Garrett Leahy
Uber drivers protest billboard campaign
Company claims to support Black workers while undermining their rights with a state ballot initiative.
Oakland group launches non-police mental health hotline
On Friday, the Anti-Police Terror Project launched MH First Oakland, a hotline staffed by 12 volunteers with backgrounds in social work, peer counseling, and medicine -- including peer counselors,...
Drivers rally against Uber and Lyft extortion
About 70 drivers rallied outside Uber’s headquarters on Market Street on Thursday, decrying Uber and Lyft’s threat to cancel rideshare services in California in retaliation against an injunction order issued August 10...
Lawyers say it’s unsafe to restart eviction cases
Last week, about 30 lawyers and organizers gathered outside the state building at 455 Golden Gate Avenue to demand that the state Judicial Council extend Emergency Rule 1, which...
Judge orders Uber, Lyft to treat drivers as employees
San Francisco Superior Court judge Ethan Schulman issued a prohibitory injunction ruling Monday stating that Uber and Lyft must cease classifying employees as independent contractors, as well as ordering...
Uber, Lyft drivers rally as state sues the companies
On Thursday, about 50 Uber and Lyft drivers joined a caravan outside the Uber Greenlight Hub in Oakland demanding that the rideshare companies classify their drivers as employees and...
Lyft drivers have to pay for their own masks and hand sani
When Lubungu, a Navy veteran and longtime Uber and Lyft driver, saw a group of activists passing out free facemasks, gloves, and hand sanitizer as he pulled into the...
Tenants harassed by construction work during COVID
In her 27 years as a tenant on Leavenworth, Andrea Carla Michaels has had few issues with any of her landlords.
Now she is the only one of six tenants...
Berkeley youth march to defund police
On Monday afternoon, more than 100 high-school aged youth marched through Shattuck Avenue and Adeline Street in Berkeley, parading behind a truck blasting “Fuck Tha Police” by N.W.A and...
Tenants block Oakland landlord from sending speculators to inspect apartments
It was a musical morning on Thursday at 444 28th Street in West Oakland where tenants, community organizers from the ACCE Institute and the Black Housing Union, and the...
