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🧵📸Cities conduct
#sweeps
of curbside communities as a response to resolve
#homelessness
. People are at the mercy of city administrators, who might decide at any time that they need to downsize their footprint or be moved. Here’s how a chaotic sweep unfolded in
@CityofBerkeley
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5:58 a.m. More than 40 UCPD officers in riot gear and a dozen of Apex security guards are still posted on Haste and Bowditch streets, overseeing the construction of the fence at People's Park. A dozen more officers are posted inside. Activists also remain in the park.
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People's Park gave me refuge as a homeless
@UCBerkeley
student. When I felt that I didn't fit in at
@ucbsoj
or anywhere else on campus, I found friends here. People didn't judge me or look down on me. Everyone is welcome. A beautiful community. It's a special place, indeed.🌳💕🫂
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10:38 a.m. Activists outside the fence have made an opening. Everyone tries to rush inside.
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@SupriyaYelimeli
@dailycal
4:12 a.m. A full team of officers in riot gear just moved into the park to remove the last tent and property of park residents.
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5:30 p.m. After gathering at the UC Berkeley campus, more than 300 people marched down Telegraph Avenue from Sproul Plaza to People's Park.
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12:33 p.m. UCPD officers in riot gear have just left People's Park. They are regrouping outside of the area. Now, activists and students are taking down the fence around the park.
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10:17 a.m. UCPD has moved to the northside of People's Park, surrounding the last 2 activists in the community kitchen. The tree cutters are chopping down the Redwood trees next...These trees have been here 53 years.
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9:54 a.m. The Southside of People's Park has been completely obliterated. Cal employees are smiling, and contractors cheering as the trees come down.
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9:20 a.m. They are cutting down all the trees at People's Park.
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Terrible reporting. The fact that
@sfchronicle
reporters didn't even bother at all to interview the
#unhoused
woman, who was a victim, shows how much they come from a place of privilege and they're completely out of touch with reality; watering down the
#violence
against people.
EXCLUSIVE: A San Francisco art gallery owner has admitted that he blasted water from a garden hose at a homeless person on the sidewalk, an episode that sparked outrage after it was captured in a video that was circulating widely this week.
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BREAKING: Wood Street residents are granted a Temporary Restraining Order against the city of
@Oakland
halting their displacement until Wednesday, January 18.
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11:26 a.m. The fence has been breached again by activists outside. People start rushing in. Two women have been arrested. One is on the ground, and the other one yells that she needs a medic. Her hand is bleeding.
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10:53 a.m. Activists and UCPD have a brief confrontation. Police is pushing them back. The fence has been sealed again.
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2 p.m. All fences are down at People's Park. More people are trickling in. No one came back to assess the last park resident, Sandy. She is sleeping in a concrete slab inside the park. Ari is not a psychiatrist, but a social worker. Where's the mobile crisis team? 🤔
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For context, UCPD is at People's Park to close it down, and provide security for the crews to begin construction here. There's a plan to build 1,100 units of student housing -- a few units will be for unhoused residents. Read more here by
@SupriyaYelimeli
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12:00 p.m. One activist blocks a demolition crane from moving forward in the park. She is joined by one more person that climbs on top of the driver's cabin. From the top, he yells, "It's this the kind of world you want to live in?"
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🧵It's
#NewYearsEve
, and today, the
@CityofBerkeley
is closing down their only safe parking lot.
#RV
residents have been packing their belongings in the pouring
#rain
, and they are trying to find open parking spaces on the
#streets
.
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8:48 a.m. UCPD just issued a disperse order. More than 50 officers are inside the park for the few activists remaining. One park resident is still waiting for services. A social worker,Ari, talked to her but she is still in a lot of distress. No medical help has been given to her
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NEW:
@CityofBerkeley
is starting a
#sweep
tomorrow at 7th & Harrison Streets, asking
#unhoused
residents to consolidate their belongings to a 3x3 feet square or risk arrest & citations. But this footprint is so small that you can barely sit in it and save any essential property.
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1:27 p.m. Half of the fence at People's Park has been removed. The streets that were closed off around the park have just been re-opened. Traffic is flowing thru again.
