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Tuesday Oakland City council Vote On Just Cause
Oakland activists have collected over 36,000 signatures for a Just Cause Initiative which now needs the vote of an uncertain City Council before it may become a Ballot Measure.
Tuesday Oakland City Council Vote On Just Cause
By Lynda Carson 7/7/02
Oakland Ca-Registered voters and supporters of the
Just Cause Anti-Eviction Initiative shall be at the
Oakland City Hall upon Tuesday evening the 9th of
July, 2002.
Organizers advise locals to show up in a force of large numbers.
Supporters request that all Bay Area citizens who are
concerned about the "housing crisis" to show up and
tear the roof off of City Hall with your voices if the
Council Members fail to pass the Initiative onto the
November 5th, 2002, General Municipal Elections and
Ballot Measures for the City of Oakland.
Bring signs, bullhorns, and noisemakers, to counter
the many landlords expected to denounce any attempt to curtail their theiving ways with the Just Cause
Initiative, says organizers.
Sign up as speakers between 6:30 and 7:p.m. for the
below mentioned Agenda Items to state why you support Just Cause.
Agenda Items #22) and #22-1)
Agenda Item 22) Action on a report from the Office of
the City Clerk on the results of the Signature
Verification of the Just Cause for Eviction Ordinance
Initiative Petition and a resolution submitting to the
voters a proposed initiative ballot measure entitled:
"A Measure to Enact a City of Oakland Ordinance to
Require "Just Cause" for Eviction of Tenants in
Certain Residential Rental Units and Special Eviction
Protections for the Elderly, Disabled, and
Catastrophically Ill"(002694)
Agenda Item 22-1) A resolution submitting to the
voters a proposed initiative ballot measure entitled:
"A Measure to Enact a City of Oakland Ordinance to
Require "Just Cause" for Eviction of Tenants in
Certain Residential Rental Units and Special Eviction
Protections for the Elderly, Disabled, and
Catastrophically Ill" at the General Municipal
(Run-Off) Election to beheld on Tuesday, November
5,2002; and directing the City Clerk to fix the Date
for Submission of Arguments and to provide for Notice
and Publication in Accordance with law(002694a)
_______________________
By Lynda Carson 7/7/02
Oakland Ca-Registered voters and supporters of the
Just Cause Anti-Eviction Initiative shall be at the
Oakland City Hall upon Tuesday evening the 9th of
July, 2002.
Organizers advise locals to show up in a force of large numbers.
Supporters request that all Bay Area citizens who are
concerned about the "housing crisis" to show up and
tear the roof off of City Hall with your voices if the
Council Members fail to pass the Initiative onto the
November 5th, 2002, General Municipal Elections and
Ballot Measures for the City of Oakland.
Bring signs, bullhorns, and noisemakers, to counter
the many landlords expected to denounce any attempt to curtail their theiving ways with the Just Cause
Initiative, says organizers.
Sign up as speakers between 6:30 and 7:p.m. for the
below mentioned Agenda Items to state why you support Just Cause.
Agenda Items #22) and #22-1)
Agenda Item 22) Action on a report from the Office of
the City Clerk on the results of the Signature
Verification of the Just Cause for Eviction Ordinance
Initiative Petition and a resolution submitting to the
voters a proposed initiative ballot measure entitled:
"A Measure to Enact a City of Oakland Ordinance to
Require "Just Cause" for Eviction of Tenants in
Certain Residential Rental Units and Special Eviction
Protections for the Elderly, Disabled, and
Catastrophically Ill"(002694)
Agenda Item 22-1) A resolution submitting to the
voters a proposed initiative ballot measure entitled:
"A Measure to Enact a City of Oakland Ordinance to
Require "Just Cause" for Eviction of Tenants in
Certain Residential Rental Units and Special Eviction
Protections for the Elderly, Disabled, and
Catastrophically Ill" at the General Municipal
(Run-Off) Election to beheld on Tuesday, November
5,2002; and directing the City Clerk to fix the Date
for Submission of Arguments and to provide for Notice
and Publication in Accordance with law(002694a)
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Oakland has a "City Council," not a Board of Supervisors
Just Cause Gets On Ballot
By Lynda Carson
Oakland Ca-During a low keyed July 9th staged event, the Oakland City Council did pass the Just Cause Initiative onto the Ballot for November.
Voters will decide whether or not a Just Cause Evictions Measure will be passed to offer protections
to Oakland renters from "No Cause Evictions".
The Just Cause steering committee orchestrated a staged low keyed event in City Hall with barely a few speakers to address the Council before the vote. Others who came to support the event were asked to give up their time to be speakers for the few chosen to represent the whole. Like a game show, they were then urged to make noise on que to demonstrate their support while the speakers made their case.
With little enthusiam the supporters went inside to deliver their performance to the wily Council Members who have repeatedly turned down Just Cause on past occaisions when the Rent Board sent it to a vote.
In a moment of exuberance, Sue Doyle an Oakland renter and Just Cause supporter ran up to the podium
to declare that she did not sign up as a speaker, but says; after being evicted three times she believes that it's about "FUCKING TIME" that the Council passed this measure onto the ballot.
A hand full of others who felt distressed that the democratic process of "freedom of speech" was being curtailed by a few elites wanting total control over the event, declined to participate and did not bother to enter City Hall that evening.
Sources say, the next phase of the campaign shall be an attempt to convince small landlords, churches, and unions to get out the vote for Just Cause in November.
By Lynda Carson
Oakland Ca-During a low keyed July 9th staged event, the Oakland City Council did pass the Just Cause Initiative onto the Ballot for November.
Voters will decide whether or not a Just Cause Evictions Measure will be passed to offer protections
to Oakland renters from "No Cause Evictions".
The Just Cause steering committee orchestrated a staged low keyed event in City Hall with barely a few speakers to address the Council before the vote. Others who came to support the event were asked to give up their time to be speakers for the few chosen to represent the whole. Like a game show, they were then urged to make noise on que to demonstrate their support while the speakers made their case.
With little enthusiam the supporters went inside to deliver their performance to the wily Council Members who have repeatedly turned down Just Cause on past occaisions when the Rent Board sent it to a vote.
In a moment of exuberance, Sue Doyle an Oakland renter and Just Cause supporter ran up to the podium
to declare that she did not sign up as a speaker, but says; after being evicted three times she believes that it's about "FUCKING TIME" that the Council passed this measure onto the ballot.
A hand full of others who felt distressed that the democratic process of "freedom of speech" was being curtailed by a few elites wanting total control over the event, declined to participate and did not bother to enter City Hall that evening.
Sources say, the next phase of the campaign shall be an attempt to convince small landlords, churches, and unions to get out the vote for Just Cause in November.
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