Oakland Get-Out-the-Vote campaign takes on new urgency

Roy D. Wilson was hanging a voting flier on the door of an East Oakland home earlier this month, when two occupants came to ask what he was doing, in turn prompting one of Wilson’s student volunteers across the street to recognize a schoolmate she hadn’t seen in months.

Suddenly a four-way conference bloomed — tackling politics, the direction of the country and how to make things better.