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Dozens of people are gathered on Haste and Telegraph protesting to Save People's Park and Free Palestine. 🇵🇸
Traffic on Telegraph is closed off. People continue to trickle into the intersection. Speakers share their stories in the park.
Heavy police presence at the barricades.
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About 60 people are gathered at Dwight and Telegraph sharing stories about People's Park. Speakers highlight
@UCBerkeley
wanted to get rid of visible poverty in the area, and the new development plans don't include a space to provide mutual aid - a core value of People's Park.🌳
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2:14 p.m. Caltrans has hit an Amtrak train going to San Jose while moving a shipping container at the Wood Street encampment. Since the start of this eviction, Caltrans has had no safety spotters directing traffic or moving objects with the crane.
@Oakland
@CaltransHQ
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Telegraph and Dwight is lively right now with music, dancing, and mutual aid. A band plays live at the median in the intersection. 🎶🎸
But more cops in full riot gear are lining up behind the barricades. 🚔
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BREAKING:
@CityofBerkeley
is restrained from forcing to relocate unhoused residents at the 8th and Harrison camp for a “Health Hazard and Emergency Abatement.” Plaintiffs, some with disabilities,have been unable to access resources for relocation, like storage and housing support.
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8:40 a.m. UCPD officers just started to move and line up inside People's Park.
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@SupriyaYelimeli
@dailycal
4:17 a.m. All the officers surround the tent. I counted 43. The resident feels intimidated, and asks them to step away from his tent. But they proceed to remove it.
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They are now all gathered at People's Park, giving speeches on the stage and occupying the park. Two new trees have also been brought in.🌱🌲
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6:10 a.m. "The last fence is going to go up. Come on," says a university employee to the last park resident. She needs mental health services. Her friend Mike has been trying to comfort her all night. Ten minutes later, the Cal employee calls someone to give an assessment.
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Co-founder of
#FoodNotBombs
is arrested in Santa Cruz for sharing food with people. 👇🏾
I was arrested for attempting to share food to the hungry. We moved into a secluded corner of Garage 10 so people could stay dry during today’s atmospheric river. 6 of our tables confiscated.
Please contact the city.
citycouncil
@cityofsantacruz
.com
mhuffaker
@cityofsantacruz
.com
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7:33 a.m. Cal employees have spent the last hour collecting rocks inside the park. They just got dumped into a truck. There are more than 30 UCPD officers inside the park, and they line up in the only exit. No disperse orders have been given yet to the remaining activists.
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This is a violation of the First Amendment. Keeping journalists out of the scene when harm is being done to innocent civilians is never okay.
@UCBerkeley
might think they're above the law, but it's now becoming clear how they conduct their business. 🔎
Reporters are explaining to the CHP lieutenant that blocking their access is a violation of the law.
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8:20 a.m. More machinery is here. Trucks line up down Haste street. More UCPD officers have arrived. Everyone is on stand by.
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A rally is set for today at 5 p.m. in Sproul Plaza to People's Park. Stay tuned!
For more context on what happened tonight, check out
@SupriyaYelimeli
🧵 here:
Dwight blocked at Telegraph right now by UCPD, alert text went out from People's Park groups. Not being let through to the area of People's Park right now.
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@JesseArreguin
You do not provide the full context of the situation at People's Park. The protestors support affordable housing. You mischaracterize the facts.
Many prominent local YIMBYs support saving the park, the last green space in the entire southside neighborhood. This is not a YIMBY-NIMBY issue, it’s about attacks on third spaces, political opportunism, overpolicing, and the gross misuse of taxpayer and tuition funds.
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BREAKING:
@CaltransD4
has evicted the encampment under the
#Gilman
underpass in the
@CityofBerkeley
without any notice and no offers of shelter. Two
@CHP_HQ
officers showed up at 7:30 a.m. and gave
#unhoused
residents an hour to pack up and get out.
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NEW: In October,
@berkeleypolice
and city officials roused 53 unhoused residents — claiming they were harboring rodents — and seized and destroyed their shelter. Four vehicle homes were towed to impound lots. They would be crushed 15 days later, per the
@CityofBerkeley
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I'm deeply disappointed at
@berkeleyside
. They re-ran my latest story about
#sweeps
in
#Berkeley
, but substantially edited it without my knowledge. This is really disrespectful to me, but most importantly, to all my sources. Their voices erased.
