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24 Hours in Oakland April 25-26, 2010. We sent ten reporters out with their cameras, and invited community members to help us capture images of a day in the life of the city. Work and play, rest and motion: Just an ordinary 24 hours in Oakland. There will never be another one exactly like it. 11AM-2PM An array of images shot with an iPhone. Locations include Downtown Oakland, Jack London Square and Oakland Chinatown. Photos by Richard Koci Hernandez Father…

24 Hours in Oakland

24 Hours in Oakland [The multimedia elements of this page no longer work but you can see the photographs by clicking on this link.] April 25-26, 2010. We sent ten reporters out with their cameras, and invited community members to help us capture images of a day in the life of the city. Work and play, rest and motion: Just an ordinary 24 hours in Oakland. There will never be another one exactly like it. 11AM-2PM An array of images…

Q & A with Oakland’s Fire Chief Gerald A. Simon

With Oakland’s fire season expected to begin within the next few weeks, Oakland North reporter Dara Kerr spoke with Fire Chief Gerald A. Simon about what it means to be the head of Oakland’s Fire Department, what led him to the job, and about Oakland’s unique fire and safety needs.

The Museum of Children’s Art tackles global issues

“What does the world need now?” This question is being posed to kids all over the East Bay, and Oakland’s Museum of Children’s Art (MOCHA) wants their answers in the form of paintings, drawings, photographs or even sculptures.

Student perspective: On March 4 during the freeway takeover, some reporters got the story. Four of them got arrested.

On March 4, hundreds of protesters marched from Berkeley to Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland to rally with students and educators from across the region. After the rally, a group of some 150 protesters marched onto the I-880 freeway, shut down traffic and were arrested by police. Some reporters got the story — but four of them, including Oakland North correspondent Jake Schoneker, got arrested. Schoneker shares his account of the day, in pictures and words.

Meet the new reporters for spring 2010

This spring, Oakland North welcomes a new staff of 13 reporters, all students at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Got story ideas? Questions? Complaints? Please drop us a line at staff@oaklandnorth.net Elise Craig Elise Craig is a native Northern Californian who started writing at her high school newspaper, The Octagon. After graduating from Georgetown University in 2006, she spent two years as a producer on the breaking news desk of the washingtonpost.com, then quit her job on the InterWebs…

Campaign for publicly-funded elections kicks off in Oakland

While corporations, lobbyists and special interest groups may have gloated over the Supreme Court’s ruling last month that decreed that the government has no power to ban corporate spending in political campaigns, if Californian voters pass Proposition 15 in the June 8th election, they may have another chance to set limits on corporate election spending.

Student-led group pinpoints solutions to youth violence

The youth-led Heal the Streets fellowship program, sponsored through Oakland’s Ella Baker Center, hosted a Solutions Salon on Saturday in West Oakland intended to engage community members, youth and policy makers in a dialogue about violence prevention in Oakland.