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• Sharing the wealth: The push for workers to buy the companies that employ them

  14-01-2018 12:48
  Employee-owner Sarah Vegas works in the bakery of the Niles Pie Company on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018, in Union City, Calif. The Niles Pie Company made the transition from a single owner to a employee-owned buisness model to help expand and prolong the company.
  
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• For now, Australia's plans for cannabis market dominance are more smoke than fire

  14-01-2018 08:19
  When Australia said this month it would allow exports of medicinal cannabis in a bid to dominate a global market set to be worth US$55 billion by 2025, investors scrambled to buy shares in marijuana companies - pushing several of them, and the sector as a whole, to record highs. FILE PHOTO: Marijuana is seen for sale at Harborside, one of California's largest and oldest dispensaries of medical marijuana, on the first day of legalized recreational marijuana sales in Oakland, California, U.S., Jan
  
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• 'The Village' Is Helping Build a Self-Organized Homeless Camp in East Oakland

  14-01-2018 04:03
  Kaleo Acatar works full time, but can't afford Oakland's rent, so he lives at the camp with his mother. Roughly one year after the City of Oakland closed down an innovative homeless camp known as The Village , the same group of volunteers is reestablishing the project, this time on a large empty lot at E. 12th Street and 23rd Avenue in East Oakland.
  
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• VIDEO: Oakland jazz company to perform in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

  14-01-2018 01:50
  "In The Name Of Love": The Annual Musical Tribute Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is an extensive civic and cultural event bringing the Bay Area community together to honor, through music, the inspirational teachings of Dr. King. The event showcases locally and internationally known performing artists, children from Oakland public elementary schools, archival footage of Dr. King, and the presentation of the "Oakland Citizen Humanitarian Award" presented to an outstanding Oakland citizen.
  
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