The East Oakland Collective is best known for their flagship Feed The Hood program, a robust gathering to feed those in need of a meal every other month. Since the pandemic, the organization has switched to a distribution and delivery model to maintain safe distance and is currently distributing around 1,500 meals a week. The East Oakland Collective is also feeding protestors along with providing water and first aid kits as they face tear gas, rubber bullets and other hazards of protesting. “We’ve noticed that since the East Oakland Collective started doing Feed the Hood events in September of 2017, more groups, more churches, more families, have started feeding the people,” wrote founder Candice Elder in a piece for Eater earlier this month. “It’s not a competition. We actually have given people the rubric, the model in order to do so,” Elder added.
People’s Breakfast
The Oakland organization has been providing food, tents, sanitary kits and mental health resources to West Oakland’s unhoused population since 2017. Founded by Oakland natives Delency Parham and Blake Simons, People’s Breakfast recently started a fund to bail out Black protestors and provide them with food and legal support once they are out of jail. People’s Breakfast models their growing offerings from the Black Panther Party for Self Defense’s multidimensional approach towards Black liberation.
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