Ella's Voice: Recent Episodes
The Ella Baker Center
The official podcast of the Ella Baker Center, a nonprofit based in Oakland where everyday people organize every day to win change and build opportunities to make our communities safe, healthy and strong.
If you’re interested in holding a Night Out for Safety and Liberation event in your neighborhood next August, and for more information, go to www.NOSL.us.
To buy Defund Fear and support your local bookstore, order a copy on IndieBound.org.
To follow our guests:
Rinku Sen from the Narrative Initiative
Devone Boggan from Advance Peace
Jeannette Bocanegra from Justice For Families
Danielle Sered from Common Justice
Follow Dr. Barbara Ransby on twitter.
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: a Radical Democratic Vision is published by the University of North Carolina Pres.
Phil Hutchings page on SNCC Digital Gateway.
Alfredo Lopez' wikipedia page and his current project, May First Movement Tecnology.
Visit our website at www.EllaBakerCenter.org.
Read the Ella Baker Center 2020 voter guide.
VOTE November 3rd!
Count Every Vote: Defend Democracy rally in Oakland is on November 4th. More info on the Facebook page.
Visit our website at www.EllaBakerCenter.org.
For more information and to get involved, go to Decarcerate Alameda County and #StopSQOutbreakDemands or #StopSQOutbreakEmails.
Learn more about the Ella Baker Center's work to decriminalize Oakland's unsheltered residents.
Visit the Village in Oakland and support #NoVacanacyCa, the effort to create immediate shelter for unhoused seniors, families with children, and unsheltered with serious pre-existing medical conditions in hotels.
Watch the video of OPD's attack on The Village in Oakland outreach workers.
Watch Zach's KRON interview.
Watch Ella Baker's full speech "The Voice that Says Life is More Sacred Than Property Must Be Heard!"
For information on upcoming protests in Oakland and the Bay Area, make sure to check the Ella Baker Center Twitter and Facebook pages.
And if you are participating in actions, we encourage you to take all safety precautions recommended by public health officials.
For information about community efforts to decarcerate Santa Rita Jail, go to: https://ellabakercenter.org/SRJwatch
Learn more about Human Impact Partners' Health Instead of Punishment Project.
Lukas Guilket made a documentary about Barabara Doss' fight to learn what happened to her son inside Santa RIta Jail, go to What Happened to Dujuan Armstrong? to watch the trailer.
- Read James' piece "A Plea to Governor Newsom" at The Appeal
- Reduce CA's prison population #LetThemGo: tweet @GavinNewsom @CAgovernor, call (916) 445-2841, email: https://j.mp/letthemgogov2
- Send letters, drawings and words of encouragement to folks inside: https://j.mp/ebcprisonmail
- Send money to help incarcerated folks purchase extra food and hygiene items: https://j.mp/givecanteensupport
- Visit the Ella Baker Center website at www.EllaBakerCenter.org
Links to the resources
- Reduce CA's prison population #LetThemGo: tweet @GavinNewsom @CAgovernor, call (916) 445-2841, email: https://j.mp/letthemgogov2
- Invest county funds in health, not jails: call Alameda County Board of Supervisors President Richard Valle, 510-272-6692. Release folks from Santa Rita jail: call District Attorney Nancy O'Malley, (510) 272-6222
- Stop the sweeps, provide housing for all unsheltered Oaklanders: call your Oakland City Council member, https://bit.ly/HNHoakland
- Send letters, drawings and words of encouragement to folks inside: https://j.mp/ebcprisonmail
- Donate to support EBC’s movement work: ellabakercenter.org/give
- Send money to help incarcerated folks purchase extra food and hygiene items: https://j.mp/givecanteensupport