Planting Justice

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People are more stable in their community and their neighborhoods if they have the stability of a home, a job, education and health care, Bas said. If we can provide those things, we can be much more successful in preventing crime from happening.

As many of us return from a long weekend, a reminder of how Memorial Day came to be: https://thegrio.com//first-memorial-day-held-by-freed-afr/

Our tomatoes are on sale thru June 12th! Check out all our varieties and treat your garden!

Help build practical abolition in Oakland public schools! After BOP's huge win to get cops out of our schools, the work to reshape safety is on. OUSD is hiring a Coordinator of Safety to help imagine what safety in schools looks like without cops. Pass this opportunity along to someone invested in our children and a better world!

We love to see local initiatives supporting small businesses! Thank you to the Product Development Incubator, keep up the good work!

Thank you so much to all who applied for our open TYY positions! We've received an overwhelming amount of interest in all of our positions, and we're looking forward to reviewing your applications and welcoming some new folks into the PJ family. Please be patient with our hiring process, as we are moving slowly and intentionally in order to give each application the attention it deserves. If you have applied and haven't heard back from us yet, do know that we will be in touch when we are ready. Thank you for your interest and support in our work!

Read Prison Policy Initiative's new Winnable Criminal Justice Reforms report to learn more about how state legislators can make big changes this year!

Oakland residents! Order an apple or apricot tree by Feb 20th to help the environment and support Oakland students! Learn more about Tree-Plenish and Keep Oakland Beautiful in the article below.

The Alameda County Public Health Department wants your to help them promote healthy lifestyle habits through social media! To learn more, visit http://tinyurl.com/OakSMcontest

"Today, Oakland Unified School District's support for Mayan Mam and other newcomer students is among the most robust in the country, from the creation of a continuation high school designed for recent immigrants to specialized counseling and educational programs. But the pandemic is threatening hard-won progress. Across Oakland’s school system, a lack of computers, internet access, technological experience and practicable home learning space have forced Mam speakers to confront even more barriers to distance learning than other students are experiencing." Read more at the link below!

"Planting Justice reentry coordinator Rasheed Stanley-Lockhart shares his journey after being incarceration at the age of 15 to becoming a mentor to men and women upon their release from prison. He details the people and moments in his life that helped him become the man he is today such as helping incarcerated men with dementia and becoming a fire fighter at San Quentin State Prison." Click the link to watch the interview!

they see me rollin... Big thanks to @the_crucible and @eastoaklandcollective for donating 10 bikes to our youth program at the East Oakland nursery. We know you can’t see them but we promise there were big smiles behind those masks when they each got to pick a brand new to take home!