Street Spirit Editor Bradley Penner to take temporary medical leave
By Bradley Penner on We plan to welcome him back onto our team in September once he completes chemotherapy.
Month: June 2024
How I found queer pride in prison
By Andrew Hardy on "There are people on the inside who are moving the ball forward."
‘People’s Pad’ and revolutionary gentrification
By Matt Ray and Matthew Wranovics on After UC Berkeley used lethal state force to block People’s Park from public use in 1969, the
community reclaimed a new space to organize the revolution: People’s Pad.
Reflections on the UC Berkeley Free Palestine Encampment
By Dorothy Dane on "My homeless neighbors in the encampment taught me way more about building a self- sustaining world than the university
ever will"
The DIY history of West Oakland’s Lower Bobs skatepark
By Alastair Boone on A developer has plans to build housing right next to park. Will Bobs be displaced?
How to achieve decarceration and violence prevention? Through housing as a human right
By Anita de Asis Miralle aka Needa Bee on If we do not address the systemic landlessness of Indigenous and Black folks...we are not going to see the paradigm shift needed to truly solve homelessness.
Street Spirit horoscopes: June 2024
By Boudia Crow Lafleur on Boudia Crow Lafleur divines a new set of horoscopes for June, 2024.