Loving the Bulb
By Susan Moffat on 'Spending time with the Landfillians changed me.'
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This newspaper is a community
By Terry Messman on ‘Blessed are the acts of mercy, solidarity, and resistance’
Oakland has an accountability problem, and its unhoused residents fall through the cracks
By Emma Welty on 'The city’s approach to encampment sweeps in the post-Grants Pass era is one of self-contradiction and dishonesty...'
Encampment sweeps are increasing across the state: A ‘know your rights’ guide for unhoused residents
By Ellie Prickett-Morgan on Now more than ever, knowing your rights as an unhoused person is imperative to your safety.
Beyond Trump: The truly scary side of California’s elections
By Freeway on Californians in the crosshairs of class war will continue to pay for their mere existence.
Insurrection City: the radical beginnings of Ohlone Park
By Matt Ray and Matthew Wranovics on Ohlone Park was born as a sortie in a war over whether public space would be controlled democratically or according to the whims of property owners.
Tents and bars: the cycle between homelessness and incarceration
By Beth Divakaran and Anna Steiner on We cannot police our way out of a housing crisis or sweep the needs of our neighbors away.
Homeless helping homeless: The 3rd annual Wood Street solidarity bike ride
By Freeway on "If we can ride our bikes all the way to Sacramento, if we can organize meetings with lawmakers...we can do anything."
Rent strike syndrome: Ping Yuen tenants fight back
By Matt Ray and Matthew Wranovics on Left in the Bay details the conditions leading to the longest rent strike in San Francisco history.
Illness and the state of the body
By Bradley Penner on '...new policies, these treatments, will target the easiest scapegoat—individuals. People misdiagnosed as malignancy, the “mysterious disease of individuals,” who are somehow, for some reason, spreading down the sidewalks and spilling out into the gutters.'
Inside Oakland’s encampment management strategy
By Freeway on "In less than a month’s time, the sweeps that plagued our communities went from useless, annoying, and traumatic to violent, sudden, and criminal."
Grants Pass is NOT for sale: Houseless, Indigenous Peoples respond and refuse the ban on our bodies and lives
By Tiny Gray-Garcia on "We have created our own justice."