Decades old documents should protect People’s Park
By Carol Denney on On May 8th, 1978, Associate Vice Chancellor for Business Affairs Ted Chenoweth signed a “Letter of Agreement” assuring People’s Park’s
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39 years of Food Not Bombs
By Keith McHenry on Food Not Bombs has been serving meals at People’s Park five days a week since 1991. And as the Park commemorates its 50th anniversary, Food Not Bombs is celebrating 39 years serving meals to the hungry. In honor of this shared anniversary, Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry shares his project’s origin story.
Unity grows in East Bay activism
By Dayton Andrews on I have seen something quite remarkable start to develop over the last few months. In the face of increased pressure on working people to find decent housing, some of the most hard-pressed people in the Bay Area have not only been standing their ground against threats of eviction—they are also traveling across neighborhoods to support comrades in other struggles doing the same.
Which comes first: homelessness or drug use?
By Andy Pope on “Does the crackhead become homeless, or does the homeless person become a crackhead?” This question was posed on the website
The 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.
Homeless veterans deserve respect
By Timothy Busby on Homeless veterans make up a large percenage of the homeless population in the United States. According to a 2018 report
New California bill may threaten independent workers
By Jack Bragen on The California Legislature is currently considering Assembly Bill 5, could make it much more difficult to work as an independent
The history of The Village Movement
By Anita de Asis Miralle aka Needa Bee on In January 2016, me and my daughter started feeding our unhoused neighbors in the streets. Little did we know that simple sharing would evolve into a crew of 70 people called Feed The People. Who knew that Feed The People would transform into a movement called The Village, which fights to decriminalize homelessness, builds emergency shelters, asserts that housing is a human right, and joins the call for another model of urban development that does not displace lifelong residents of The Town.
Justice for Tony McNair
By Elly Leggatt on On January 22nd, Anthony McNair, 55, was lying on Telegraph Avenue when his legs were run over by a large
The People’s Park trees have standing
By Carol Denney on At 4 a.m. on December 28, the University of California cut down 40 trees in People’s Park, arguing that they endangered public safety, or at least blocked the light. The “long-deferred maintenance”, as a UC Berkeley statement describes it, was initiated without any warning to neighbors, park supporters, and community members. In the weeks since, the University’s demolition of the trees has continued—as of the end of January, they have cut down at least 42 trees.
Stop cutting down our trees
By Ace Backwords on I counted about 18 trees left at the top of People’s Park after the University chopped down 42 trees in
Lillian was jailed simply for sleeping outside
By Andy Pope on To say that there are not criminals roaming the streets at all hours of the day and night would do