This portrait was created to honor the important life of Moishe, who survived two concentration camps (Dangerous labor camps)...
Dear Oakland community, “At any given time in 2016, an estimated 40.3 million people are in modern slavery, including...
Dear Oakland Teenagers who want to make a change in gun violence in the community. We are writing to...
Dearest Oakland, Don’t you detest when you encounter an awful driver that makes you end up in the medical...
Dear Pharmacies and Health Care Workers, “Painkillers, such as Vicodin and OxyContin, are the most abused prescription drugs. These...
Dear Oakland Newcomers, How often do you find yourself thinking about gangs? As someone new to Oakland, you may not...
Dear Athletes who practice five or more times per week, We are writing to you because we want to...
Dear Oakland community, Did you know that in Alameda county we have 1,917 Covid-19 cases as of April 28....
Dear Pharmaceutical Companies around the U.S, From the year 2000 to 2014, there have been half a million people...
Hello community, As we all know there is a big global outbreak of the Corona Virus and we have...
Dear Victims of Domestic Violence and the City of Oakland, First, I am writing to Victims to let you...
Dear Oakland Athletes, Imagine all the passion you have for a sport and that being shattered in a matter...
Dear Pregnant Mothers, I am writing to you mothers because you could be affected by premature labor. You are...
Dear Oakland Athletes, Imagine all the passion you have for a sport and that being shattered in a matter...
Dear Oakland Athletes, Imagine all the passion you have for a sport and that being shattered in a matter...
Dear Oakland Community, Would you want to live in a safe community where young adults are able to walk...
Dear Teenagers, Do you like looking at a screen for a long time? I am writing to you, teenagers,...
Police Brutality Dear Oakland community, The purpose of having a police force is to preserve the safety one seeks,...
Dear Gavin Newsom In 2018 there were 22 million undocumented people in the United States that did not have...
Dear Oakland Teenager, Did you know Screen Time can be unhealthy? The reason us as upstanders are writing this...
Dear Oakland Community: Did you know that ethnicity and race are related to domestic violence? Oakland is a diverse...
Fellow Oakland District High Schoolers: Do you play videogames, use social media, watch youtube or netflix? If any of...
Dear New Parents, Do you know what the main reason why children drown? Many people don’t have enough knowledge...
Dear Gavin Newsom: Did you know 1 in 4 immigrants live in California (XAVIER BECERRA Attorney General). Meaning that...
By: Angel Gutierrez Solorio Dear Beer Companies, There are people dying from alcoholic beverages such as Beer and other...
Dear Oakland Citizens who are not following Shelter in Place: Why are people afraid of coronavirus? Coronavirus is a...
Did you know that littering has become an unacceptable habit for Oakland? Also, did you know that Oakland can...
Did you know that OUSD only made small schools in neighbourhoods that they found poor? After they made 40...
Did you know that cars and factories are what causes air pollution? Did you know that then leads to...
A place For Everyone According to Huckmag K-Dub did hard work to build from the ground up skatepark in Oakland...
“Since 1996, more than 75,000 migrant deaths have been recorded globally,” (MIGRATION DATA PORTAL) That means that 75,000 people...
What is a giant problem that teachers are struggling with? The average rent in Oakland is $2,916, an 8%...
I was 11 years old when I came into the United States to have a better education. I’m an...
“In 2014 there was 80 homicides in Oakland but in 2019 there were 63 Homicides” (oaklandmofo.com). This shows that...
Did you know that from 2014 to 2018 rents have increased by 35%? This all has to do with...
The Streets Of Oakland By: Marcos Chupin “You think Oakland California is a city of punks.” These famous lines...
Did you know that cars and factories are what causes air pollution? Did you know that then leads to...
Have you ever wondered if gentrification is reversible? Gentrification is the process of renovating and improving a house or...
Police brutality is a real issue in America. Did you know In an article “Law Enforcement Killed 90 Oakland...
Why do you think that central american food is being cooked by white chefs more without them having any...
“In the count taken in January using federal guidelines, Oakland had 861 sheltered people and 3,210 unsheltered people, bringing...
In the upcoming year Police officers will get even more payment from tax money then other years about $319.3M...
Immigration Struggle What do immigrants have to go through? Based on what I see happening in my community, Oakland,...
