Like a modern tribute to the impaled bodies that once lined the roads of the Middle Ages, a shredded jersey with a black “X” scrawled across the back hangs 20 feet up a telephone pole on the corner of E. 17th and 27th streets in Oakland -- a warning from the local gang.
Sixteen-year old Ebenezar Suarez got jumped last year by a gang member who mistakenly thought the color of his uniform meant he belonged to a rival gang. In East Oakland, Stanley Garcia's boxing gym is a refuge.
October 2006. Congressional experts speculate that a post-election Democratic majority in the Congress might only be able to muster a trickle of legislation in the next -- and last -- two years of the Bush Administration.