Faith in Action East Bay

St. Augustine's Earth Month Celebration
2023-04-29 10:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Ceasefire Night Walk
2023-04-28 18:00 - 20:00
Location: St. Patrick’s Church ~ 1023 Peralta Street, Oakland

Night walks:
6pm: Gathering for pre-walk/corners process
6:30pm: walk or stand on corners
7:30pm: returned back to starting location or completed from the corners
By 7:45pm, walk process completed
For more information, please contact Chris Moreno at chris@fiaeastbay.org

Richmond Peace Walk
2023-04-21 18:30 - 19:30, 2023-03-17 18:30 - 20:00

Ceasefire Night Walk
2023-04-21 18:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-17 18:00 - 19:30
Location: At Thy Word Church ~ 8915 International Blvd

Night walks:
6pm: Gathering for pre-walk/corners process
6:30pm: walk or stand on corners
7:30pm: returned back to starting location or completed from the corners
By 7:45pm, walk process completed
For more information, please contact Chris Moreno at chris@fiaeastbay.org

PICO California Home is Sacred Action Day
2023-04-20 10:00 - 15:00
State Capitol Park – West Steps, 1315 10th Street, Sacramento, CA 95814

We will gather with hundreds of people from the PICO California Network on Thursday, April 20th, 2023 in Sacramento, as we act on our collective vision for a California that prioritizes people, creating a moral economy where everyone can thrive.

Together we will:

Inspire and learn from one another about the work we are doing across the state
Hold a public action with key state officials
Flood the State Capitol with research actions on our Home is Sacred legislative platform
Build and deepen our relationships with our legislators and their staff
Deepen our power credential as a statewide network committed to transforming systems to improve the lives of our families.

Together to act with our collective voice.

Community Fair
2023-04-16 13:00 - 16:00

Ceasefire Night Walk
2023-04-14 18:00 - 20:00
Location: First Mount Sinai, 1970 86th Avenue, Oakland

Night walks:
6pm: Gathering for pre-walk/corners process
6:30pm: walk or stand on corners
7:30pm: returned back to starting location or completed from the corners
By 7:45pm, walk process completed
For more information, please contact Chris Moreno at chris@fiaeastbay.org

Listening Session for Small Landlords
2023-04-12 18:30 - 19:30
REGISTER

Sheriff's Community Input Meeting
2023-04-12 17:00 - 19:00
Input session to gather feedback and input for newly elected Sheriff Yesenia Sanchez’s Office
Online Community Meeting for Unincorporated Areas: Next Wednesday, April 12, 5-7pm we will hold an online community meeting for folks who live or work in unincorporated areas or areas served by the Sheriff’s Office (i.e. Ashland, Castro Valley, Cherryland, Fairview, San Lorenzo, Sunol, Hayward Acres, Unincorporated Areas of Livermore, City of Dublin). Register to attend here: English Speakers, Spanish Speakers

Townhall: End Youth Incarceration
2023-04-05 15:00 - 18:00

Demonstration at St. Rita Jail: Care Not Deaths
2023-04-01 13:00 - 15:00
We are demonstrating for Care Not Deaths to stop the deaths at Santa Rita Jail – including four more lives lost in January and February this year.
Please join us in a protest to stand with the Care First, Jails Last Community Coalition on April 1, at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin (5325 Broder Blvd), starting at 1:00 pm.
Please complete the form (linked here and below) to get specific information about exactly where to meet, and what we’ll be doing. We will send those details to everyone who responds to the poll.
Since the Board of Supervisors’ passage of the Care First, Jails Last Resolution in 2021, we’ve been building power to end the county’s reliance on the criminal legal system to meet the needs of residents with mental health and substance use needs. Collectively, we do this by advocating for divestment from Alameda County’s criminal legal apparatus and reinvestment of this money into an upstream, community-based, life-affirming continuum of care. We don’t want to see individuals’ crises addressed inside the county jail.
Yet in just the first two months of 2023, under the care of the newly elected Sheriff, four people incarcerated at Santa Rita Jail lost their lives: Stephen Lofton on January 17; Elizabeth Laurel on February 13; Charles Johnson on February 4; and Candice “Cody” Van Buren on February 28. Cody Van Buren’s death is at least the 66th in Santa Rita Jail since 2014, according to KTVU. Seven other people at Santa Rita experienced fentanyl overdoses in February.
At this moment, Alameda County is going from bad to worse, and we are raising our voices next Saturday, April 1st. While 48% of the county’s discretionary budget is allocated to the Sheriff’s office in the name of “public safety,” our communities are becoming increasingly more unsafe due to the widening of criminalization nets, a lack of deeply affordable housing, and an underfunding of upstream, community-based, and voluntary mental and behavioral health services. The most vulnerable among us are Black, Brown and Indigenous peoples, our unhoused neighbors, and those experiencing serious mental illness. There is no justifiable reason for the continued overfunding of the county’s carceral institutions when these resources are being used to deepen racial disparities and destabilize our care systems. It is abundantly clear: jails do not make us safer. Our loved ones and neighbors should not be pushed through the criminal legal system for lack of mental health services in the community.
Link to form: https://formsgle/HecLF1XCRSa4Gpw57
Please join us on Saturday, April 1 at Santa Rita Jail to call out these injustices and for Care First. For more information, you can email John Lindsay-Poland at JLindsay-Poland@afsc.org

