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‘You can’t say we didn’t clean up’

By Erin Sheridan and Franny Trinidad on May 7, 2025
First-person   Opinion
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 May 7, 2025
Commentary   Opinion
'The shift to profit over people is killing us all.'

A place worth fighting for

By Osha Neumann on April 3, 2025
Commentary   Features   Opinion
The Albany landfill and the struggle to preserve the last bit of wildness on the San Francisco Bay. By Osha Neumann

Open letter from a former Bulb resident to visitors

By Bulb Resident on April 3, 2025
Commentary   Opinion
'We lived around, and with, and in the rubble. Lived.'

Loving the Bulb

By Susan Moffat on April 3, 2025
Commentary   Opinion
'Spending time with the Landfillians changed me.'

This newspaper is a community

By Terry Messman on March 4, 2025
Commentary   Opinion
‘Blessed are the acts of mercy, solidarity, and resistance’

The life and times of Vernon Dailey

By Vernon Dailey on March 4, 2025
First-person   Opinion
'Oh my goodness, he’s at it again...'

Two decades of writing for Bay Area street newspapers

By Jack Bragen on March 4, 2025
First-person   Opinion
‘When someone is living in the margins, being published matters...’

Oakland has an accountability problem, and its unhoused residents fall through the cracks

By Emma Welty on February 4, 2025
Commentary   Opinion
'The city’s approach to encampment sweeps in the post-Grants Pass era is one of self-contradiction and dishonesty...'

Encampment sweeps are increasing across the state: A ‘know your rights’ guide for unhoused residents

By Ellie Prickett-Morgan on January 6, 2025
Commentary   Opinion
Now more than ever, knowing your rights as an unhoused person is imperative to your safety.

Beyond Trump: The truly scary side of California’s elections

By Freeway on January 6, 2025
Commentary   Opinion
Californians in the crosshairs of class war will continue to pay for their mere existence.

Post-election shock and it’s effect on one psychotic man

By Jack Bragen on January 6, 2025
First-person   Opinion
This seems very Orwellian, and worse.
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