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Op-Eds

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Organic, fair-trade, carbon neutral hypocrisy: Berkeley’s policing practices increase homelessness

Berkeley consistently pursues policies that favor the white and wealthy, even as these policies lose the city money and cause untold human suffering.
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Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Illustration of a group of people in front of People's Park, holding up signs and tools in support of repairing the park

In defense of People’s Park

People’s park supports an active community that remains entirely connected to the larger Berkeley community: materially, historically and presently.
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Commentary

Friday, November 1, 2019

On homelessness: Empathy is essential but mustn’t be the end

My only true exposure to visible poverty, then, came when I traveled to places at a remove from my home. And this had a certain effect on how I perceived homelessness. While I saw many people without homes, their displacement was in some ways tempered by my own transience.
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Thursday, June 6, 2019
Illustration of people collecting trash bags near storefronts

Berkeley community must continue to have compassion for unhoused individuals

We can all take a stake in shaking off the compassion fatigue and stepping up to the plate to break down barriers between the housed and the houseless.
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