My story “Moms 4 Housing: Redefining the Right to a Home in Oakland,” published by the Daily on March 9, was about a collective of African-American mothers who had occupied, and were then dramatically evicted from, a vacant house in the west of the city. At the time of publication, I was waiting on responses to several public information requests. On April 9, I received a batch of one hundred and seven emails, revealing a struggle to coordinate a response to mass protest—in the context of an otherwise ordinary eviction.