First Person: 12 hours of chaos as Berkeley clears encampment
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"Under California law, this is a crime scene," said
@UCBerkeley
spokesperson Dan Mogulof. Our First Amendment right is overwritten. Wow! 🤯
Journalists were not allowed inside People's Park unless they were directly escorted by Mogulof or university staff.
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Meet Dan Mogulof, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Executive Communications for UC Berkeley.
He was manning the unstated velvet rope to the police action, determining which reporters could enter.
This is the disagreement between Mogulof and one of the TV reporters:
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BREAKING:
@UCBerkeley
has applied for 2 permits, and
@CityofBerkeley
Manager’s Office has just approved them today! The second permit has a timeline, which states that "site mobilization" begins on 1/4 to 1/14. It also calls for removal of trees and street lights at People's Park
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If
@UCBerkeley
honestly wants to help homeless and low-income students, they would open up some of their parking lots. Many students resort to living in their vehicles. On the streets, you are a constant target, and there's no safe place to park and live in the
@CityofBerkeley
.🚙
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A lawsuit against the City of
@Oakland
has been filed today in U.S. Federal Court for the Violation of the 1st Amendment rights of Wood Street residents, and restricting access to journalists that are covering the eviction.
A hearing day will be set soon
@Oakland
is not allowing Press inside, again. The fences are coming down inside the 1707 Wood St. lot, and DPW has brought the bulldozer inside. No sight of the PIO, who is supposed to verify media. 6 other journalists are waiting outside the gate.
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Hundreds of police officers are starting to mobilize in full riot gear downtown at Berkeley Marriott. 🚔 🚨
Fences are going up on Durant Ave, and a detour sign has been placed at College Ave and Channing Way.
SAVE PEOPLES PARK ALERT! URGENT!!!!!
Folks needed @ Peoples Park NOW! Cops are mobilizing in riot gear, etc.
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@SupriyaYelimeli
@dailycal
Thank you, Supriya!
3:41 a.m. More activists continue to get arrested for blocking the fence from going up.
I'll continue to add updates. 📸
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BREAKING:
@CityofBerkeley
is closing a decades-long unhoused community at the
#Gilman
District without offering every camp resident shelter. There are 29 beds at the winter shelter and more than 40 people. The city is fencing out the streets, preventing people from returning.
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A speaker shares that she would come to find her daughter, who struggled with mental illness, at People's Park. It was a place where she had friends. A place where people could just be.
She highlighted that other parents would also come look for their daughters and sons here.
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Yes, during oral arguments in court,
@UCBerkeley
explicitly said they wanted to get rid of their "homeless problem." A big reason why the university doesn't want to build on other sites. 👇🏾
Building on the Park is about power, erasing the homeless & fabricating a sanitized, plastic image of the University for suburban moms with Cal students worried about crime. The Park is a hill that UC administrators are willing to die on. Or willing to have someone die on, anyway
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@UCBerkeley
intends to fence off People's Park tomorrow, using significant police force. People say as many as 500
@CHP_HQ
officers are expected to be there before sunrise or as early as tonight. A repeat of August 3, 2022, but with a larger police force.
5:58 a.m. More than 40 UCPD officers in riot gear and a dozen of Apex security guards are still posted on Haste and Bowditch streets, overseeing the construction of the fence at People's Park. A dozen more officers are posted inside. Activists also remain in the park.
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7 p.m. "They are making this a safety hazard, so people don't stay and get injured," said an activist at the stage. Now, everyone has gathered in the north side of the park to clear out the fallen trees and branches.
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There's a high demand for shelter in
#SanFrancisco
and often not enough supply. From January to August, the Homeless Outreach Team received more than 2k voicemails asking for shelter, and 68% of those requests were “unable to be fulfilled."
📊🔎
@MadisonAlvarad0
👇🏾
NEW: As a lawsuit around SF clearing encampments makes its way through the courts, data from the city’s Homeless Outreach Team call log and interviews with service providers reveal the barriers unhoused people face when seeking shelter.
