Brian Barth

After a five year journey, Make People Better, a film produced by my beloved @samira_kiani1 about the world’s first genetically engineered babies, is out in the world—now streaming on Apple TV, Amazon Prime, Vudu, & more. Check it out! youtu.be/4-u0fXnX4No

The funeral is today, which means it’s also the day some bills are coming due. Let’s make it the last day of the fundraiser! We are just $111 short of our goal — please help share the message with your networks to help us get to $3000, or beyond! gofund.me/f34e63ab

Butchie’s funeral is on Friday, so additional bills will soon be coming due. Please consider donating more if you’re able and share with your networks. With your help I’m sure we can reach the goal of $3000 — or even go beyond — by the end of the weeks. Many thanks!

Dear Friends — we have almost reached our goal! Please help us get over the top! gofund.me/c7dd06a7

Happening in 20 mins!

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Happening in 20 mins!

This will blow your mind. Nice work @samira_kiani1 @MakePeople_Film @codysheehy

On the surface, Make People Better is a story about the internal politics of science and the geopolitical implications of technology. But at a deeper level, it’s an exploration of what it means to be human in a world in which our genetic code can be rewritten with god-like power.

After a five year journey, Make People Better, a film produced by my beloved @samira_kiani1 about the world’s first genetically engineered babies, is out in the world—now streaming on Apple TV, Amazon Prime, Vudu, & more. Check it out! youtu.be/4-u0fXnX4No

The fact that Samira is a genetic engineer makes it all the more interesting and profound — she went out on a limb to hold the powerful institutions around her to account. She is very brave!

2mrw, numerous members of the Wood St. Collective, along with housed allies and accomplices, are taking a bike ride to Sacramento, to meet with some of our reps on Monday and draw more attention to the violent displacement of our unhoused neighbors. 1/4 gofund.me/38d7ae31

Sasha is one of the people I’m working with for my and documentary on Bay Area homelessness. She has just been evicted from her home at the Wood Street encampment (along with about 200 others). Please support! paypal.com/pools/c/8NGa7t…

The most important thing for his mental health, Bowman said, is to be with his friends. But at times, the Elm’s strict limitations on visitors made that impossible without violating his lease agreement. “Part of my sanity is my friends,” he said. “I don’t have a family.”

Pleased to see the Chronicle digging past the superficial on the homeless beat. There are reasons unhoused people decline much of the ‘help’ that’s on offer. Hint: it’s too often based on housed peoples assumptions about what unhoused folks want/need. sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/…

“people are typically forced out of SROs for the same issues that qualified them for supportive housing in the first place: poverty, mental illness, trauma and inability to care for themselves.”

@PovertySkola @william_fitz @wkamaubell @BootsRiley Opinion: Why we're fighting to save Oakland's Wood Street Commons mercurynews.com/2022/08/26/opi…

Legacy media in 2022 has proven that it’s incapable of accurately reflecting the world that it covers when its own industry is comprised primarily of white employees from privileged backgrounds. Period.

The @NewYorker is, in many ways, a wonderful institution. But it’s also ground zero for a kind of regressive literary gatekeeping, class exclusivity & old-school cultural thinking that simply no longer have any relation to, or frankly relevance in, the modern world as we know it.

The residents of the camp on Wood St have become friends. They are not perfect people, but neither are any of us. There is no ethical/practical/legal basis for displacing them. Instead, how about we join them hand-in-hand to improve conditions in the camp? sfchronicle.com/eastbay/articl…