Month: March 2020

By: SADIE MORRIS             On January 14th, 2020, several families were forcibly removed by Oakland police from a house they were occupying to demonstrate against the ever-growing housing crisis in California. The demonstration began on November 18th, 2019 when two mothers experiencing homelessness entered a vacant home owned by home-flipping company Wedgewood Properties with their … Continue reading Human Right to Housing →

By MAEVE SILK           Gerrymandering is the process of drawing electoral district lines in order to gain unfair political advantage. Beginning in the post-Civil War era, illegal “packing” and “cracking” techniques were used in the South to limit the voting power of the black population.[1] The most recent cycle of redistricting … Continue reading Legality of Gerrymandering →