July 2024 - Street Spirit

Month: July 2024

Berkeley Copwatchers attempt to access public records

By Berkeley Copwatch on July 11, 2024

When police departments become more clandestine with the official records and reports, all people should wonder what might be going on behind the scenes that is causing them to do so.

Recovery

By Joshua Merchant on July 11, 2024

Arts and Culture Poetry

"east Oakland is dilapidated 'Angel Grove City.' all our power- rangers became crack heads or died."

SCOTUS rules: Cities can make it illegal to sleep outside

By Alastair Boone on July 11, 2024

Features In Dialogue News

"...it’s dangerous to have a government that doesn’t represent the values and preferences of the people."

Windy Midnight Linen

By Taneesh Kaur on July 11, 2024

Arts and Culture Poetry

"The wind takes me in waves down sidewalks of the living rooms into windows of lives we see streetside survival in the eyes of hungry love."

The right to exist is a human right

By Jack Bragen on July 11, 2024

First-person Opinion

"The conspiracy to dump people on the streets who can’t make it in the conventional workplaces is a slap in the face to our right to exist."

Under the Freeway Doe

By Kim Shuck on July 11, 2024

Arts and Culture Poetry

"Tent collects Moisture from her breath Wind rains it back she Pulls the gift blanket Over her head and Waits for dusk"

Landing on the landlords: The great Berkeley rent strike of 1970

By Matt Ray and Matthew Wranovics on July 11, 2024

Features

The Berkeley Tenants Union had its roots in the People’s Park struggle, when community activists reclaimed land cleared for “urban renewal” and turned it into a guerrilla park in the spring of 1969.