to your water provider or review their annual Water Quality Report.

Water agencies are required to regularly monitor and test for a host of chemical contaminants.

If they discover a contaminant above the level set by the state, they are required to disclose it in their Water Quality Report and address the contaminant.

For example, you may

LEGALS specific telephonic and video applications available. The parties may also contact the probate clerk in the respective department for information concerning remote appearances. Parties must be present at least five (5) minutes before the scheduled hearing time.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: MARY M. RUDSER, DONAHUE FITZGERALD LLP, 1999 HARRISON STREET, 26TH FLOOR, OAKLAND, CA 94612 510-451-3300 CO-COUNSEL:MARC WAHRHAFTIG (BAR #161232) LAW OFFICES OF MARC WAHRHAFTIG, 1939 HARRISON STREET, SUITE 200, OAKLAND, CA 94612 510-451-1500

have heard recently about perchlorate or one of the PFAS chemicals, which are now being monitored.

Your water provider can also tell you about incentives or product rebates to help you use water more efficiently.

With the challenges of climate change facing our water supplies, we all need to do our part to use water as efficiently as possible. Your water agency is your partner in that effort.

D.H.: How did you get your start in the water industry?

E.D.: It was total serendipity. I had just finished my undergraduate degree in civil engineering at Long Beach State. My plan was to go into the Navy, but I didn’t qualify medically. So, I was on campus with no job and I ran into the dean of student services.

He told about an entry position with the state’s drinking water program. I took the job for the summer, loved it, and never looked back.

D.H.: What advice would you give to someone considering a career in the water industry?

E.D.: Explore all the different kinds of opportunities.

You could go into academia, the private sector or work for a non-profit or non-government organization. You could do something in agriculture or wastewater. There are so many different facets to water.

If you’re fortunate like me and get to work for an agency like Metropolitan, you would never regret it. But there are many other opportunities as well.

Dale Hunter is executive director of the California African American Water Education Foundation (CAAWEF). It is a nonprofit water education organization focused on the African American community in California. Formed in 2019, CAAWEF is based in Sacramento.

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF JANET M. STROTHMAN CASE NO. rp20076689

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: JANET M. STROTHMAN A Petition for Probate has been filed by HOLLY DUBOIS in the Superior Court of California, County of ALAMEDA. The Petition for Probate requests that HOLLY DUBOIS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The Petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The Petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court on 12/03/2020 at 2:00 P.M. in Dept. 201 Room N/A located at 2120 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR WAY, BERKELEY, CA 94704.

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The parties should consult the court’s website for the specific telephonic and video applications available. The parties may also contact the probate clerk in the respective department for information concerning remote appearances. Parties must be present at least five (5) minutes before the scheduled hearing time.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: SRINOI G. ROUSSEAU, 2433 MARINER SQUARE LOOP, STE. 210, ALAMEDA, CA 94501, Telephone: 510465-3885

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OCCUR and the San Francisco Foundation Presents Strategic Planning Tag Team Workshop

By Shawn Johnson

I recall someone stating some years ago that your current belief and value systems could be at the root of your inability to create strategies that will lead to success. I thought deeply about this concept for months, incorporating this thinking into all my plans.

What I realized about myself and my strategies shook me to my core. There was a pattern to all the plans that were successful and all the plans that were not: my belief of time (procrastination), my blind optimism (not having a plan(s) for when things don’t work out) and the overestimation of my abilities (not being honest about my shortcomings and not asking for help).

Our upcoming training will be beneficial to those with similar experiences and challenges.

We will address key questions.

Examples are ‘how many of us are effective planners?’ ‘Are you an accomplished strategist that implements plans with the utmost precision?’ ‘A true “achiever,” who understands what it takes to bring a vision into reality?’

A strategic plan is a tool that guides the fulfillment of a mission with efficiency and impact. It should articulate specific steps to achieve a goal.

But what happens when your plans never bring you closer to goals? How well do you adapt to that sudden unexpected element that results in you or someone on your team saying those famous words, “change in plans?” What if you are not as good of a planner as you thought?

