The majority Chinese-speaking tenants at a downtown Oakland building organized to fix hot water, broken doors, and lack of security. Management’s response: shut down their community room.
The Community College of San Francisco is closing its downtown campus while the Mayor’s Office touts elite university expansion into the neighborhood to boost property values.
Cole Hersey is a writer based in Oakland, California. His work focuses on environmental topics and the arts. His work has been featured in Bay Nature, Earth Island Journal, and elsewhere.
They have been here far longer than us, and their presence out in the open, grassy California hills and meadows might be more helpful to us all than we think.
Protests against ICE have spread to the Bay. We wanted to hear directly from Bay Area residents who turned out in East Oakland to support the surging movement in Minneapolis.
