by FIAEB | Jun 30, 2023 | News
Pastor Billy Dixon learned about how humanity should be treated by serving as a correctional officer for 28 and a half years. “It opened my eyes that everybody that goes to jail doesn’t necessarily need jail. There should be alternatives in a lot of cases.” The...
by FIAEB | Jun 18, 2023 | News
Faith in Action East Bay Organizer Payton Silket (center) with Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao (to the left) and others at the Guns to Gardens Gun Buyback Event that took place Saturday, June 10 at At Thy Word Ministries. The second annual Guns to Gardens was a success! In...
by FIAEB | Apr 29, 2023 | News
On Thursday, April 20, Faith in Action East Bay leaders and staff gathered with 650 PICO California faith leaders from across the state to tell our elected officials that Home Is Sacred and to keep families housed by passing SB 567, SB 4, SB 225, AB 1418, and ACA...
by FIAEB | Apr 26, 2023 | News
In partnership with the Care First Community Coalition (CFCC), the Interfaith Coalition for Justice in our Jails (ICJJ), member congregations, and CFCC partner organizations helped plan and organize a Care Not Deaths Noise Demonstration & Vigil at Alameda County’s...
by FIAEB | Apr 2, 2023 | News
Amanda with her dear friend Darius Godfrey to whom, before he died, she promised to “use her white skin and big mouth” to fight systemic racism. Amanda Jenkins did not believe in God until she became homeless. In what she saw as her only alternative to an...
by FIAEB | Mar 30, 2023 | News
Community & Family Members Rally to Demand ‘Care Not Deaths’ at Santa Rita Jail Honoring four lives lost in 2023 Oakland, CA– On Saturday, April 1, at 1:00 p.m., the Care First Community Coalition and families of those impacted by mental illness and incarceration,...
by FIAEB | Mar 20, 2023 | News
We are pleased to share our Annual Report for 2022!
by FIAEB | Mar 5, 2023 | News
We in California and this country are in the fight of our lives. Central to the moral convictions of the diverse faith traditions represented in Faith in Action East Bay, is the idea that sacred relationships between God, the created order, and human beings are...
by FIAEB | Mar 5, 2023 | News
An Interview with Leader Patricia Avila / Entrevista con la líder Patricia Ávila ¿De dónde eres? ¿Dónde está ahora? ¿Cuál es tu congregación? / Where are you from? Where are you now? What is your congregation? Esp: Viví en Michoacán México antes de vivir en el Condado...
by FIAEB | Feb 6, 2023 | News
On Tuesday, Feb. 21 at 6 p.m., at the Faith in Action East Bay offices–8400 Enterprise Way, Oakland– Pastor John Rutsindintwarane will give a talk on his experience with community organizing in Rwanda. Pastor John learned the Faith in Action method of...
