Forging Our Path Together: Street Spirit at the Crossroads

Street Spirit stands at a crossroads. But our community's joy and resilience carries us into the future.

From the Streets

Love in the Time of Sweeps: A Couple’s Fight to Find Shelter Together

One couple’s struggle to access resources after an encampment sweep sheds light on one way the coordinated entry process breaks down.

Landlords’ Party Celebrating the End of the COVID Eviction Moratorium Ends in Confrontation between Tenants and Landlords

Fights broke out at Freehouse Pub as tenants protested a party celebrating the end of tenant protections throughout the City of Berkeley.

Reflections on the Legacy of Street Spirit

By Terry Messman on June 30, 2023

Commentary Opinion

Street Spirit was a decades-long effort by hundreds of writers and activists who defended the human rights of homeless people and gave a direct voice to some of the most oppressed, marginalized and voiceless members of our society.

Journey Longing Home

By Alej (they/them) on June 30, 2023

Poetry

Fleeing in the middle of the night, who are we trying to be, a band of coyotes? but fearfully running

Reclaim the Land

By Jocelyn Radeny on June 30, 2023

Commentary Opinion

...many Indigenous people no longer live on lands to which they have ancestral ties. They have been forced to move, making space for greedy and selfish private developers who are only concerned with making their lives better. Indigenous land that could be beneficial to generations and generations is now owned by a few.

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Standing on Rocks with Fists

By Alej (they/them) on June 30, 2023

Poetry

Collage by Jason Hannan On cusp dusky twilight, periwinkle wide - breaching highest cotton edge, our souls touched. Tasked selling the Epic Triathloniversary, 45th & not in merchandise mood. I hadn’t been since the indigenous occupants’ diffusing back to their

Decolonizing Homelessness

By Tiny on June 30, 2023

Commentary Opinion

Poverty has been a consumer product of krapitalism since the settlers first came here. As a matter of fact, poverty and disability was a crime in all the countries the settlers came from.

Transformation / Transformacion

By Israel Muñoz on June 30, 2023

First-person

Today, doctors only know how to give medicine to make you addicted, and in reality, the best remedies are the ones that Mother Earth gives us without asking for anything in return.

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Forging Our Path Together: Street Spirit at the Crossroads

From the Streets

Love in the Time of Sweeps: A Couple’s Fight to Find Shelter Together

Landlords’ Party Celebrating the End of the COVID Eviction Moratorium Ends in Confrontation between Tenants and Landlords

Justice news and homeless blues

Reflections on the Legacy of Street Spirit

Journey Longing Home

Reclaim the Land

Don't miss

Standing on Rocks with Fists

Decolonizing Homelessness

Transformation / Transformacion

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