📝
@MadisonAlvarad0
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@UCPD_Cal
rashly drove into a closed street where community activists, students, and children were gathered to paint a street mural for
#PeoplesPark
. Officers were responding to a call that APEX security guards were being "surrounded by people." But no one had threathen them.
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The last
#vehiclehome
has finally made it off the lot. It was a moving van, and the city would not tow it out. Jesse had to call his sister crying to help him out. She came thru with friends, and they were able to strap the van to pull it out. People parked together for safety.
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After
#RVresidents
pleaded with Dorothy Day staff for more time to move out, a tow truck was called at 5 p.m. to move motorhomes out into the streets. Some RVs are inoperable. Others were stuck in the mud, and they couldn't be pushed out by people.
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#SanFrancisco
is still clearing
#encampments
, including on Jan. 4, when a bomb cyclone storm hit N. California. "Since the city's shelter waitlist is still closed, [plaintiffs] argue, any offers of temporary shelter during sweeps are purely hypothetical, and often unreliable." 👇🏾
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Today,
@Oakland
began clearing the north end of the 1707 Wood Street lot at 9 a.m. It's been raining on and off this morning while residents still pack their belongings. One resident is being pressured off the lot today, but the cabin site does not allow him to keep his 2 dogs.🐕
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@SupriyaYelimeli
@dailycal
4:33 a.m. The fence is being secured into the sidewalk to prevent activists from knocking over the fence again.
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Major props to
@rrileycooke
and
@maattttbrown
for digging up records to shed light on the truth! 🔎
"UC Berkeley intends to re-fence People’s Park with double-stacked cargo containers and barbed wire" in the coming days before classes start again. 👇🏾 Read more
@dailycal
BREAKING: UC Berkeley plans to put up a new perimeter around People's Park with shipping containers and barbed wire, according to a planning document obtained by
@dailycal
. Previously, campus called this speculation. Read here, from me and
@maattttbrown
:
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Dozens of
@oaklandpoliceca
officers are at the Wood Street Commons eviction this afternoon.They are not allowing Press inside even after you verify your status with the PIO.Shooting through a fence.🤨 Residents inside the south lot will be arrested if they refuse to leave today.
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@oaklandpoliceca
officers guarding the fence stopped letting people inside ~6:30 a.m. Wood Street residents are packing their property, but others are having a hard time and it's triggering their PTSD.
About 10 households are still inside the 1707 Wood Street lot. 🏠🚐🚙
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Clearing today is starting on the south end of Wood Street. I was sitting on the couch of a resident's house that was being cleared, and one of the DPW workers asked an
@oaklandpoliceca
officer to get me out and arrest me. 🚔 For crossing the yellow tape that crossed me. 😮💨
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In preparation for fencing off People's Park, the
@CityofBerkeley
has quietly moved unhoused residents into the Quality Inn. This is a Winter Shelter program that is set to close in April unless more funding is secured. Plans started in August and people began moving in November
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Cecilia Lunaparra, a progressive
@UCBerkeley
student organizer and housing justice advocate, is considering a campaign for Berkeley City Council.
She intends to take the now vacant District 7 seat after
@RigelRobinson
announced stepping down from office on Tuesday, January 9. 👇🏾
Here’s my full statement on the upcoming Special Election (alt text below):
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@SupriyaYelimeli
@dailycal
5:00 a.m. The fence around People's Park is almost complete. Two exits remain open. No dispersal order has been given yet. Activists remain inside the park posted up by the community kitchen.
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The protocols for media to report at Wood Street have been completely arbitrary, and they keep changing every day. Yesterday, after waiting ~2 1/2 hours, the PIO escorted me inside and followed me around while reporting. I only got an hour. Today is even less. 👇🏾👇🏾
Today at Wood St, Oakland's PIO Jean Walsh is telling press they only have 15 min of escorted time. Yesterday they told
@Prado_Reports
it was an hour. Why does the city want to block press? These made up policies cannot override my first amendment rights
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1/On Friday. Dec. 23, Judge Ryu granted a preliminary injunction to stop
#SanFrancisco
from enforcing ordinances that prohibit involuntarily homeless individuals from sitting, lying, or sleeping on public property. However, this does not mean
#sweeps
will cease completely.
