Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights is a civil rights and restorative justice organization for prisoners and for Oakland young adults. They also carry on the work of visionary founder and board member, Van Jones, especially in the area of developing green jobs training programs for low-income youth.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Please note that since the interviews take place over two years, some people's work has changed and they may have new job titles, or may be working somewhere else now. Scotlan Youth Program in West Oakland.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2022

Since the pandemic began, the percentage of American workers who have quit their jobs has reached a 20-year high. The state of the job market is more competitive than I’ve ever seen it,” said Evans, who has two decades of experience overseeing recruiting and team-building at fast-growing companies including Slack, Facebook and Google.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2011

They have new job titles, work someplace else, and in some cases, have new names! I've also listed all of the interviewees with photos and links below. Please note that because the conversations take place over five years, some people's work and lives have changed. 2011 Aneesha Raghunathan, Owner, Hope Line Fashions Coming soon!

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FEBRUARY 18, 2012

They have new job titles, work someplace else, and in some cases, have new names! , or by writing a review to encourage folks to check it out. I'd *really* appreciate it. Please note that because the conversations take place over six years, some people's work and lives have changed. Happy listening!

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

They may have new job titles, or be working somewhere new now. Alli is now the Business Partners & Events Manager at Green For All and Art in Action Youth Leadership Program). Scotland Youth Program in West Oakland. I've listed all of the interviews below with links to the audio and the transcripts.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2010

They may have new job titles, be working somewhere else, and in some cases, have new names! Below are links to conversations with 48 big visionaries who I've interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast over the last four years. Please note that because the interviews take place over four years, some people's work and lives may have changed.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

Business and commutes were at a standstill in the San Francisco Bay Area yesterday after an extreme fire in West Oakland put the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) commuter train system completely out of service between San Francisco and cities in the East Bay. Obviously not all jobs can be done effectively in a remote work framework.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

The post-PC era was announced in March 2011 by the late Apple founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, during the launch of the iPad2. Bruce Buckelew of OTX West, which supplies refurbished computers to low-income students in Oakland, California, recalls the "decline and fall" of the computer refurbishment field 20 years ago.

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MARCH 9, 2007

The three Bay Area municipalities, along with Oakland and San Francisco (who haven't placed their orders yet) have all signed-on to be part of Plug-In Bay Area, an initiative to put more plug-in hybrid vehicles on the road. They recognize that green is very vogue right now. What's going on?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Reliatech is a nonprofit social enterprise that provides on-the-job training to low-income people by having them provide IT tech support to individuals, nonprofit organizations, and small businesses in the San Francisco Bay area. It is a social venture of the Oakland-based employment training nonprofit Stride Center. Administration.

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JANUARY 30, 2009

Jennifer is a certified coach, artist and yogini based in Oakland, California. From there, we can translate that into, what might that look like in a job, or a project that they might do in their community, so that they are bringing that out into the world, and serving people in whatever way is in line with their values.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

inspired by Julia Butterfly Hill's tree-sit, Off the Mat Into the World , founded by yoga teacher Seane Corn, and Green for All , founded by Van Jones. You see, perhaps, Julia Butterfly Hill, who sat in a tree, or you see Van Jones, who's the leader of Green For All, or maybe you see somebody else. Off the Mat, and Green For All.

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JANUARY 16, 2009

--Favianna Rodriguez Below is the edited transcript of a Big Vision Podcast interview from November 13, 2008 with Favianna Rodriguez, a political digital artist and printmaker based in Oakland, California. Even stuff around "green." I feel like, as artists, it's our responsibility to make a commentary on our contemporary society.

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APRIL 24, 2007

Paul Rice, the founding president and CEO of the Oakland based nonprofit, TransFair USA , answers these questions and others in an interview for the Big Vision Podcast. So yes, awareness around Fair Trade is growing, but it's growing slowly basically because the resources are still insufficient to tackle the job in a major national way.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

For BlocPower’s founder, Donnel Baird, the issue of seeing buildings revitalized and good high-paying jobs coming into local communities isn’t academic. “If you have 10 buildings on a block in Oakland and they were all built by the same developer at the same time. New stimulus bill includes $35.2

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy. I'm going to be green. I'm going to be great here in Oakland.

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AUGUST 29, 2010

She is also co-host of the radio show, The Queens of Green on Green 960 , which you can also be downloaded as a podcast. They're also providing a lot of jobs locally. City Slickers Farm is taking over a park, with the support of the city of Oakland. We live in the Bay Area, so we have an Oakland produce market in Oakland.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

If you need a ride to the airport, wish to order a pizza, plan a vacation, or search for a job, there is a good chance that you will use an app to get it. This contractor status makes it easy for companies to exploit platform workers by forcing them to pay high premiums for affiliation with the platform or even refusing to pay them for jobs.

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JUNE 30, 2007

And as Britt said, I also am the Art and Media Director at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights , which is based out of Oakland. The homicide rate, as people are probably aware of, has just really increased in the last few years in Oakland, where I live. I also produce several podcasts, one of which is called the Big Vision Podcast.

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APRIL 25, 2007

When I went to see Van Jones speak for the first time at the Green Festival in November 2002 about, "Green Jobs, Not Packed Jails," people in the States were just starting to lift their heads up from a year of fear and despair after September 11th. Our question is, will this green wave lift all boats? How do we make sure?

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JUNE 29, 2006

The slogan is "Green Collar Jobs, not Jails" and what we're trying to promote a big vision which includes being able to employ formerly incarcerated people from the Oakland area, "at risk" -- quote unquote -- people from this area into jobs which don't hurt the environment, that actually help sustain us as a community.

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