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Street Spirit is an independent newspaper in the East Bay dedicated to covering homelessness and poverty from the perspective of those most impacted. Est 1995. A publication of Youth Spirit Artworks.

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Julia Irwin

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Julia Irwin is a writer, a recent UC Berkeley graduate, and a soon-to-be law school student.

The end of an era for a dynamic duo

August 1, 2020
Features
In demonstrating new possibilities at the intersection of legal advocacy, policy work, and on-the-ground activism, Henson and Neumann have paved the way for the next generation of street lawyers.

Danny McMullan: Advocate, agitator, longtime contributor

January 1, 2020
Features   Street Spirits
in 1984, Danny McMullan was zipping down the highway on his motorcycle —eager to join his friends by the bay—when he hit a power box. The force of the impact tore his right leg clean off and left Danny, then 21, with broken bones in his pelvis, ribs, arms, clavicle, and back.

Vida: bookworm, caretaker, mountaineer

August 9, 2019
Features   Street Spirits
In West Berkeley, not far from Fourth Street’s bright, bustling retail mecca, rows of old trailers hide in the shadows

Homeless voices shine in photography show

August 9, 2019
Arts and Culture   Community Events
Fine art photographer Kirti Bassendine was appalled when friends returning to England from their visit to San Francisco posted vitriolic sentiments about the SF’s “homeless problem” to their social media page; voicing their disgust with the trash, needles, feces, and people on the streets, they warned others not to visit.

Youth-led Tiny House Village makes strides

June 1, 2019
News   YSA youth contributions
On Thursday, May 16, at the First Congregational Church of Oakland, the youth leaders of Youth Spirit Artworks unveiled what they believe is a solution to the East Bay’s affordability crisis: a 70 square foot Tiny House, featuring a skylight, several windows, two doors, solar-energy heated floors, and two brightly-painted murals along each length of its exterior.

Moon Dog: Producer, postmate, provocateur

March 1, 2019
Features   Street Spirits
As I approach the Here/There encampment on Adeline Street, two men lounge under the communal canopy tent while a third

Tim Nishibori on addiction and optimism

February 1, 2019
Features   Street Spirits
Tim Nishibori disappears into the depths of his cramped but cavernous shack, which sits near the end of a strip of trailers and tents in West Oakland. His gray pit bull, Lady, plays hostess, entertaining me with enthusiastic kisses by the makeshift gate as Nishibori rummages around. Eventually, he emerges with two chairs, and invites me into his home. “Sorry about the mess,” he says

To house the unhoused, hear the unhoused

December 1, 2018
News
A new report confirms what many of Oakland’s unhoused residents already knew: The scale of Oakland’s homeless crisis stretches far beyond the 2,761 unhoused people that the city officially acknowledges.

Geno the barber: look good to do good

November 1, 2018
Features   Street Spirits
The first thing I notice about Geno is his impeccable sense of style: standing by the tent encampment under I-580 at Magnolia and 35th, he’s wearing khakis and a fitted olive-green sweater, boot-laced sneakers as clean as they come, and a spiffy straw fedora. He sports a large stud in one ear, and his beard is pristinely groomed. He looks like a suave sentinel, a GQ model moonlighting as—in his words—“the tent city’s point person.”

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