Affordable housing, environmental protection, living wages and investment in the community are the goals in mind for the Coliseum stadium site in Oakland, but according to local advocacy groups, the Athletics baseball team’s owners are standing in the way.

Members of the Oakland United Coalition, a collection of local nonprofits, spoke in front of the Alameda County Administration Building on Tuesday. They urged the county’s Board of Supervisors to back out of the sale of their 50 percent stake of the property to the A’s, who have been paying the county incrementally since 2019.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.