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<p>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.<br><br><a href="https://www.kqed.org/pressroom/12582/a-tiny-plot"><strong><em>A Tiny Plot</em></strong></a><em> </em>is a new 5-part series from <a href="https://www.kqed.org/"><strong>KQED</strong></a>’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. </p><p><em>This episode contains strong language & graphic imagery. Please take care while listening. </em></p><p>Huge love & thanks to the e...