Dont Let The CULTURE DIE Based on my research, there are two opinions about sideshows. Some people feel they...
Are We Under Appreciating Food Truck Workers? Do you like food trucks? Well then you probably don’t...
Oakland Warriors Is the Golden State Warriors dynasty over? The Golden State Warriors first home was in Philadelphia (1946-1962)...
It is clear that Oakland residents need to know more about the history of their land which includes the...
Do you think that you pay too much money for taxes every month? Well, right now, tax payments are...
When you think about thugs, what comes to mind? Society might say probably a group of people with tattoos...
“Sometimes I feel like I can’t set my roots here completely because it could be taken away,” said Andrea...
̈ ̈Oakland is my home and I can’t imagine leaving. But it hurts to see the culture I grew...
Nothing is forever, this includes sports teams. Does this mean sports teams such as Oakland’s should leave their hometown?...
Change. What does this mean? It good? Is bad? Can it benefit us or can it ruin us?...
Do people, in general, know that in one night in the United States half a million children and adults...
Do you think the Oakland community is supportive to the LGBTQ community? LGBTQ stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender,...
One day, I remember when my friends were talking about how the teachers will be going on strike against...
Everyone knows about kidnapping but not everyone knows that not only females are kidnapped a lot of males get...
Do the authorities seem to care about the drug problem in Oakland? Simple answer, no. Based on the research...
“The Bay Area News Group reports that Oakland CA saw a 47 percent increase in homelessness since this time...
Bases off research and interviews about Oakland’s insurance a plethora of undocumented immigrants don’t have insurance because they are...
Gun violence is pretty bad right now. 15 years ago, there used to be barely any shooting on my...
The rent in Oakland has doubled in price in the past 10 years! But that’s not the only number...
One of the reasons why it is hard for immigrants to come to the United States is that many...
Have the community noticed that Oakland has changed based on gentrification? Gentrification is the process of renovating and improving...
Do you think that construction teams that are in unions are treated the same as construction teams in non-unions? ...
By: Aida Pablo There are 4,071 homeless people in Oakland. So why are homeless people in the streets? There...
“More than 3,000 public school educators from the Oakland Education Association went on strike to demand better pay, school...
When did they legalize street vending? Despite the contributions of an estimated 50,000 vendors in Los Angeles, it wasn’t...
Did you know that KP Launch also offers a plethora of non-medical internships? KP launch is a paid internship...
“Ain’t no power like the power to the people cuz the power to the people don’t stop”. These words are...
Did you know that about 8.5M people have migrated to the U.S. and about 1.2M of them come here...
I went to an Oakland Roots game. And the fans were wearing the Oakland Roots jerseys and there were...
Did you know that from 2014 to 2018 rents have increased by 35%? This all has to do with...
Did you know that immigrants come to the United States for reasons such as trauma and this motivates them...
Immigration In Oakland Did you know, deported Immigrants can have very serious psychological damage and trauma. Nearly 4 in...
What is Homelessness? Homelessness is the state of having no home including living on the streets, basically having no...
Crime rate in Oakland is 74 per one thousand residents and has one of the highest rates in America...
According to Church Angels’ directory, there are over 313 Churches in Oakland (ChruchAngel.com).this source is credible because Churches are...
There has been an overwhelming amount of cities that have to deal with police brutality in the U.S., But...
Madelyn Humanities Portugal 12-19-19 Immigration in Oakland Did you know many recent immigrants don’t ask for help because recent,...
Armando Gonzalez Hum 9 Ms. Portugal 12/19/2019 Less Gun Violence, Less Worries Gun Violence is a very big...
By: Aida pablo The objects in this shadow box represent my true self and my counter narrative and...
This Shadow Box illustrates my identities. On the outside I added Dominant Narratives about me. I added a blunt...
This Shadow Box represents my Counter Narratives. When people look at me, they see a young male that looks...
My Shadow Box represents the real me and topics about me that no one notices or knows. When people...
The two main identities that represent my shadow box are being Mexican and being a Female. I choose to...
The items in my Shadow Box represent me, my counter narrative. When people look at me, they see a...
This shadow box represents, my culture and myself. When people look at me, they see sometimes see me as...
By: Jose Cordova The objects in this Shadow Box represents myself as a human. When people look at me...
