Have questions about homeless encampments on San Francisco's streets? Curious about what's fact and what's fiction when it comes to sweeping homeless encampments? Join this webinar to hear the latest about the lawsuit aimed at improving the City's management of this challenging problem and how San Francisco has responded to date.

Season's Greetings Wood Street Allies, Friends, and Family, It's hard to believe that we are quickly approaching the end of this year. And what a year it has been! Because of the loving support and generosity that our friends and neighbors have bestowed upon us, we have [...]

Migrant transportation has been a controversial political issue, particularly after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced last year that he would bus migrants to sanctuary cities. He has also sent buses to Denver.

Denver put certain limits on migrant shelter earlier this year, including a 30-day limit for how long migrants can stay in a shelter, as well as bars on returns and migrants engaging in "illegal activity."

By Isidore Mika Zekli Manes Dragan of SHOC, POLQA

Paula Lomazzi has been a part of SHOC since 1997, giving her time, effort, and self to a cause she believes in for 26 years. But now she has decided to leave SHOC and enter into her retirement.

Internal emails obtained by Siskiyou Rising Tide and Information for Public Use show police treating even the most placid social justice activities as sites of criminal threat.

We can’t arrest our way out of the drug addiction crisis. But for too long, our country failed to prevent and address drug addiction because the government focused almost exclusively on policing, jail time, and criminal penalties.

Rather than helping people struggling with addiction, this focus on policing made it harder for people to access the support they need, like addiction treatment. The war on drugs approach also led to disproportionately harmful policing of people of color and low-income people — and fueled mass incarceration, which costs us hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes every year.