Garrett Leahy, Author at 48 hills

COVID

Tenants harassed by construction work during COVID

July 15, 2020

In her 27 years as a tenant on Leavenworth, Andrea Carla Michaels has had few issues with any of her landlords. Now she is the...

News + Politics

Berkeley youth march to defund police

July 14, 2020

On Monday afternoon, more than 100 high-school aged youth marched through Shattuck Avenue and Adeline Street in Berkeley, parading behind a truck blasting “Fuck...

Housing

Tenants block Oakland landlord from sending speculators to inspect apartments

July 10, 2020

It was a musical morning on Thursday at 444 28th Street in West Oakland where tenants, community organizers from the ACCE Institute and the...

News + Politics

Uber, Lyft drivers take message to CEO’s house

June 25, 2020

For longtime Uber and Lyft driver Hector Castellanos, the fight for classification as an employee under AB5 is personal. For eight months after an...

News + Politics

DACA decision offers no real protection, rights groups warn

June 20, 2020

On Thursday, Free SF, a coalition of immigrants’ rights groups, warned that the Supreme Court’s rejection of Trump’s attempt to end DACA offers no...

News + Politics

Labor unions join call to defund the police

June 18, 2020

A group of about 150 demonstrators representing several Bay Area labor unions gathered outside the Oakland Police Officers Association headquarters on Wednesday, endorsing calls...

Culture

Insurance companies deny 100s of COVID claims; venues sue

June 16, 2020

When the COVID-19 shelter-in-place order began on March 19, owners of the East Bay music venue Ivy Room, thought that their business interruption insurance would...

News + Politics

Women’s protest calls for justice and equality

June 14, 2020

Salam Asmerom works as a nurse at a wellness center in San Francisco. Not long ago, she told me, she encountered a patient who...

News + Politics

Before the looting, a peaceful march

May 31, 2020

On Saturday, before the incidents of looting that have made the biggest headlines, several hundred protestors peacefully marched in San Francisco to protest the...

Housing

Protest caravan demands hotel rooms for homeless

May 17, 2020

The streets around City Hall were filled with the sounds of cars honking, wooting, and chants of "housing is the cure!" on Friday evening...

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