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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The Bay’s Fastest Growing Language You’ve Probably Never Heard of
Mam, an endangered Mayan language nearly 2,600 years old, is blossoming in Oakland’s working-class communities.
New Wood Street Doc Tells Inside Story of Oakland’s Self-Organized Encampment
Documentary filmmaker Caron Creighton and former Wood Street resident John Janosko talk about the documentary, the struggle, and what’s to come.
Oakland Cops Somehow Want $2 Million for Assault Rifles, Drones and Armored Vehicles
The military ambitions of OPD can’t be stopped, not even by a budget crisis and lower crime rates.
Touchstone Climbing Gym Workers in the Bay Area Enter the Fight
The effort to build power on the gym floor expands as workers at Dogpatch Boulders, The Studio, Mission Cliffs, and Diablo Rock Gym join the union drive.
What Everyone is Getting Wrong About Zohran Mamdani's Primary Win for Mayor
It's not the slogans or reels — the militant focus on class issues is what put Cuomo to sleep.
BART’s Forever War on Fare Evaders
BART fixates on fare evasion while the real issues — pricey commutes, train delays, broken elevators, and no real help in the face of fellow riders’ mental health crises — ride free.
No Bosses, No Landlords
Supposedly, we live in a democracy. In reality, our bosses and our landlords chose how much we're paid and how much those very wages go towards rent.
San Francisco's Billboards Aren't For You
Wendy Liu, author of Abolish Silicon Valley, explains what those weird tech billboards are really saying.
Delays and Belays: Touchstone Climbing Gym Management Stonewalls Workers
They’ve had a mass shooter threat, an FBI investigation, a strike and a boycott. Touchstone workers just want a union contract.
Urban Ore Workers Get Back to the Line
Union workers at Urban Ore launch informational pickets and community petition, allege continued bad faith bargaining from ownership.
How Landlords Soak the Bay’s Small Business
We investigated an unpredictable maintenance charge that’s plaguing local small businesses, and helps explain all those empty storefronts in the Bay.