March 3, 2012 Three Occupy Oakland protesters charged with robbery, hate crimes Three Occupy Oakland protesters have been charged with robbery and hate crimes for an incident at a bank action on Feb. 22, police said…
February 23, 2012 Oscar Grant’s cousin shot by Oakland police, disputes police account My article on the Oakland police shooting of Oscar Grant’s cousin, as published in The Bay Citizen: An attorney for a man shot by…
February 22, 2012 Covering Occupy Oakland In the eight months since I last updated this blog, I began working as a daily reporter for the Bay Area-based wire service Bay…
June 12, 2011 Repainting a wrongfully destroyed mural in Richmond Gompers Garden is a wide sunny patch on the Richmond Greenway, a long, winding park following an old railroad line with a blacktop path for…
June 1, 2011 Adult Education Dismantled Oakland is the seventh largest recipient of adult education funding in California, but its once plentiful slate of programs has been almost entirely decimated….
May 22, 2011 Photos from the Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival The 11th annual Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival was held on May 21 in Oakland’s San Antonio park at 16th Ave and Foothill Blvd….
May 13, 2011 Seven teachers arrested at Wells Fargo protest in Oakland Furious over cuts to education and linking the budget shortfalls in California to the recession caused by risky lending, the Oakland Educators Association staged…
May 6, 2011 Defense presents evidence as the end of the Chauncey Bailey murder trial approaches Yusuf Bey IV speaks with his attorney Gene Peretti.Following the completion of the prosecution’s evidence in the Chauncey Bailey murder trial, on May 4…
May 4, 2011 The Recycler Relocation Project In West Oakland, sometimes recycling isn’t so green. Written for the East Bay Express, published May 4, 2011. West Oakland has long been plagued…
April 21, 2011 Believing Broussard The Chauncey Bailey case appears to hinge on whether the confessed shooter was following orders, or was trying to score points in a controversial…
