Press Releases

New solar panels are being installed in Oakland’s Chinatown financed by a groundbreaking stream of community funding. Launched as a pilot program, Oakland Solar Mosaic is a collaboration between solar finance company Solar Mosaic and Oakland’s Ella Baker Center for Human Rights.

Oakland's Ella Baker Center for Human Rights has authored a letter urging Oakland City Council to reject the proposed youth curfew.  The curfew was introduced by  Oakland City Council members in response to the rates of violence in Oakland.

Beginning October 1st, 2011, California counties will no longer send lower-level offenders to state prison. Additionally, supervision of most people returning from state prison will be handled by county officials instead of state parole agents. Advocates at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights criticized the plan, which shifts the state’s prison overcrowding and overspending problems to counties, for failing to include sentencing reform to fix the runaway cost of mass incarceration of low level offenders.