The Village in Oakland is a grassroots organization that provides direct services, support, policy advocacy, arts and culture programming, and media literacy and advocacy programs for unhoused residents of Oakland. We also engage in non-violent direct actions to demand policy changes, to demand an end to in-humane practices, and to provide unhoused residents with their basic needs as humans who fighting to stay alive.

Our Street Smart School offers unhoused residents with know your rights trainings to inform them about city policies, California penal codes, and Supreme Court decisions that protect the civil rights of curbside dwellers. Our program also takes testimonies of unhoused residents who have survived illegal demolitions of communities and illegal tows of vehicles they live in. These testimonies are taken to Oakland City Council and Administrators to document the City’s harmful and inhumane practices, and they are also used so unhoused residents can take legal recourse. Check out the video of some of the work done in the Street Smarts School.

HOT OFF THE PRESS!

“The Farmacy: Plant Medicine.” its 106 pages of easy to read instruction on how to turn more than a dozen common plants into medicines. she also included chapters on using smoke/smudges, teas and crystals as medicine/tools for wellness. And it’s written with unhoused people in mind. The publication is free to unhoused residents, and low income housed residents (with EBT cards).