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Developer Danny Haber's project to rebuild a red-tagged live-work warehouse has been stalled by environmental review and could be delayed further.
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Instead of welcoming the cannabis industry into the light, Oakland's new rules are putting many out of business, while others are disappearing into the illicit market.
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Rendon Hall showcases jazz as an art form in the heart of Berkeley.
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Two other Alamedans, including Assemblymember Rob Bonta, say they believe embattled City Manager Jill Keimach secretly taped them, too.
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At this "game gym," you can watch the best players battle each other live.
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Small farmers had hoped to usher in California's new legal cannabis market, but the state's high taxes and fees and a loophole in its regulatory scheme are allowing Big Weed to take over.
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An imaginative map from the creator of the East Bay Yesterday podcast illustrates Oakland's natural and industrial history.
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Activists are also garnering support for a statewide ballot initiative to repeal Costa Hawkins.
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The Elmwood's new fast-casual restaurant is a welcomed evolution of the red sauce joint.
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We endorse Oakland Councilmember Dan Kalb and former Obama White House aide Buffy Wicks in the June 5 primary.
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A group of East Oakland youth in the Scraper Bike Team say San Leandro police keeping confiscating their bicycles — sometimes at gunpoint.
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It will break us from the chains of capitalistic individualism and the destructive car-centric lifestyle.
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Hundreds of people gathered last night to demand that the city hire additional public works crews to clean up garbage and focus on the most impacted neighborhoods.
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After years of criticism over the Raiders deal, East Bay officials now can try to wipe the slate clean and recoup hundreds of millions of dollars from the NFL and Mark Davis.
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The Korean-American artist specializes in dance-worthy club beats that feel quiet and cozy.
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Jon Hamm's new movie makes a hash of Lebanon, but it's high-class hash.
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True Shoah story takes a disconcertingly sweet point of view.
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At last, another imaginative Wes Anderson animated adventure.
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Re: “I am Annoyed and Disappointed”
I go to Cafe Gratitude because I like to eat quinoa and raw zucchini and sometimes I don't feel like making it for myself. I tolerate the affirmation-speak like I tolerate the restaurants that make their waiters sing. I feel no nobler about eating food I could very easily make for myself than I do about buying cheap clothes made by slave labor.
I have studied enough economics to know that my personal consumption choices make no difference in the situation of oppressed people around the world and that any energy spent patting myself on the back about drinking live algae is better spent earning money that I can contribute to grassroots groups I believe in or engaging in issue-focused, goal-oriented groups myself. Cafe Gratitude is not an agent of change, it is a business that serves a certain niche and promotes a culture that its managers seem to believe is positive.
I am mostly disturbed that commenters here talk about the restaurant's culture and tactics as if they are unique. Most major corporations employ longstanding psychological techniques to squelch unions, use ingredients that are known to be addictive, and have a company culture that they promote. Why is your boss asking you to sign up for their "transformative thinking" group any different from your boss asking you to buy Christmas cookies for their kids' soccer team, attend a diversity training or read a book about Six Sigma? If you believe workers are susceptible to oppression and businesses are doing rotten things, get active and support groups with a goal to change this, not businesses with the stated goals of "celebrating aliveness" and "honoring the earth."