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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE!

• PRESS RELEASE
• STAND WITH WOOD STREET Sign-On Letter of Support
• TEXT "wood" TO (205) 354-6992

Thanks to everyone who has signed our solidarity letter calling on Oakland’s mayor, Sheng Thao to halt this eviction and work with residents to find real lasting housing solutions that retain the integrity of the community.

Thanks to your support we have successfully pushed all threat of eviction out of January!! And stayed relatively warm and fed through the storms! Love you dudes!

THANK YOU EVERYONE!

Now onto February and our next case on the 3rd about the detrimental effects of sweeps on our life and liberty!

FRESH OFF THE PRESS–Articles and Interviews by and with the Residents of Wood Street Commons
• 1/4/2023 – KPFA Interview with John Janosko, resident of the Wood Street Commons and Talya Husbands-Hankin of Love & Justice In the Streets
• 1/5/2023 –
San Francisco Chronicle OpEd by LaMonte Ford
• 1/6/2023 – It's Going Down podcast Interview with LaMonte Ford, Theo Jones, Moose, & Jaz 
Call, email or message
Mayor-elect Sheng Thao
and ask her to meet with the residents of the Wood Street Commons!

Ask her to stop ALL encampment evictions in Oakland, and to put an end to the Encampment Management Plan, and speak with residents of every street and space!
sthao@oaklandca.gov
bharami@oaklandca.gov
district4@oaklandca.govdistrict4@oaklandca.gov
510-238-7004
Social Media:
https://www.facebook.com/sheng4oakland
@ShengForOakland at Twitter
https://instagram.com/shengforoakland
We are NOT homeless.
We are free people
Living on public land
In the land of the free.
We do NOT cede our rights!
Our sacred bond with the land
And the living soil,
Is our birthright!
We will grow into the Truth
And emancipate each other
One encampment at a time!


Wood Street Across The World

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This video about the Wood Street Community by Nick Johnson is the most popular video about so-called homelessness, ever!.
Our video has received 12 million views!! 108,000 likes!!! 48,000 comments!!!

https://peoplestribune.org/2022/12/stop-destruction-of-oakland-camp/
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/05/1147241005/residents-of-oakland-homeless-camp-say-the-city-hasnt-helped-them-during-the-sto
https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article270831167.html
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Why we’re fighting to save Oakland’s Wood Street Commons
Article in the San Jose Mercury News

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/homeless-sweeps-housing-lawsuit-17664353.php
Kehilah Homeless Action Meeting October 12th, 2022
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zWatcC-0vCs
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R6DfH6bGuqo&feature=youtu.be
The New York Times - California Storms bring challenges to the homeless
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/Wood-Street-Oakland-homeless-17697666.php
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During early October 2022 residents and advocates from the Wood Street Commons rode bikes from Oakland to Sacramento and back to speak with lawmakers about the harmful effects of encampment evictions, and to raise funds for and awareness about the Wood Street Community.
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SF Chronicle piece about the Wood Street Community.
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Film maker Martin Reade, who made the message to the mayor video, is creating a movie about the people of the Wood Street community - here is a preview. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BzfU5cjZEKo&feature=youtu.behttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BzfU5cjZEKo&feature=youtu.be
Article in the Baffler about the Wood Street community.
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https://www.instagram.com/woodstreetcommons/
Real news and frontline reporting about the Wood Street Commons on Instagram -
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The Wood Street Commons is featured in the San Franciscan magazine.
Five ways you can help or get involved with the Wood Street Commons!
1. Get on our Emergency Response text blast - Text: efam to 833-526-0406
to be notified of the need for people to mobilize at Wood Street in West Oakland ​in the event that the City attempts to evict us.


2. Write an email to or phone the members of the board of Habitat for Humanity
telling them to withdraw their development plans for our land.
Our community is threatened by Habitat for Humanity's deal with the City of Oakland to build a 170 unit apartment complex on the land where we live, and forcibly displace all the residents. Please go to this link to learn more about the situation, and get the contact info for the responsible parties in Habitat for Humanity.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N1gFAqWzXFWxbK_FR4maeP7KS-spTJk3N4NOj3b9uTs/edit?usp=drivesdk
3. Sign the petition against Habitat for Humanity's development that would cause our eviction.

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/save-wood-street-commons?source=direct_link&referrer=group-wood-street-commons-support-committee

4. Volunteer for service at the Wood Street Commons! There are service opportunities, including cleaning, landscaping, gardening, erecting stretch fabric shade structures, sign painting, zine making, and infrastructure development for water and solar electric systems, bioremediation of the soil, and more! Contact John Janosko at 510-423-2008 or
Theo at 510-789-6814
5. Come to our weekly open mics at the Commons stage on Saturdays at 6pm.


We are not alone.. A tiny home ecovillage for the homeless in Austin, Texas!
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Cooperative Community by Design

The answer to homelessness begins when the residents own or control the land they live on through a commons land trust. We are creating the Oakland Commons Trust, a cooperative land trust controlled by the residents, that can purchase, lease or create co-stewardship agreements with the City of Oakland, Caltrans and other partners to build stable and permanent communities,, both within the 29 acres of the Wood Street Commons, and in other areas of open land in Oakland.
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The real solution to homelessness =
​10,000 tiny homes in Oakland built on land owned or leased
by a commons land trust controlled by the residents
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We are developing a model of tiny homes in an ecovillage with shared infrastructure, such as showers, meeting area, live music stage, cafe, gardens, a bike shop for building electric cargo trikes, flea market and bazaar, clinic, music studio, art studio, art gallery, and electronic repair shop. We believe that cooperative community is the medicine that replaces many other medications. Tiny homes are priced in the range of $1,000-20,000, a more realistic price point than standard "affordable housing". This type of architecture and infrastructure is conducive to people getting out of their domiciles in order to make use of shared utilities, amenities and common areas, which creates more opportunities for humans to collaborate and connect for the purpose of survival, creativity, learning, teaching, contact with the Earth and FUN. This model gives people access to a wider variety of building aesthetics and architectural style. The live/work lifestyle it affords reduces the amount of time people spend commuting and polluting, and gives them more time for family, friends and mentoring. We are also developing non-invasive methods of soil remediation, using soil microorganisms to pull heavy metals out of the soil, while also regenerating living soil, and enabling us to grow abundant food which will benefit the surrounding community and give Oakland improved food security.
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 Save the Wood Street Commons!

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