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Large-scale decarceration is the only way to halt COVID outbreaks in prison

By Stop San Quentin Outbreak Coalition on July 17, 2020

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 August 1, 2020

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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 July 17, 2020

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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 July 1, 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.

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