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We must take matters into our own hands

By Tracy Lee on
Arts and Culture   First-person   Opinion   YSA youth contributions
Oakland is a city of so many races and cultures. Different, diverse, and from so many kinds of backgrounds. But one thing that unites us is the caring and loving people we are. No matter how hard the struggle may be, we always take care of each other. We are all in the same boat—struggling to live. We take matters into our own hands to get through life.

Moms 4 Housing: Oakland’s Robin Hood

By Terry Messman on
Commentary   Opinion
The brave and strategically brilliant members of Moms 4 Housing have given the entire nation a wake-up call about the disastrous shortage of affordable housing and the power of civil disobedience to confront the injustices of gentrification and the eviction-for-profit system.

This is a community

By Terry Messman on
Features   Letters   Opinion
The poet T.S. Eliot once addressed a deeply disturbing question to city dwellers everywhere, a profound challenge to our consciences that cuts to the heart of everything that has gone wrong in our society.