Former Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, currently a candidate for state treasurer, faces thousands of dollars in penalties from the City of Oakland Public Ethics Commission for...
According to the proposed settlement agreements, which are on the agenda for the Monday, Sept. 16 Public Ethics Commission (PEC), Schaaf and many of those with...
“There needs to be a concerted effort to do more than complaint about this,” he said. “There is no contention that the district is incompetent to...
Top left of right. Pastor Joe Nobles, Pastor Dr. Kevin Ary, Rev. Eric Barfield, Pastor Eli Lloyd D.D. Second step far left not should, Bishop Johnson,...
Marlo Rodriguez is not a typical candidate. Her background is not political science or law. She is a registered nurse. She is running for City Council...
In District 6, doing the same thing we have been doing for the last several years will not give us different results. We need new representation...
A lot is at stake for District 6 voters in this election. We have serious issues around affordable housing, gentrification, displacement, illegal dumping, blight, and economic...
A community coalition comprised of Pastors, former Black Panther Co-Founder, Bobby Seale, Civil Rights attorneys and residents held a press conference this week calling out “money...
After months of investigation, the law firm of Siegel, Yee & Brunner filed a claim on behalf of Oakland City Councilmember Desley Brooks this week against...
The City’s Public Ethics Commission on Thursday announced campaign expenditure ceilings are lifted for candidates in City Council Districts 2, 4 and now District 6, as...
Volunteers, making phone calls and talking to voters, join Desley Brooks’ campaign for re-election to Oakland City Council for District 6. The Oakland Post endorses Desley...
Allen Temple Baptist Church’s Pastor Emeritus J. Alfred Smith, Sr., has issued a strong statement of support for Councilmember Desley Brooks’ bid for reelection to represent...
By Desley Brooks | District 6 Council- member In Part I of this article, Councilmember Brooks wrote that “The Council, Mayor and Administration have once again...
By Desley Brooks | District 6 City Councilmember Oakland is part of two metropolitan areas—San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward and San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara—that currently rank as places with the best...
California State Assemblymember Rob Bonta has announced he is endorsing Desley Brooks for re-election as the District 6 City Council representative. “I am happy to endorse...
By Dan Siegel | Oakland Justice Coalition Desley Brooks deserves another term on the Oakland City Council because she has been a strong, creative advocate for the...
Councilmember Desley Brooks continues to garner national attention for her work in helping found Oakland’s Cannabis Equity program. Brooks was invited to speak at Harvard’s Kennedy...
Schaaf denounces Brooks’ proposal to train Blacks and Latinos for city-funded construction projects Resorting to name calling, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf has turned to the local media...
City Councilmember Desley Brooks speaks Tuesday in front of City Hall about her proposal for city funding of pre-apprenticeship job training programs. She asked city officials to “listen...
The first stop on the March 17 “Trash Tour” was outside Mayor Libby Schaaf’s house, which tdhen made its way through flatland neighborhoods in East Oakland,...
Oakland Firefighters Union Local 55 has endorsed Desley Brooks in her re-election to the Oakland City Council District 6 seat. The fire department’s Field Operations Bureau...
By Desley Brooks Thank you to the editors at the Post for allowing me to shed some insight into what it takes to push through the...
Desley Brooks’ campaign for reelection to the District 6 seat on the Oakland City Council was endorsed this week by prominent activist Bobby Seale, co-founder of...
By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor On the morning in the fall of 2015 when I heard about the argument and physical confrontation between former Black Panther chairperson...
Speakers concerned about Chief Kirkpatrick’s interference in council decisions; Her actions also cost her former employer, City of Spokane, $1.7 million jury award Conflicts about...
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