A Tiny Plot: "The Barricade" EP 1
Snap Judgment
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🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Using broken refrigerators, mattresses and dishwashers, residents of Union Point Park barricade their tent-city. And they fight for an extraordinary idea: their own plot of land from the city, where they could live in community and set their own rules, on their own terms.
A Tiny Plot is a new 5-part series from KQED’s Snap Studios. Host and Reporter Shaina Shealy takes listeners inside an encampment in Oakland for an against-all-odds story about scarcity, community, and the complexity of building something new from the margins of a broken system. What happens when people who’ve been shut out of a system that has failed them decide to take the lead? Disaster, and unexpected beauty.
This episode contains strong language & graphic imagery. Please take care while listening.
Huge love & thanks to the entire cast from A Tiny Plot for sharing your worlds with us.
Hosted and produced by Shaina Shealy. Edited by Anna Sussman, original music by Renzo Gorrio, engineering by Pat Mesiti-Miller. Director of Production: Marisa Dodge. Executive Producers: Glynn Washington and Mark Ristich. Artwork: Teo Ducot.
Specials thanks: Jen Chien, Catherine Winter, the City of Oakland, Sweetie at the Travel Inn, Ryan Finnegan, Will Craft, JP Dobrin, Thomas Brouns, Sukey Lewis, Alistair Boone, The Street Spirit, KQED legal, and Ott House Audio.
Episode 1 of 5. Episodes drop on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Listen on any podcast platform, right here on Snap Judgment!
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| 0:00.0 | Snap Studios |
| 0:02.0 | From KQED's Snap Studios |
| 0:09.0 | This is a tiny plot Snap Nation, I cannot wait for you to hear. |
| 0:38.9 | This epic journey, Snap producer, Shana Shealy has been on. |
| 0:42.0 | Sheena has followed a small group of homeless people in Oakland |
| 0:44.9 | as they fight for an extraordinary new idea |
| 0:48.0 | and they speak for themselves. |
| 0:50.3 | It's an epic story. |
| 0:51.2 | We'll be releasing over the next few weeks |
| 0:53.4 | in a series of five installments. |
| 0:56.5 | From KQD's Snap Studios, welcome to a tiny plot. |
| 1:01.3 | Chapter 1, The Barricade. |
| 1:18.4 | Thank you. Now this episode contains strong language and graphic imagery. |
| 1:20.9 | Sensitive listeners, please be advised. |
| 1:39.4 | Sheena Shealy takes us back to where it all started. Years ago, a man with sharp blue eyes and a sea of long wavy hair came upon a park along an |
| 1:45.9 | estuary called Union Point. |
| 1:48.3 | Offered a little bit of serenity, I guess. |
| 1:51.3 | His name was Eddie. |
| 1:53.8 | He walked around alone, mostly barefoot, surveying the land. |
| 1:57.8 | It was like a park, a little kid's park with a marina. |
| 2:01.2 | There were two empty parking lots, |
| 2:03.3 | grassy lawns, benches, and bathrooms, |
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