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SNAP lapse leads to local scaling back, sharing and communing
East Bayers are implementing their own contingency plans as the Trump administration reluctantly agrees to issue half the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for its 42 million recipients on a delayed schedule. Residents are scaling back,...
Fighting fire with fire
Tatiana Haddawy wore a crown, carried a torch, and donned a teal robe and sash emblazoned with the words, “Not For Sale,” as she walked through downtown Oakland during the national day of protest for the No...
Who gets a Head Start?
When Sheena Biggers first walked into a Berkeley Head Start, she was a 19-year-old mom, looking for a safe place for her young daughter to land while Biggers worked a part-time job. She sometimes lingered during morning...
Renters left out of the housing-solution conversation
It’s easy to be convinced that the YIMBY (Yes In My Backyard) movement has the interests of rent-burdened Californians at heart while the NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) movement doesn’t. In the politicized dichotomy, it’s further implied...
New bill proposes people-powered politics
Zahra Ahmed is an activist, a scholar and a mother in Alameda who sometimes imagines herself running for public office. But there’s one thing that always gets in her way.
“I do NOT want to ask anyone for...
Oakland politics embroiled in tokenism controversy
One of the most essential services that alternative weeklies like the East Bay Express provide is the ability for reflection and analysis in hindsight. This is certainly the case for Oakland staffer Leigh Hanson and a note...
Nobuko Miyamoto embodies joyful resistance
As a woman whose earliest childhood memories include being incarcerated at a Japanese internment camp with her parents and grandparents, 85-year-old Nobuko Miyamoto has a lifetime of experience with “gaman,” or endurance. She finds it painful to...
