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Month: August 2021

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There is not enough hope for older people with disabilities who are looking for work

By Jack Bragen on August 10, 2021
First-person   Opinion   YSA youth contributions
There are many causes of unemployability. Being disabled and older, and not having a college degree are near the top of the list.

After two years, Wood Street safe parking site opens for people living in vehicles

By Zack Haber on August 10, 2021
News
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 August 10, 2021
Arts and Culture   Features   YSA youth contributions
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 August 10, 2021
News
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 August 9, 2021
Commentary   Opinion
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 August 9, 2021
First-person   Opinion
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 August 9, 2021
Commentary   Opinion
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 August 9, 2021
Commentary   Opinion
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 August 9, 2021
Arts and Culture   Poetry
"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 August 9, 2021
First-person   Opinion
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 August 9, 2021
Arts and Culture   YSA youth contributions
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 August 9, 2021
Arts and Culture   Poetry
"I do not care for your ill advised attempt to impress me by telling tales of your needle-ridden past."
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