Chris Rhomberg’s No There There begins with an astonishing scene from local history: two thousand hooded Ku Klux Klan members marching through the Oakland hills, under a burning cross. Rhomberg goes on to describe two equally dramatic Oakland uprisings. In
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After graduating college, Larry Tramutola began volunteering on the lettuce boycott called by the emerging United Farmworkers Union. Tramutola spent hours each day in front of supermarkets signing up volunteers, but soon found that most of the signers failed to
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