oscar grant

As the year draws to a close, the Ella's Voice Team decided to look at some of the important stories, highlight some awesome Orgs, and throw some shine on the individuals that helped to shape Oakland in 2010. Here are numbers 6-10 (NOT listed in order of importance or inspiration).

TAGS: city slicker farms, communities united, oakland marathon, oakland running festival, oscar grant

As the year draws to a close, the Ella's Voice Team decided to look at some of the important stories, highlight some awesome Orgs, and throw some shine on the individuals that helped to shape Oakland in 2010. Here are numbers 6-10 (NOT listed in order of importance or inspiration).

TAGS: city slicker farms, communities united, oakland marathon, oakland running festival, oscar grant

For many years before becoming the Executive Director at the Ella Baker Center, I worked with our Books Not Bars campaign which transforms our juvenile justice system to invest in young people, their families, and our communities. Since its inception, the campaign has helped close four of the notoriously abusive California Youth prisons and organized thousands of family members of incarcerated youth and our allies to demand change in the system.

TAGS: johannes mehserle, oscar grant

This post is part of our Silence the Violence series in commemoration of National Silence the Violence Day on July 24th, 2010.

TAGS: Oakland, oscar grant, police brutality