"Take Back High Street March" this Sunday, Jan.23

Krista Gulbransen Fri, 21 Jan at 3:26pm
Photo by Mary Mactavish: http://bit.ly/fnePuA (CC license)

Photo by Mary Mactavish: http://bit.ly/fnePuA (CC license)

We're cleaning up, reaching out, and changing our neighborhood hand-in-hand. Participants will march, perform outreach to neighbors and clean up the street. The march is in alignment with Mayor Jean Quan's inaugural call to action to take back the streets of Oakland, block by block.

Join us at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 23

Meet at one of two locations: Brookdale at High Street at the park OR Walgreens parking lot at 3434 High St.

The two groups will march and meet in the middle at Virginia Avenue where the rally will end at Miracles of Faith Community Church for its annual MLK Celebration. All are invited.

March participants will stop at the place where the first homicide of 2011 took place, for a moment of silence and prayer. Darnell Barr, 19, was pronounced dead in front of an apartment complex in the 3100 block of High Street at 12:09 a.m. on Jan. 1.

This event is sponsored by the High Street Coalition, the Northern California Interreligious Conference and Miracles of Faith Community Church.

Supported by: Councilmembers Desley Brooks, Ignacio De La Fuente, Rebecca Kaplan, Libby Schaaf, Larry Reid; Oakland City Auditor Courtney Ruby and Mayor Jean Quan.

About Krista Gulbransen
Krista Gulbransen has been an Oakland resident for more than 20 years. By day she uses her 15 years of marketing experience as a VP of Marketing for a community banking non-profit. By night, she's a community activist focusing on community organizing for social change. In 2009 she received an Oakland Local Hero Award for her creation of the Annual Day in the Park event in Maxwell Park. She's currently focused on a community revitalization plan for High Street. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Communications from Mills College in Oakland, California and is a Certified Association Executive.