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Culture Change Campaigns

2.18.2016

It is not enough to just change policies to improve the lives of Oakland’s most vulnerable community members. We must also work to build a culture of peace in the face of violence and structural inequality. Members of Peace in
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Oakland Army Base Re-development / Revive Oakland Coalition

2.18.2016

UPM youth members worked as part of the Revive Oakland Coalition’s Campaign for Quality Jobs with the redevelopment of the former Oakland Army Base (the coalition is led by EBASE and UPM was a member of the coalition’s Steering Committee).
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Raising the Oakland Minimum Wage / Lift Up Oakland Coalition

2.18.2016

In the fall of 2014, UPM youth members joined the Lift Up Oakland Coalition to help pass Measure FF and raise Oakland’s minimum wage from $9 an hour to $12.25. Measure FF passed with a resounding 81.7% of the vote
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CA Prop 47 Implementation & Ala. Co. Criminal Justice Policy

2.18.2016

Urban Peace Movement (UPM) is on the Steering Committee of a newly formed coalition called the Alameda County Justice Reinvestment Coalition (this newly formed coalition was created when we merged an existing coalition called AC3JR, that worked on AB109 implementation,
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Youth 4 Transit Justice

2.18.2016

In spring 2015, UPM joined a coalition of local students, organizers, community members, and faith-based leaders to ensure that local officials use funds from County Measure BB (passed Nov. 2014) to implement a Free Youth Bus program in neighborhoods and
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