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How to not pay for BART: A fare evasion guide

By CYS on October 7, 2024
Opinion
Like in New York City, not everyone in the Bay can afford to pay for BART. Instead, folks tend to evade fares in the following ways.

Neurodivergent people have limited options for supportive care

By Jack Bragen on October 7, 2024
First-person   Opinion
"Survival, if we have to do it alone, is not easy, and it is not getting easier. "

Inside Oakland’s encampment management strategy

By Freeway on September 5, 2024
Commentary   Opinion
"In less than a month’s time, the sweeps that plagued our communities went from useless, annoying, and traumatic to violent, sudden, and criminal."

Learning to live with voices and finding community in sharing them

By Dusk Delacour on September 5, 2024
First-person   Opinion
"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 September 5, 2024
First-person   Opinion
"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 September 5, 2024
First-person   Opinion
"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 August 5, 2024
First-person   Opinion
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 August 5, 2024
Commentary   First-person   Opinion
"We have created our own justice."

What is a home? 

By Inti Gonzalez on August 5, 2024
Commentary   First-person   Opinion
"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 August 5, 2024
First-person   Opinion
"...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 July 11, 2024
Commentary   Opinion
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 July 11, 2024
First-person   Opinion
"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."
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