If you would like the answers to these questions and implementing a strategic plan for yourself or your organiza-

tion, please join us on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. when the FAITHS Program “A Model Built on Faith” (AMBOF) will hold a workshop and panel on “Strategic Planning Tag Team Workshop.”

The workshop will be a bit different from previous workshops as the facilitator will tagteam with a panel of professionals to discuss the phases of the strategic planning process and provide tips from their professional experiences on how to troubleshoot issues that may arise from the plan’s concept to its implementation.

Participants will also have a chance to connect with other participants and panelists through breakout sessions.

They will answer questions related to their experience creating strategic plans and how they achieve them.

Our panel of guest speakers

on this very important training will be: Angela Upshaw, associate director of programs at the Berkeley Food & Housing Project Ebony Smith, Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate/ Reliance Partners Kiki Poe, membership and operations director at the East Bay Housing Organizations Marcus Savage, recruitment manager at Year Up To view this free webinar, please RSVP by visiting our website www.amodelbuiltonfaith.org, e-mail info@occurnow.org or by calling OCCUR at (510) 839-2440. The training is recommended for seasoned as well as new nonprofit leaders.

Shawn Johnson, is the program director of the FAITHS Program- A Model Built on Faith.

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In her memoir, Harris’ time at Rainbow Sign was part of her mother Shyamala’s quest to “make sure we [Harris and her sister, Maya,] would grow into confident, black women.”

Although the young Kamala grew up in the West Berkeley flatlands—a formerly redlined area that Harris describes as “a close-knit neighborhood of working families”—she participated (famously now) in the early years of Berkeley’s busing program and spent her school days at a North Berkeley elementary school whose demographics were closer to the city’s at large (68 percent white).

So Shyamala drew her daughters into a set of Blackcentered circles—first, the after-school program, run by Kamala’s beloved neighbors the Sheltons, with its posters of Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman decorating its walls; and

UPS Finally Lifts Ban on Afros, Beards, Braids

By Kiki

Atlanta-based UPS had a specific ban on facial hair and some hairstyles: “no Afros or braids.” The policy had a direct impact on many Black employees. Some Black men in particular grow beards to avoid painful razor bumps.

That ban among others (piercings, tattoos, and uniform length) has been lifted. It was long criticized as being discriminatory.

In 2018, UPS paid $4.9 million in a settlement from an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) lawsuit because they failed to hire or promote Muslims, Sikhs, Rastafarians, and others whose religious practices were in conflict with UPS’ policies.

place for Natural Hair) Act. Thanks to Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) a federal version of the CROWN Act also passed in the House of Representatives but is not yet the law of the land.

According to the Wall Street Journal the new rules for UPS were posted on an internal company website.

UPS issued a statement: “[t] hese changes reflect our values and desire to have all UPS employees feel comfortable, genuine and authentic while providing service to our customers and interacting with the general public,” and added that they are “determined to continue to make UPS a great place to work for all of our more than 500,000 employees around the world.”

These employees, many with beards or hair not in compliance with UPS policy were not allowed to interact with customers and were given “back-ofthe-house” positions.

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next, Oakland’s 23rd Avenue Church of God, where Kamala and Maya sung in the children’s choir and took in the Social Gospel vision of a Black church that “defend[s] the rights of the poor and the needy.” But at the heart of her childhood stood Rainbow Sign. It was there that she and other children were exposed to the “extraordinary” people—Harris names Shirley Chisholm, Alice Walker, Nina Simone, and Maya Angelou— “who showed us what we could become.”

Rainbow Sign was the East Bay’s Black mecca. Housed in a former funeral parlor designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival style, Rainbow Sign had innate grandeur—chandeliers and arched leaded windows, vaulted ceilings with hand-painted floral designs, an organ loft suspended above what became the main stage.

The center thrummed with life: Its bustling bar-restaurant served up soul food seven days a week, and the walls of its program hall were always hung with new art exhibitions.

