Art Blooms in Oakland After Chaotic Protest Nights End
If silence is violence, the residents of Oakland have an answer for that; art. Throughout Saturday artists of all ages and ethnicities took their paint, paintbrushes and spray paint to claim boarded windows in Downtown Oakland as forms of beautiful expression.
A Night of Healing with Barbara Lee Links Gun Violence and White Supremacy as National Problem
Outlining a need to stop gun violence across the country, Lee emphasized the problems with domestic terrorism to worshipers, immigrants, and people of color as well as violence in homes and on the streets. She stressed the importance of letting the NRA know, “we are more powerful than they are.” The NRA has lobbied against gun reform for decades. Background checks and supporting a ban on assault rifles meant for war are a few gun reform legislations Lee wants to pass in congress.
