Women and Children First: Why You Should Care about 4 Moms Being Evicted in Oakland

Even the California sun couldn’t brighten up the walk to the Pretty Lady Restaurant. The one neighborhood diner left that hasn’t changed into a upper crust coffee shop, or disappeared altogether and become more housing for the burgeoning tech community that is flocking to Oakland. It’s a short walk to the Pretty Lady Restaurant, but the scenery that surrounds this journey is bleak. The needles litter the ground underneath my feet, the waste of abundance is everywhere. Another car burned out, Lower Bottoms Bagdad is…