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@Oakland
Wood Street residents and their pets weren't all safely transitioned to shelter programs. Many pets are still missing, and some cats are dead crushed by the bulldozer. Most importantly, many residents didn't receive adequate shelter tailored to their needs.
While Wood Street residents were able to save some property and bring it out to street at the last hour, they were not able to collect everything. Jeff, Mahnaz, Kevin, Tommy, May and Mavin are all still looking for their cats! 🐈The move was frightening and many went into hiding.
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"Some journalists might read this column, roll their eyes and accuse us of advocating for Macvane. They’re wrong. In the case of human life and safety, I would argue that this was, in fact, the most ethical thing we could have done."
A journalist’s job is to bear witness, not get involved.
When a person’s safety is at risk, it’s not that simple.
We interviewed a woman by her tent during last week’s cold snap. We were very concerned. So we got involved.
This is what happened:
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PHOTO ESSAY: Tantay Tolbert tore a yellow parking notice off the recreational vehicle where she lived. The warning gave her 72 hours to move or be
#towed
. Tolbert, 38, said the deeper meaning was unmistakable and personal: “We don’t want you here.”
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🧵 A 2022 round-up! I wrote a few stories this year, but I got to sink my teeth into lots of public records and data. I look forward to digging into these issues further, next year. :)
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Live from the eviction happening NOW at Downstairs Seabreeze. There is an abundance of COPS but no one from the
#CityofBerkeley
. No one from
#MentalHealth
. No one from the new shelter in town
#HorizonTransitionalVillage
. There is no here offering hope, options, or shelter.
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Judge Orrick will be issuing a written statement this afternoon. The city was really pushing to come in and perform a deep cleaning and tow vehicles in the middle of the storms. "You can wait 10 days before doing something that will raise more issues," said Judge Orrick.
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Lydia watches her home be towed out of the
@WoodStreetSoul
.
@Oakland
Homeless Coordinator, Amauri, asked me to please include this in my story: "The city of Oakland has safely move out Lydia, so she can have access to her home." But she's BACK ON THE STREETS. 🚐 Watch vid!🎥👇🏾👇🏾
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On Nov. 7,
@CityofBerkeley
closed a section of the 8th and Harrison camp, installing more fences to prevent
#unhoused
residents from returning. The fenced area has become a “No Tresspassing” zone.
NEW:
@CityofBerkeley
is starting a
#sweep
tomorrow at 7th & Harrison Streets, asking
#unhoused
residents to consolidate their belongings to a 3x3 feet square or risk arrest & citations. But this footprint is so small that you can barely sit in it and save any essential property.
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@UCSFPolice
@UCBerkeley
has clearly violated the stay away court order that halted construction at People's Park. Bulldozers are moving in all over the park, cutting down the remaining trees. 🌳
The remaining people on site have been pushed out behind the barricades or arrested.
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Photojournalists can also write!✍️ 💪🏾📸 A touching story and photo essay about her hometown of Sunol by
@jachristian
! 🙌🏽💕 A must-read story. 👇🏾
On NYE, my hometown of Sunol was hit hard by an atmospheric river. It was the worst storm the town had seen in 40 years.
My mom’s house flooded and I documented as they picked up the pieces. My
@sfchronicle
writing debut, please spend time with this one
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@CityofBerkeley
council meeting is about to start. Dozens of people are filling the school district board room to support adding a
#CeaseFire
resolution to the agenda. A floral arrangement with the word "Gaza" has been laid out in front of the council.
#berkmtg
🧵
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I hope journalists writing about
@WoodStreetSoul
will take time to actually FACT-CHECK
@Oakland
. Some people quoted weren't on the field to make these assesments nor witness how people moved out under duress. Journalists are not PR! Let's do our jobs!✊🏽📸
After 3 weeks of transitioning encampment residents & their pets to safe shelter programs with supportive services, the City has completed the court-authorized closure of the City-owned Wood Street parcel.
