Eat your heart out
By Mary Stackiewicz on The hate you have in your heart is darker than my skin. Since you don’t like my darkness anyway you
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Adrift
By Joanna Bragen on Who is still here with me and where has everyone else gone where is my anchor when all my security
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By Ace Backwords onThe economy of prison and homelessness
By Kevin D. Sawyer on 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.
Creativity Unhoused
By Emma Estrada on Expressions Gallery opens exhibit featuring unhoused artists to a packed house A local Berkeley band plays for the opening night
From prison to the street
By Boston Woodard on On November 5, 2018, I was released from prison after serving 38 continuous years behind bars. Upon my return to freedom, a parole agent drove me to an area of San Jose that was dotted with cheap hotels. He dropped me off on The Alameda, a boulevard in San Jose, with everything I owned stuffed in a backpack and a small duffle bag.
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By Leona Leslie onWorth a Thousand Words
By Claire J. Baker on A riveting black & white photo: a homeless man & his dog asleep under freeway overpass. The dog’s head rests on the man’s hand, a guardian in
Faithful Fools Retreat on the Streets
By Maureen Hartmann on I felt like a fool, like St. Francis of Assisi, who was a fool for Christ, wandering the streets in the Tenderloin
The downside of success
By Timothy Busby on People measure success in many different ways. For some people it’s marriage and children. For others it is making money. For many it’s just paying the bills due each month. And then you have people, such as myself, who believe that success is in the friendships you make, and in fulfilling the basic necessities needed in order to survive.
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By Ace Backwords onSouth Berkeley’s Here There encampment celebrates two years
By Alastair Boone on As the sun set on Friday, February 22, the residents of South Berkeley’s Here/There encampment had much to celebrate. They were commemorating the two-year anniversary of their encampment. On July 6, 2017, camp was founded by First They Came For The Homeless, a homeless-led political organizing group.