The life and times of Vernon Dailey
By Vernon Dailey on Another report in the chronicles of Street Spirit vendor Vernon Dailey.
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Two Vallejo lawsuits test legal protections for unhoused residents post-Grants Pass
By Robbie Powelson on A legal victory by the Vallejo Homeless Union, temporarily halting encampment closure.
Behind the lens: the making of Wood Street
By Caron Creighton on Filmmaker Caron Creighton reflects on a new feature-length documentary, which follows the closure of a tight-knit encampment in West Oakland.
‘No different than the stars in the sky’: Life in writing with Erin Spencer
By Cole Haddock and Maria Toldi on 'I've found that my happiness depends greatly on my tendency to successfully provide for others.'
Civil rights activists call for investigation into police raid of West Berkeley homeless encampment
By Andrea Prichett on A shocking sweep operation is now the subject of formal complaints filed with Berkeley's Police Accountability Board
Maintenance required: Why I stopped fixing people’s RVs and started fixing myself
By Amber Whitson on After a decade of servicing vehicles, Amber Whitson has shifted from wrenching to writing her story
How Trump’s second presidency has affected one mentally disabled man
By Jack Bragen on 'I don’t know whether the world will continue to have room for me, or for other people like me.'
Remembering Maceo Clardy: ‘I am somebody dammit, I ain’t a nobody’
By Destanie Newell on Maceo Clardy died in Oakland on February 8, 2025. Here, a daughter’s letter to her father, a note on his
Taken in by outsiders: My early life with the gutter punks
By Amber Whitson on 'At 16, I found community among the local gutter punks, who quickly adopted me as one of their own.'
‘You can’t say we didn’t clean up’
By Erin Sheridan and Franny Trinidad on A new documentary spotlights community organizing at Eighth and Harrison streets
The roots of neoliberal fascism in America, and what we can do about it
By Paul Boden on 'The shift to profit over people is killing us all.'
A place worth fighting for
By Osha Neumann on The Albany landfill and the struggle to preserve the last bit of wildness on the San Francisco Bay. By Osha Neumann