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I feel really fortunate to be at
#NICAR23
this week! Thank you so much
@IRE_NICAR
for providing me w/ a fellowship to be here for the first time! 🙌🏽💕Looking forward to using all these new
#data
tools to seek more
#accountability
in reporting on
#homelessness
in the
#BayArea
.🔎📈
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After about a mile, activists prepared a spot for the Cob house to be dropped on the streets. It joined other tiny homes and trailers that were also displaced from the Wood Street Commons, and the Caltrans eviction last fall. The house made it a bit cracked, but in one piece. 🏠
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Supporters have moved the "Free Store" to the triangle median on Dwight Way to continue providing mutual aid to the unhoused people displaced from People's Park, and those that live in the area. You can find clothes, food, first aid, hygiene supplies and good conversations.👕🧤🍛
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Security is tight at the 1707 Wood Street lot. Wood Street resident, Kevin, just returned from moving some of his stuff out, but they wouldn't let him back inside. He's concerned about his cats, too. Animal Control has just been called to get them. Press has to check in again. 🙄
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Reporter
@rrileycooke
jumped right on the story to get more insight! 🙌🏽
@UCBerkeley
spokesperson Dan Mogulof declined to comment because the event tonight is speculative, he said.
But activists have begun preparations to defend People's Park. Read more at the
@dailycal
👇🏾
NEW: Community members anticipate a new People's Park perimeter fence in the coming days, but UC Berkeley says it is "speculation." The last time there was a fence was August 2022, but it was quickly dismantled by protesters. Read it here in
@dailycal
:
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Yes, we definitely need housing! But in the meantime, homeless students are struggling out on the streets! Housing is not available, and we need a solution NOW! Instead of throwing away money this way, some relief could've already been given to these students. It's a real shame.
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Small moments of joy even in all the chaos. 💛
A Wood Street resident got this trampoline from Craiglist. 😳 I jumped on it, too. 😂
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According to the permit filed by
@UCBerkeley
, the area would become a "No Parking" zone on 01/17/24. Towing vehicles without any proper signage is a violation of the law. 👇🏾
All the cars parked on Haste and Dwight were towed away. There were no signs indicating people couldn’t park on the streets. Def an ugly surprise for tomorrow.
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Support local independent journalists! Sign up for in-depth news on
@Oakland
at the Oakland Observer. 👇🏾
@hyphy_republic
is one of the few East Bay journalists that sheds light on issues overlooked by corporate media. 🧐🔎
Keep up the good work! 🙌🏽✨️
If I were to do an Oakland Observer 2023 wrap up, these might be some of the headlines
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Please read the full story and photo essay at
@SFPublicPress
!📸🔍
The uncertainty about when and how
#sweeps
might happen is unsettling and leaves
#unhoused
residents feeling that they don’t have control over their daily life circumstances.
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LaMonte Ford's home is being destroyed by the city. The shelter offers
@Oakland
made to him were not accessible nor accomodated his needs, so he purchased an RV and he's back parking on the streets. His personal property was turned into a pile of debris.
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@Oakland
will not accommodate Wood Street residents' needs for shelter that is accessible and adequate for their physical and mental health.
But, they can accommodate getting a tow truck to put Wood Street residents' homes back on the streets.
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DPW Public Information Officer has left for the day. In his place, two confused city staff remain on site. They were not told how to prepare today nor given any direction to bring the media guidelines printed out as required by Judge Orrick. She said, email me. I did. Last week.
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More shipping containers are coming in from College Avenue to Dwight Way. A big line of trucks.
@UCBerkeley
intends to close off the whole site tonight. But note, no due process was given to the public to provide feedback on the permit as required by law.
Major encroachment permits blocking public-right-away require the applicant to "poll the abutting neighbors and post a notice of intent to encroach on nearby utility pole." But no poll took place nor a notice was posted. The permit requires a 2-week period for public feedback.
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So I finally got an email with the "media guidelines" for Wood Street. 📸
@Oakland
city attorney, Jamilah Jefferson, claimed in court that these procedures have been "long-standing," but what I got in response is not a document, but a rushed typed email. 🤭 I'm asking again! 😁
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