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By admin on April 30, 2014 in Featured on Homepage, Nature & Wildlife, Oakland Politics, Personal Journals

KP Supporters:

My wife and I are new to the movement to Save Knowland Park. Like many people in the community, we thought Knowland Park was the zoo. We had no idea about the amazing open space that IS Knowland Park until we moved here with our two boys in September. After attending the rally last Saturday, we knew we had to do something to save Knowland Park. Continue Reading →

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[Guest Blog] Social Justice and Measure A1: “Changing the Face of Oakland”

By admin on October 24, 2012 in Oakland Politics, Opinions & Editorials, Uncategorized

“[The project] totally changes the face of the zoo, it changes the face of Oakland.”*

Those are the words of Zoo Director of Strategic Initiatives Nik Dehejia when speaking of the Oakland Zoo’s expansion plans for Knowland Park. What can it possibly mean to “change the face of Oakland”? To understand that, we have to take the expansion plans as well as ballot Measure A1 in their larger context. This includes the history of how taxes have changed over the years. Right after WW II, US corporate taxes equalled over 5% of the total economy (the GDP). By 2009, they had shrunk that to just 1%.
(source: http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=263)
In California, we have seen a similar process, as total corporate profits increased in the state by 485% from 2001 to 2010 but their tax liability only increased by 58.3%
(Source: http://www.cbp.org/pdfs/2012/120413_Who_Pays_Taxes.pdf)

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