
Azucena Rasilla
Arts and Community Reporter at The Oaklandside
✍🏼👩🏻💻 @Oaklandside bilingual arts and community journo| East Oakland gal | DMs are off the record | tips: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
oaklandside.org | Azucena Rasilla
Lots of Juneteenth events to showcase this week. In addition to the celebration highlighted below, OMCA is hosting multiple events, including the Futureproof Dinner featured in The Oaklandside earlier this week. Also, don’t miss out on Lakefest, a large outdoor festival taking over the northeast side of Lake Merritt with music, vendors and food. If you would like us to consider an event for this weekly list, please email me at [email protected].
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1 week ago |
oaklandside.org | Azucena Rasilla |Eli Wolfe
An Oakland program that provides critical resources to immigrants stands to lose hundreds of thousands in city funding. Last week, the Oakland City Council a $4.3 billion city budget to cover the next two years. Councilmembers stressed that the budget is “essentials” only, implying that some programs wouldn’t make the cut. One of the programs apparently deemed non-essential was the Street Level Health Project’s day laborer program.
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1 week ago |
oaklandside.org | Azucena Rasilla
Organizers of the “No Kings” rally including Indivisible East Bay estimate that over 10,000 people converged in Oakland’s Chinatown and marched to Frank Ogawa Plaza on Saturday, June 14 to take part in one of the many protests planned across the nation.
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2 weeks ago |
oaklandside.org | Azucena Rasilla
In the days since controversial immigration raids and protests turned Los Angeles into a national flashpoint, rumors have spread like wildfire in Oakland of sightings of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, colloquially known as ICE. “We are experiencing an onslaught of rumors and hopefully well-intentioned false reports.
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2 weeks ago |
oaklandside.org | Azucena Rasilla
One of the best summer outdoor activities in The Town is, without a doubt, the annual Woodminster Summer Musicals now in its 58th season. You get to check out a theater production under the stars. The other event not to miss is Dame Drummer who is fresh off his appearance alongside E-40 for his NPR Tiny Desk concert. Dame was a musical guest at a previous Culture Makers, which is back for another installment this Thursday.
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