April 27, 2011 | Barbara Grady | Oakland Local
As Earth Day nears - held annually on April 22 - Oaklanders are thinking hard about how to implement Oakland’s landmark Energy and Climate Action Plan at a time when city and state resources are dried up. The Oakland plan is viewed as cutting edge because of its aggressive targets for...
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April 25, 2011 | Rina Palta | KALW
This morning, KALW’s Your Call had a great show about the future of juvenile justice, featuring reformer-turned-probation-chief David Muhammad, recently hired to take over operations in Alameda County and James Bell of the W. Haywood Burns Institute. Owen Li of the Ella Baker Center’s...
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April 22, 2011 | Maria Gallucci | SolveClimate News
The city of Oakland, Calif., is getting its residents to help build out a clean energy economy, one solar tile at a time. By selling 5,000 tiles at $100 each to locals, the city is aiming to piece together entire rooftop solar arrays at seven budget-strapped schools, youth centers and houses of...
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April 19, 2011 | Kristin J. Bender | Oakland Tribune
OAKLAND -- A film made by the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights highlighting the injustices and solutions to California's youth prison problem has won a 2010 Prevention for a Safer Society award. The film, "Learning From Our Mistakes: Transforming Juvenile Justice in California," lays out a...
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April 11, 2011 | Trey Bundy | The Bay Citizen
A majority of California voters favor lower penalties for smalltime drug users and many would support political candidates in favor of such reform, according to a statewide poll released Monday. A survey of 800 likely California voters found that 73 percent support reducing the penalty for...
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April 11, 2011 | John Hoeffel | LA Times
A strong majority of California voters believe the penalty for possession of a small amount of an illegal drug for personal use should be reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor, according to a poll released Monday by organizations seeking to relax drug laws. DOCUMENT: Read the report on the drug...
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April 06, 2011 | Phillip Smith | Drug War Chronicle #678
Faced with a staggering budget deficit and a prison overcrowding crisis, California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) and the state legislature have approved legislation that would shift responsibility for low-level, nonviolent offenders and parole violators from the state Department of Corrections and...
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