Inside Oakland’s encampment management strategy
By Freeway on "In less than a month’s time, the sweeps that plagued our communities went from useless, annoying, and traumatic to violent, sudden, and criminal."
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Learning to live with voices and finding community in sharing them
By Dusk Delacour on "The mental health community has so many different experiences, and we are stronger together and less alone when we learn about others and invite them to learn about us."
We say ‘Opioid Crisis’ like the crisis is over
By Lauren Dissident Parker on "The argument to keep people alive in the wake of harm reduction always starts with housing. Countless studies—from Havard health reports, social service organizations, and even the news—conclude that in order for people to not overdose, they need homes."
The life and times of Street Spirit vendor Vernon Dailey
By Vernon Dailey on "Hello everyone, this is Vernon Dailey. This is a story of an adolescent kid growing into a teenage boy and then eventually a young man growing up in Berkeley, into adulthood."
A note on our August 2024 cover
By Laura A. Zink on Which Bay Area cities will use a Fairyland excuse? Will yours? We’ll have to keep watching to find out.
Grants Pass is NOT for sale: Houseless, Indigenous Peoples respond and refuse the ban on our bodies and lives
By Tiny Gray-Garcia on "We have created our own justice."
What is a home?
By Inti Gonzalez on "The beautiful people of Oakland are what keep the city alive. But they are leaving too, the great majority of them not by choice."
Life with cognitive differences
By Jack Bragen on "...we need more people to understand that even though we may be suffering from an illness, we are not 'less than,' but people just like them."
Berkeley Copwatchers attempt to access public records
By Berkeley Copwatch on When police departments become more clandestine with the official records and reports, all people should wonder what might be going on behind the scenes that is causing them to do so.
The right to exist is a human right
By Jack Bragen on "The conspiracy to dump people on the streets who can’t make it in the conventional workplaces is a slap in the face to our right to exist."
Eight years since the Frisco 5 hunger strike: Learning from local revolutionary movements of the past
By Joshua Baltodano on The group fought police brutality by putting their own lives on the line.
Introducing interim Street Spirit Editor Laura A. Zink
By Laura A. Zink on "If all of us tell our stories, they’ll see, and we’ll see, that there’s more of us than there are of them."