May 2017 - Oakland Voices

East Oakland Parents and Teachers Oppose Cuts to Schools

May 23, 2017 Katharine Davies Samway

Tuesday, 3:30 p.m.: Community Meeting About 40 parents, teachers, and children have come to an after-school meeting in the library that is shared by two elementary schools in the Fruitvale neighborhood: ICS (International Community School)

Sidewalk Memorials: A Softer Side of Oakland

May 18, 2017 Sandra Tavel

Living in East Oakland is like having a close relationship with a problematic relative. You can call your auntie “crazy,” because she’s your auntie, but you can’t let anyone outside the family call her crazy.

Fruitvale after the Ghost Ship fire

May 17, 2017 Kat Ferreira

Note: this story originally aired on KALW Public Radio 91.7 FM in San Francisco as part of their “Sights & Sounds of East Oakland” series and was published on the KALW website. You can listen

The Trials and Tribulations of a Parking Control Officer

May 16, 2017 Debora Gordon

You might not be happy to see Janea Martin lingering around your car, or the calling card from the City of Oakland she leaves behind. But you should know that she is helping you contribute

Food Desert

May 15, 2017 Damu Dailey

East Oakland is considered a food desert. A food desert–according to the USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture)–is defined as a “low-access community” where at least 500 people or 33 percent of the census tract’s population

While Everyone Else Is Sleeping, East Oakland Is Eating

May 11, 2017 Tony Daquipa

It’s a Monday evening just after 11 p.m. as I pull into the Tacos Los Amigos parking lot on East 14th Street (also known as International Blvd.) I was referred to this taco truck by

O.G. Beat Meet, a video story

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A Client’s Choice Pantry in East Oakland Grocery Desert

May 4, 2017 Katharine Davies Samway

I arrive around 10:15 a.m. on a recent Saturday at the Flunder Foundation Word of Mouth Food Pantry located at the City of Refuge United Church of Christ http://www.cityofrefugeucc.org/, which is in a mixed residential

Ghost Notes

May 3, 2017 Damu Dailey

Notes on spirituality Thirty six people died in Oakland’s most horrific fire on Friday December 2, 2016. This is a story about photojournalism and two rules of spirituality I observed while reporting on the tragedy

Oakland’s May Day Procession

May 2, 2017 Sandra Tavel

Monday, May 1, 2017. May Day procession through the Fruitvale District on International Blvd at 29th Ave. Words matter and I’d like to see these events publicized as processions, rather than protests.