New East Oakland Grocery Co-op Looking for Founding Members
A new grocery cooperative in East Oakland is recruiting up to eight founding cohort members by May, who will then go through a 12-week training[Read more]
Patricia Contreras Flores
Patricia Contreras-Flores Mestiza Purepecha. Michoacan Mexico born. Bay Area raised. Yebera. Healer in training. Storyteller. Writer. Grand daughter of Antonia, Maria, Salvador and Juan. Daughter of Gloria and Antonio. Loyal to the soil. We belong to the land.
Stories by Patricia
Flores flowering in gratitude
By Patricia Contreras Flores Posted
Recently in the midst of so much heaviness on all fronts, I went looking for some hope. I returned to poetry, my first written love[Read more]
Investing for East Oakland
By Patricia Contreras Flores Posted
We all know the wave of development is pushing folks farther into East Oakland, the deeper parts. Parts that local folks call Deep East Oakland.[Read more]
Food/Comida is medicine all the time everyday
By Patricia Contreras Flores Posted
I was walking up from my house on Fruitvale towards E. 14th Street. About two blocks from my house, I found myself walking behind two[Read more]
Un bosque de mujeres/A forest of womyn
By Patricia Contreras Flores Posted
I heard the music in my dreams first and woke to the familiar sound of an accordion playing. It was the third night of me[Read more]
We All Belong
By Patricia Contreras Flores Posted
I am a dispatcher for Street Level Health Project for the ACILEP (Alameda County Immigration, Legal and Education Partnership) rapid response network. I believe all[Read more]
Return of the land
By Patricia Contreras Flores Posted
Me a costado escribir estas palabras. Contar este cuento. Como capturar y darle su justo honor a esta tierra. En medio de todo lo que[Read more]
Honoring Anhatapu in Huichin
By Patricia Contreras Flores Posted
One of my top three favorite things to do as a kid-besides hiding behind the huge wall of a prickly pear cactus in my backyard[Read more]
Love letter to the Fruitvale
By Patricia Contreras Flores Posted
Kalil and I were in bed just last night and at about 8 p.m. we heard firecrackers outside our bedroom window. Several rounds of[Read more]
Gloria la unica
By Patricia Contreras Flores Posted
“Sigue empujando Chava!” Keep pushing, she yells at her cousin, Chava. Having snuck into the neighbor’s yard, they had taken two juicy watermelons by rolling[Read more]