Rentable conference rooms in the back were put to use by all manner of community groups, and any night of the week there was some cultural event to take advantage of—a Bobby Hutcherson concert, a screening of a film smuggled out of South Africa, a trailblazing work of choreo-theater, a book party with Rosa Guy or Maya Angelou. It was a space for learning, one that boasted a library stocked with the latest Black Arts journals and a studio that held workshops on art, music, and dance. And it was a space for festivity. On some occasions—for instance, to host a jazz festival’s after-party or a record-breaking, six-day-long poetry reading—Rainbow Sign was even open through the night and into the morning.

The center had been brainstormed into existence by Mary Ann Pollar, a Bay Area concert promoter and good friend of luminaries like Nina Simone, Odetta, Maya Angelou, and James Baldwin. Pollar had taken the center’s name from the same verse of the spiritual that Baldwin had drawn upon for the title of his 1963 indictment of white supremacy, The Fire Next Time (“God gave Noah the rainbow sign, no more water the fire next time!”). Pollar put her emphasis on the rainbow sign’s promise of rebirth—of wracked communities made whole again. In that spirit of Black resilience, Rainbow Sign sought to educate, uplift, and entertain. As it advertised in its brochure, it “set a Black table at which all are welcome to eat” and made membership “open to all who are sympathetic to our Black orientation, cognizant of our vast diversity and dedicated to quality achievement.”

It wasn’t a coincidence that Pollar and the 10 other members of the Rainbow Sign’s board were all Black professional women with experience at having cracked glass ceilings in medicine, TV broadcasting, and print journalism. (This is echoed in Harris’ own repeated “firsts”—the first Black female district attorney for San Francisco, the first Black female attorney general for California.)

They set up Rainbow Sign as a membership club partly because of zoning restrictions— the center sat in a residential neighborhood where businesses were not permitted—but also partly because of their combined experience in the later years of the Black women’s club movement.

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Black Banks Get Boost in Historic Investment

By Tenisha Taylor

Black financial services and regulatory experts announced Monday the formation of the Black Bank Fund (BBF) and National Black Bank Foundation (NBBF), tandem initiatives to nurture Black-owned banks through a historic $250 million direct investment of tier 1 capital.

BBF’s investment will allow Black banks to make $2.5 billion in new loans. The NBBF, a nonprofit, will simultaneously educate the public about the essential role these institutions provide through financial literacy and wealth-building programs for underbanked people of color.

“We have a century of data that shows #BlackBanksMatter, but their ability to extend credit to Black entrepreneurs and households has been stunted by undercapitalization,” said Ashley Bell, BBF co-founder and partner at the global law firm Dentons. “The Black Bank Fund will urgently address the fundamental challenge preventing Black banks from scaling to serve our community: meaningful access to capital.”

Banks can only create credit roughly equivalent to 10 times their tier 1 capital, which is generated from interest on deposits, banking fees, and the sale of stock. With philanthropic and corporate partners including LendingTree, Dentons, KPMG and Comer Capital, the Black Bank Fund intends to purchase upwards of $250 million non-cumulative, non-voting, preferred stock in Black banks by 2025.

BBF’s stock purchase will immediately translate into tier 1 capital, which the banks can finally deploy to underserved borrowers.

“We’ve spent the last year speaking candidly with leaders of Black banks to understand the structural and specific challenges facing the sector, and each of them pointed to their comparatively small assets,” Brandon Comer, Black Bank Fund co-founder and managing partner of Comer Capital Group, said. “The Black Bank Fund and Foundation provide a holistic solution that addresses the banks’ ability to extend credit to Black borrowers meaningfully while fostering sustainability and growth.”

In minority-majority zip codes, Black banks are often the only source for fair, non-predatory lending. But since 2001 their numbers have fallen by more than 50%.

Today, there are just 18 Black-owned banks left, according to the FDIC. That lack of access to basic financial services has forced Black households to rely on costly alternatives like check-cashing services, payday loans, money orders, and prepaid credit cards. Over a financial lifetime, those fees can total upwards of $40,000.

“Black families can’t build wealth through home equity and Black entrepreneurs can’t create jobs because they can’t access capital from their neighborhood bank,”said City of St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones, also a National Black Bank Foundation co-founder.

“In cities like St. Louis, just like in New Orleans and Wash., D.C., the work of uplifting Black banks is both urgent and vital.”

