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Weekend Picks: Things to do and see in Oakland April 22-24

Article by Tehea Robie.

Last updated at Sat, 23 Apr at 2:06pm.

Spring is in the air!

The stillness and introspection of the rainy season ... well, that was great, but don’t you just want to shake and twist and run and romp and play now? I do. That’s why this weekend’s event picks are guaranteed to make you move.

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Youth sex trafficking survivors celebrate MISSSEY's first fundraiser success

Article by Airial Clark.

Last updated at Thu, 6 Jan at 4:44pm.

On Nov. 6, Motivating, Inspiring, Supporting and Serving Sexually Exploited Youth, or MISSSEY, held its first event at the Layover Lounge in order to raise funds to send a young group of survivors to Peru as part of the Advocacy delegation on Human Trafficking in June.

Nola Brantley, the executive director of MISSSEY, spoke with Oakland Local about the success of their first fundraising event.

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A Night on the Track: On Oakland's International Boulevard young girls abound after nightfall

Article by Barbara Grady.

Last updated at Wed, 26 May at 2:16pm.

by Barbara Grady and Sarah Terry-Cobo

Two reporters and a photographer observed one of the busiest pieces of “the track” for eight hours one night in late February. We watched from the second story of an empty building on International Boulevard at 42nd Street, in Oakland, CA. This is a chronicle of what we observed.

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