This important work couldn't have been done without the great editing and support of Erika Betty Carlos!🙏🏽 She's the kind of editor-in-chief that will get her hands in there, and dive into the public records with you to make sense of all the chaos. 🫠❤️ More stories are coming!🔎

Oakland has had nearly 600 homeless encampment closures since the EMP was implemented in early 2021. There were over 80 this year alone. Homeless encampment enforcement is perceptual, exacerbated by fact most in the encampments just move to another spot. oaklandca.gov/topics/encampm…

BREAKING: SFMTA directors approve citywide RV towing streetsheet.org/sf-vehicle-res…

JUST IN: In a 6-1 vote, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Board of Directors approved Mayor London Breed’s crackdown on RVs used as shelter: bit.ly/4eEeeAp 📝: Yesica Prado🔎📊 📸 🎧 🎥✨️

Gov. Newsom just announced funding to clear homeless encampments across the state. Here's what's been allocated in the Bay Area: - Antioch: $6.8M - Berkeley: $5.4M - Petaluma: $8M - Richmond: $9.3M - San Jose: $4.8M - Contra Costa County: $5.7M - San Francisco: $7.9M

Yesterday my attorneys at the ACLU SoCal sent LAPD Chief Choi a letter (co-signed by First Amendment Coalition (follow us on Bluesky)) demanding that he instruct his officers to stop limiting my access to observe and report on encampment clearings and threatening to arrest me. L.A. TACO🌴🌮 lataco.com/aclu-lapd-home…

So far in month of October, there's been only one homicide. The decline in homicides is nearly hallucinatory. There hasn't been a decrease year over year like this since 2013, the year Ceasefire started. But media refuse to report on it, because they are invested in the recall

NEW: People say having their possessions — from birth certificates to loved ones’ ashes — taken in “sweeps” traumatizes them, exacerbates health issues and undermines efforts to find housing and get or keep a job. projects.propublica.org/homeless-encam…

With San Francisco’s new police tape policy around homeless encampments, we can’t help but recall the Grants Pass v. Johnson ruling, raising similar concerns about transparency and the rights of unhoused individuals. Source: sfstandard.com/2024/10/30/hom…

In October, I marched to the White House and lit my arm on fire to protest our governments role assisting in the crime of genocide. As a result, I lost my job as a photojournalist for a CBS affiliate. I’ll be live on Instagram Saturday 5pmPST to discuss EVERYTHING. #CeasefireNOW

“I’m waiting for an ambulance. I might be going into labor. Is that okay?” “You’re being detained because you’re unlawfully camping.” Chilling body cam footage shows police detaining and citing a homeless woman who is in active labor. lpm.org/news/2024-12-1…

While unionized Amazon workers are striking for Amazon to come to the bargaining table,

2024: One of the deadliest years for journalism as more than 200 journalists have been killed in Gaza since October 7th by the Israeli occupation forces.

In a 1-1 meeting, Mayor Lurie promised some two dozen homeless families they wouldn't be evicted from city shelters, they said, as long as they were making "positive progress." Now, a couple weeks later, they're being evicted anyways. by @xueer_lu missionlocal.org/2025/03/s-f-ho…

Chess club in jeopardy after People’s Park developer files restraining order against organizer dailycal.org/news/city/ches… via The Daily Californian