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PG&E outage map | Remembering 16-year-old Lillia Bartlow | Berkeley crime on the rise | Celebrating 10 years of Nosh

Mandela Foods Cooperative

East Oakland Grocery Cooperative founding cohort members (from top left) Demetrius El Gant, James Hudson, Erin Higgenbotham, Crsna Cox, Yolanda Romo, Jameelah Lane and Daniel Harris-Lucas with EOGC project manager (front right) Ayano Jeffers-Fabro of the East Oakland Grocery Cooperative. Photo: Demetrius El Gant
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East Oakland Grocery Cooperative will be a homegrown market for and by Black and brown people

Avatar photo by Cirrus Wood June 23, 2020, 1:30 p.m.August 4, 2022

The project arose from the community’s desires for access to healthy foods, career opportunities and economic growth by way of a worker-owned grocery store.

Mandela Foods Cooperative worker-owner Adrionna Fike poses in mask and gloves in front of the cash registers and produce short before opening the doors for the day. Photo: Pete Rosos
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What’s it like to be an essential food worker right now?

Avatar photo by Cirrus Wood April 13, 2020, 12:56 p.m.August 4, 2022

We spoke with three restaurant and grocery store workers about the challenges and bright spots of providing an essential public service during the crisis.

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East Bay food-justice movement has deep roots in Black Panther Party

Avatar photo by Cirrus Wood Aug. 24, 2017, 1:15 p.m.October 4, 2022

Echoes of social justice programs that the Black Panther Party started resonate within current East Bay food-justice groups.

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Oakland’s Mamacitas Café poised for growth

by Guest contributor Aug. 17, 2015, 11:22 a.m.October 4, 2022

Oakland-based donut and youth-empowerment organization Mamacitas Café is raising funds to expand its operation.

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Berkeley’s Ecology Center gets $3.7 million grant

Avatar photo by Frances Dinkelspiel April 02, 2015, 7:00 a.m.October 4, 2022

More low-income Californians will get access to fresh produce because of a $3.7 million federal grant.

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