With the picture perfect weather we’ve been having, what is there to do besides enjoy our wonderful parks? There is so much to do in Oakland this weekend! Just take a look at our events calendar and see.

Public Officials Called On to Protect Children from Sex Trafficking Hundreds of Oakland families, merchants and public officials will rally this evening (Thursday) at 6:00 pm at one of the city’s most dangerous and busiest blocks for illegal sex trade activities: International Boulevard at 17th Avenue. The rally targets the National Lodge motel there, which [...]

Our California State Assemblyman Sandré Swanson sends a message to Oaklanders about today’s César Chávez holiday. March 31 is a California State holiday. Chavez had a long history with Oakland’s people and its leadership.

Labor leader Cesar Chavez was born this day. The holiday will not only be observed in Oakland, but has been declared an official holiday and a national day of service by President Barack Obama.

City Administrator sounds off on his way out, “I have been a broken record that the budget crisis is not a spending problem, but caused by the revenue crash. We cannot cut our way out of this crisis and it can’t be solved solely on the backs of City workers—it requires raising additional revenues.”

From Physics to Freedom, from sculpture to Spanish, from poetry to performance to plants, Oakland’s got it all this weekend. And OaklandSeen’s got the weekend calendar that’s got everybody talking.

Oakland Running Festival organizers have released detailed information on road closures during the Festival this weekend.

Polystyrene foam (styrofoam) is made from crude oil. Like all conventional plastics, it is non-renewable, non-biodegradable, and virtually non-recyclable. Polystyrene foam food service ware ends up in landfills, waterways or the ocean. It breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces which are often mistaken for food and ingested by marine animals, birds and fish. Medical evidence also suggests that chemicals in polystyrene foam are carcinogenic and may leach into food or drink. What can be done about it?

Eons ago, Oakland was rich with giant redwood trees that dated back millenia. The trees, whose scientific name is Sequoia sempervirens, are the tallest known plant species in the world.

AFFRM (the African Film Festival Releasing Movement) is a grassroots effort with no commercial advertising. It is genuinely a movement, and a wake-up call to Hollywood to reach outside of its archaic distribution system and to cease ignoring intelligent Black film. Black Cinema At Large is its Oakland outpost, helping bring a local audience to the launch of a new indie film being distributed nationally.