Politics

This weekend, organizers of the second national conference of BUTCH Voices, a grassroots organizations dedicated to all self-indentified “Masculine of Center” people, had over 450 attendees at the Oakland City Center Marriott.

More than 1,200 people became citizens at a naturalization ceremony at the Paramount Theatre on Wednesday.

The Oakland town hall meeting called “Speak Out for Good Jobs Now” attracted more than 600 people to the Acts Full Gospel Church in East Oakland on Tuesday evening. It was the last stop on a group of Democratic legislators’ national tour to gather public opinions about job creation issues.

On Saturday, to the surprise and outrage of some neighbors, 14 trees and two shrubs were removed from the California Department of Motor Vehicles office parking lot on Claremont Avenue.

The Oakland Museum of California recently opened an exhibit that explores John Muir and “what makes the man and what are the primary aspects of his life, and work, and personality.”

Holding banners and large withdrawal request forms, about 30 customers gathered on Wednesday in front of Wells Fargo’s main branch in downtown Oakland to announce that they would close their Wells Fargo bank accounts to protest the bank’s foreclosure practices.

Gardening has been added to the Oakland summer camp list of activities for the first time this year, and kids between the ages of 5 and 12 all over town are learning the basics of how to care for a garden.

Artists from sessionspace painted a new mural on a Gateway Supermarket wall in the Golden Gate.

The National Brotherhood of Cyclists is holding its second-annual conference in Oakland this weekend.