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Alex Park
Alex Park is a religion & community reporter for Oakland North. As a journalist, he has reporting experience in the Bay Area and abroad and his work has appeared in a number of different independent literary journals in print and online and local news sites in the Bay Area. Since beginning in 2008, he has blogged in South Africa and reported on Northern Cyprus. In college, he also published an award-winning sociology paper on a 2008 period of anti-immigrant violence in South Africa, since cited multiple times in various academic works on the subject. Currently, his interests lie in examining complex social systems-- be they governments, conflicts or waves of immigration-- and explaining them to a general audiences in easy to understand language.
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Posted on: In Jingletown, Diamond Tool & Die is a survivor from Oakland's industrial past
Gotogal, Thanks for your comment. The reference to big box stores in the head of the story is a reference not just to the Home Depot you mentioned, but also the Office Depot on E. 9th, which can be seen from just outside Diamond. While the Home Depot at least is outside Jingeltown, I thought they were stil close enough for a reference in discussing the area's changes. #
March 13, 2012 at 10:01 am
Posted on: Where is this in Oakland? Challenge 1
porno palace (that's what the owner's call it) #
April 17, 2012 at 11:15 pm
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