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Win a copy of Being the Difference: True Stories of Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things to Change the World

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In his address to Congress last night, President Obama said, "But in my life, I have also learned that hope is found in unlikely places; that inspiration often comes not from those with the most power or celebrity, but from the dreams and aspirations of ordinary Americans who are anything but ordinary." ordinary heroes book

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Give the Gift of Time Together for the Holidays

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When you're on your death bed looking back on your life, what will you remember most, the stuff you received as gifts, or the time you spent with the people you care about? Inside the box was a brochure for the Oakland Zoo. The son in-law received "Stanford football tickets!" It said, "A trip to the zoo!"

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Nomad Cafe: How to Start a Green Cafe

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Well, Chris Waters of the Nomad Cafe in Oakland not only thought about it, he made it happen. Both of those laws passed and are now in effect. We participate in the City of Oakland's Maintain-a-Drain program, and do our part daily to remove litter from the street in our neighborhood. green cafe business Oakland

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Brahm Ahmadi, People's Grocery, Podcast Transcript

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The primary need, obviously, in our community, West Oakland, is a lack of access to healthy and affordable foods. If we can begin to build that at a local base, we can begin to create jobs that are associated with that new structure that we create. These are a lot more of the sort of peripheral aspects of this problem.

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

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I think at the national level we're always going to have The New York Times , CNN, and The Washington Post to do national investigations, but what we really are threatened to lose in the next year to five years is local investigations and local reporting. If life is a chessboard, content is still king.

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Raising the Floor of the Platform Economy: Co-ops, Unions, and the Struggle to Transform Technology

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Even as these companies rake in massive profits and outperform their more traditional competitors, the life of the platform worker is not getting better. For instance, Uber has transformed the taxi industry in the decade following its inception in 2009,and now dominates 69 percent of the ride-sharing market.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

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In 1995, I'm giving you my life story; I took a class called Challenging White Supremacy. And as Britt said, I also am the Art and Media Director at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights , which is based out of Oakland. One will be for mothers who are mourning the loss of their children who died in gunfights in Oakland.

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