Why would anyone want to live on the street?
By Timothy Busby on Only after I accepted the fact that the person I was before was never coming back…could I begin to accept another life.
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Large-scale decarceration is the only way to halt COVID outbreaks in prison
By Stop San Quentin Outbreak Coalition on Releasing a mere 6 percent of the people inside California’s overcrowded prisons falls woefully short of the large-scale decarceration needed to protect the health and safety of the community.
Incarcerated insights into isolation
By Joe Garcia on To those of you going stir crazy while struggling to shelter-in-place and self-isolate, please try and focus on the positive aspects of this new reality. It’s important to find your own beacon of light to pull yourself through the worst of the chaos. Decades of incarceration have taught me this and ingrained in me the coping skills to get through any seemingly depressing situation.
Right side of history
By Steve Brooks on When future generations look back on the devastation caused by this coronavirus pandemic, they are likely going to say that what happened to incarcerated populations in America’s prisons is tantamount to crimes against humanity.
The coming repression
By Hiding Place Press on A resource guide on what to do now that Antifa is "domestic terrorism."
A taste of homelessness
By Timothy Busby on I can’t help but think to myself, “now the general population is getting a taste of what we, the homeless, face everyday.”
Street Sheet’s weekly COVID-19 policy recommendations
By The Coalition on Homelessness on The Coalition on Homelessness is closely following policy related to COVID-19 and homelessness. Here are their top shelf policy recommendations.
“The issue of homelessness and housing in America has been a tinderbox waiting to catch fire for generations.”
By Israel Bayer on For many people living and working on the front lines of homelessness, COVID-19 represents the deadly serious reality that people already live with every single day.
I’m not ready to give up: a victory for homeless rights
By Mike Zint on This article originally appeared in the People’s Tribune in July of 2015. What we have here is an occupation, a
Community grows on Wood Street
By Dayton Andrews on Faced with displacement, bonds between residents are strengthening Located at the edge of West Oakland, it spans several blocks along
Berkeley’s Downtown Streets Team helps people learn how to care again
By Timothy Busby on Through the long hard process of becoming homeless, you break, lose sight of the basic values of life and become depressed to a level only the home- less few experiences.
I am one of the 400 homeless youth in Berkeley
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