Over 1000 #Thanksgiving meals & #PPE kits were also distributed from #PlanetFitness in the #LaurelDistrict by #Councilmembers #ShengThao #NoelGallo #RebeccaKaplan & volunteers. Delicious #PuertoRicqn food was cooked by #LaPerla.
#weloveoakland
#grateful4oakland
#Thanksgiving in the #DimondDistrict #Oakland 2020: We cooked 6 stalks of #brusselsprouts —our annual contribution to our neighborhood’s community dinner hosted by the #Alawdifamily at the #TwoStarMarket. For the 18th year they organized & donated the cooking of 35 #turkeys, #bbqbrisket, generous sides & desserts. I often find that #immigrants understand Thanksgiving best !
#weloveoakland
#allwelcome
I love #Thanksgiving in #Oakland. Our community opens its heart in hundreds of efforts large & small. #Turkey & #pumpkinpie are served with flavors from around the world. My favorite is hosted by #Yemeni #immigrant #AbdoAlawdi & his family at his #TwoStarMarket w/ donations fr other #DimondDistrict businesses. 🦞🦃This year dinners will be pre-boxed for pick up from 1-4pm.
🦃Other locations for #freemeals today— #TheOaklandside bit.ly/3o1bOBI
We’ll miss the community dining, music & dancing but will honor #safepractices so we can get thru the next months safely and gather again next year.
#weloveoakland
#Grateful4Oakland
#masks4all #socialdistancing
#JoeBiden’s choice for #SecretaryofState #TonyBlinken gets Grover’s approval & explains why #refugees need our help. See full 3 min video https://fb.watch/1YNkDnVRrk/
Grover gets it but will GOP Senators? Trump slashed #refugee admissions to record low, separated children from parents & put them in #cages when they asked for #asylum.
#immigrationreform
#BidenHarris2020
#Fall #Walk at #LakeMerritt: #Autumn #Leaves are just beginning to turn gold around the #Lake. A clear dry week ahead with temps in the 60’s perfect for walks. We enjoyed looking at cormorants perched on the trash barriers. This #bird guide will help you identify our flying neighbors in the nations’s first national #wildlifesanctuary. www.lakemerritt.org/birds.html
#weloveoakland
#goldengateaudobonsociety
#Autumn on the #California #Coast: #GarrapataStatePark #BluffTrail
Finally able to take a break from politics. Pleased to see most wore #masks on these quiet dramatic #trails above the #PacificOcean between #Carmel and #BigSur.
#protecttheocean
Last week #Americans were literally #dancinginthestreet when #JoeBiden won #Pennsylvania & became #PresidentElect. @Schischillyy caught the powerful #joy of this young #NativeAmerican in #Albequerque #NM.
chischillyphotography.squarespace.com
#BidenHarris2020
#diversitywins
In hundreds of actions across the nation the #CountEveryVote coalition opposes Trump’s baseless declarations of winning and attempts to stop the counting.
In #Oakland hundreds came together at #CityHall today, more rallies are planned including In #SanFrancisco on Saturday.
#protectthevote
#weloveoakland
#EllaBakerCenter
#BayRising
#nikkifortunatobas
#wellstonedemocraticclub
#sunrisemovement
#apen
#DiaOakland is my favorite #Oakland #festival. I especially love the beauty & love of the altars or offrendas. In this year of #coronavirus the #community sharing is especially missed. Enjoy this slideshow from last year.
Repost—Congratulations to #Oakland’s #UnityCouncil and #FruitvaleVillage merchants for hosting this years exciting #DiadelosMuertos. The theme for this year’s increasingly complex and beautiful #offrendas #altars was #LosAusentes (The Absent) paying respect to those who are no longer with us, whether they are loved ones who have passed away, homicides or members of this very community who have been #displaced due to #deportation, #gentrification, or #incarceration.
#weloveoakland #oaklanddiversityatitsbest #dayofthedead
Nearly 4 years ago millions of #women led the #resistance agst #Trump. The vibrancy of that day ignited a unity that was a broad coalition. That movement has grown & worked unceasingly to build new #grassroots #organizing to #change America.
➡️ This Saturday the #WomensMarch2020 will march by the #WhiteHouse to the #Capitol in #Washington. #doitforRBG
➡️ In #SF there will be a #norally march from #CivicCenter down #Market to the #Embarcadero. bit.ly/31bxCBj
➡️ #WomensCaucus bit.ly/3iZHBjv is asking that we take to #socialmedia under #womenswavevirtual to support womencandidates esp those running to #flipthesenate.
