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To help build a social movement, the Akonadi Foundation is: -Making racial justice an explicit and direct focus. Organizations and foundations need to deepen their collective understanding of structural racism and develop a more strategic collective approach to racial justice. We need shared and precise language to describe structural racism and challenge societal reluctance to talk directly about race. -Providing long-term investments in organizations that are developing or advancing an analysis of structural racism and that are committed to pro-active racial justice action. Movements are built in stages, as are the organizations involved in movement building. Organizations range from those just beginning to work towards racial justice to those with a long track record of racial justice accomplishments. Organizations need foundations to partner with them over the long term so they can develop their thinking and action on racial justice. -Encouraging local innovation and success. Movements are anchored by local stories -- the Birmingham bus boycott, the Stonewall rebellion, the Delano grape strike, the Soweto uprisings –- that capture popular imagination and demonstrate impact. Helping people come together to share how they think, talk, and strategize about racial justice. Today, the field of racial justice is made up of groups with many ideologies, strategies, and issues – groups that may not even see themselves as part of a cohesive movement. These organizations are often seeking a clear unifying vision, yet funders often separate them into issue silos. -Supporting the interconnected strategies of building power, shaping policy, and transforming culture. Social movements thrive on the strength and synergy of community organizing, policy advocacy, and creative expression and engagement. No movement can flourish without all three. -Nurturing cross-generational leadership. Young people are vital to the burgeoning racial justice movement, often bringing an explicit and intersectional race analysis to their work. Youth organizing and cross-generational organizing are critical components to both movement-building and racial justice organizing.
Mission: Akonadi believes that racial justice movement building means communities of color lead efforts to build power, shape policy and strengthen culture. VISION We, at the Akonadi Foundation, dream of a day when all people, including youth and adults of color, enjoy the right to self-determination. When all peoples are respected and all cultures celebrated. When every community is safe, healthy and sustainable. A day when everyone has an opportunity to thrive. It is going to take a robust and powerful social movement to finally end structural racism. This movement will unite a wide and diverse range of people through shared strategy, principles and goals. But right now, racial justice organizations have many different strategies, ideologies and areas of focus, and may or may not identify as part of a cohesive movement. Funders often exacerbate this fragmentation by separating these organizations into "issue silos." That is why we start with movement-building. We do not just want to support good organizations in their individual work. We want to help them come together as a movement that can help this country become what it should be.
“There is this misconception that Natives don’t exist anymore, but we do.” Oakland’s Indigenous Red Market builds solidarity, preserves traditions, and continues to create culture: http://bit.ly/2Q4BcXV #Oakland
On the first Sunday of every month, a parking lot in the heart of Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood transforms into a vibrant marketplace featuring Indigenous artists, performers and chefs.
Brookfield Duece is a rapper, creative director and a proud East Oaklander. Through his art, he's making sure his neighborhood-- Brookfield -- is being shown in the proper light. Latest episode of #Rightnowish: http://bit.ly/2Z1sDkE #Oakland
Brookfield Duece is using his music to make sure the story of his neighborhood is told properly.
Save the Date! Feb. 7 our president, Lateefah Simon, is participating in Northern California Grantmakers’ Fireside Chat sharing lessons on how to talk honestly about philanthropy's power imbalance and practices to shift power to communities. Register: http://bit.ly/38m7u91
Goapele brought joy and soul to our holiday party this year. Moments like this remind us that good folx, food, and culture help keep the movement for #racialjustice vibrant and strong. #oakland
A special thanks to everyone who made this event a success:
@goapele & DJ DSharp
@djladyryan
Decor by @mamacitascafe Catering by Lucy Aghadjian
Event Support Girl Friday & Winzdayevents
Photo: Alain McLaughlin
Last chance! Happening through the weekend -- People’s Conservatory presents KOLA: An Afro Diasporic Remix of The Nutcracker! Get tix: http://bit.ly/2DWO0cZ #OaklandArts #Oakland
“I work to live and there’s nowhere to live.” An analysis from The Mercury News shows the Bay Area’s poorest ZIP codes endured the largest percentage increases in rents and mortgages. https://bayareane.ws/2tqQRZR #AffordableHousing
An exclusive analysis shows the Bay Area’s poorest ZIP codes endured the largest percentage increases in rents and mortgages. These neighborhoods have paid the highest price as costs exploded with the region’s housing shortage, forcing people to make desperate choices. In the second installment ...
