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Length: 13.35
"When we started the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, NOBODY thought we were going to make it." See the story of our first ten years, told by those who were there.
Length: 3.46
Silence The Violence Day 2008 featured 27 vigils around the Bay Area and beyond, with the Ella Baker Center hosting a vigil at Defremery Park. Nearly 2000 people came out to call for an end to the senseless violence.
Length: 0.20
Talib Kweli raises the call to Silence the Violence. We have more similarities than differences, and we need to stay focused on that.
Length: 8.12
Our Executive Director, Mr. Jakada Imani, was a featured guest on Black Renaissance discussing the role of the Ella Baker Center in helping to bring about change and opportunity to our world.
Length: 3.20
The Coalition to Defeat the Runner Initiative officially launched with a rally in Sacramento. Respected elected officials, clergy and community leaders spoke out in opposition to the initiative.
Length: 0.14
MacMall speaks up for peace. We need to stop all the murders and live.
Length: 2.17
California Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero and California NAACP President Alice Huffman, among many others, describe why the Runner Initiative is bad for California and announce the formation of a coalition to defeat it.
Length: 3.32
KTVU Channel 2 ran an excellent segment on our Emergency Vigil on February 15, 2008, broadcasting our message of hope and peace to the whole Bay Area.
Length: 2.36
Oakland's Green-Collar Jobs funding and the Richmond training program explicitly surfaced in the Democratic primary debates. KPIX covers this, with interviews from Nwamaka Agbo and Aaron Lehmer. (Jan 2008)
Length: 3.23
Ella Baker Center turns into a music production studio as youth from across the East Bay come together to make music with a message: Silence the Violence.
Length: 4.15
Green-Collar Jobs Campaign Director Ian Kim explains the campaign on KPIX CBS5 news.
Length: 7.16
Susan Brown tells her godson's story to the Little Hoover Commission's hearing on juvenile justice
Length: 12.04
Allen Feaster tells the story of his son's suicide in the California Youth Authority to the Little Hoover Commission's hearing on the state of juvenile justice in California.
Length: 0.38
Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums and Bay Area hyphy artist Mistah F.A.B. join forces to call for peace on the streets of Oakland.
Length: 2.31
Ella Baker Center and Solar Richmond present green-collar job training in action as the Richmond Build and GRID Alternatives do a solar installation on an elderly homeowner's house.
Length: 0.45
Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums and Oakland A's Manager Bob Geren team up with Ella Baker Center to Silence the Violence.
Length: 1.38
On June 12, we held a rally for the Oakland Green Jobs Corps. We demanded that Oakland City Council provide seed money for a training program to provide green pathways out of poverty. Thanks to YourTV 20.
Length: 1.40
Van Jones speaks about the need for a "Clean Energy Jobs Bill" at Speaker Nancy Pelosi's press conference on February 21, 2007.
Length: 5.50
CBS5 and CBS13 report on the changes that are underway in California's youth prison system: Sally Lieber and Books Not Bars are working to shut it down and transition to county-run restorative facilities.
Length: 4.54
Assemblywoman Sally Lieber talks on Mornings on 2 about her bill that would close the Division of Juvenile Justice, formerly CYA. She explains what it would take to completely shut down the abusive and corrupt system.
Length: 1.07
As mothers joined Books Not Bars in demanding better access to their incarcerated children, the TV cameras were rolling. Watch the KCRA3 Sacramento coverage of the event.
Length: 3.52
Our Mother's Morning/Mothers Mourning event attracted a lot of media attention. From around the Bay Area, news outlets helped mothers remember their lost loved ones.
Length: 0.56
As mothers joined Books Not Bars in demanding better access to their incarcerated children, the TV cameras were rolling. Watch the Univision in Sacramento coverage of the event. (Note: this coverage is in Spanish with no subtitles)
Length: 13.30
This video short lays out the choices facing Governor Schwarzenegger as the campaign to reform California's juvenile justice system heats up. (November 2005)
Length: 14.47
See news coverage of 'Silence the Violence Day' on June 1, where people throughout northern California held candlelight vigils to honor those lost to violence.
Length: 5.53
Free Speech TV highlights the collaboration between Ella Baker Center and the Oakland Apollo Alliance in our effort to create a new model for revitalizing urban areas. (May 2006)
Length: 3:19
News coverage of CYA guards beating two youth. As a fight between guards and youth comes into view of surveillance cameras, CYA guards kick and hit two youth as they lie face down on the floor.
Length: 1.08
News coverage of our rally in support of oil independence in Oakland, and important step towards the "green collar jobs" vision of our Green-Collar Jobs Campaign Initiative. (October 2006)
Length: 8.08
Bay Area PoliceWatch responds to the San Francisco Police Departments notorious racist video scandal. (December 2005)
Length: 31.48
A groundbreaking documentary produced with our partner, WITNESS, "System Failure" exposes the horrific conditions and human rights violations in California's abusive youth prisons. (Full version)
Length: 13.30
A groundbreaking documentary produced with our partner, WITNESS, "System Failure" exposes the horrific conditions and human rights violations in California's abusive youth prisons. (Condensed version)
Length: 6.14
In June 2005 Ella Baker Center hosted the "Social Equity Track" at UN World Environment Day. This short film captures three critical days for the environmental movement. (June 2005)
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