my house in oakland was where i ended up after barrington hall was forcibly shut down by the
university of berkeley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrington_Hall#Barrington_graffiti
there was about 200 of us officially and un- living in a huge three story building with a flat roof
top for the naked suntanning inclined.
also the was a scary boiler room basement that no one went into. i saw it twice in the three years
i lived there. in the official court papers filed against barrington (and there were alot)
are claims that teen aged run aways were kept as sex slaves down there.
we were also charged in court as being "experimental testing grounds for drugs of the future"
after barrington hall was closed a small hand full of us tried looking for a place to start another
co-op. fast forward almost 20 years i finnally did it.
genoa st. house, a.k.a purple house is officially a collectively owned house with the title
no longer in my name but in "pink inc." a non profit with a board of directors.
we still have parties and run a muck with the city but its no longer my liability !!
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