DJ Lady Ryan
Mamacitas Oakland
Lucy Aghadjian Catering
Girl Friday Events
Winzdayevents
Photos: Alain McLaughlin
DJ Lady Ryan
Mamacitas Oakland
Lucy Aghadjian Catering
Girl Friday Events
Winzdayevents
Photos: Alain McLaughlin
DJ Lady Ryan
Mamacitas Oakland
Lucy Aghadjian Catering
Girl Friday Events
Winzdayevents
Photos: Jean Melesaine
DJ Lady Ryan
Mamacitas Oakland
Lucy Aghadjian Catering
Girl Friday Events
Winzdayevents
Photos: Jean Melesaine
Register now for the first of two Fireside Chats at Northern California Grantmakers that dig into some hard truths about the challenges we face when we try to liberate #philanthropy. Happening Jan. 14. http://bit.ly/2PssvpU California ChangeLawyers Hispanics in Philanthropy #npcomm
Young Women's Freedom Center announces that Gov. Gavin Newsom has joined the campaign to end the dangerous and dehumanizing practice of jail late-night releases: http://bit.ly/34rituv #CJreform
December 9, 2019 An Open Letter to Governor Gavin Newsom, the California Legislator, and to the people of California
Passage of #FairChanceAct is a milestone in the #BantheBox movement, founded and led by All of Us or None and championed by formerly incarcerated leaders across the nation. Legal Services for Prisoners with Children #BantheBox
“The show is about how slavery has affected how folks exist and navigate the world and how folks in Oakland are navigating the world because of what their lineage had to suffer.” A look at "KOLA: An Afro Diasporic Remix of the Nutcracker: http://bit.ly/38Kr8vz #OaklandArts
There's no mouse king and no Clara, but there's break-dancing, flamenco, and an Oakland remix of Tchaikovsky.
Save the date and join our president, Lateefah Simon, for an important Fireside Chat: Liberate Your Foundation, which highlights how to talk honestly about philanthropy's power imbalance and practices to shift power to communities to set policy, design programs & make key decisions. Register: http://bit.ly/38m7u91 Northern California Grantmakers
“We are the 99%.” For KQED Arts' series #OurTurbulentDecade, looks at 2011 and how #OccupyOakland and the Occupy movement painted a clear picture of inequality in the US and took activism online: http://bit.ly/2E0nzDe
At Occupy, "the streets and the internet made a pact," shaping a decade of organizing.
The People’s Conservatory presents KOLA: An Afro Diasporic Remix of The Nutcracker! Happening December 12-15 & 19-22. Get tix: http://bit.ly/2DWO0cZ #OaklandArts
ACLU infographic, Bullies In Blue, highlights how school #policing marks the start of the #SchoolToPrisonPipeline for too many kids -- particularly youth of color -- and fuels #MassIncarceration: http://bit.ly/2rqOoh9
Over the past 50 years, our schools have become sites of increased criminalization of young people—a disturbing fact that is even truer for poor Black and Latino communities. Today, police officers assigned to patrol schools can legally use physical force on students, arrest and handcuff them, and...
FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: The Alameda County Arts Commission announces the 2020 ARTSFUND Grants Program that supports all types of arts programming in Alameda County. The deadline is March 5 2020. 3 FREE grant workshops will be available in January. Info: http://bit.ly/2qA2BIq #BayAreaArts #OaklandArts #Oakland
Poll finds a growing percentage of Bay Area residents are worried about the future of the region – citing cost of living, #affordablehousing, homlesness and traffic as their top concerns: https://bayareane.ws/2P3Lw2N San Francisco Foundation
More than half of residents polled say things in the Bay Area “have gotten pretty seriously off on the wrong track.”
Next Thurs. AYPAL’s 5th Annual Fresh Off the Block Youth Visual Art Show takes place from 5-8pm at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. This FREE event celebrates the voices of Asian & Asian American youth in #Oakland thru visual arts. Info: http://bit.ly/36m1bQK #Oakland #OaklandYouth #YouthVoices
Tomorrow is the deadline to submit an LOI to Zellerbach Family Foundation’s Community Arts Stability, Collaboration, and Training grant. The deadline to submit a Community Arts Project grant application is Friday, Dec. 20 at 5pm. More info at: https://zff.org/application-faqs/ #BayAreaArts
Application FAQs
"In catastrophe and celebration, there will always be art-making. And the art-making and the culture is the cure." As the Ashara Ekundayo Gallery in #Oakland closes, using art in a physical space to combat #social issues. http://bit.ly/2LycBcy #OaklandArts
Ashara Ekundayo is closing her gallery in Oakland. The next chapter in her creative career will be writing a book that explores how people use art as a first response to combating oppression.
