Displaced Oakland Tenants Win Nearly Half a Mill After Negligent Landlord Refused to Pay Relocation Fees
Former tenants of 1770 Broadway fought and won relocation payments after a fire destroyed their homes and displaced them.
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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.
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Gabriel Lopez is the host of Vinelands on KEXP, Garment on Lower Grand Radio, and works in labor. He is usually wrangling his dog and extending deadlines.
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Justine Rose Armen is Bay Area Current’s culture editor. She is a writer, documentary film professional and nonprofit arts administrator based in Oakland.
View articlesMatt Takaichi is a photojournalist for Bay Area Current. He published the book Developers (2021) and is working on a second photography book.
View articlesStephanie Reist has a PhD in Latin American Cultural Studies and teaches undergraduate expository writing. Her writing focuses on higher ed and culture in the Bay and beyond.
View articlesCaitlin Clift is a union representative for UNITE HERE Local 2 and a reporter for KPFA Radio. She is based in San Francisco.
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Sarah Weaver is a writer and organizer born, raised and based in Berkeley.
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Wendy Liu writes about tech billboards for Bay Area Current. She is the author of Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology From Capitalism (2020). She is currently working on a novel.
View articlesCecelia Shaw is a local bookseller and a member of Tenant and Neighborhood Councils (TANC).
View articlesDecca Muldowney is managing editor of Bay Area Current. She is a journalist based in Oakland. She has worked at The Daily Beast, Reveal, ProPublica and The Real Deal.
View articlesYuzhuan Hong (红与专) is a public school teacher and union member. They live in Oakland.
View articlesLucio Maldonado (pseudonym) is a community organizer, educator, and socialist in Los Angeles.
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Veena Dubal is a Professor of Law and (by courtesy) Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on law, technology, and precarious workers.
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Nate Adams is a community organizer and co-chair of East Bay Democratic Socialists of America. He is a former employee of Touchstone Climbing Gym.
View articlesMyron Angus is a member of Bay Area Current's Editorial Board. A writer with a passion for arts and culture, he has partied, worked, and organized here for most of his life.
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Grayce is an aspiring writer, creative hobbyist, and feminist based in Oakland, CA.
View articlesBahaar Tadjbakhsh works at the UC Berkeley Labor Center. She is a member of UAW 4811 and ensemble member of the San Francisco Neo-Futurists.
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Aaron Anderson is an Oakland-based writer, focusing on politics, psychoanalysis, and religion.
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Dean Preston is a tenant attorney, affordable housing advocate, and former legislator. He was the first democratic socialist elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 40 years.
View articlesMuffy Koster is a PhD student in Performance Studies at UC Berkeley, where she studies the influence of performance on the workplace.
View articlesErin C. Messer lives in San Francisco with her husband and four cats. When she’s not slinging books at City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, you’ll find her reading, writing, or learning metalwork/jewelry making.
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Rebecca Gross is a PhD candidate and educator at UC Santa Cruz in the Literature and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies departments. She's also on the bargaining team for her union, UAW 4811.
View articlesShe is a 9-5 therapist, 24/8 advice-giver. Skilled at hacking problems, not networks. She will tell it to you straight and lives by the golden rule: don't give advice that you wouldn't take yourself.
View articlesKevin Armonio is a post-conviction and criminal appeals attorney. He is a member of East Bay Democratic Socialists of America and lives in Oakley.
View articlesTim Tia (張勤真) is a union organizer in the Bay Area. He thinks boba tea has gone too far.
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Rachel Herring is a writer, researcher, and photographer living in Oakland. She is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
View articlesNate Hale is an organizer with Tenant and Neighborhood Councils (TANC). For his day job, he works in publishing.
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Justin Gilmore is on the editorial board of Bay Area Current. Justin teaches political theory at California State Stanislaus, and he is currently writing on a book on fascism.
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Daniel Tutt is Bay Area Current's politics editor and a proud member of the East Bay Democratic Socialists of America and the tenant union TANC.
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David de Leeuw is a retired Oakland teacher whose first labor involvement was in 1971, standing in front of a supermarket and asking people not to buy grapes.
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Jay Cameron Mathis is a pseudonym used by a middle school teacher in the Diablo Valley. They enjoy cooking and riding the bus and organize with East Bay DSA.
View articlesNick Thacker is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and a PhD student of History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz. He lives in Oakland.
View articlesVictor is a writer based in the Bay Area. He is a researcher of technology, law, and political economy at UC Berkeley.
View articlesCatherine lives in Oakland, works in local government, and coaches high school cross country at her neighborhood public school. The views in her writing are her own.
View articlesShyan Izadian is a photographer and filmmaker who lives in San Francisco. He is currently working on a photo-documentary about essential workers of the night.
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