September 2015 - Oakland Voices

Community, not gentrification, on Adeline

September 30, 2015 Jo Ann Hollis

A warm and secure feeling of community continues to thrive in the neighborhood along Adeline Street. The street that stretches from Berkeley to the Port of Oakland holds memories of the past and looks forward

Out on the streets with Street Level

September 29, 2015 Bill Joyce

Don Francisco, a Street Level outreach worker who delivers breakfast to day laborers, is a little worried. Forty containers aren’t sufficient for the number of workers that he will see in the next couple of

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights

September 28, 2015 Carlos Gonzalez

San Francisco native, Zachary Norris, moved to East Oakland when he was about a week old. He grew up in Oakland but lived a relatively sheltered life until he began his undergraduate studies at Harvard.

Hope Collaborative

September 28, 2015 Mustafa Solomon

Hope Collaborative is a collective of Bay Area organizations and community residents that works to help families and youth work towards healthy living in East and West Oakland. Officially, it has been around for 7 years,

East Bay Housing Organizations works for Affordable Housing

September 25, 2015 Randy Filio

Charlotte Rosen is the Membership and Communications Associate for East Bay Housing Organizations (EBHO). Some of her many duties are fundraising, event organizing and coming up with strategic communications to improve EBHO’s campaigns and programs.

Restorative Justice for Youth Oakland Seeks Healing Justice

September 22, 2015 Aqueila M. Lewis-Ross

Twenty weeks ago, if you had approached 16-year- old Jerome Traylor and asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, he probably wouldn’t have an answer for you. “I had been to

Street Level – a safety net of the safety net

September 21, 2015 Bill Joyce

Health clinic volunteer Hermalinda Aguiar leaned forward and said, “We have a saying: ‘Panza llena, corazón contento; Full belly, a happy heart.’” In a phrase, the recent San Francisco State alumna captures the mission of

Hip Hop Therapy/ Beats Rhymes and Life

September 18, 2015 Angela Scott

Imagine walking into your therapist’s office and seeing hip hop album covers hanging from the wall. To your immediate left is a stage and like the rest of the room, it is being renovated by

Oakland Guatemalans optimistic and skeptical about elections

September 17, 2015 Tom Webb

In a country that has experienced generations of profound government misconduct – ranging from outright theft of public funds to insidious forms of torture and violence against its own people – one might expect the

Intertribal Friendship House

September 17, 2015 Sabah Williams

Intertribal Friendship House (IFH) is a special place. We call it our “Urban Rez” and it is a vital part of the Bay Area Native American Community. It is one of the first urban Native