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Resources to learn more about Chochenyo Park and the parks former namesake, Andrew Jackson. We also have resources about racism, public spaces, environmental justice, and the importance of healing and justice for Black and Indigenous peoples.

ABOUT

• Chochenyo Park
  • Chochenyo Park (Alameda Parks and Recreation Department (ARPD))
  • Video: Chochenyo Park Community Dialogue
  • Contemporary Ohlone History
  • Shuumi Land Tax of Songorea Te’ Land Trust

• TPFKAJP: The Park Formerly known as Jackson Park
  • History of the Park formerly known as Jackson Park
    • “Jackson Park” in Woody Minor’s Alameda at Play
    • Was the park officially “Alameda Park”?
• Andrew Jackson
  • The Hermitage
  • Indian Removal Act
  • The Trail of Tears
  • The Enslaved Household of Andrew Jackson
  • Hunting down runaway slaves: The cruel ads of Andrew Jackson
  • How historians have written about Jackson (1958)
• Rename Jackson Park
  • About
    • Art: Creating our Future
    • Art: Give Us A Sign
  • Demands
  • Timeline
  • Media Coverage

Efforts to Remove White Supremacist Monuments

Alameda

• Alameda 4 All
  • Racist Monuments in Alameda
  • PARKS
    • Godfrey Park
      • Godfrey Park’s namesake
      • Petition: Rename Godfrey Park
      • Godfrey Park Renaming Opposition
    • Jackson Park
      • Why Rename Jackson Park by Rename Jackson Park (2018)
      • Rewriting History Now by Dennis Evanosky and Eric J. Kos (2018)
      • Confronting Racist Symbols in Alameda’s Public Spaces by Rasheed Shabazz (2018)
  • STREETS
    • Calhoun Street
      • Petition: Rename Calhoun Street
        • Rename Calhoun Street Letter to Alameda Sun
        • Personal perspective on renaming Calhoun Street in Alameda Sun
    • Haight Ave
      • Rename Haight Ave Petition
  • SCHOOLS
    • Haight Elementary School
      • Rename Haight Elementary School
        • Why we must Rename Haight Elementary School
        • Only Love can Conquer Haight

Global

• New Orleans
  • Take em down NOLA (New Orleans)
    • Why it Matters by Take ‘Em Down NOLA
  • New Orleans Street Naming Commission
• Berkeley
  • Rename Barrows Hall (Berkeley)
    • Barrows Hall should be renamed to honor people of color
  • LeConte Elementary School
• South Africa & Oxford
  • Rhodes Must Fall (Oxford)
    • Why Symbols Matter: The Case for the Rhodes Must Fall Movement in Oxford
• What Comes After the Fall of Pro-Slavery Monuments? by Ana Lucia Araujo.

Racism, Anti-racism, and Environmental Justice

• Racism and Anti-Racism
  • Racism Defined
  • Being Anti-racist
  • Segregation in America
• Environmental racism and environmental justice 
  • How environmental racism shapes the US
  • Inequalities in urban park systems
  • The Toxic Intersection of Racism and Public Space
  • Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice (PDF)
  • Public Space, Park Space, and Racialized Space
  • Access to Parkland: Environmental Justice at East Bay Parks
  • Toxic Spot (Alameda Point) Environmental Justice
• Restorative Justice for Black and Indigenous People
  • What is Restorative Justice?
  • Reparations
    • The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates
    • National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America
    • Debates about reparations
    • African American Reparations Bill Passes California Assembly
  • Native Land Acknowledgement: The land we live on
    • Contemporary Ohlone History
    • Ohlone History in the East Bay
    • Shuumi Land Tax of Songorea Te’ Land Trust