Clergy and Leaders Protest Deaths at Santa Rita Jail

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...

Amanda Learns About Power

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...

Vigil and Action at Santa Rita Jail

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,...

A Message from the Regional Executive Director on Housing

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...

Moving Forward on Housing / Avanzar en Materia de Vivienda

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...