The People’s Conservatory presents KOLA: An Afro Diasporic Remix of The Nutcracker, that re-envisions The Nutcracker through African & AfroLatinX lens & reflects the lives of Black and Brown children in today’s #Oakland. Happening December 12-15 & 19-22. Get tix: http://bit.ly/2DWO0cZ #OaklandArts
"We're excited to co-sponsor Northern California Grantmakers’ Fireside Chat: Liberate Yourself, exploring how we can lean into our identities, share our stories, and lift up our backgrounds to liberate #philanthropy! Happening Jan. 14. Register: http://bit.ly/2PssvpU California ChangeLawyers Hispanics in Philanthropy
#npcomm"
On Dec 2nd, @RGHRFund and @EastBayCF hosted a day of site visits co-sponsored by Akonadi Foundation and The CA Criminal Justice Funders Group (CCJFG). We had the honor of visiting some of the East Bay's most tireless and visionary advocates for justice: SafeReturnProject, California Coalition of Women Prisoners, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, and Time for Change Foundation.
Together, we met incredible leaders and learned about the issues facing currently and formerly incarcerated women and their families, strategies for making positive change, and opportunities for further donor engagement.
Photo by Courtney Hanson
East Bay poet, Alan Chazaro talks about growing up as a man of color in the Bay Area, Hip Hop and deconstructing concepts of masculinity in the latest installment of #Rightnowish: http://bit.ly/34HrfFJ @KQED
This East Bay poet drops a few words of wisdom on masculinity over a plate of g-fire chicken wings.
ICYMI: “Less frequently discussed are the strategies black parents use to prepare their children for schools where they might be perceived as threats or expendable misfits who aren’t core members of the community.” Jessica Black of @BlackOrgProject & other mothers on the challenges of socializing black children into a white world: http://bit.ly/2OdGsIK #SchoolsNotPrison
I interviewed dozens of black mothers about how they help their kids navigate schools where they might be perceived as threats or made to feel unwelcome.
Prosecutors use gang enhancements to tack additional prison time on to sentences for alleged gang ties. Ella Baker Center for Human Rights Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice & Young Women's Freedom Center outline the impact of CA’s gang enhancement laws which disproporionately affect black and Latino communities.: http://bit.ly/2L0Clhr #CJreform
Prosecutors use gang enhancements to tack additional prison time on to sentences for alleged gang ties. Critics say it’s an ineffective, costly tactic to deter crime
“Oakland has always had that gritty, politically intelligent, culturally relevant, culturally astute, socially and politically astute, in-the-moment type of art-work.” Desi Mundo on the need for space for Oakland’s public art culture: http://bit.ly/2OFsQGE #Oakland #OaklandArts
Muralist Desi Mundo teaches kids at Unity High school how to sketch and write graffiti
Zellerbach Family Foundation’s Community Arts Project grant applications are open! Available to individual artists & arts orgs in SF, Alameda & Contra Costa counties, working in music, theater, visual arts & more. Deadline is 12/20. For more info: https://zff.org/project-grants/. To apply: http://Zellerbach.fluxx.io. #BayAreaArts
Fluxx - The Grants Management Platform
How this #Oakland design firm is working to redesign the punitive justice system into one focused on #RestorativeJustice & improve the living conditions for traditionally-underserved community members: http://bit.ly/33JRSsx #MassIncarceration
Mobile classrooms and housing for the formerly incarcerated are just a few ways Designing Justice + Designing Spaces are working towards social justice.
This Saturday you are invited to join Pendarvis Harshaw of KQED Arts for a 1st Saturday Listening Session w/ Live Podcast "RightNowIsh" featuring Ashara Ekundayo and artists from her gallery’s exhibition "Adjust Yo' Eyes For This Darkness."
Come celebrate the life and legacy of the Ashara Ekundayo Gallery
Fifty years ago, about 70 people representing 20 tribal groups landed at Alcatraz Island in the dead of night, "starting what many believe to be the new dawn of modern-day Native American civil rights activism."
https://sfist.com/2019/11/19/on-its-50-year-anniversary-a-look-back-on-the-occupation-of-alcatraz/
On this day 50 years ago, some seventy American Indians landed at Alcatraz Island in the dead of night, starting what many believe to be the new dawn of modern-day Native American civil rights activism.
New documentary, “Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools” highlights the punitive practices and policies in schools that fuel systemic inequities and the profound consequences they have for Black girls: http://bit.ly/2OsiZT2 #SchoolsNotPrison
Black girls, and other girls of color, experience discriminatory, disparate, punitive, and unfair treatment in school, including suspensions, expulsions, referrals to law enforcement and arrests on school campuses, at rates that exceed the public school population in aggregate — and far exceed tho...