“Black banks are so important to the work of closing America’s racial wealth gap because they put credit within reach of Black households, who are rejected at twice the rate of white borrowers,” said Robert E. James, II, the chairman of the National Bankers Association. “As these banks die, so does opportunity.”

About Black Bank Fund and National Black Bank Foundation The Black Bank Fund and its parent nonprofit, the National Black Bank Foundation, were formed in 2020 to uplift Black-owned banks through strategic investment and sustainability initiatives.

Working with corporate and philanthropic partners, the BFF and NBBF will respectively provide a financial shot in the arm to minority depository institutions and educate the public about the essential role these institutions provide through financial literacy and wealth-building programs for underserved people of color.

Learn more at BlackBankFund.com.

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in the department’s efforts to reduce racial profiling and has worked in the problem-solving unit, the criminal investigation division and commanded the Youth and School Safety Section of the department.

Interim Deputy Chief Drennon Lindsey, who is married to Armstrong, graduated from St. Mary’s College in Moraga. She joined the department in 1998 and has worked in the person-

nel, resource and training division, the criminal investigation division and the crime lab.

Jason Lando has worked as a police commander in Pittsburgh, Pa., for 20 years. He is a former paramedic and has worked as a crisis negotiator and police lieutenant.

According to LinkedIn, he serves as one of three lead trainers in the Police Bureau’s Procedural Justice Unit, providing training in procedural

justice, de-escalation, and implicit bias to both police officers and community groups.

He is currently commander of Pittsburgh’s Narcotics and Vice unit, overseeing teams of detectives working to seize illegal firearms and narcotics in an effort to reduce violence in Pittsburgh neighborhoods.

Abdul Pridgen is police chief of Seaside in Monterey County. This year, he testified at the California Legislature

about changing state law to make it easier for a police chief to fire officers for egregious behavior.

Pridgen joined the Seaside Police Dept. in 2018. He was born and raised in the Bronx, N.Y., and moved to Los Angeles before his senior year of high school, joining the Navy after he graduated so he could experience travel and life overseas.

financially necessary to best serve students, and pushed an agenda to close 24 more schools in 2019. At the same time, Hutchinson, advocates, and OEA united to communicate a claim that the closures were strategic and came from underfunding and under supporting schools that served Black and Brown students.

OEA Vice President Ismael Amendariz said the union had been emphasizing problems around the teacher retention issues like comparatively low teacher wages when compared to nearby districts.

But they shifted their focus in 2019 to cuts to OUSD and closures of schools by showing that School Board members who were pushing for the 24 closures had their campaigns funded by GO Pub-

lic Schools. Since pro-charter school funded Board members were pushing cuts, and school closures in recent history often meant charter schools taking over closed public school sites, they claimed the push to close schools was about privatization instead of financial necessity.

Amendariz said the union made an effort to make issues of billionaires pushing privatization more apparent to people during the seven-day Oakland educator strike in 2019.

Hutchinson said the public was well situated to reject the privatization efforts as Pres.

Donald Trump and his Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, who are unpopular in Oakland, pushed a similar agenda.

Mona Treviño said that although public consciousness

about charter schools has recently shifted, “there have been waves of resistance in the last 10 years.” Treviño, who has worked with Hutchinson since 2015 and helped with his campaign, pointed out fights to stop the closures at Santa Fe, Tilden, Maxwell Park and an occupation of Lakeview Elementary School during Occupy Oakland.

With Hutchinson, she and other advocates have spoken regularly at School Board meetings against closures and cuts. Organizing around legislative issues like the fight for AB 1505, a bill passed in October 2019 that helps give local school boards the power to deny approving charter schools, also has helped to educate people.

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on an anti-school closure and anti-privatization platform for School Board director but only secured about 16% of the vote.

Hutchinson said that years of hard work by himself and other public school advocates helped shift the narrative by 2020 against both the ideas that school privatization is beneficial and that public school closures are needed or inevitable.

In 2020, the message of his campaign resonated more with voters.

From 2004 to 2019, Oakland had closed 18 public schools and in 14 of the closed sites, charter schools moved in.