This Shadow Box represents who I am truely, and most of my dominant narratives on the outside. I see...
The objects one sees in this shadow box is what represents me as a person and the truth about...
The objects in this Shadow Box represent Dominant Narratives. When people see me they see a drug dealer, alcoholic,...
By: Angel Gutierrez Solorio The objects in my Shadow Box represent my faithful self, my counter narratives. When people...
By: Jose Cordova The objects in this Shadow Box represents myself as a human. When people look at me...
This shadow box represents my identity and what I want to show others. The inside of my box are...
My Truths By: Yadira BugambiliaI don’t have many objects in my shadow box, just images of my family and...
The items,pictures and words I put in my shadow box represent me and the dominant narratives I encounter everyday....
The objects in this Shadow Box symbolize who I am on the inside: my counter narrative. On the outside,...
Artistic statement By: Amy Mireles The objects in this shadow box represents the true identities about myself, my counter narratives....
Who I Really Am By:America Torres Hi, I have done this shadow box to show the Dominant Narratives (what...
Who I am By; Christian Mejia Flores This shadow box represents who I am, the parts of me...
Artist Statement BY: Jackie Lautaimi The objects in this shadow box represent me and my point of view and...
The items that are in this box is the message behind my identities, my counter narratives. When I appear...
Story of me By:Emily Rangel The objects in this shadow box represent who I truly am; my counter narrative....
By: Jesus Ramirez The objects inside of this box show who I am and my counter narrative. When people...
When people look at me, they see a Hispanic female, that looks emo according to everybody. While only two...
My shadow box represents my identities. One identity is chosen by me: being a scholar. Me, being a scholar,...
My Identity Box By: Cesar Sanchez The objects that are included in my shadow box represent my identity, my...
This Shadow Box represents my country, what do people wear in Guatemala and my race. When people look at...
Did you know that my chosen Identities are being male and that is true because I identify as a...
By: Ivan Guerrero This shadow box represents how people view me on the outside and how I really am...
The items in my shadow box represent the counter narratives of my assigned and chosen identities. Some of the...
Who’s Wrong? By: Esmeralda Pena This Shadow Box represents who I truly am and what society thinks of me....
by Josue Mendoza This shadow box represents the dominant narrative and the counter narrative of being male and Mexican....
The objects of my shadow box represent who the true me is. My chosen identity and my counter narratives...
My True Self By: Johana Aviles This shadow box represents my own identity, and my true...
My Reality By: Nahum Efigenio The purpose of the shadow box is a virtual representation of someone’s dominant and...
Artist Statement This Shadow Box represents my counter narratives. One of my identities is being Guatemalan. I am a...
In my shadow box all the objects have my identities because they have my assigned identities as well as...
This shadow box represents some of my assigned identities. One of my assigned identities is being Mexican. To represent...
My truths By: Divianca Martinez This Shadow Box represents me, my identity, what makes me who I am. Many...
When people see me they will normally think that I’m White because of my skin color and the way...
The objects in my shadow box really represent a lot about me and my nationality and race. This also...
My project was about Global warming affecting humans(Climate change). My teammate and I we were interested in this topic...
My upstander project was about sexual harassment in the workplace and what we did was raise awareness about the...
My project was about homelessness in the bay area. The action that we did to create awareness was make...
What your project was about ? My project was about the Global warming and affect in animals , we...
In my Humanities 9th grade, my classmates did a Upstander project because we wanted to spread awareness on our...
In this project I learned many things. I learned that I have a voice. I learned that I am...
The main topic of our project was mental health, stereotypes and stigma. Our Project was about how we can...
What your project about/action? My upstander project was about Child Sex Trafficking. Child sex trafficking is the trade of...
Joseph Thornton 5/9/19 To Be An Upstander My upstander project was focussed around the topic of ocean pollution. My...
My project was about something we would want to be upstanders for and my topic was Domestic Violence. This...
My project was about drinking and driving, my teammate and I made two trifolds to present our work. Our...
My project was about school bullying. The action we did over our days of action was paint a mural...
To begin we were giving a project in humanities class about an issue in our community and the one...
My group and I project for the last the last 3 weeks we worked on an project where we...
The project I took action for was “No Drunk Driving”. The project was about how to transpose the fact...
