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Part III: EPA Residents Fight for Tenants' Rights 
More photos from March 11 demonstration with Youth United for Community Action (YUCA), Raging Grannies Action League Displacement Watch Team, and tenants of properties owned by Page Mill Properties. The group marched from East Palo Alto, ending at Congresswoman Anna Eshoo's Office where they presented their case in speeches and letters to the staff....
Posted: Fri, Mar 13, 2009 10:58pm PDT
Pack Mar 17, Oakland City Council Meeting: Stop Renovation Displacement! Join The Struggle Against The Major Housing Renovation Plans That Will Displace Hundreds of Oakland's Renters From Their Housing! In Addition, Stop The Transfer Of Oakland Community Housing, Inc. (OCHI) Properties!...
Posted: Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:04pm PDT
Part II Rally in EPA: Tenants Unite to Fight Page Mill 
Although many tenants of properties owned and managed by Page Mill Properties have fled due to landlord harassment, those who remain continue to battle the mega landlord.
Top photo: Tenants deliver their message to Congresswoman Anna Eshoo by R. Robertson for indybay...
Posted: Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:54am PDT
Week-Long San Francisco to Sacramento March to Repeal Prop. 8, Heal Divided Communities 
Bridge Building March Will Connect Struggles for Justice...
Posted: Thu, Mar 12, 2009 3:29pm PDT
Rally in EPA: Tenants Unite to Fight Page Mill Properties Pt. I 
Youth United for Community Action organized a rally of tenants and supporters. The march started in East Palo Alto, stopping in front of Page Mill Properties headquarters in Palo Alto, and continuing on to Congresswoman Eshoo's Office where they made their appeal to the Representative. Encouraging supporters to call Eshoo's office to complain about Page Mill Properties' tenant harassment they chanted:
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Anna Eshoo Must Do More!
Photos by Justin Miel...
Posted: Thu, Mar 12, 2009 1:30pm PDT
Union Pacific Railroad Fences in Homeless Encampment 
The H street homeless encampment in Fresno is being fenced in by Union Pacific railroad. The City of Fresno has issued a press release protesting the action, but seems powerless to stop the railroad from evicting the homeless residents....
Posted: Wed, Mar 11, 2009 6:16pm PDT
Oakland's housing renovation schemes move forward Oakland's low-income renters took a beating at Oakland's Community and Economic Development Agency (CEDA) meeting today!...
Posted: Tue, Mar 10, 2009 11:36pm PDT
Pack Mar 10, 2pm Oakland's CEDA meeting: No Renovation Displacement! Join the struggle against major renovation proposals that will displace hundreds of Oakland renters from their housing in coming months!...
Posted: Mon, Mar 9, 2009 2:15pm PDT
Post Office Betrays Tenderloin; Buys Mansions from Executives Monday, March 9, 2009 : After a long campaign by Tenderloin residents to turn the shabby P.O. Box facility at 101 Hyde Street into a full-service post office, the U.S. Postal Service is reneging its pledge to the community – citing fiscal woes. It’s the same excuse we got in December, when the Post Office said they would stop delivering to new mailboxes in residential hotels – despite state and local laws requiring SRO’s to install them....
Posted: Mon, Mar 9, 2009 7:22am PDT
Ammiano bill does NOT legalize marijuana Comments on California Assembly member Ammiano's marijuana tax bill, AB 390 (as introduced)
The problems begin early, in fact with the title of the bill itself - the term "marijuana" is slang and should not be used in legislation. The proper terminology would incorporate all of the words cannabis, sativa, indica and ruderalis. The definition offered in the bill only includes sativa. Much worse are all the new crimes created and the fact that cannabis actually remains illegal except when ob...
Posted: Sun, Mar 8, 2009 11:30am PDT
free Net access in SF Tenderloin [ hours vary;
please phone
before your first visit --
(415) 592-2766 ]...
Posted: Sat, Mar 7, 2009 11:23am PST
Mar10; Confrontation of Oakland's Renovation Schemes To Displace the Poor! Stop Oakland's Citywide Major Residential Building Renovation Schemes To Displace The Poor & Say No To The Transfer Of Oakland Community Housing, INC. (OCHI) Properties To Greedy Developers Who Plan To Displace OCHI's Renters Schemes Once They Get Their Dirty Hands On Those Properties!...
Posted: Sat, Mar 7, 2009 6:31am PST
Stop Preventable Foreclosures 
Faith in Community held a rally today in front of Saint John’s Cathedral to protest the high level of forecloses in Fresno and throughout the country. In 2008 alone, banks foreclosed on 12,571 homes in the Fresno region, a 102.5 percent increase over the previous year....
Posted: Fri, Mar 6, 2009 7:25pm PST
FIGHTING TO SAVE MEDI-CAL! (video/quicktime 84.7MB) Outside the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals waiting to hear the decision in Independent Living Center of So. Calif v. Shewry: the challenge to Governor Schwarzenegger's cuts to Medi-Cal.
Twenty-three minute QT movie. 85MB....
Posted: Fri, Mar 6, 2009 2:21pm PST
Sacramento Tent City: The Second Great Depression? Loaves & Fishes, the Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee, Francis House and other groups have started a "Safe Ground" campaign to make the current situation of the homeless better, according to Joan Burke of Loaves and Fishes. The homeless camp that is portrayed in the linked photos is at nearly the same spot where a giant Hooverville was located during the great depression. The camp is growing by up to 50 people per day....
Posted: Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:14pm PST
PVUSD Board attacks Class Size Reduction, votes to lay off hundreds The Pajaro Valley Unified School District board of trustees approved Thursday night a budget that closes a $14 million dollar deficit. The cuts eliminate Class Size Reduction in Kindergarten and 3rd grade (eliminating 50 teacher positions from the elementary schools), slash funding for nurses, custodians, aides, and counselors, but leave top-level administrators' contracts untouched....
Posted: Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:13am PST
SF: Support Needed for Tenant Legislation The San Francisco Tenants Union is asking everyone who supports tenants to tell all 11 members of the Board of Supervisors that you support the entire package proposed by Supervisor Daly....
Posted: Fri, Mar 6, 2009 7:43am PST
Misplaced Priorities in California Budget Saga (Again) Friday, March 6, 2009 : A new study by the Pew Center on the States has found that a record-high seven million Americans is either in prison or on probation or parole. That’s one out of every thirty-one adults. This finding highlights how our society has been dramatically transformed over the last twenty-five years, as prison spending has surpassed funding for public education, transportation, and social services....
Posted: Fri, Mar 6, 2009 7:13am PST
Devin Cohee: A passionate fighter for justice 
Alessandro Tinonga pays tribute to Devin Cohee, a dedicated activist and socialist....
Posted: Thu, Mar 5, 2009 10:20pm PST
Keeping the Struggle for Justice for Oscar Grant Alive! 
Over 100 people protested at the Fruitvale BART today keeping the murder of Oscar Grant in the news. The demonstration blocked all the pay gates and kept the focus on the Fruitvale BART station where Oscar Grant was murdered execution style on New Year's Eve....
Posted: Thu, Mar 5, 2009 9:25pm PST
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