Ryan is a lifelong Bay Area resident. He graduated from an Oakland public high school in 2005 and focuses his college studies on politics, journalism and writing. He spends his time loving and being frustrated by the city of Oakland, keeping his mind focused through exercise. He has covered the Peralta Board of Trustees beat for the past semester among other issues facing East Bay community college students. He runs a student group which attempts to educate, and build a productive conversation around Israel and Palestine, and is engaged in work to bring about a two-state solution to the conflict through strong leadership from the United States.
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McMillen exhibit opens at OMCA: Found art, large-scale installations join California Art section by Ryan Ariel Simon Michael McMillen is a quintessential California artist. After a childhood in Los Angeles, and contact with Hollywood films, experimentation seems intrinsic to him. He is also a quinte
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Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy dubbed the wave of revolt sweeping North Africa and the Middle East an “awakening of the Arab imagination.” I am inclined to agree.
Americans’ imaginations are awakening too.
“I can’t talk now,” I said, “I'm trying to get out of the house to go look at smartphones.”
“What’s a smartphone?” said Tessa.
Someone younger than me without a blackberry? I thought I was the only one my age resisting the technology revolution, 24-7 access to our friends and family.
The Alameda County Registrar released unofficial results of the instant runoff computer program for ranked choice voting at 3:47pm today on their website, revealing Jean Quan in the lead to be the next mayor of Oakland.
Israeli video journalists Harvey Stein and Palestinian Nasser Najjar team up to report on the Israel-Gaza conflict from both sides of the border.
The situation in Oakland is clearly deteriorating. Relations between the police and poor or struggling communities have been tense, and the killing of Oscar grant was clearly the last straw.
Gaza is also a deteriorating situation. Following the 1967 war between Israel and the surrounding Arab countr
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While human rights connect many issues facing the world today, it is altogether inaccurate to directly compare police brutality and the police-community relationship in Oakland, and the Israeli-Palestinian relationship in Gaza.
by Ryan Ariel Simon The desire to compare the two situations, Oakland and Gaza, speaks to a boiling rage and frustration with the political status quo following these events. The failure of the political establishments in Oakland, and the world, to address long running problems is understandable. Th
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Another innocent has fallen in Mexico’s increasingly brutal drug war, and the chance for free society to flourish is falling along with them...Here in our own backyard Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey was murdered just blocks from Laney while working on several stories investigating corruption in
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Following World War II, the United States also suburbanized based on the widespread availability of personal transportation, and the highway system. Population centers then detached from jobs and commercial centers.
It either was a serious lack of planning, or seriously short sided planning, but ei
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