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Street Spirit is an independent newspaper in the East Bay dedicated to covering homelessness and poverty from the perspective of those most impacted. Est 1995.

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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."

Eight years since the Frisco 5 hunger strike: Learning from local revolutionary movements of the past

By Joshua Baltodano on July 10, 2024
Commentary   Opinion
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 July 10, 2024
First-person   Opinion
"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."

Street Spirit Editor Bradley Penner to take temporary medical leave

By Bradley Penner on June 17, 2024
First-person   Opinion
We plan to welcome him back onto our team in September once he completes chemotherapy.

How I found queer pride in prison

By Andrew Hardy on June 17, 2024
First-person   Opinion
"There are people on the inside who are moving the ball forward."

Reflections on the UC Berkeley Free Palestine Encampment 

By Dorothy Dane on June 17, 2024
Commentary   Opinion
"My homeless neighbors in the encampment taught me way more about building a self- sustaining world than the university ever will"
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