Dear Friends,
It’s been awhile for me, and I’m just getting my feet wet with the new look here (I may be the last diarist to try to write above the fold!)
This holiday season is special for me, as this year I met my life partner, Christine, and I now make my home in San Ramon with Christine and her two daughters. (My handle now feels double off as I was a kid very, very long ago, and now I don’t live in Oakland anymore!)
But I do have a connection to Oakland that I’d like to share with you this holiday season…
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I’m doing some work helping an Oakland-based, reader and community-supporter journal called Reimagine! Race, Poverty & the Environment which has re-launched as an independent, subscription-based publication.
Reimagine has been in existence for 25 years writing at the intersection of social, racial, climate, environmental and gender justice and is currently doing a fall/winter subscription drive.
This fall’s issue, pictured above, entitled "Alive! Strategies for Transformation" features absolutely amazing writing including a new essay by Alicia Garza "Black Love-Resistance and Liberation," a report on the battle against coal at the Port of Oakland and a multi-essay report from Silicon Valley entitled "Silicon Valley: Renters, Riders and Workers." (Here’s a link to the table of contents for the Spring Issue.)
If you are at all interested in the issues covered by Reimagine! and would like to read articles by and for communities at the intersection of social change and support this very worthy effort, please consider subscribing here:
Subscribe to Reimagine!
Happy Holidays!
Paul
aka “kid oakland”