Black students were the majority population in 16 of those closed schools.

Current school board members claimed closures were

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Dr. Rudy Besikof (left) and Dr. Nathaniel Jones III. Photos courtesy of PCCD. The Peralta Community College District has appointed Dr. Rudy Besikof president of Laney College and Dr. Nathaniel Jones III president of the College of Alameda.

Besikof served as interim president at Laney and Jones served as vice president at Moreno Valley College in Riverside County prior to their selections this week by the PCCD search committees.

“We are pleased to announce the appointment of two exceptional leaders, Dr. Besikof and Dr. Jones,” said Interim PCCD Chancellor Carla Walter. “…With Dr. Besikof and Dr. Jones we have selected administrators who are dedicated educators that will continue to build on the progress we are making for students, faculty, staff and our communities.”

Besikof and Jones each thanked the PCCD search committees and said they were honored to accept their appointments.

“I look forward with anticipation in carrying on the legacy of my predecessor at Laney,” Besikof said.

Jones said “I am committed to a student-centered education.”

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BART Board Director Lateefah Simon also extended congratulations to Kaplan for running a principled and hardfought race. “I have no doubt that alongside her colleagues she’ll work fearlessly to bring home resources and advance how we all experience safety and justice in Oakland,” Simon said.

“On every important issue, Rebecca has been a leader.

Her victory will ensure that Oakland addresses the issues faced by families struggling to build better lives,” said Liz Ortega-Toro, executive secretary-treasurer of the Alameda Labor Council, praising Kaplan for having a strong voice for working families.

“In the face of major opposition from corporations like Lyft and developers, this is a big win for Oakland,” said Liz Suk with Oakland Rising Action. To Suk, Kaplan is a proven advocate for racial and economic justice – her wide array of initiatives to improve the quality of life, jobs, and safety throughout the city speaks to her values of equity and justice.

And Michael Colbruno, port

commissioner and LGBTQ+ leader, said, “Oakland voters decisively showed that they want to continue the spirited, innovative and effective policies led by Council President Kaplan. Her victory also shows that voters will reject negative, character smearing campaigns and always opt for positive and productive dialogue and policies that better our communities.”

For her part, Kaplan is grateful for all of the support and the trust that Oakland voters continue to place in her to move Oakland forward. “This victory shows that Oakland is not for sale. Billionaire bullies and their $500,000 in expenditures against me were no match for Oakland voters and the trust placed in me by the community. I look forward to continuing to work with my colleagues on the important issues facing our city.”

Both Measure QQ, the youth vote initiative and Measure S1, police oversight, that Rebecca was honored to author are winning. For more election results please visit the Alameda County Voter Registrar’s website.

Chris Wedge served as manager for Rebecca Kaplan’s reelection campaign.

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don Breed Before becoming the first Black woman mayor of San Francisco, and only the second woman mayor, 46-yearold Breed served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

Latinx possible candidates: California Attorney General Xavier Becerra.

Becerra, 62, was appointed to fill the remainder of Harris’ term as attorney general of California when she won the election for senator in 2016.

Once a congressman from the Los Angeles area, Becerra was the first Latino member of the U.S. House of Representatives to sit on the Ways and Means Committee and to chair the House Democratic Caucus.

During his term tenure as attorney general, Beccerra has filed more than 100 lawsuits against the federal government on immigration, healthcare, the environment, and civil rights.

Mayor Robert Garcia of

Long Beach, California Garcia, 42, is the youngest and first Latinx, and first gay mayor of Long Beach. Newsom endorsed him for mayor and Garcia was an early supporter of Newsom’s run for governor.

Secretary of State Alex Padilla Padilla, 47, is currently the Secretary of State of California and served in the California State Senate.

Others: Libby Schaaf, 55, mayor of Oakland, California, former member of the Oakland City Council.

Toni Atkins, 58, president pro tempore of the California State Senate, former Speaker of the California State Assembly, is a lesbian.

In a press conference on Monday, Newsom said: “[n]o timeline has been established.

The process is just beginning to unfold. We are working through the cattle call of considerations related to what’s the profile, the right choice to replace Sen. Harris.”