Another Day of State sponsored violence against peaceful houseless community at Mosswood Park in Oakland -

For Immediate Release: 

Contact: Tiny garcia510435-7500 /Muteado Silencio /POOR Magazine Jon Janasko/ (510) 712-7639Wood Street Commons  

Documentation and Testimonials of violent Sweeps Against a Peaceful Houseless ComeUnity in Oakland -  

When: TOMORROW- 8:30am Monday, April 21, 2025 

Where:Mosswood Park 

Inviting media to take testimonies from residents who are facing imminent removal from their long-time outside community at Mosswood park 

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See Some Testimonials here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ubd9pE06ZX4

On Monday April 14 peaceful residents of Mosswood Park are requesting media to witness and take testimonies of the state terror of sweeps threatened by the City of Oakland as  longtime houseless residents of Mosswood Park will be violently swept to nowhere by the city of Oakland..

“They came out here and posted notices and when i asked them about any referrals for housing they said i had to have been a participant in a census taken over six months ago and because i wasn’t present for that, bye bye,” John, a longtime resident of Mosswood Park spoke to POOR Magazine . 

‘This follows the sweeps of Wood Street, the death of James Edward Oakley from a Sweep in Vallejo and the brutal sweep of Lake Merrit, in every single incident, all of the residents lose their communities, their safety and their precious belongings. Oakland perpetrates this violence even though Wood Street commons and POOR Magazine have viable affordable solutions,”   said tiny gray-garcia, formerly houseles co-founder of POOR Magazine.”We as houseless peoples have solutions, that don’t include millions of dollars sweeping us like we are trash,” she concluded

“Once again the city of Oakland feel the need to continue doing things that harms the community and separates us more..” John Janasko, formerly houseless resident of Wood Street Commons 

Houseless residents of Mosswood Park have struggled with sweeps before proving the futile project of spending millions moving people to nowhere rather than listening to poor and houseless peoples solutions. 

“The Oakland Homeless Union stands in solidarity with all unhoused Oakland residents, and we will continue to fight until the voices of the unhoused are acknowledged as the experts of our own lives that we are. We are not subhumans, nor are we garbage to be swept into the shadows; we are human beings, and one day history will show who was on the side of right, and who was not.”,said Freeway , Oakland Homeless union 

Because of this sweep and the daily sweeps harassment POOR Magazine, Wood Street Commons and Oakland Homeless Union are demanding that the City of Oakland, immediately implement a moratorium on sweeps

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