Irresponsible and Human: The Story of Rainbow Village
Published on September 5, 2024
In 1984, local elections in Berkeley swept a social democratic third party into power; they immediately attempted to adress a burgeoning homelessness crisis. Rainbow Village was created.
Originally published by Street Spirit.
Landing on the landlords: The great Berkeley rent strike of 1970
Published on June 27, 2024
In 1970, the Berkeley Tenant's Union (BTU) organized a rent strike of nearly nine hundred units. Some of the collective bargaining agreements lasted years.
Originally published by Street Spirit.
‘People’s Pad’ and revolutionary gentrification
Published on June 17, 2024
“You can’t trust an ally who is doing you a favor. You can only trust comrades who are in it for themselves.”
Originally published by Street Spirit.
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California Communism and Its Afterlives: On Robert W. Cherny’s “San Francisco Reds”
Published on May 27, 2024
San Francisco Reds: Communists in the Bay Area, 1919–1958 by Robert W. Cherny
Originally published by Los Angeles Review of Books.
‘Bodies and force’: Lessons from Alameda’s tenant organizers of the 1960s
Published on May 8, 2024
Lessons from Alameda’s tenant organizers of the 1960s.
Originally published by Street Spirit.
"They're watching you; don't let them down": the 1985 anti-apartheid occupation movement at Berkeley
Published on April 28, 2024
Today's pro-Palestinian student organizing bears a striking resemblance to the mid-1980s movement for university divestment from apartheid South Africa.
Originally published by Notes from Below.
Who Owns the Park?
Published on August 11, 2022
The continued existence of People's Park proves something dangerous: you, too, can seize something from the most powerful people in town, make it into whatever you want, and hold it for half a century.
Originally published by Verso Books.