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Right side of history

By Steve Brooks on July 17, 2020

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 June 14, 2020

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A resource guide on what to do now that Antifa is "domestic terrorism."

A taste of homelessness

By Timothy Busby on April 1, 2020

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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 April 1, 2020

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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 April 1, 2020

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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 March 1, 2020

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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 March 1, 2020

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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 March 1, 2020

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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

February 1, 2020

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Editor’s note: This story was produced in partnership with the Community Based Newsroom, and is part of “The Right to

Moms 4 Housing: Oakland’s Robin Hood

By Terry Messman on February 1, 2020

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The brave and strategically brilliant members of Moms 4 Housing have given the entire nation a wake-up call about the disastrous shortage of affordable housing and the power of civil disobedience to confront the injustices of gentrification and the eviction-for-profit system.

Money buys choices and I don’t have it

By Jack Bragen on February 1, 2020

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I’m prefacing this essay with a personal statement: I’m in favor of money and I’m in favor of me having

Are homeless people beautiful?

By Osha Neumann on January 1, 2020

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This very odd question occurred to me after Terry Messman, the editor of Street Spirit, suggested I write something for the paper in conjunction with the publication of my book, Doodling on the Titanic: the Making of Art in a World on the Brink.

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