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Amina Waheed
Before joining Oakland North's news team as a crime beat reporter, Amina worked on various community-based programs in Chicago’s inner-city. Her work connecting urban, immigrant and indigenous communities around issues such as criminal justice reform, inspired her to document global grassroots movements through visual storytelling. Amina was born and raised in an American oil-town in Saudi Arabia, and later moved to the Midwest as an Indian-Canadian immigrant. Her reporting interests in urban and international affairs led her to spend several months backpacking across the Middle East and North Africa. When she’s not crossing borders, she can be found satiating her musical appetite in drumming cyphers.
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Email: amina.waheed@oaklandnorth.net
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Posted on: OPD release name of shooting victim
Thanks for the comment JK. Do you live in that neighborhood, where the shooting happened? What kinds of actions would you like to see the city, and the OPD, to take? #
September 25, 2011 at 10:24 am
Stories
At the Youth Speaks Poetry Slam, Bay Area poets talk love and money
By: Amina Waheed |
May 7, 2012 – 1:24 pm
Oakland at work: A day in the life of a Bay Bridge toll collector
By: Amina Waheed |
April 5, 2012 – 10:40 am
For Gutierrez, weekdays start the same. At work by 4 am, Gutierrez punches in and...
As the economy sinks, homeless people move onto abandoned boats
By: Amina Waheed |
March 14, 2012 – 7:26 am
As the number of homeless and illegal boat dwellers has increased, they say, so has...
Occupy, Causa Justa, protesters take over vacant home, rally against foreclosures
By: Amina Waheed & Amna Hassan |
December 7, 2011 – 4:09 pm
At least 100 people gathered outside the West Oakland BART on Tuesday afternoon to march...
After 20 years, Youth Alive continues its fight to end gun violence among Oakland’s young people
Since Youth Alive launched its first violence prevention program 20 years, some of the crime...
In the rain, police rout Occupy campers from their latest downtown site
By: Byrhonda Lyons & Amina Waheed |
November 20, 2011 – 1:55 pm
Despite the rain and cold, scores of Occupy Oakland protesters gathered Sunday morning around what...
Unions urge support for Occupy Oakland day of action
Since Occupy Oakland protesters announced they would hold a general strike on November 2, unions...
As Oakland readies for prisoner influx, this boss opens his doors to workers with records
In coming months, the first of hundreds of prisoners will be transferred from state facilities...
Occupy Oakland ‘tent city’ faces eviction
By: Amina Waheed and Byrhonda Lyons |
October 21, 2011 – 6:35 pm
It’s been 11 days since Occupy Oakland took over Oakland’s Frank Ogawa Plaza, and now...
At safety summit, Mayor Jean Quan presents new crime reduction plan
By: Monica Cruz-Rosas and Amina Waheed |
October 17, 2011 – 1:21 pm
More than 700 people filled the gymnasium at Laney College on Saturday for the Neighborhood...
“99 Percent” protesters occupy Oakland’s Frank Ogawa Plaza
Since Occupy Wall Street protests began nearly one month ago in New York, similar actions...
Hotly debated proposal for teen curfew to be voted on by City Council
Forget about being grounded. Beginning next week, Oakland’s young people could be violating city laws...
Oakland group hosts local dance parties to raise awareness of youth unrest
By: Amina Waheed & Dylan Bergeson |
September 30, 2011 – 4:19 pm
Oakland’s New Parish club in Uptown will be hopping with music and dancing Friday night...
