🐦 =*=UPDATED=*= A Future to Believe In Oakland, CA on Monday 5/30 (+Allen Temple Baptist Church)

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This event is free and open to the public, but RSVPs are strongly encouraged. Admission is first come, first served. Public entrance at Corner of 14th street and Broadway.

For security reasons, please do not bring bags and limit what you bring to small, personal items like keys and cell phones. Weapons, sharp objects, chairs, and signs or banners will not be allowed through security. Limited downtown public parking. Carpooling and taking public transit is strongly encouraged. Use BART 12th street Oakland City Center.

DOORS OPEN: 4:00 p.m.
DATE: Monday, May 30, 2016
LOCATION: Frank H. Ogawa Plaza
1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza
Oakland, CA 94612[/font]


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[font color="teal"size="3"face="arial"] OAKLAND (BCN)— Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders will hold two events in Oakland on Monday, his campaign announced today.

At 2 p.m. on Monday, Sanders will join actor Danny Glover and San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim for what his campaign describes as "a community conversation" at Allen Temple Baptist Church at 8501 International Blvd. in Oakland.[/font]

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3. Mark Horvath Interviews Supervisor Jane Kim on Homelessness in San Francisco

Published on Jul 8, 2013
For this post: http://invisiblepeople.tv/blog/2013/0...

[font color="navy"]On a recent trip to San Francisco, Bevan Dufty, the city's Director of HOPE, invited me to a hearing on family homelessness. The hearing was about adding a residency requirement for families to be able to access services. This was the second time this year I was in San Francisco's City Hall listening to Board of Supervisors engage on the issues of homelessness, and both times Supervisor Jane Kim impressed me with her knowledge and compassion.

Without going into the politics of this particular hearing, one thing Supervisor Kim said that I wish all communities would listen to is "we need to make it easier for homeless people to access services, not harder!" Supervisor Kim also went on to say that we need to spend our energies on solutions to ending homelessness. I actually found it hard a few times not to applaud after Supervisor Kim spoke.

I think what impresses me the most about Supervisor Kim is she really speaks for her people, and being that the Tenderloin is in her district, she is representing thousands of people in some stage of homelessness and poverty. I've visited over 200 cities in the last 4 years and Supervisor Kim is the very first politician (that I know of) that addresses how the homeless services system is nearly impossible to navigate.

I started off this video interview by thanking Supervisor Kim for sleeping in a homeless shelter one night last year. Supervisor Kim actually went through the actual process that a homeless person would have to go through to have a place inside for the night. That intake process is often lengthy and more painful than a root canal. At the time, Supervisor Kim was acting mayor, which is even more impressive. For years now I have invited members of Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority executive team and governing commission to spend a night on Skid Row, and I honestly believe that every politician should have experiences that will show the realities of street life and our broken support systems.

I am truly honored that Supervisor Kim took a moment out of her busy day to record this interview. Supervisor Kim mentions how she was a little taken back by all the seniors now facing homelessness, and we talked a little about the "Silver Tsunami" headed our way. We also talked about how the city is actively working on preventing and ending homelessness. Please watch this important interview and forward to your network. We need more people with influence like Supervisor Kim helping those with little influence![/font]

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4. I continue to be delighted

with the places Bernie travels to - places where people are really hurting!

K&R