Cypress Mandela – Oakland Green Jobs Corps on ABC 7’s “30 Minutes in the Bay Area”

Cypress Mandela – Oakland Green Jobs Corps on ABC 7’s “30 Minutes in the Bay Area” – Cypress Mandela – Oakland Green Jobs Training School featured on ABC 7 “30 Minutes in the Bay Area”. The Oakland Green Jobs Corps is a job training program providing green pathways out of poverty for young adults in Oakland facing barriers to employment. The program will provide job-readiness training, ongoing support services, and on-the-job training, enabling trainees to pursue careers in green industries. The program launched in Fall 2008. Cypress Mandela partners with Laney College, Growth Center, Inc, the Ella Baker Center, and USGBC Northern California Chapter to provide the Green Jobs Corps program.

Commercial projects spur Pontiac rehab

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… Saginaw streets this year or next year. 2. DASI Solutions, which helps companies with computer-aided technologies such as like drafting and engineering, purchased a 1960s office building at 21-31 Oakland Ave. and will move into the office space …
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The War on Drugs Is a War on Kids

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On a warm spring afternoon at the nation's poorer public schools, children (and I mean children) will endure a daily police presence, including drug-sniffing dogs, full-body pat-downs, searches of backpacks and lockers, stops in the hallways—all in …
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