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Posts Tagged ‘PBS’

“Dogtown Redemption” documentary shines spotlight on local recyclers

By Martti Penttilä | May 9, 2016 | 2
Jason Witt, a recycling heavyweight, is one of the three people whose lives the film crew followed for over seven years. Photo by Amir Soltani/Film still from Dogtown Redemption

“Dogtown Redemption,” a documentary film shot over seven years in West Oakland, follows the lives of three local shopping cart recyclers.

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Children’s holiday parade marches through downtown Oakland

By Michelle Konstantinovsky | December 5, 2011
Giant balloons floated down Broadway Street during Saturday's 12th annual Comcast America's Children's Holiday Parade.

Families flocked to the 12th annual Comcast America’s Children’s Holiday parade, lining Broadway from 20th to 11th Streets and stretching all the way to Lake Merritt, where a short while earlier, a religious processional had brought walkers from East Oakland to the the Cathedral of Christ the Light.

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