➡️ #OaklandWomensMarch forum, #MobilizeHer, Noon to 1:15 pm, www.eventbrite.com/e/mobilizeher-2020-gender-justice-voting-rights-on-the-ballot-tickets-124871384673
#VoteBlue #VoteEarly
Trump says he’s learned from having the #coronavirus. Don’t think he understands the lessons. But it’s #toolate for 212,000 Americans and too late for the American #economy. #TrumpLiesAmericansDie
#VoteLikeYourLifeDependsOnIt
#BidenHarris2020
#MichelleObama’s #ClosingArgument is worth listening to bit.ly/36Iozvi Her compassion reminds us what we’ve missed in the #WhiteHouse. Her personal hurt from Trump’s “stoking fears about Black & Brown Americans” touches my heart as a person of color.
“What the president is doing is, once again, patently false. It’s morally wrong. And yes, it is racist,” she said, warning that “racism, fear [and] division … are powerful weapons” that can “destroy this nation if we don’t deal with them head-on.”
#BidenHarris2020
#voteblue2020
#RuthBaderGinsburg 1933-2020
#Champion for #Equality ⚖️
Incredibly #sad today. Remembering her leadership in defining #womensrights and her unyielding strength in the #SCOTUS standing up for #justice.
“...the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view. So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today, but for tomorrow."
Today we #mourn, tomorrow we #fight.
#RIPRBG
#notoriousrbg
#OaklandPride is #online —oaklandpride.org ; #Saturday & #Sunday, Noon-6pm this #weekend. #Stayinside #staysafe
• Repost fr JeanQuan
#OaklandPrideWeek is online oaklandpride.org #Oakland misses our #diverse #festivals. As #mayor I worked to bring back #OaklandPride
#Coronavirus is hard on our #vulnerablecommunities.
#weareinthistogether
•#wearamask
•#socialdistance
•#avoidcrowds
#weloveoakland
#Heatwave #Sunset 1: #AsilomarBeach
September 2020
Natural #stressrelief, turn on the sound and relax to the #waves.
#Wildfire #smoke has brought us sad but beautiful reminders of #climatechange
#protectouroceans
#MontereyPenninsula
Slides from last year; this year #OaklandPrideWeek is online oaklandpride.org #Oakland misses its #festivals. In recent years we have celebrated our #diversity & best #weather by growing #cultural events. As #mayor I worked to bring back #OaklandPride & build many more.
#Coronavirus #socialdistancing has been particularly hard on our young residents. Gatherings at the #LakeMerritt & other spaces r problematic. They threaten to spread #COVID-19 in our most #vulnerablecommunities.
We can get thru this. #weareinthistogether
•#wearamask
•#socialdistance
•#avoidcrowds
#weloveoakland #LGBTQ
#WakandaForever: #Oakland and the world is #mourning #ChadwickBoseman #artist & #activist who gave us #black #superheroes we all loved and a glimpse of a #betterworld.
🖤His #lasttweet with #KamalaHarris urged us to #Vote2020
🖤Last #tweet on his site by family is #mostliked in history
TONIGHT ON ABC: #Marvel’s #BlackPanther will air, commercial-free, starting at 8pm Immediately after the film #ABCNews Special: #ChadwickBoseman - A Tribute for a King,” at 10:20pm
#KingTChalla #GrandLakeTheater
#muralaofoakland
#BayArea favorite #family was a highlight of the final #DNC #DemConvention. #StephCurry #AyeshaCurry and mature #Riley & #Ryan discuss the qualities needed by #POTUS.
#BidenHarris2020
#voteforfamilies
#weloveoakland
#warriors
Estrellla’s Letter to Trump:
Her Mom —wife of a Vet & Mother of 2 Citizens —was #Deported By Trump. About 5 minutes into tonight’s #DNC #DemConvention I was already in #angry #tears. Estrella’s letter is just 2 minutes, it inspires me as a
#mother #wife & #daughter of #immigrants and #organizer for #democracy and #equaliy.
#allwelcome
#nobannowall
#familiesbelongtogether
#nobannowall
#familiesbelongtogether
#BidenHarris2020
#voteblue2020 #bluewave
#DrBiden #teacher #mother reminds us what it will be like to have a #family in the #WhiteHouse who cares for others:“How do you make a broken family whole? The same way you make a nation whole. With love & understanding & small acts of kindness. With bravery...It’s what so many of you are doing...For your loved ones...strangers...your communities”
#BidenHarris2020
#VoteBlu2020
#DumpTrump
#MichelleObama was #riveting @ #DNC.
🌊 “If you think things cannot possibly get worse, trust me, they can; & they will if we don’t make a change.