Tania Lopez 9th grade Ms.portugal Period 3/4 May 10, 2019 What your project was about / action? My...
My project was about the body image expectations society has and how to break them. For my actions my...
What my project was About? My projects focus was body image. The “ideal” appearance to society and the effect...
This Project was about creating/ trying to make a change in the community with an issue that is most...
Gun violence The project that I was working on was my upstander project. This project was about how can...
The Upstander Project was a project were we choose a topic we wanted to talk about and try to...
Reflection For Proposal For the last 4 weeks i’ve been working on a upstander proposal. The proposal was about...
Reflection On Upstander Project 1. What your project was about / action ? My project was about being upstanders...
The project was about school shootings in school we was focusing on how many people have died in these...
Valerie Rodriguez Our project was to be an upstander for different topics. We chose our topic to be women’s...
Ocean Pollution Sucks Upstander. A word. A word with meaning. A big meaning at that. My latest project was...
What does it truly mean to be an upstander? Well, I’ve been learning how to be one for the...
In my humanities class, I did a project with a team that was about having an issue to upstand...
My project was about Child Sex Trafficking and why is it a issue. Which for us and as it...
My project was about domestic violence and how more women go through domestic violence. We talked about ways that...
Me and my groups project was about diabetes prevention. Our action plan was to make an Instagram and hang...
My project was about teen pregnancy and teen parenting. In my opinion what an upstander mean to me is...
What was my project about? My project was about Child Sex Trafficking and why is it a issue. Which...
What was your project about This project was about us choosing a problem or issue in our world and...
The topic of my trifold was about prevention on diabetes which was to spread awareness to the communities of...
Our project was about making a change with actions, such as putting up flyers and making an instagram account...
Christy Vong 5/9/19 Reflection My project was about food deserts and taking action can be sort of difficult. As...
Ingrid Ramirez Upstander Reflection My project was about animal safety which was also connected to animal cruelty because I...
“Everything Rainbow” was a movement my teammate and I created in order to fight for LGBTQ+ rights and health...
today marks a very happy and sad day for freshman everywhere, the most recent and simple project that we...
Me and My group were trying to raise awareness around people with mental health issues and how People make...
My final project for this year was the “Upstander Project” which was taking action for a issue that is...
What was your project about? My project was about stopping school bullying and our action was that we made...
Hi my name is Oscar, I am a 9th grader at life academy. For the last 3 weeks we...
Cars release a very bad gasNot the gas that comes out yourtailpipeBut something that can possibly kill usAllSo all...
Dear Dr. Phillip Williamson, My team and I are choosing to write to you because in your article “Climeworks...
April 26th, 2019, Dear Middle Schoolers: We are writing to you because as high schoolers, we understand how difficult...
April 26th, 2019, Dear Middle Schoolers: We are writing to you because as high schoolers, we understand how difficult...
Dear Alternative Family Services, We are writing to you because we believe we can make an impact in...
Dear Ms. Barra We are writing to you because you are the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General...
April 22, 2019 Kayla J, Juan M, & America D What’s Your Opinion on Domestic Violence? Dear Victims and...
April 22, 2019 Jessica, Beatriz, Ashley Dear #MeToo Movement (Tarana Burke): We are writing to this movement because we...
4/22/19 Daniel Rodriguez, Diego Casillas, Joseph Thornton Dearest Nestle brand: We are writing to you today because you have...
Dear Dr. Phillip Williamson, My team and I are choosing to write to you because in your article “Climeworks...
Dear, Ronald D. Vitiello, Matthew T. Albence and Thomas Blank We are writing to the three of you today...
April 26, 2019 Dear National Rifle Association, We are writing to your association because you are advocating for more...
April 22, 2019 Yasmin, Marleni, and Estefani Dear MISSSEY Organization: Child sex trafficking has become a worldwide issue...
C Dear Oakland Parents, We are writing you this letter to empower you to take care of your...
April 22nd, 2019 Dear Mayors Libby Schaaf and London Breed: We are writing to you about the issue on...
April 26, 2019 Dear Planned Parenthood : There are many people people who are against abortion and believe that...
April 26th, 2019, Dear Middle Schoolers: We are writing to you because as high schoolers, we understand how difficult...
