There is not enough hope for older people with disabilities who are looking for work
By Jack Bragen on There are many causes of unemployability. Being disabled and older, and not having a college degree are near the top of the list.
Month: August 2021
After two years, Wood Street safe parking site opens for people living in vehicles
By Zack Haber on On July 7, the Berkeley-based non-profit Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS) opened a site on Wood Street after two years of planning. Encampment residents are hesitant to move in.
A note on our August cover
By Alastair Boone on As the highly contagious Delta variant spreads and vaccination on the street remains low, houseless people are once again at the forefront of COVID’s impact.
UC Regents approve Cal’s development plans—community groups fight back
By Alastair Boone on On July 22, the UC Board of Regents voted to approve UC Berkeley’s plans to significantly increase housing development over the next 16 years. Community groups are fighting back.
UC regents, City Council have turned their backs on Berkeley community
By The People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group on To put it bluntly, Berkeley citizens feel besieged by the overreach of UC Berkeley. Our concerns include the campus’s surreptitious adding of students, its lack of housing, its gobbling up of property in the city, and more.
The power of speaking up: how to use your voice in situations of injustice as a homeless youth
By Marisa Gonzalez on When a person in power makes you feel like you’re making everything up, it can feel easier to just walk away. But our voices are powerful, and we are our own strongest advocates.
New Berkeley budget takes aim at unhoused community
By Berkeley Copwatch on The City of Berkeley passed a one-year budget on the evening of Tuesday, June 30. Here are some of the implications.
Oakland’s new Encampment Management Policy isn’t new at all
By Anita de Asis Miralle aka Needa Bee on Oakland's new Encampment Management Policy is harmful, and cements some of the city's longtime harmful practices.
Optimism is real…isn’t it?
By Tiara Swearington on "My soul refuses to die
even with a heart full of pain
and eyes full of cries
in the words of Maya Angelou,
'still I rise.'"
Familiar strangers: One of the many funny things about city life
By Ace Backwords on Recently, my friend, the artist John H. Seabury, was talking on his Facebook page about this guy he’s seen for
Narrative poem: “S.O.S for a homeless vet”
By Douglas Levon Dawkins on Moby Theobald The gutter is not where I’m from. Yes, I been called a statistic, and treated like a bum.
Harassment at its finest
By Marisa Gonzalez on "I do not care for your ill advised attempt to impress me by telling tales of your needle-ridden past."