Ceasefire Night Walk
2023-03-31 18:00 - 19:30
Location: St. Benedicts 2245 82nd Avenue, Oakland

Night walks:
6pm: Gathering for pre-walk/corners process
6:30pm: walk or stand on corners
7:30pm: returned back to starting location or completed from the corners
By 7:45pm, walk process completed
For more information, please contact Chris Moreno at chris@fiaeastbay.org

Housing: Trainer Training
2023-03-30 14:00 - 15:00, 2023-03-23 14:00 - 15:00
Do you work with Alameda County tenants who are concerned about the end of the moratorium or other tenant issues? Centro Legal’s Tenants’ Rights team is offering an online train the
trainer presentation available in English and Spanish on either March 23rd or 30th at 2:00PM for all tenant-facing and interested County and City staff and partner organizations!
Join us to best serve the tenant community with the most up-to- date tenants’ rights information! You can participate on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85471177219

¿Trabaja con inquilinos del condado de Alameda que están preocupados por el fin de la moratoria? Centro Legal está ofreciendo una presentación en línea disponible en inglés y español el 23 o el 30 de marzo a las 2:00PM para todo el personal del condado, las ciudades, y organizaciones asociadas.
¡Únase a nosotros para servir mejor a la comunidad de inquilinos con la información más actualizada sobre los derechos de los inquilinos! Puedes participar por Zoom al https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85471177219

Ceasefire Night Walk
2023-03-24 18:00 - 19:30
Location: St. Elizabeth’s Catholic Church ~ 1500 34th Ave, Oakland

Night walks:
6pm: Gathering for pre-walk/corners process
6:30pm: walk or stand on corners
7:30pm: returned back to starting location or completed from the corners
By 7:45pm, walk process completed
For more information, please contact Chris Moreno at chris@fiaeastbay.org

Housing Forum: Know Your Rights
2023-03-18 10:00 - 11:30

How to Overcome Toxic Polarization Lunch & Learn
2023-03-16 12:00 - 15:00
Calling all faith leaders and congregants! Join author and professor Peter Coleman and The One America Movement to learn insights from leading research on polarization. Discover how deeply divided societies can and do change, as well as how our faith can make a difference in bridging those divides. Learn the science, actions, skills, and competencies to navigate these times most effectively, as well as what to look for in groups and organizations in your community that are already working to make our United States more functional again.
REGISTER

Housing Research Meeting
2023-03-14 17:30 - 18:30
Come Join us for our Faith in Action East Bay Research Meeting around housing with California Senator Aisha Wahab’s Policy Analyst. We will be inquiring about AB460 the Fair Chance Housing Bill and other key pieces of legislation relevant to addressing the housing crisis in California and the East Bay.
REGISTER

Sisters in Solidarity Women's Day Event
2023-03-11 10:00 - 14:00
LEARN MORE AND REGISTER

Ceasefire Night Walk
2023-03-10 18:00 - 19:30
Location: St. Columba Catholic Church ~ 6401 San Pablo Ave, Oakland

