My initial telephone meeting with Candice Elder provided me with an opportunity to learn not only about a few of her efforts generated within the East Oakland Collective, but more importantly, it provided me a[Read more]
Oakland Voices is sad to share the news that one of our alumni members, Tom Webb, has passed away. “We were so saddened to hear of Tom’s passing,” said Martin Reynolds, Oakland Voices Co-Founder and[Read more]
Oakland Voices alum have been working with KALW public radio station to develop radio stories about East Oakland. Here are the links to the stories: Tony Daquipa reports on the best places to by fresh[Read more]
Suspensions and bouncing back and forth between various schools, crack- addicted parents and grandparents, running away, physical abuse, early fatherhood (age 17), teen-age drug use, multiple arrests, several incarcerations in local, county and state jails[Read more]
Social Justice activists partied down on June 28 at the Oakland Progressives Party + Townie Awards at the Oakland Museum. The combined party, fundraiser, and awards ceremony, occurred in the museum’s sculpture garden. It was also[Read more]
A Palestinian Nakba commemoration/demonstration was held on May 15 outside the Israeli consulate in San Francisco. Over 1,000 Palestine supporters turned out to mark the 70th anniversary of the Nakba (the Catastrophe), when over 750,000[Read more]
“Happy birthday, dear Ahed, happy birthday to you!” sings a crowd of over 100 people that has gathered outside the Ronald Dellums Federal Building in downtown Oakland. It is late January and they have come[Read more]
And you thought you were hip to the Town’s culture. Currently most people know Oakland as a city struggling with affordable housing, displacement of working class people: a city riddled with tent cities; a big[Read more]
Oakland’s annual CityCamp this Saturday brings together residents and technologists to plan and inspire Oakland’s future. The event is free and sponsored by the City of Oakland, the Kapor Center and OpenOakland – the city’s[Read more]
