Carroll Fife

Carroll Fife is a candidate for Oakland City Council for District 3. As executive director of ACCE Oakland, she helped found Moms for Housing and passed legislation at the state and local level to build collective power for tenants. She has fought back against police terrorism and helped to build a network of Black organizations and individuals working together for community self-determination. Carroll has worked behind the scenes in Oakland electoral politics for over a decade as the founder of Black Women in Elected Leadership PAC and an elected member of the Oakland NAACP’s Executive Committee. Since 2014, she has managed several campaigns, including Oakland's first ever slate of all Black women candidates for City Council and the OUSD Board. She was a 2016 and 2020 delegate for Bernie Sanders and is a member of the 2020 Platform Committee for the DNC (see DNC Platform)

Carrol Fife played a leadership role in the following legislative and electoral acheivements:

Founding the Oakland Department of Race and Equity
The Cannabis Equity permit system
Protecting the Coliseum area from gentrification
Oakland’s emergency eviction moratorium and pandemic eviction ban
City Council reopening the City budget in order to defund OPD

Website https://www.carrollfife.org/

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/carrollfifeforcouncil/

Platform

The main points of Carroll Fife's platform (see details here)

Housing as a Human Right.
Defund OPD to fund the Black New Deal.
Supporting Essential Workers.
Tax the Rich.

Wall Street has already shown us what it will do if left unchecked: Financial speculators will have free rein to continue exploiting the basic human need for safe and secure shelter — a need that is even greater during a pandemic. Such a move against struggling families would further entrench already terrible wealth disparities, making the promise of affordable housing an ever-dwindling possibility for hard-working families. The good news is that we know how to keep this from happening. Now we just have to have the courage to do it.—Senator Elizabeth Warren and Carroll Fife

In state and national news

Mother Jones, A Radical Housing Activist Wants to Upend Oakland Government from the Inside. “I want to create a real transparent process where I try to engage democracy.”

Washington Post, by Senator Elizabeth Warren and Carroll Fife, Families see a looming catastrophe. Private equity firms see dollar signs. (see quote above.)

Vogue These Moms Fought for a Home—And Started a Movement “'We’re actually experiencing the second wave of devastation from the foreclosure crisis in Oakland, because now folks are getting ridiculous rent increases after losing their homes—and that’s only if they’re lucky enough to become renters. Some folks have been displaced from the city and state altogether,' Fife says."

Capital & Main Oakland Tenants Protest Investors Plan to ‘Inspect’ Their Units During Pandemic “'Carroll Fife is director of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) for Oakland and San Francisco. She told the tenants: 'If you can charge the highest price for an item that people actually need to live and thrive, we're always going to have an issue here. And it hits Black and brown folks the most.'"

MSN Times Herald Bay Area protesters call for end to systemic racism in policing, housing, education and more

LA Progressive Fighting the Coming Eviction Tsunami

Reuters 'One paycheck away' from homelessness: housing inequality fuels U.S. protests

In local news

San Jose Mercury Moms 4 Housing mastermind runs for Oakland City Council "After sparking a nation-wide reckoning with the Moms 4 Housing movement, Oakland activist Carroll Fife is taking her fight against homelessness to a new arena — local government."

KTVU Moms 4 Housing activist to run for Oakland City Council seat

Marin Independent Journal Coronavirus: In Bay Area, homeless residents slip through cracks in state hotel program: Local groups step in to shelter those left behind

San Francisco Chronicle Defunding the police: Oakland, Berkeley could be test cases for Bay Area, nation

KTVU Hundreds rapidly respond to support Oakland’s Moms 4 Housing following eviction alert

KQED Moms 4 Housing Group Reaches Agreement to Buy Vacant House

Also see the Latest News section of Carroll Fife's campaign website

Endorsements

Organizations (as of Oct 19, 2020, consult campaign website for updated list)

ACCE Action
Alameda County Building Trades Council
Alameda County Democratic Party
Alameda County Labor Council
Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party
Alameda County Green Party
Asian Pacific American Democratic Caucus
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA)
Asian Pacific Environmental Network Action (APEN-Action)
Bay Rising Action
Block by Block Organizing Network
California Democratic Renters Council
California Nurses Association
Do No Harm Coalition
East Bay Democratic Socialists of America
IAFF Local 55: Oakland Firefighters
IFPTE Local 21
Iron Workers Union Local 378
The John George Democratic Club
National Union of Healthcare Workers
Neighbors for Racial Justice
Oakland Education Association
Oakland Rising Action
Oakland Tenants Union
Our Revolution
Our Revolution East Bay
The People’s Alliance
Planned Parenthood Mar Monte #1
San Francisco Berniecrats
SEIU 1021
SEIU-UHW
SMC Tenants Council
Sunrise Movement Bay Area
The Oakland Post
Thirteenth Floor Dance Theater
UA Local 342
Unite HERE Local 2850
Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club
The Working Families Party