Oakland’s ongoing budget cuts have resulted in the cancellation of contracts for over a dozen community service organizations. In a collective effort, organization leaders and workers spoke publicly on Tuesday at the Fruitvale Transit Village to describe the impacts.

Affected organizations who spoke included The Unity Council, SOS Meals on Wheels, Trybe, Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice, Peralta Hacienda Historical Park, Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency, Adamika Village, Roots Community Health, Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation, Eden I&R, and the Hoover Foster Resident Action Council.

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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.