Month: March 2021
City of Oakland closes the encampment at Union Point Park
By Thomas Brouns on This is the story of the fight over Union Point Park.
How can art stop evictions?
By Alastair Boone and David Solnit on You are holding a tool. We packed this issue of Street Spirit with artwork and songs we hope you will use to stop evictions and house us all.
The Street Spirit anti-eviction art kit
By Alastair Boone and David Solnit on This art kit allows you to download all our anti-eviction posters for free.
Why we made our encampment beautiful
By Stefani Echeverría-Fenn on The systems that brutalize unhoused and housing-unstable people are invested in stripping our subjectivity away. Creating and viewing art directly confronts this process.
Songs to stop evictions
By Street Spirit staff on Street Spirit shares these songs to help us protect our neighbors (and ourselves) from eviction—now on the rise during the coronavirus pandemic.
Inside this issue: art and artists
By Street Spirit staff on Get to know the artists represented in this issue and the inspiration for their designs.