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BBBON has endorsed Sandre Swanson for California State Senate, 9th District (which includes Oakland).  Now those of us who are also members of the Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club will have another chance to vote to support him.  With the endorsement in hand, the Club’s delegates to the Alameda County Democratic Central Committee will be able […]

The Coalition for Police Accountability has been working for months to craft a ballot initiative to create an oversight body to step in when Federal oversight of the OPD ends.  BBBON is part of the coalition and our lead representative is Allene Warren.  While the preferred course to the ballot is to convince the City […]

BBBON member Jennae Wallach has been working on peace building and peace education in Oakland for the past several years. As part of that work, she learned about the Global Peace Ambassador Training sponsored by the Shift Network (TSN). Jennae writes, “It is an amazing but expensive course. For the last five years, TSN has […]