Saturday May 15, 2010 -- 5:00 pm

Home of Mike Volk

 

 

Join JEAN QUAN & District 4 Neighbors in the Citywide Movement to Take Back Oakland!

 

Saturday, May 15th, 5-6:30 pm

at the Home of Mike Volk and Jody Lerner

3062 Arizona Street Near Maple

 

RSVP: mikewvolk@gmail.com or 482-8655

 

Come talk with Jean and your neighbors to strategize to:

• Continue the good work in District 4’s neighborhoods.
• Strengthen grassroots political power across Oakland.
• Activate all residents to get involved in making our city better.
• Volunteer and fundraise to support Jean in the November election.

 

Jean will bring about concrete change for Oakland, block by block. Why do we know that? Because she has already done so in our District 4:

 

• Closing the Hillcrest Motel and revitalizing the Dimond District by working with neighbors and focusing city resources to eliminate Oakland’s 4th worst crime spot. From it came the Oakland Blight Ordinance, which has helped clean up 465 other sites! Just ask any Dimond resident.

 

• Saving Butters Canyon and Castle Canyon from greedy developers to provide green open space for future generations. Out of it came public-private partnerships such as the Butters Canyon Conservancy and stewardship groups who keep our parks and open spaces clean and green. Just ask any Butters Canyon resident.

 

• Closing M & W Liquors at Fairfax and High to significantly reduce drug dealing and clean up Brookdale Park for our youth and residents. Just ask the people who live on High Street.

 

• Jobs for Jean reached out to 18 youth off the streets of the Laurel and returned 15 of them back to school and jobs. Community-based policing and safety means helping our youth as well as keeping the streets safer. Just ask residents of the Laurel District.

 

• Banning styrofoam restaurant take out containers. Jean sponsored one of the first such ordinances, which has been copied by more than 100 California cities. Her efforts to ban plastic bags from grocery stores in Oakland were blocked by Sacramento politicos influenced by plastic bag companies. Just ask the creek stewards who constantly fish trash from our creeks and the estuary.

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