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Landlords and other real estate elites often blame street crime for Oakland's empty storefront crisis, while simultaniously financially strangling small businesses. Perhaps the real criminality lies elsewhere.

RT @deccamuldowney: Live in the Bay? climb at Touchstone? This one’s for you:.

They’ve had a mass shooter threat, an FBI investigation, a strike and a boycott. Touchstone workers just want a union contract.

RT @ZZZZZZZZZZZack: I also spoke to a lawyer about how the situation these business owners dealt with is pretty common in the Bay Area and….

This week, @ZZZZZZZZZZZack investigated an unpredictable maintenance charge that’s plaguing local small businesses, and helps explain all those empty storefronts in the Bay.

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"The original Luddite movement was a labor movement, not a movement of people who were afraid of technology as the term is used today." — @jathansadowski on luddites, our role as workers and tenants under technological capitalism, and more

RT @jathansadowski: This was a such a great, wide-ranging interview about my work, new book, and the politics of technology. We should all….

We interviewed @jathansadowski and we talked about why the tech industry wants us to believe that we’re not smart enough to understand what they’re making or why!!

RT @deccamuldowney: I adored editing this beautiful series by Cole Hersey that introduces us to our Bay Area native species, their stories….

We're introducing "MEET THE LOCALS," our guide to local native species and why they matter. First up is the California Live Oak, which gave Oakland its name.

“[It] really is dehumanizing because it makes you feel like you're just a product on the shelf and you’re interchangeable,” Brad Erickson on the gutting of departments & subsequent shuffling of faculty. Read @StephReist on SFSU, layoffs & adjunctification

"I found myself feeling pretty grateful and proud that most people in the East Bay have the strength of conviction not to cross a picket line,” said Spencer Jordan, a salvager at Urban Ore. Read the inside story of the 40-day strike.

An anti-ICE protest that shut down immigration hearings might get a mention in an article, but it'll be an aside. Read Jay Mathis' diaristic account of how they, along with other community members, shut down the immigration court in Concord for the day.

University cuts make headlines. But what happens to lecturers after they lose their jobs? Seven months after a round of firings at SFSU, @StephReist checks in on the lives and livelihoods of laid-off faculty.

For 40 days and 40 nights, the Urban Ore workers of @sfbayareaiww held the line. On May Day, they ended their strike w/ a string of hard-won victories. Sound biblical? Like a parable where labor wins? It just might be. Read the inside story from @zwstein.

Los trabajadores de la educación en su sindicato @Oakland_EA vieron cómo los protocolos escolares y el sistema de apoyo del condado no protegían completamente a todos los estudiantes del ICE, así que intervinieron.

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We walked the picket with striking @NUHWworkers at UCSF Benioff's Children's Hospital. What we saw was a heroic strike used to fight against benefit cuts like retirement, job automation via AI, and healthcare cutbacks.