Night walks:
6pm: Gathering for pre-walk/corners process
6:30pm: walk or stand on corners
7:30pm: returned back to starting location or completed from the corners
By 7:45pm, walk process completed
For more information, please contact Chris Moreno at chris@fiaeastbay.org

San Antonio Neighborhood Meeting with Mayor Sheng Thao
2023-02-25 10:30 - 11:30

Ceasefire Night Walk
2023-02-24 18:00 - 19:30
Location: St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, 1023 Peralta St., Oakland
Night walks:
6pm: Gathering for pre-walk/corners process
6:30pm: walk or stand on corners
7:30pm: returned back to starting location or completed from the corners
By 7:45pm, walk process completed
For more information, please contact Chris Moreno at chris@fiaeastbay.org

Housing Meeting: Preparing for Action
2023-02-23 18:30 - 19:45
Please join us as we begin our planning for a statewide action on housing in April. REGISTER
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Únase a nosotros para empezar a planificar una acción estatal sobre la vivienda en abril. Regístrese

Vigil and Remembrance for Victims of Internment
2023-02-23 12:00 - 13:00
February 20, 1942, is the day FDR signed Executive Order 9066 in WWII, which imprisoned 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans into US Concentration camps as well as over 5,000 Japanese Latin & Central Americans who were separated from their families and sent to the US for hostage exchange during WWII.

Growing Power in Rwanda: An Evening with Pastor John Rutsindintwarane
2023-02-21 18:00 - 20:00 | Faith in Action East Bay, 8400 Enterprise Way, Oakland, CA, 94621, United States
Join us in person at the Faith in Action East Bay offices to learn about the transformative work of grassroots leaders in Mumeya, Nyange, Rusumo, Nyarubuye and other Rwandan communities who are organizing their communities to build clinics, schools, and roads and how this work is now being launched in Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and other countries in Africa. Pastor John learned the Faith in Action method of organizing during his internship with OCO/Faith in Action East Bay more than ten years ago. For Pastor John, the devastating effects of the 1994 genocide and the overwhelming barriers faced by the survivors fueled his search for tools to rebuild his country, combining faith with action, and building from the ground up.
INFO: Ron Snyder at (510) 205-5555 or Barbara Lafitte-Oluwole at (510) 382-1687 x301
Masks required. This is a free presentation and reception. To help us plan, please RSVP.
RSVP Now

Ceasefire Night Walk
2023-02-17 18:00 - 19:30
Location: Williams Chapel Baptist Church, 1410 10th Ave, Oakland CA 94606

Night walks:
6pm: Gathering for pre-walk/corners process
6:30pm: walk or stand on corners
7:30pm: returned back to starting location or completed from the corners
By 7:45pm, walk process completed
For more information, please contact Chris Moreno at chris@fiaeastbay.org

Ceasefire Night Walk
2023-02-10 18:00 - 19:30
Location: First Mount Sinai, 1970 86th Ave, Oakland

Night walks:
6pm: Gathering for pre-walk/corners process
6:30pm: walk or stand on corners
7:30pm: returned back to starting location or completed from the corners
By 7:45pm, walk process completed
For more information, please contact Chris Moreno at chris@fiaeastbay.org

Prayer Vigil Against Human Trafficking
2023-02-07 17:30 - 18:30 | St. Anthony’s Parish, 1610 E. 15th Stree, Oakland, CA, United States
Join Bishop Barber, Father Ghebriel and the St. Anthony Parish community for a prayer vigil in support of the International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking.

February 7, 2023, 5:30 to 6:30 pm, St. Anthony-Mary Help of Christians Parish
1610 E. 15th Street, Oakland, CA

St. Anthony’s community is faced with increasing crimes targeting victims caught in the cycle of human trafficking. Together we will gather, pray, and raise awareness of the impact of this vicious cycle and its effect on our community.
Please share these details within your networks as all are invited and welcomed. We have also invited local officials, community leaders and members of the Oakland Police Department. Please encourage all faithful to attend and lend their prayers. The prayer vigil will be outdoors, weather permitting.
Jesus looked at them and said, “For human beings this is impossible, but for God all things are possible.” – Matthew 19:26
