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Oakland, CA Summary

OAKLAND, the workhorse of the Bay Area, is one of the largest ports on the west coast. It has also been the breeding ground of political movements. In the Sixties, the city’s population found a voice through the militant Black Panthers, and in the Seventies the Symbionese Liberation Army, kidnappers of heiress Patty Hearst, obtained a ransom of free food for the city’s poor. It’s not all hard graft, though: the climate is often sunny and mild when San Francisco is cold and dreary, and there’s great hiking in the redwood-and eucalyptus-covered hills above the city.

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