People’s Park celebrates 52 years of community in Berkeley
By Alastair Boone and Kit Castagne on The park celebrated 52 years on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Check out our photo essay from the event.
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Celebrating May Day in Oakland: ‘We have the power to house each other’
By Suzanne Q Waters on In celebration of May Day, housing activists in Oakland staged a demonstration of the power of communities to house each other.
‘Landless Not Voiceless’: an exhibition by unhoused artists
By Alastair Boone on “Landless Not Voiceless” is an exhibition currently on display at Pro Arts Gallery and Commons in Downtown Oakland being curated by the Cardboard & Concrete Unhoused Artists Collective—a new collective of homeless artists from Berkeley and Oakland.
Artists from around the Bay bring Youth Spirit Artworks’ tiny house village to life
By Jilly de la Torre on As the Tiny House Village edges closer to its long-awaited opening date, many community groups are hard at work helping different pieces of the Youth Empowerment Village vision come together, including the vibrant artwork that has been popping up around the site over the last few weeks.
Wood Street encampment residents host memorial
By Zack Haber on More than a dozen unhoused Oakland residents and housing justice advocates gathered on the afternoon of February 15 just west of Wood and 24th Streets to memorialize unhoused local residents who’ve passed away.
East Bay advocates march
By Alastair Boone on On a sunny Saturday in November, some 250 people gathered in Moss- wood Park to demand an end to un- just housing practices and housing for their homeless neighbors
The homeless shuffle: enough is enough
By Timothy Busby on Berkeley’s homeless residents staged a protest march on Wednesday, October 23rd, starting at the Seabreeze encampment on University Ave and West Frontage road and ending at Berkeley City Hall. The purpose of the march was to bring attention to the cruelty of what I will call the “homeless shuffle,” the process by which agencies such as CalTrans, the Berkeley Police Department, and Amtrak take turns forcing people to move from corner to corner, and disposing of all their personal property in the process.
Homeless voices shine in photography show
By Julia Irwin on 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.
Landmark report seeks to redefine poverty
“We define poverty as a dollar amount, but if you make a dollar above that dollar amount are you still poor?” This was just one of the questions raised at St. Mary’s Center on April 18, when academics, activists, and advocates gathered to hear the findings of a new report called “Pushed to the Bottom.”
Remembering William Barclay Caldeira
By Alastair Boone on William Barclay Caldeira, a Berkeley resident known to many for his deep commitment to justice and equality, died on Sunday, May 19. He was 51 years old. Barclay Caldeira—who went by “300”—was homeless. On the day of his passing, a number of his friends and neighbors saw him sitting at a bus stop on Adeline Street near Ward Street, looking unwell.
Looking back: previous anniversaries
By Moby Theobald on A look back at old People's Park anniversary posters.
The History of People’s Park
By Alastair Boone on Street Spirit pulled this timeline from “People’s Park: Still Blooming”; Edited by Terri Compost. It has been lightly