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Irresponsible and human: the story of Rainbow Village

By Matt Ray and Matthew Wranovics on September 5, 2024

Rainbow Village came to symbolize the hope of a humane response to homelessness that would prioritize the autonomy and dignity of unhoused communities themselves.

In Dialogue with Andrea Henson: Why I chained myself to a fence to defend my clients

By Laura A. Zink on September 5, 2024

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Andrea Henson, Executive Director of Where Do We Go, chained herself to the property before Caltrans arrived, and they arrested her for it. Even though, Andrea argues, Caltrans was the one breaking the law.

Local leaders first impressions of SCOTUS ruling on homelessness

By Laura A. Zink on August 5, 2024

Features In Dialogue News

"Sweeps are a war of attrition. But it’s becoming even more of just a straight up battlefield."

Street Spirit horoscopes: August 2024

By Boudia Crow Lafleur on August 5, 2024

Arts and Culture Features

Horoscopes for the month of August, divined just for us. ~*~Happy Leo Season~*~

SCOTUS rules: Cities can make it illegal to sleep outside

By Alastair Boone on July 11, 2024

Features In Dialogue News

"...it’s dangerous to have a government that doesn’t represent the values and preferences of the people."

Landing on the landlords: The great Berkeley rent strike of 1970

By Matt Ray and Matthew Wranovics on July 11, 2024

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The Berkeley Tenants Union had its roots in the People’s Park struggle, when community activists reclaimed land cleared for “urban renewal” and turned it into a guerrilla park in the spring of 1969.

Street Spirit horoscopes: July 2024

By Boudia Crow Lafleur on July 10, 2024

Arts and Culture Features

Boudia Crow Lafleur divines a new set of horoscopes for July, 2024.

‘People’s Pad’ and revolutionary gentrification

By Matt Ray and Matthew Wranovics on June 17, 2024

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After UC Berkeley used lethal state force to block People’s Park from public use in 1969, the community reclaimed a new space to organize the revolution: People’s Pad.

The DIY history of West Oakland’s Lower Bobs skatepark

By Alastair Boone on June 17, 2024

Arts and Culture Features

A developer has plans to build housing right next to park. Will Bobs be displaced?

‘Bodies and force’: Lessons from Alameda’s tenant organizers of the 1960s

By Matt Ray and Matthew Wranovics on May 8, 2024

Commentary Features Opinion

In 1960s Alameda, Black residents of a low-income housing project fight back after government threatens to evict.

Thank you, JC Orton!

By Alastair Boone on May 8, 2024

Features First-person

After 13 years as Street Spirit’s Vendor Coordinator, JC Orton is retiring from is role.

Is it illegal to be homeless in America? SCOTUS will decide

By The Western Regional Advocacy Project on April 29, 2024

Commentary Features Opinion

In April, the Supreme Court heard Grants Pass, Oregon v. Gloria Johnson: A case that will determine whether local governments can fine, arrest, and jail people for living outside when there is nowhere to go.

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