Oakland Leaf-Youth Roots

Oakland State of Mind is the music video from the 1st single release from the Youth Roots recent album, "Edit the Real". This video reflects a more complex notion of what Oakland is and how it is experienced.

Love Cultivating Schoolyards (LCS) is the Urban Ecology branch of Oakland Leaf. This documentary reveals some of the work the LCS youth interns do with the elementary youth of Ascend School in the Fruitvale.

Youth Roots, from Oakland, CA, is a critical media production & leadership youth group focused on fighting oppression by creating products to influence thought and perception. Check us out on http://www.oaklandleaf.org/html/youthroots.html

The song, "Welcome 2 Oakland" appears on the Youth Roots sound recording titled Critical Minds in Critical Times (2008).

Youth Roots is a critical media program in East Oakland where high school students act as ARTivists to fight oppression By Any Medium Necessary. This short video is how some of the youth are making sense of their experiences within Youth Roots.