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Azucena Rasilla

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✍🏼👩🏻‍💻 bilingual arts, culture and community journo from East Oakland.

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A little of April 🪺

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The job of Oakland mayor has never been easy. It’s the rare four-year term that glided by without dropping a major crisis like a ton of bricks onto a mayor. We looked at 100 years of Oakland history to see how different mayors dealt with or were doomed by upheavals.

Click 📲 #LinkInBio to see the entire list of 16 mayors who faced crises during their tenure.

Reported and hosted by @chroniclesofazu

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This week, we are highlighting an exhibit that explores the symbolism of the color purple, a new play exploring white supremacy, an event at the Eastmont library branch to help you with your taxes, and much more.

If you want us to consider an event for this weekly list, email arts & community reporter azucena@oaklandside.org. You can also use the self-submission form on our events page to add events to our calendar for free.

Click 📲 #LinkInBio to read more

✍🏼 @chroniclesofazu
📸 @richardgrant88

#oaklandside #theoaklandside #oakland

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A little madness this March 🙈

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Could be worse.

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What a night! Started out by finally meeting my all-time favorite Jeopardy champ @jeopardamy randomly at a bar/bookstore then caught up with the old school punks at the @freakytales_movie premiere. The whole Town was going nuts every time Oakland landmarks popped up on the big screen. The after-party was packed with local legends aaaaaand while I was chilling at the bar my favorite Games of Thrones character came over and did a shot of tequila with the director and a bunch of elderly ladies - absolutely surreal. Anyway everyone go see Freaky Tales next month!

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Come join us at this month’s Lyrics and Dirges featuring Rooted & Written alumni readers: Sabreen Ali, Sabina Khan-Ibarra, Chante Owens, Azucena Rasilla, Rowena Leong Singer, and Sara Yang!

Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Time: 7:00pm - 8:15pm
Place: Pegasus Books, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley
This event is hosted and curated by MK Chavez, Sharon Coleman, and Rooted & Written. Rooted & Written is the first tuition-free professional creative writing program offered for BIPOC writers in the USA.
Lyrics & Dirges is a monthly reading series that features a mix of prominent, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community that lives in the Bay Area. Every last Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown.

#bipocwriters #writers #writerscommunity #writer #writing #writingcommunity #bipoc #writingworkshop #rootedwritten

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Come celebrate the opening of my third and biggest venue, this Friday🎉 @ceremony.oakland represents unending hard-work and a new east bay chapter ⛓️ See yall 9pm this Fri, w/ Dom, Micah and myself, tagging / christening. Excited to flex the sound and to see how @andrepower gonna carry it.

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live laugh love journalism

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✨️Join us this Thursday, February 20th!✨️

Rena Newell from the Communications & Liaison Division of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will be presenting on federal taxes relevant to new businesses.

This session offers a valuable opportunity to learn about business taxes, gain a clearer understanding, and ask questions.

📲Register TODAY!

Www.LatinaChamber.com/events
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✨️Acompañanos este Jueves, 20 de Febrero!✨️

Estara con nosotros, Rena Newell, de la división de Comunicaciones y Enlace del Servicio de Impuestos Internos (IRS) hará una presentación sobre los impuestos federales relevantes para las nuevas empresas.

Esta sesión ofrece una valiosa oportunidad para aprender sobre los impuestos comerciales, obtener una comprensión más clara y hacer preguntas.

📲Registrate HOY!

Www.LatinaChamber.com/events

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Around 100 people carrying signs and flags gathered along 34th Avenue and International Boulevard on Feb. 8 in solidarity with immigrants living in the community without legal status and to protest the looming threat of mass deportations under President Donald Trump’s administration. Another group of a little over 100 marched from 98th Avenue along International to join the demonstration.

Loud chants of “Deportations, please say no, Donald Trump has got to go,” and “ICE, shut them down, Oakland is an immigrant town” rang out as the marchers waved flags and handwritten signs. The honking of drivers in support of the rally drowned the chants as cars drove by.

The protest was organized by Oakland resident Jovanna Diaz, whose father was deported in 2006.

“To me, this is personal. After my dad was deported, he ended up passing away in Mexico. I never got to see him again,” Diaz said. “I’m here to use my voice for my dad and anyone else afraid to come out and use their voice. I wanted to know that there are people here who will speak up for you.”

Diaz told The Oaklandside that she posted the flyer on social media, and it began to spread. As more people learned about it, local organizations reached out to her to join the march. BAMN and Homies Empowerment were two of the organizations that rallied more people to join.

By noon, the larger crowd had dissipated, with a handful staying behind listening to a Mexican corrido called Inmigrantes Unidos, by Jesus Mendes and Los De La Norte, which narrates the sentiment shared by those who attended the march.

“Resulta, ya quieren deportarme, en eso no estamos de acuerdo. Resulta que por ser inmigrante, mi valor es insignificante. Si supieran lo que hemos sufrido para salir adelante.”

(So, they want to deport us, and we disagree. Because I’m an immigrant, my value is insignificant. If only they knew what we went through to get ahead.)

Click 📲 #LinkInBio to read more

✍🏼 and 📹 @chroniclesofazu
📸@estefancy

#oaklandside #theoaklandside #oakland #ICE #immigration

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A joyful January! ✨

2025 started off with an absolute bang!

Bren and I turned 30!!!
Drews and Mads got married!!
Lots of fun with family and friends!

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