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April 2018
Earth Day Concert: Care for Creation
An evening of music, reflections, inspiration, and action featuring Benjamin Mertz and Ken Medema will be held on Friday evening April 20, 7-8:30 pm, at the Skyline Community Church (12540 Skyline Boulevard in Oakland). See the event announcement for more information.
Find out more »Earth Day Celebration – West Oakland
Coming together with Research and Data: Presenting Information from Real Time Equipment This workshop is sponsored by the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project (WOEIP), and will update residents of West Oakland with information from three air monitoring studies associated with a new Truck Management Program for West Oakland. The workshop will cover 100 x 100 air monitoring sensors placed throughout West Oakland; EDF/Google air mapping; and a study analyzing why filters on trucks are not working effectively at the Port…
Find out more »May 2018
March For Our Health
March for Our Health describes itself as "a collaborative project of individuals and organizations coming together to demand health justice." Their core message is that "we all deserve a healthy life. That means a right to healthcare, education, housing, a living wage, clean air, clean water, healthy food and the right to live a life free of discrimination, oppression, exploitation and violence." No Coal in Oakland has endorsed the March for Our Health because ours is a campaign to assure…
Find out more »Community Expression Vs. Corruption – UPDATED
From Youth Vs. Apocalypse - NOTE 2nd LOCATION CHANGE - back to original location: Recently, Phil Tagami announced plans to host the 2018 East Bay Innovators Awards on behalf of his childrens’ school, East Bay Innovation Academy. But Tagami is completely draining Oakland of its resources, and threatening our health and climate with a toxic coal terminal, targetting a predominantly low-income community of color with environmental injustice, and was planning to honor DA Nancy O’Malley, who has a record of…
Find out more »June 2018
NCIO Meeting
Wondering what's happening now in the campaign to keep coal out of Oakland? Want to plug in for the next phase? No Coal in Oakland will meet on Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. at the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project (WOEIP). WOEIP is at 349 Mandela Parkway, around the corner from the West Oakland BART station, 1/2 block south of Fifth St, behind the chain link fence and through the parking lot, on the west side of the…
Find out more »September 2018
Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice: National Mobilization
Assemble at 10 am on Steuart Street between Market and Mission (the block south of Embarcadero Plaza) in San Francisco for an 11am march to Civic Center, a headliner among the hundreds of marches, rallies, and events in cities across the planet on the weekend before San Francisco's Global Climate Action Summit. Look for No Coal in Oakland's banners, including one showing the image beside this paragraph, the one we will paint as a street mural at the end of…
Find out more »Protest to Stop Financing of Oakland Coal Terminal
Outside a San Francisco conference for investment professionals who belong to a group called Principles for Responsible Investment, we'll be exposing the Bank of Montreal's irresponsible financing of the coal terminal proposed by Bowie Resource Partners and fronted by Oakland would-be coal developer Phil Tagami ... with an aim to exposing the devious cover-up of this investment's true nature and risk. Our aim is twofold: convince Bank of Montreal to back away from arranging financing for the coal terminal; and persuade…
Find out more »December 2018
NCIO Community Meeting
No Coal in Oakland invites all interested community members to join us on Thursday, December 6, starting at 7 pm at West Side Missionary Baptist Church (732 Willow Street in West Oakland, see map). Agenda: Appeal of Federal court decision — where does it stand? City's termination of lease — what does it mean? What's next? Youth vs. Apocalypse BMO Campaign AB 617 Alternatives to OBOT What else should we be doing? (brainstorm) Regional alliance against coal Please join your…
Find out more »Regional Alliance of Communities Opposing Coal – Meeting
The regional alliance of communities opposing coal (No Coal Anywhere!) will meet on Monday, December 10, at 6 pm at 535 Georgia Street in Vallejo. This meeting will include activists from No Coal in Oakland, No Coal in Richmond, and No Coal in Vallejo to share updates and coordinate strategy. 6:00-6:30: Snacks 6:30-8:00: Meeting
Find out more »Richmond City Council: Coal and Petcoke Ordinance
Richmond may be taking its first step toward ending the shipment of coal through the Levin terminal. A draft coal and petcoke ordinance is on the Richmond city council agenda this Tuesday! The city council will be voting to direct city staff to review the proposed ordinance, which if adopted will protect Richmond’s community from the health hazards of coal and petroleum coke. Please come and express your support. This is currently the very last item (L-7) on the meeting agenda, but…
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