Soon-to-be NYC Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani has a lesson that Democratic Party centrists refuse to accept: focusing on working-class issues and refusing to budge is how you win. bayareacurrent.com/what-everyone-…

Get to know the Bay's natural world with our new guide to native species. First up: California Live Oak. bayareacurrent.com/meet-the-local…

Absolutely extraordinary detail in this new Bay Area Current story about Oakland cops requesting $2m worth of new assault rifles, drones and armored vehicles: all three of the cops advocating for the new weapons at a recent community meeting have shot & killed people while on duty

While the City of Oakland plans painful cuts to popular social and cultural services, the Oakland Police Department is demanding two million dollars for more military-grade weapons. bayareacurrent.com/oakland-cops-s…

Wood Street Commons was once Northern California's largest homeless encampment, functioning as a self-organized community space before police broke it up. We spoke with 📸 caron and resident John Janosko about a new documentary about the camp. bayareacurrent.com/new-wood-stree…

Most worker fightbacks have included a vast diversity of people who speak different languages and bring to the struggle diverse criticisms of capitalism. That's why we sat down with Javier Armas about his book on one of the Bay's fastest growing languages. bayareacurrent.com/the-bays-faste…

Vibes and Data are two cultural forces that shaped the Bay Area, and increasingly the wider world. But they are two styles of the dogma of our capitalist time: self-optimization. Read here➡️ bayareacurrent.com/vibrational-da…

I absolutely love this new Bay Area Current piece by Zoe Stahl that puts into words something I've felt for a long time about the Bay

Everyone in the Bay knows its two cultural references—vibes and data—but few have understood their relationship. Zoe Stahl zoe shows us that vibes and data do the same thing: advance an impossible fantasy of an optimized self and life. ➡️bayareacurrent.com/vibrational-da…

Hospice workers told us that management praises them in public, but stabs them in the back at the bargaining table. So on July 29, National Union of Healthcare Workers Hospice workers in Pleasant Hill took heroic action, walking off the job to demand better for workers and patients. ➡️ bayareacurrent.com/pleasant-hill-…

The black-crowned night heron, another Bay Area local, largely represents Oakland's historic, ecological origin as a marshland. Read more to learn about our local species: bayareacurrent.com/meet-the-local…

Deni Leonard—a 79-year-old indigenous elder and member of Tenant And Neighborhood Councils tenants union—has a long history of organizing for working-class power. We spoke with Deni about his experience with the Vietnam War resistance and on today's struggles. Interview: bayareacurrent.com/we-kept-on-doi…

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Trad-Cath: OUT. Gay-Socialist-Cath: IN. Nick Thacker writes about how a gay leftist found alignment with Catholicism. But real tensions have developed elsewhere—between spiritual devotion and today's urgent need for political action. Read it: bayareacurrent.com/gay-life-of-th…

Breaking News: San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team workers won their union with National Union of Healthcare Workers despite management's anti-union push! Their fight was supported by East Bay DSA 🌹's local Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) outfit, which mentors workers who want to build shopfloor power. bayareacurrent.com/breaking-news-…

"Stop Hiring Humans" billboards menaced SF workers with messages of automation and unemployment. The ads were strategic: by pissing working-class people off, the tech company received the kind of attention that venture capitalist investors love. 🔗 bayareacurrent.com/ai-tech-compan…

This Oakland DIY singing group, known as the Free Key Choir, has gone from just-for-fun to the next-big-thing, with a Pacific Northwest tour on the books. Their do-it-yourself ethos was central to their success. bayareacurrent.com/all-rise-the-f…

The Santa Cruz Veterans Hall is an example of what urban public space can look like: a place where DIY culture meets veteran community support—underwritten by the county government. Rebecca Gross explores how this decades-old space has survived and thrived. bayareacurrent.com/in-santa-cruz-…