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Profile of The East Oakland Switchboard

January 22, 2018 Tonya Shipp

  The East Oakland Switchboard is located right around the corner from me.  For three years, I’ve walked and ridden past it and wondered what the business does.  Formerly homeless, I could tell it was

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