California’s unhoused people protest US supreme court order: ‘Not going to push us out of view’

In Berkeley, advocates, activists and unsheltered people are staging a last-ditch effort to claim safe public space

Revolution starts small, attorney Andrea Henson told the crowd around her. It was mid-October, and press had gathered on a quiet intersection in Berkeley, California. Behind Henson was a row of tents, some painted red and black with words posing the same question: Where do we go?"

What started in September as a group of tents pitched on the lawn of Berkeley's Old City Hall has since swelled to more than half a dozen protest encampments scattered across the city's public spaces. They're set up by a coalition of housed and unhoused residents demanding an end to policies that criminalize unsheltered homelessness.