Restore Oakland

Restore Oakland A community advocacy and training center where community members will dream, organize and act together for real community safety and self-determination.

SAVE THE DATE ✨tuesday June 30th ✨ our first Small Business and Co-op People’s Assembly, a space to share your voice and...
06/10/2026

SAVE THE DATE ✨tuesday June 30th ✨ our first Small Business and Co-op People’s Assembly, a space to share your voice and ideas to shape an economy that supports our people, not corporations.

People’s assemblies have long been a way for communities to practice real democracy: making decisions collectively, sharing power, and turning lived experience into action. At a time when small businesses are pushed out and decisions are made without us, this is a chance to step in, and build something different.

Whether you run a shop, are part of a co-op, or care about the future of Oakland’s local economy, your voice belongs here ✊RSVP 🔗 bit.ly/RPOCassembly

06/10/2026

Meet legacy Fruitvale business, ✨ Owner-operator, Vicky has been styling and beautifying her clients for over 10 years 💇🏽

She has been living and working in Fruitvale for over 20 years and has owned Nena’s Hair Studio for a little over 10 years. Her services are intergenerational within families

For over a decade, Vicky has built a safe and trusting environment, so much that some of her clients bring their kids for their first haircut, and now, like too many immigrant-owned businesses; she is asking for more community support to keep her legacy running.

Vive Fruitvale is about protecting what already sustains us. Support and get to know businesses like Nena’s that have shaped the cultural landscape of our community.

✨ Vive Fruitvale is a neighborhood solidarity campaign that builds community power to defend, strengthen, and preserve the legacy of immigrant-owned businesses in Fruitvale, Oakland
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Vive Fruitvale desarrolla el poder comunitario para defender, fortalecer y preservar el legado de los negocios propiedad de inmigrantes en el barrio -Oakland

🎀 get your hair cut, colored, styled and more
🎀 stop by 3451 International C-2 and show love
🎀 Email [email protected] to build with us

05/27/2026

THIS Thursday, we’ll be giving our Care First Budget recommendations to the Board of Supervisors and we need your support to endorse our demands. Here’s how you can take action RIGHT NOW 👇🏿

✍🏾 Join 100+ individuals and 30+ organizations by signing on to support our demands for a budget that puts care first (link in bio).

🗣️ Show up and give public comment at the Alameda County Board of Supervisors presentation of the Balanced Budget Proposal
📍 Thursday, May 28 @ 12 PM. 1221 Oak Street, 5th Floor Board Chambers, Oakland

📆 Save the date: June 18
We’re mobilizing at the County Administration Building as public budget hearings begin, and we need a powerful community presence.

Housing is healthcare. Mental health care is essential. Let’s fight for a budget that reflects the investment our communities need!

May 1st is International Workers Day and we’re getting ready to roll with to celebrate and honor Oakland’s working clas...
04/25/2026

May 1st is International Workers Day and we’re getting ready to roll with to celebrate and honor Oakland’s working class and demand ICE OUT!

The rally begins right at our doorstep in the heart of the Fruitvale. Join our contingent by meeting us at at 3pm ✊🏾

We’ll also have a table at the May Day Resource Fair too 💓

04/24/2026

Alameda County has $6.1B, and yet our people are still struggling to stay housed and get the care they need. We’re demanding $130M for housing solutions and want you to be part of the movement to protect our resources from being defunded 💰➡️🏠

🗓 Sunday, May 3, 2–4pm
📍 Laney College Student Center — 900 Fallon St, Oakland

💌 RSVP at bit.ly/Housing4All2026 (link in bio)

03/18/2026

they have been tending to our joy for over 30 years 🌹

Mauricio and Carmen Vivas, owners of Tony Rossi & Sons Florist, have helped Fruitvale mark love, grief, celebration, and everything in between.

their hands have shaped arrangements for our birthdays, our altars, our weddings, our goodbyes.

and now, like too many immigrant-owned businesses, they are being pushed to relocate under economic pressure.

we refuse to let that happen quietly.

Vive Fruitvale is about protecting what already sustains us.

Vive Fruitvale builds community power to defend, strengthen, and preserve the legacy of immigrant-owned businesses in Fruitvale, Oakland
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Vive Fruitvale desarrolla el poder comunitario para defender, fortalecer y preservar el legado de los negocios propiedad de inmigrantes en el barrio Fruitvale-Oakland

🌼 order flowers, custom and made with care
🌼 stop by 1508 Fruitvale and show love
🌼 contribute to their gofundme (linked in bio)!!!

In our unending pursuit of cherishing the sanctity of life beyond the calendar rules of the federal government, we conti...
03/03/2026

In our unending pursuit of cherishing the sanctity of life beyond the calendar rules of the federal government, we continue rising towards Black futurities into March HOPE Circles. Whether born on the shores of Pasadena, California or the buzzing streets of Atlanta, Georgia, Afrofurturists’ wisdom will continue circling us towards the horizon of Black lifeways beyond space and time, uncovering more gems in Black science, arts, and revolutionary survival.

