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Street Spirit is an independent newspaper in the East Bay dedicated to covering homelessness and poverty from the perspective of those most impacted. Est 1995. A publication of Youth Spirit Artworks.

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Month: March 2020

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I’m not ready to give up: a victory for homeless rights

By Mike Zint on March 1, 2020
Commentary   Opinion
This article originally appeared in the People’s Tribune in July of 2015. What we have here is an occupation, a

The Swordwoman pt. I

By Angel Brinston on March 1, 2020
Arts and Culture   Cartoons   YSA youth contributions
(Angel Brinston/Youth Spirit Artworks)

Community grows on Wood Street

By Dayton Andrews on March 1, 2020
Commentary   Opinion
Faced with displacement, bonds between residents are strengthening Located at the edge of West Oakland, it spans several blocks along

Caltrans settlement to homeless people: $2 million

By TJ Johnston on March 1, 2020
News
Unhoused people in the East Bay will be compensated by Caltrans for property that the state agency damaged or destroyed in encampment sweeps, thanks to a newly reached legal settlement.

Wood Street encampment residents host memorial

By Zack Haber on March 1, 2020
Community Events   News
More than a dozen unhoused Oakland residents and housing justice advocates gathered on the afternoon of February 15 just west of Wood and 24th Streets to memorialize unhoused local residents who’ve passed away.

The day I lost my campsite

By Ace Backwords on March 1, 2020
First-person   Opinion
Everything is in a state of chaos and complete upheaval at my campsite in the Berkeley hills. They’re doing a

Twisted Image

By Ace Backwords on March 1, 2020
Arts and Culture   Cartoons

Berkeley’s Downtown Streets Team helps people learn how to care again

By Timothy Busby on March 1, 2020
Commentary   Opinion
Through the long hard process of becoming homeless, you break, lose sight of the basic values of life and become depressed to a level only the home- less few experiences.

Youth Spirit Artworks secures Oakland site for Youth Tiny House Village

By Alastair Boone on March 1, 2020
News
Youth Spirit Artworks (YSA) is celebrating a long awaited accomplishment: After scouring the East Bay for a site for their Youth Tiny House Village, YSA has secured a site in East Oakland.

In Dialogue with Moms 4 Housing co-founder Dominique Walker

By Alastair Boone on March 1, 2020
Features   In Dialogue
Street Spirit sat down with Dominique Walker to talk about her history as an organizer, and the future of the Moms 4 Housing movement.

Full Moon for Mike

By Sarah Menefee on March 1, 2020
Arts and Culture   Poetry
oh Mike Mike!let’s all drop our drawers and moon them again.moon them right outof their meannessa mooning revolution.I can hear

Celebrating the life of Mike Zint

March 1, 2020
Features   News   Street Spirits   YSA youth contributions
Michael “Mike” Zint, an outspoken activist whose “Poor Tour” around Berkeley thrust the plight of homeless people in city officials’ faces, died on February 14. He was 53.
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