This morning, I dig out my dog tags from under a pile of photos and begin the morning with sorrow, mind full of snapshots and sound. There are many victims of war at home and abroad. OaklandSeen will mark this Memorial Day week with pieces that find meaning in the losses that touch us all.

From quiet reflection at home, family time with a brother back home from Iraq, live bands, Sex in the City party, and some “it’s just another day”, Oakland is celebrating Memorial Day in many ways.

This Memorial Day, remember the soldiers risking everything to speak out against unfair military policies.

Military veteran and OaklandSeen blogger visits the Oakland vets center for perspective on the Memorial Day holiday.

Oakland’s Mosswood Park is the place to be for multicultural Memorial Day fun! CaribelinQ’s “Family Carnaval Day in the East Bay”: May 31, noon-7:00 pm.

Yesterday, Oakland’s Peralta Board of Trustees unanimously approved a strongly-worded resolution denouncing Arizona’s SB1070. Here’s the text.

The Superior Court judge indicates his preliminary approval of Oakland’s gang injunction. Here’s a first-hand account of courtroom proceedings along with sound from inside and outside the gang injunction hearing.

Oakland Superior Court, Oakland, CA There was tension in the Oakland Superior Court as Alameda County Judge Robert B. Freedman has given indicated that he will be approving the gang injunction presented by attorneys for the City of Oakland. Present in the audience were several Oakland police officers as well as members of the affected [...]

Community leaders, Oakland police officers, city staff and young people came together to clean and spruce up the Hoover/Foster Corridor of West Oakland. Carletta Starks thanks them by name.

Video of local activists interviewed by Davey D at protest in Oakland outside the courtroom where the Oakland gang injunction is being considered.