The latest episode of the #Rightnowish podcast features the work of Jamie Facciola -- the discarded furniture documentarian. By looking at furniture on the streets of #Oakland, we learn about the #HousingCrisis, deforestation & more. http://bit.ly/2XlJqOx KQED
Discarded furniture never really caught my eye—but after talking with Jamie Facciola, I notice it everywhere.
#Oakland police have long been criticized for using traffic violations to search people of color. To curb #racialbias and mend a corrosive relationship with residents, they’re cutting back on pulling people over for low-level infractions: http://bit.ly/2pvwUPY #Policing
The number of vehicle stops dropped precipitously in Oakland last year. The racial disparity stayed the same.
Congratulations to Californians for Justice (www.caljustice.org) on the 5-year anniversary of the #StudentVoice campaign, which has transformed the role of students as essential stakeholders in local decision-making in CA’s schools & given a voice to 4.5 million students. http://bit.ly/37eGvM1
The Young Women’s Freedom Center's #MeToo Behind Bars Movement is working to expose sexual abuse of people in prison and jail. http://bit.ly/2rTMyFB Young Women's Freedom Center #MeTooBehindBars
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation fired at least six male correctional officers for sexually abusing women in their custody between 2014 and 2018, according to internal records.
Black Organizing Project launches the “People’s Plan” a comprehensive plan for police-free schools in OUSD & calls for reinvesting the police budget into supports that support youth in learning & thriving in #Oakland. Read the plan: http://bit.ly/2qZFZAY #StandWithBOP
The People's Plan 2019 - FULL 11 Page DocumentDownload The People’s Plan for Police-Free Schools | OUSD Implementation Proposal Oakland’s racist legacy of school police.
Happening now through Dec. at the #AsianResourceCenter the #ThirdWorldLiberation art showcase featuring Cuban art posters. Info: http://bit.ly/32GWwql #Oakland #OaklandArts
Report from UC Berkeley shows how Bay Area cities including #Oakland were built through a history of exclusion & dispossession & the strategies neighborhoods used to close off certain areas to certain residents. http://bit.ly/2KdXwvM #Equity #RacialEquity #EconomicEquity
New Study Shows How The Bay Area Was Built Through A History Of Racist Housing Laws
ICYMI: “Perhaps we should think less about what racism affords people and more about what it deprives them of?” Powerful piece on what Elijah Cummings’ death reveals about white privilege: http://bit.ly/2WJ7LNC The Atlantic
Like so many other black men in America, Elijah Cummings died too young.
“Ultimately, these young people, particularly young people of color, get caught up in this trajectory.” #Oakland University holds event to educate the community on dismantling the #SchoolToPrisonPipeline: http://bit.ly/2O76w74 #Equity
The School of Education and Human Services (SEHS) held the “Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline: A Virtual Conversation with Dr. Crystal Laura” on Monday, Nov. 4 in order to educate the OU community. The SEHS Committee for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion held the event as part of their ong...
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Some of the final posters from our Youth Poster Project, Oakland is Home at Skyline High @civicdesignstudio510 and @akonadi_oakland project. Today we’re celebrating the project and voting on the winning posters for printing and display in Old Oakland, as well as at our OUSD spring art show at @mochaarts on Friday, May 3rd. Could not be more proud!
Our racial justice poster exhibits are up! Come see the posters located on 9th Street off Broadway in Old Oakland in the 'alleyway'. Also, more at the Historic Central building windows on 14th and Broadway. Thanks to @civicdesignstudio ! #rjpp #rjpp19
2018 marks ten years of lifting up arts and culture to advance racial justice through our annual Racial Justice Poster Project. Each year, Akonadi Foundation commissions an artist to create a poster that reflects a vision of a racially just world. TONIGHT Davey D will speak with our 2018 commissioned artist, Joshua Mays, in conversation with past poster artist contributors: Robert Trujillo and Janine Macbeth for an evening of art, networking, and celebration.
Culture is Power May Day march downtown Oakland. Mayday activities organized by Boomshake Music & Abundant Beginnings
Joshua Mays is live at Historic Central Building checking out the Racial Justice Poster project ten year retrospective exhibit. Come by and view the political posters in the street level windows of 436 14th st, Oakland.
We are doing a live video of Akonadi President, Lateefah Simon in conversation with Valerie Jarrett, Former Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama and Chair of the Obama White House Council on Women!
We are live streaming from Netroots Nation. Panel on California Dreamin': A Blue State Blueprint for Progressive Resistance. Aimee Allison, Tim Molina, Karla Zombro, Jessica Bartholow, Lateefah Simon
Fierce arrangement with Howard Wiley, Dr. Chester Thompson on organ, and other amazing musicians bringing it at the Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival
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