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Moms 4 Housing: Oakland’s Robin Hood

By Terry Messman on February 1, 2020

The brave and strategically brilliant members of Moms 4 Housing have given the entire nation a wake-up call about the disastrous shortage of affordable housing and the power of civil disobedience to confront the injustices of gentrification and the eviction-for-profit system.

Feelings

By Keyanna Hardison on February 1, 2020

Arts and Culture Poetry YSA youth contributions

These feelings feel me up. The feeling of feeling like I’m not good enough.It’s so cold I’m cold to the

Money buys choices and I don’t have it

By Jack Bragen on February 1, 2020

Commentary Opinion

I’m prefacing this essay with a personal statement: I’m in favor of money and I’m in favor of me having

Remembering Arthur Roper

By Alastair Boone on February 1, 2020

News

Street Spirit vendor Arthur Roper died on Friday, January 24, of complications from a stroke. He was 83 years old.

Building the solution

By Ariel Boone on February 1, 2020

News

How unhoused people are housing themselves in the East Bay A mural by artist Ellie Hwa Brumbaum adorns one The

Vendors speak: What does Street Spirit mean to you?

January 8, 2020

Features

We asked Street Spirit vendors to reflect on their relationship to the paper. JC Orton, Street Spirit coordinator for about

This is a community

By Terry Messman on January 8, 2020

Features Letters Opinion

The poet T.S. Eliot once addressed a deeply disturbing question to city dwellers everywhere, a profound challenge to our consciences that cuts to the heart of everything that has gone wrong in our society.

My read on Street Spirit changed when I moved inside

By Andy Pope on January 1, 2020

Features Homeless No More

My relationship to many things has changed since I’ve been living indoors. Obviously, my association with homelessness and with homeless

“Happy anniversary Street Spirit!”

By Angel Brinston on January 1, 2020

Arts and Culture Cartoons YSA youth contributions

Danny McMullan: Advocate, agitator, longtime contributor

By Julia Irwin on 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.