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Join the HOPE Circle Community for our first Black Futures Circle TOMORROW from 6:30-8 PM where we will learn from the musical genres of psychedelic funk & neo-soul ✨🎶

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Content Description:
an outer-space themed purple flyer is entitled with violent and white lettering encased by an white-green ombre: Still, We Rise: Black Futures HOPE Circles (contained within a purple, saturn shaped planet.) Within the planet, it says circles are from 6:30-8 PM at Restore Oakland (1419 34th Avenue), free dinner at 6:15 PM, March 4,11, 18, 25. Below the planet, there are portraits of artists Betty Davis (left corner), Andre 3000 (middle), and Octavia Butler (right corner next to the Restore Oakland logo). They are illuminated by 2 shimmering white stars and a lime green fog.

02/11/2026

Oaklanders!! 🌹 This Valentine’s Day, order your flowers from our very own Tony Rossi & Sons in the heart of the Fruitvale.
📍 1508 Fruitvale Ave, Oakland, CA 94601
📞 (510) 485-0284

For 29 years, this shop has been a true community gem, creating premade and custom bouquets, offering delivery, and showing up for our celebrations, milestones, and everyday love.

After nearly three decades in this location, this will be their last Valentine’s Day on Fruitvale Ave. While we are sad to see this chapter close, we are grateful for all they have poured into our neighborhood and excited for what is next for our friends.

Let’s show up for our own.
Let’s make this Valentine’s Day feel like community.

Stop by the shop. Place an order. Spread the word.
Support local. Support Fruitvale. Support Tony Rossi & Sons.

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As state violence continues threatening death upon our neighbors, this season we reground in the sanctity of life. Still...
02/07/2026

As state violence continues threatening death upon our neighbors, this season we reground in the sanctity of life. Still, we will rise, by (re) memorying the golden histories and futurities of Black radical visionaries—from right here in the (once known) Harlem of the West to the Coastal shores of East Africa. ✊🏾🧶

Honoring Maya Angelou as our circle theme namesake, join us this Black History Month every Wednesday from 6:30-8PM. Together we will journey towards the horizon of Black lifeways throughout space and time, uncovering the (often overlooked) gems in Black arts,
love, labor, & revolution. ✊🏾💎

🖤✨🖤✨🖤✨🖤✨🖤✨🖤✨🖤✨🖤✨🖤

[Content Description]

Slide 1: a blue and purple water color flyer is entitled with large bold white and purple lettering “Still We Rise: Black History Month HOPE circles.” Bold subheadings with blue and white lettering inform the viewer that circle is from 6:30-8 PM on Feb. 4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th with free dinner provided at 6:15 PM. Circle is located at Restore Oakland, 1419 34th Avenue. The flyer depicts Black & white images of rapper Tupac Shakur (top right corner) and poet June Jordan (bottom left corner), a yellow sunrise (centered), and a bundle of black and white flowers encased in the Restore Oakland Logo.

Slide 2: a video captures a Black man wearing a Black KN95 mask, white snapback hat, purple shirt and pants, and white nike sneakers sitting in circle with others. He is reciting aloud Maya Angelou’s famous poem “Still, I Rise.” another video captures a Black person with a Black afro wearing a Black N95 mask, a blue shirt, Black basketball shorts, and Black platforms with white socks sitting in the same circle. They are reciting a poem they authored that conveys their appreciation and analysis of West Coast Hip Hop.

As state violence continues threatening death upon our neighbors, this season we reground in the sanctity of life. Still...
02/07/2026

As state violence continues threatening death upon our neighbors, this season we reground in the sanctity of life. Still, we will rise, by (re) memorying the golden histories and futurities of Black radical visionaries—from right here in the (once known) Harlem of the West to the Coastal shores of East Africa. ✊🏾🧶

Honoring Maya Angelou as our Black History Month circle theme namesake, join us every Wednesday from 6:30-8PM. Together we will journey towards the horizon of Black lifeways throughout space and time, uncovering the (often overlooked) gems in Black arts,
love, labor, & revolution. ✊🏾💎

🖤✨🖤✨🖤✨🖤✨🖤✨🖤✨🖤✨🖤✨🖤

[Content Description]

Slide 1: A blue and purple water color flyer is entitled with large bold white and purple lettering “Still We Rise: Black History Month HOPE circles.” Bold subheadings with blue and white lettering inform the viewer that circle is from 6:30-8 PM on Feb. 4th, 11th, 18th, at 25th at Restore Oakland, 1419 34th Avenue. The flyer depicts Black & white images of rapper Tupac Shakur (top right corner) and poet June Jordan (bottom left corner), a yellow sunrise (centered), and a bundle of black and white flowers encased in the Restore Oakland Logo.

Slide 2: a video captures a Black person wearing a Black KN95 mask, white snapback hat, purple shirt and pants, and white nike sneakers is sitting in circle with others. He is reciting aloud Maya Angelou’s famous poem “Still, I rise.”

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