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JUNE 4, 2014

The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights is a civil rights and restorative justice organization for prisoners and for Oakland young adults. They also carry on the work of visionary founder and board member, Van Jones, especially in the area of developing green jobs training programs for low-income youth.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Listen Read Elizabeth Pomada Co-Founder, Writing for Change Conference Listen Read Marsha Wallace, Founder, Dining for Women Listen Read Shalini Kantayya, Filmmaker, A Drop of Life.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Listen / Read Elizabeth Pomada Co-Founder, Writing for Change Conference Listen Read Marsha Wallace, Founder, Dining for Women Listen Read Shalini Kantayya, Filmmaker, A Drop of Life.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Scotlan Youth Program in West Oakland. Listen / Read Elizabeth Pomada Co-Founder of the Writing for Change Conference Listen Read Marsha Wallace Founder of Dining for Women Listen Read Shalini Kantayya, Filmmaker, A Drop of Life.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Alli is now the Business Partners & Events Manager at Green For All and Art in Action Youth Leadership Program). Scotland Youth Program in West Oakland. If you're not a listener, you can listen to the show on the Big Vision Podcast site, or subscribe via iTunes or another podcatcher.

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DECEMBER 5, 2008

When you're on your death bed looking back on your life, what will you remember most, the stuff you received as gifts, or the time you spent with the people you care about? Inside the box was a brochure for the Oakland Zoo. On Wednesday I posted 10 Lists of Holiday Gifts That Give Back. It said, "A trip to the zoo!"

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JUNE 6, 2008

For example, when I type in my zip code in Oakland, CA, it tells me, "Your electricity provider, Pacific Gas Electric Co., Here are posts by a few of them: Little Green Animals Life in Small Bites Environment Blog faithfull on the Daily Kos STOP Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining mountaintop removal coal blogger blog activism Appalachia

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FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Listen / Read Elizabeth Pomada Co-Founder, Writing for Change Conference Listen Read Marsha Wallace, Founder of Dining for Women Listen Read Shalini Kantayya, filmmaker, A Drop of Life.

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AUGUST 29, 2010

She is also co-host of the radio show, The Queens of Green on Green 960 , which you can also be downloaded as a podcast. City Slickers Farm is taking over a park, with the support of the city of Oakland. They're going to be growing some food in one of the downtown West Oakland parks, which is pretty exciting.

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JANUARY 24, 2007

Reem Rahim is the Co-founder and Vice President of Marketing of the Oakland-based green business Numi Tea. My brother and I started Numi about seven years ago, from here in Oakland, California, and we started in my small apartment up the street, near Piedmont Avenue. Britt: Oakland needs more businesses like Numi.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Bruce Buckelew of OTX West, which supplies refurbished computers to low-income students in Oakland, California, recalls the "decline and fall" of the computer refurbishment field 20 years ago. To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the refurbished computer’s demise have been greatly exaggerated.

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JANUARY 30, 2009

Jennifer is a certified coach, artist and yogini based in Oakland, California. She is the author of The Right-Brain Business Plan e-Book and the creator of the Unfolding Your Life Vision Kit. They are not going, "What am I doing with my life?" You are onto the right thing. A friend told me once, "to move toward the roar."

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APRIL 24, 2007

Paul Rice, the founding president and CEO of the Oakland based nonprofit, TransFair USA , answers these questions and others in an interview for the Big Vision Podcast. BB: Can you share a story of how a family's life has been changed for the better by Fair Trade? Why should consumers buy Fair Trade Certified products?

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

inspired by Julia Butterfly Hill's tree-sit, Off the Mat Into the World , founded by yoga teacher Seane Corn, and Green for All , founded by Van Jones. You see, perhaps, Julia Butterfly Hill, who sat in a tree, or you see Van Jones, who's the leader of Green For All, or maybe you see somebody else. You see somebody who inspires you.

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JANUARY 16, 2009

--Favianna Rodriguez Below is the edited transcript of a Big Vision Podcast interview from November 13, 2008 with Favianna Rodriguez, a political digital artist and printmaker based in Oakland, California. Everyone is entitled to art in their life. Even stuff around "green." Art is what helps you be a critical thinker.

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MARCH 2, 2022

Even as these companies rake in massive profits and outperform their more traditional competitors, the life of the platform worker is not getting better. The result of this solidarity was the formation of two union cooperatives: Union Taxi in 2009 and Green Taxi Cooperative in 2016.

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JUNE 30, 2007

In 1995, I'm giving you my life story; I took a class called Challenging White Supremacy. And as Britt said, I also am the Art and Media Director at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights , which is based out of Oakland. One will be for mothers who are mourning the loss of their children who died in gunfights in Oakland.

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APRIL 25, 2007

When I went to see Van Jones speak for the first time at the Green Festival in November 2002 about, "Green Jobs, Not Packed Jails," people in the States were just starting to lift their heads up from a year of fear and despair after September 11th. Our question is, will this green wave lift all boats? How do we make sure?

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JUNE 29, 2006

The slogan is "Green Collar Jobs, not Jails" and what we're trying to promote a big vision which includes being able to employ formerly incarcerated people from the Oakland area, "at risk" -- quote unquote -- people from this area into jobs which don't hurt the environment, that actually help sustain us as a community.

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