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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.

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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.

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Kevin D. Sawyer

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Kevin D. Sawyer is a San Francisco native. He is the Associate Editor for the San Quentin News, an inmate run newspaper produced out of San Quentin State Prison. He is a 2016 recipient of The James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism.

From George Jackson to George Floyd

October 5, 2021
Commentary   Features   Opinion
Half a century since George Jackson was murdered, with so many Black lives slain since, remember that everyone is a potential George until wanton police violence against all people is stopped.

A jail is not a home

September 1, 2019
Commentary   Opinion   YSA youth contributions
When the problem of homelessness was in its infancy and jails were expanding to greet new “clients” each day, the issue concerning the growing number of unsheltered people on the street was practically invisible. Years later, two wars overseas, and a financial meltdown created The Great Recession.

The economy of prison and homelessness

April 1, 2019
Arts and Culture   Commentary   Opinion   YSA youth contributions
The United States misappropriates resources (including the human ones) in a business-as-usual profit over people custom. For decades, the U.S. prison industrial complex has embraced tough-on-crime legislation to branch its growth through the incarceration of its citizens. One of the many downsides of this policy is the increase in people living in squalor while others are “sheltered” in the name of public safety.

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