Featured Event:
Sunday, August 26, 2018
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Humanist Hall, 390 27th St., Oakland, CA
Wellstone Club Members will receive a detailed agenda packet by email during the week of August 11. This material will also be placed on the club website at that time.
Pam Drake is the local politics coordinator for the Wellstone Club and writes frequently on her blog Drake Talk Oakland about Oakland and Bay Area politics. She’s written a lively and informative set of recommendations for the local ballot – read it here: https://draketalkoakland.com/2018/05/17/my-2018-primary-recommendations-a-look-toward-to-november/.
Local commentator J. Douglas Allen-Taylor has written this thoughtful and entertaining analysis of what the political and legal battle between Elaine Brown and Desley Brooks really means for black folks and the people of Oakland. This piece is the conclusion of a six-part series which is also available on his website.
Some recommended articles for April 2018:
— New Yorker article in the 4/30/2018 issue on The Renegade Sheriffs
— New York Times opinion piece by Thomas Edsall, 4/19/2018: The Democrats’ Gentrification Problem
— Randy Shaw in Beyond Chron, 4/19/2018: Why SB 827 Failed
Some recommended articles on recent topics:
— An Incomplete List of Things Black People Should Avoid Doing So They Won’t Be Killed By the Police
— John Bolton: A Warmongering War Criminal Takes the Helm of the USS Trump