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The People’s Answer to ICE: Crowdsourcing Community Defense. People Over Papers' site map offers a glimpse into the informal media people use to warn neighbors when systems of formal confirmation can't match the need: bayareacurrent.com/the-peoples-...
October 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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The @bayareacurrent.bsky.social launch is even better than expected. Check out this fantastic article on the "abandoned" Greyhound bus station in Oakland. bayareacurrent.com/why-venture-...
Why Venture Capitalists Are Leaving Oakland’s Iconic Greyhound Station to Decay
Oakland’s downtown Greyhound bus station was a center of working-class life for decades. Now it's owned by the “Uber of buses.”
bayareacurrent.com
June 15, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Oakland's historic Greyhound bus station exemplifies how venture capital works: the more our cities decay, the more they profit. The iconic station has been left to rot — like so many other spaces in Oakland — in the gamble for future profits.

bayareacurrent.com/why-venture-...
Why Venture Capitalists Are Leaving Oakland’s Iconic Greyhound Station to Decay
Oakland’s downtown Greyhound bus station was a center of working-class life for decades. Now it's owned by the “Uber of buses.”
bayareacurrent.com
June 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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It’s a BAD DAY for the Bay’s tech and real estate oligarchs, and a VERY GOOD DAY for those of us who pay rent, work shifts, jump the turnstile, argue with the CalFresh guy, and wait forever for the god damn bus. Why? Because
@bayareacurrent
has arrived. 😈

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Why We're Launching Bay Area Current
Because workers deserve everything.
bayareacurrent.com
June 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM