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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I am incarcerated at San Quentin. I have COVID-19.
By Thanh Tran on I write this after 3 days of being curled into a fetal position, fighting off COVID-19. I was sick and bedridden when I received my test results that read, "COVID Negative." This is what it looks like to test someone and then try to transfer them.
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.
Everyone deserves to shelter in place, including homeless people
By TJ Johnston on “Sheltering in place” is a privilege that over 9,000 unhoused San Franciscans do not enjoy. Yet, shelters are congregate environments where people sleep barely more than two feet away from one another, head to foot or top to bottom in bunks.
The pandemic resembles one of my psychotic episodes
By Jack Bragen on The current pandemic makes it seem as though the world has gone insane. This time, I'm not crazy, but neither are other people. Reality has taken a surreal turn.
The day I lost my campsite
By Ace Backwords on Everything is in a state of chaos and complete upheaval at my campsite in the Berkeley hills. They’re doing a
Life is all a pose
By Ace Backwords on Life is all a pose in a way. And I don’t mean that in a fake way. We all have
We must take matters into our own hands
By Tracy Lee on Oakland is a city of so many races and cultures. Different, diverse, and from so many kinds of backgrounds. But one thing that unites us is the caring and loving people we are. No matter how hard the struggle may be, we always take care of each other. We are all in the same boat—struggling to live. We take matters into our own hands to get through life.
Democracy for some, inhumanity for many
By Tracy Lee on This country preaches love and commitment to Democracy. But government officials and staff send government workers to come and demolish our houses and curbside communities. Officials cry, “Democracy!” But decisions hit us like the bombs the United States uses to destroy homes and communities in other countries.
Rainstorm ritual: checking my secret stash spots
By Ace Backwords on One of my post-rainstorm rituals is, I go around to all my stash spots to make sure all my stuff
Hating the holidays
By Timothy Busby on After a series of horrific events I found myself living on the streets at the age of 49, and Christmas suddenly took on a whole new meaning