Opposing sides on Oakland’s gang injunction request present their arguments in Alameda Superior Court today. The community is feverishly protesting this move on the grounds of discrimination, cost.

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Oakland needs a better police-community relationship in heavily impacted neighborhoods to address crime. By adopting a strategy of gang injunctions, Oakland would be going backward –not forward — in overcoming our crime problem.

There’s no simple answers to the problem of Black on Asian street crimes. Talk is fine, but earnest dialogue at the elite, leadership levels do not reach African-American youth or vulnerable Asian-Americans.

For the first time the City of Oakland will use Instant Run-Off Voting. Will traditional candidates have what it takes to capture residents’ votes?

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Wilson Riles, Jr. argues that words matter, whether they are spoken or unspoken. That is the case with the politics of Oakland’s gang injunctions.

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Yesterday, talks abruptly ended between the school district and the teacher’s union without an agreement in place, opening the door to future strikes.

As opposing sides present their case on the proposed gang injunction this week, Critical Resistance asserts that policing, surveillance, and imprisonment are failed strategies.