“I’m really scared, they are doing the final Wood Street sweeps tomorrow, I have nowhere to go.”
Rocky, a disabled houseless elder RoofLessRadio reporter, spoke quietly on the phone from the last block on Wood Street, where houseless people have been pushed to after the violent evictions by the City of Oakland last year of their beautiful community known as Wood Street Commons.
She called me on Monday, as I stood in front of a line of hundreds of 20-foot-tall steel barricades, placed on public streets and sidewalks all over the stolen Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi lands known as Chicago…