🌊If we have any hope of ending this chaos, we have got to vote for #JoeBiden like our lives depend on it “
#FLOTUS #BidenHarris2020 #voteblue2020 #bluewave
#Oakland #Athletics go for #sweep of #baybridgeseries ! Winning 14 of last 16 games, 2 of 3 so far of the #battleofthebay with #MarkCanha’s #9thinning #homerun last night...they are as #hot🔥 as the #heatwave. Listening to the game on the radio as I garden on 960 AM with #KenKorach and #VinceCotroneo; simulcast on HD2 subchannel of 103.7 FM (KOSF-HD2).
#letsgooakland
#athleticsnation
#SLEEPLESS IN #OAKLAND: #Lightning #storms are rare in the #BayArea. Stayed up to watch nature’s show. 4000 #lightningstrikes!
#thunderstorm #thunder #CAwx
#weloveoakland
#welovethebayarea
#westcoastexposures
Honored to volunteer in #deepeastoakland with #BBBON D7 to distribute #food and #COVID-19 safety kits (#masks #handsanitizer #soap) in partnership with #chefjoseandres’ #WorldCentralKitchen at #EastmontMall on #Friday. #WCK helps #localrestaurants by contracting with them to provide #nutritious #delicious meals https://bit.ly/2Y3rE3U
Congrats to #CherylWalton #AlleneWarren #MaryForte for getting the grant & #organizing.
#Unemployment in #AlamedaCounty is 13+%, 10% more than last year. With the GOP blocking #coronavirusrelief many families need help. Consider donations:
🍎wck.org
🍎#AlamedaCountyFoodBank www.accfb.org/
#weloveoakland
#chefsofamerica
Today is #NagasakiDay 75 years ago a second #atomicbomb incinerated the city killing 74,000, injuring 75,000 more. The #Mayor & dwindling #hibakusha #survivors asked world leaders to do more for a #nuclearweaponsban. wapo.st/2PzZxVs
🙏They warn nuclear powers are upgrading & miniaturizing #nuclearweapons for easier use
🙏Singled out the US and #Russia for increasing risks by scrapping the #intermediaterangenuclearforcestreaty
The #BayArea has many ties to #Hiroshima #Nagasaki
•#Berkeley research was critical to the development of the bomb
•Many #JapaneseAmericans have their roots in this region and lost family.
•Many Hibakusha lived here, some #Nisei caught in Japan during the war and #warbrides.
•Nagasaki was the largest Christian community in Asia. The bomb missed its military target and exploded over civilian area.The destroyed #Cathedral & it’s rebuilding is a symbol of faith.
During the #VietnamWar we had the honor of working with Hibakusha who then and today bravely came forward to tell their stories, to humanize the horror. US generals proposed dropping so-called #tacticalnuclearweapons on #Cambodia #Laos.
Today’s #nuclearweapons are 3000 more powerful & are proliferating in a new #armsrace . Local filmmaker #SteveOkazaki’s #WhiteLightBlackRain is steaming on HBO/Prime now. It tells the painful stories of 14 #survivors. Their story needs to be heard more than ever.
#neveragain #nonukes
#NationalNightOut would have been yesterday, the first Tuesday in August. This year it has been postponed to #October6 in #Oakland and across the nation because of the #coronavirus #pandemic. I love the theme — “When #neighbors know each other we’re safer.” I worked hard to expand these across the city.
I love the #diversity & #creativity of how we celebrate it. This year will be a special challenge but the spirit of #Neighbors watching out for each other is the same goal. With as many as 600+ block parties in the past we will have to adapt to incorporate #covid19 #safetyprecautions. These photos are from #NNO 2017.
#weloveoakland #lincolnsquare #revdamitadavis #fatherjaylandeza #bodenway #picardyneighbors
Excited to watch the #Oakland #Athletics #openninggame agst #LA #Angels tonight at 7:10 pm. #TomHanks will also be starring in his #highschool (#Skyline) #firstjob as a #Coliseum #vendor. But will miss #Stomper & my friends in the #RightFieldBleachers. #letsgooakland #rootedinoakland #weloveoakland
✊🏽45 #Arrests
✊🏽Thousands of #demonstrations
✊🏽Multiple #beatings including near death in #Selma
✊🏽33 Years in #Congress
#JohnLewis spent his life #organizing #GoodTrouble fighting for #civilrights especially #votingrights The best way to honor his life is to pass HR1 to restore #votingaccess & #fairness. #mitchmcconnell & the GOP have refused to vote on it.
•civilrights.org/resource/support-h-r-1-the-for-the-people-act
•Send local GOP reps a message w/ #indivisible: bit.ly/3fQ0Z1o
This slide show spans a few of his fights #lunchcountersitins, original #freedomrider, #BloodySunday, #MarchonWashington to standing with demonstrators at #BLMPlaza in the last days of his life.
#RIP.
