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Sex Ed Still Lags in Oakland Schools
Sex ed in California is supposed to be comprehensive. Under state policy, students are to receive information that is medically accurate, science-based, and age-appropriate....
Unionizing Nonprofits
When employees of Larkin Street Youth Services in San Francisco began talking about unionizing earlier this spring, their concerns centered on issues familiar to...
California Gets Fracked
Inside a nondescript building in Sacramento, an auctioneer prepared to lease thousands of acres of public land that could ultimately reap billions of dollars...
Grooming Your Future Activist
Children's entertainment comes with no shortage of messages: disobedient princesses learning to obey their parents; giant red dogs urging teamwork; purple dinosaurs imparting the wisdom...
Prop 37 Is Losing Support
When we first reported about "Big Organic" companies helping fund the opposition to Proposition 37, the ballot measure enjoyed a two-to-one margin of support....
Big Organic Joins Monsanto in Fighting Prop 37
It's no secret that giant agribusinesses like Monsanto are spending millions of dollars trying to defeat Proposition 37 on the November ballot. The Right...
InterPlaying With Ourselves
Inside the airy InterPlay studio on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland, a small group of men and women are running at full speed, the dull...
Beyond the Big Top
On 7th Street in West Oakland, just across from Interstate 880, the yellow and green Kinetic Arts Center building stands out from its spartan surroundings....
