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Oakland moms make national statement with housing victory

Sam Lew - January 21, 2020

In a huge victory that may change the way Oakland (and other cities) looks at vacant housing, homeless mothers who took over an empty...

Housing

Moms4Housing stand up to eviction

Tiny - January 13, 2020

UPDATE: The Sheriff's Office forcibly evicted the Moms this morning. https://twitter.com/LeftSentThis/status/1217138736560930817 Dominique Walker issued the following statement: “We’ve heard from people all over the world who are...

News + Politics

DA Chesa Boudin sworn in with promises of dramatic reform

Tim Redmond - January 8, 2020

A reformer who has promised to shake up the broken criminal justice system was sworn into office Thursday, with a promise to end cash...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: New year, death row

Dennis Harvey - January 8, 2020

January is generally considered a dumping ground for unloved movies, squeezed in to fill any space remaining by Christmas and awards-bait major releases still...

Housing

Protesters shut down Wiener at SB50 press conference

Sam Lew - January 7, 2020

A group of homeless mothers and their supporters shut down California State Senator Scott Wiener’s press conference announcing the reintroduction of the contentious housing...

Housing

Wiener’s housing deregulation bill is back!

Tim Redmond - January 5, 2020

State Sen. Scott Wiener will hold a press conference and rally in Oakland Tuesday/7 to announce that he’s re-introducing a new version of his...

News + Politics

The violence of wealth-hoarding

Tiny - December 27, 2019

Your ambivalence is violence Your paralysis is more homelessness Your hoarding creates our impoverished life story I have shared with descendants of wealth-hoarders, land stealers who know that...

News + Politics

Where the air is never spared

Tom Molanphy - December 19, 2019

“Do the right thing,” Marie Harrison admonished the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in June, 2018. “You know it’s not safe yet.” Harrison was accepting...

News + Politics

[UPDATED] Outrage as CBS announces development of Ghost Ship show

Marke B. - December 12, 2019

UPDATE: After readers responded, Waldman and Chabon have decided not to go ahead with the show. The San Jose Mercury News reported on Tuesday that...

Movies

Michael Apted’s monumental, 55-year chronicle of class inequality

Joshua Rotter - December 10, 2019

The central question in 63 UP— award-winning auteur Michael Apted’s ongoing documentary anthology, following the changing lives of 14 British subjects over the course...

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Oakland moms make national statement with housing victory

Moms4Housing stand up to eviction

DA Chesa Boudin sworn in with promises of dramatic reform

Screen Grabs: New year, death row

Protesters shut down Wiener at SB50 press conference

Wiener’s housing deregulation bill is back!

The violence of wealth-hoarding

Where the air is never spared

[UPDATED] Outrage as CBS announces development of Ghost Ship show

Michael Apted’s monumental, 55-year chronicle of class inequality

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