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Bishop O’Dowd, Oakland Tech Students Take Up Green Cause with Tree-Planting Event

Tree-Plenish mentors students through a step-by-step process leading up to their own tree-planting event, including how to calculate their schools’ paper usage. To reach their goal of planting 295 saplings, students at O’Dowd and Tech are reaching out to residents to order the saplings and allow volunteers to plant the saplings in the residents’ yards on March 26.

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3 years ago

February 16, 2022

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Together with students from Bishop O’Dowd and Oakland Tech, Tree-Plenish hopes to drive Oakland towards a sustainable future.Together with students from Bishop O’Dowd and Oakland Tech, Tree-Plenish hopes to drive Oakland towards a sustainable future.

By Ava Stern and Mary Lee

Two local schools are taking up a cause that will help make Oakland greener.

In partnership with Tree-Plenish, over 450 schools, including Bishop O’Dowd and Oakland Tech, began work last month to help build sustainable communities through youth engagement. March 26 is the date of the mass tree-planting event, and the two schools are now raising funds to reach their goal of planting 295 saplings on March 26 to offset their schools’ paper usage during one academic year.

The sapling-ordering process has already begun and will stop on February 26 to have enough time for the saplings to be delivered. The sapling choices include Newtown Pippin Apple, Benton/Skeena Cherry, and Picual Olive.

Students are now also recruiting community volunteers to help plant saplings on the day of the event.

Safety protocols for COVID-19 will be in place as Tree-Plenish has created specific guidelines to protect both the residents of the community as well as the volunteers for the event.

Residents of the community can help support the event starting now! They can order a sapling to be planted in their yard or sign up to volunteer to plant saplings on the day of the event.

The more residents who request saplings, the faster the students are able to reach their goal. If residents are unable to order a sapling or volunteer their time, they can also make a monetary contribution on the Tree-Plenish website to help support future tree-planting events.

Together with students from Bishop O’Dowd and Oakland Tech, Tree-Plenish hopes to drive Oakland towards a sustainable future.

Purchase your tree sapling today at: tpevents.org/school/2247

Ava Stern and Mary Lee are youth interns at Keep Oakland Beautiful.

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The printed Weekly Edition of the Oakland Post: Week of June 4-10, 2025

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Remembering George Floyd

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Minnesota State Attorney General Keith Ellison acknowledges that the Floyd case five years ago involved a situation in which due process was denied, and five years later, the president is currently dismissing “due process. “The Minnesota Atty General also says, “Trump is trying to attack constitutional rule, attacking congressional authority and judicial decision-making.” George Floyd was an African American man killed by police who knocked on his neck and on his back, preventing him from breathing.

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Mural showing the portrait of George Floyd in Mauerpark in Berlin. To the left of the portrait the lettering "I can't Breathe" was added, on the right side the three hashtags #GeorgeFloyd, #Icantbreathe and #Sayhisname. The mural was completed by Eme Street Art (facebook name) / Eme Free Thinker (signature) on 29 May 2020. (Wikimedia Commons)

By April Ryan
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“The president’s been very clear he has no intentions of pardoning Derek Chauvin, and it’s not a request that we’re looking at,” confirms a senior staffer at the Trump White House. That White House response results from public hope, including from a close Trump ally, Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. The timing of Greene’s hopes coincides with the Justice Department’s recent decision to end oversight of local police accused of abuse. It also falls on the fifth anniversary of the police-involved death of George Floyd on May 25th. The death sparked national and worldwide outrage and became a transitional moment politically and culturally, although the outcry for laws on police accountability failed.

The death forced then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to focus on deadly police force and accountability. His efforts while president to pass the George Floyd Justice in policing act failed. The death of George Floyd also put a spotlight on the Black community, forcing then-candidate Biden to choose a Black woman running mate. Kamala Harris ultimately became vice president of the United States alongside Joe Biden. Minnesota State Attorney General Keith Ellison prosecuted the cases against the officers involved in the death of Floyd. He remembers,” Trump was in office when George Floyd was killed, and I would blame Trump for creating a negative environment for police-community relations. Remember, it was him who said when the looting starts, the shooting starts, it was him who got rid of all the consent decrees that were in place by the Obama administration.”

In 2025, Police-involved civilian deaths are up by “about 100 to about 11 hundred,” according to Ellison. Ellison acknowledges that the Floyd case five years ago involved a situation in which due process was denied, and five years later, the president is currently dismissing “due process. “The Minnesota Atty General also says, “Trump is trying to attack constitutional rule, attacking congressional authority and judicial decision-making.” George Floyd was an African-American man killed by police who knocked on his neck and on his back, preventing him from breathing. During those minutes on the ground, Floyd cried out for his late mother several times. Police subdued Floyd for an alleged counterfeit $20 bill.