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Hmong Speak Out About Community Garden (video/mp4 81.0MB)
Below is video from the Press Conference held at the Hmong Community Garden on Monday, October 20. Speaking first is Summer Vue, a spokesperson for the Hmong gardeners. This is followed by several of the gardeners explaining, in their own words, why they don’t want to move. They also say that they did not make an agreement to move the garden to Melody Park. The video is 11 minutes long....
Posted: Wed, Oct 22, 2008 6:51am PDT
The City of Fresno is Trying to Evict Hmong Gardeners
The City of Fresno is attempting to evict a group of Hmong gardeners from 4 acres of public land. The city wants to build a police sub-station at the site of the Hmong Community Garden. The photo below is Mai Summer Vue, speaking on behalf of the Hmong gardeners who do not want to leave....
Posted: Tue, Oct 21, 2008 5:41pm PDT
The Really Really Free Market: In Honor of Kirsten Brydum
In celebration of the amazing life of Kirsten Brydum, a San Francisco activist and organizer of the Really Really Free Market, we will gather together to make the best RRFM ever. If you are a regular of the RRFM, bring your talents, your smile, food, music, objects to give away freely, and lots of love…If you have never come before, this is the time to experience and help create the world you (YES, YOU!) always hoped was possible....
Posted: Tue, Oct 21, 2008 3:04pm PDT
15th Annual Peace and Unity March in Watsonville
Meet at the City Plaza (Off Main Street) at 11:00am!
March Begins: 12:30am ● Peace Rally: 2:30pm – 4:00pm
Over the last 15 years, more than 80 residents of our community have lost their lives to violence. This must end! As a community, it is vital to remain proactive and send a united and positive message into all our homes and neighborhoods.
Enough of the violence!
We need to make a demand for peace and unity!
JOIN US FOR OUR 15-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF CHAMPIONING FOR PEACE & ...
Posted: Mon, Oct 20, 2008 1:48pm PDT
Oakland settles lawsuit against the Oakland Housing Authority
A Settlement Agreement Was Reached Between The City Of Oakland And The Oakland Housing Authority (OHA), Shortly After The OHA Filed An Application With HUD To Dispose Of 1,615 Public Housing Units!...
Posted: Mon, Oct 20, 2008 4:28am PDT
March in Fresno Supports the Homeless
A march in support of the homeless took place in downtown Fresno on Saturday, October 18. Organizers of the group asked why the City of Fresno has not done more to help the homeless. They cited $3 million designated for homeless housing in 2008 that was in the budget but never used. Why, they asked, is the city paying $13,000 a month for 3 portable toilets and a trash bin at the H street encampment and nothing to provide them with decent affordable housing? The photo below shows some of t...
Posted: Sun, Oct 19, 2008 1:08pm PDT
New Recycling Laws will Impact the Homeless
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread."
- Anatole France...
Posted: Sun, Oct 19, 2008 9:41am PDT
Cross-Regional Commemoration of LBAM Spray Anniversary
Berkeley BART Station, Shattuck Ave and Center St, Berkeley
Santa Cruz City Hall, 809 Center Street, Santa Cruz
Rafael Square, 1000 - 4th Street, San Rafael...
Event Date: Sat, Oct 25, 2008 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Oct 19, 2008 5:33am PDT
Rite Aid Wrong Way Demo
California Alliance for Retired Americans (CARA) unites retired workers and community groups to win social and economic justice. Members of CARA demonstrated in solidarity with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union at a Rite Aid store at the corner of Van Ness and Market Streets on October 13.
CARA says: "Rite Aid markets to seniors with its *Living More* program. They want our money, but they don't always want to respect workers' rights. And they're not respecting the union in b...
Posted: Sat, Oct 18, 2008 11:07pm PDT
Update on Hmong Community Garden & Fresno City Council meeting on Tuesday
An article was written today in the Fresno Bee stating that some sort of an "agreement" has been reached with gardeners at the Hmong Community Garden. This agreement seems like more of the same thing we have seen before, with the City not fully involving the community and the gardeners, and not even guaranteeing garden plots for all of the gardeners at the Hmong Community Garden....
Posted: Sat, Oct 18, 2008 8:11pm PDT
NO on Prop 8 Demonstration
4770 Lincoln Ave. near the Warren freeway (highway 13), Oakland, CA...
Event Date: Sun, Oct 26, 2008 9:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, Oct 17, 2008 1:33pm PDT
Police Harassment Continues In Santa Rosa
If you're homeless, sleeping in a park, day or night, it's "camping" and against the law in Santa Rosa...
Posted: Fri, Oct 17, 2008 1:16pm PDT
Did Davis Biotech Firm Expose Davis to Potentially Dangerous Pathogens? Criminal Actions
Davis journalist and resident Doug Paul Davis raises questions about the Pam Morrone owned Agrquest might have been releasing dangerous pathogens into the community from their laboratory where biotech injured worker David Bell was sickened. These criminal activities have been covered over by Marrone, CA-OSHA, the Yolo County DA and Steve Poizner, the State Insurance Commissioner...
Posted: Fri, Oct 17, 2008 1:12pm PDT
Protest Landlords and Realtors who are trying to buy the election. Save Rent Control!
Join us next Thursday in the streets when we picket Realtors and Landlords who are trying to buy the election. Save Rent Control in San Francisco...
Posted: Fri, Oct 17, 2008 12:34am PDT
Seniors Say *Save Our Services, Tax the Rich*
The California Alliance for Retired Americans (CARA) unites retired workers and community groups to win social and economic justice.
Photos from October 13 at the annual convention in San Francisco by R. Robertson and Chuck Walker, Sr....
Posted: Thu, Oct 16, 2008 5:07pm PDT
Protect Teen Girls: Vote No on Prop 4
Thursday, October 16, 2008 : We wish we didn't have to fight the same battles over and over again, but Proposition 4--defeated three years ago as Prop 73 and two years ago as Prop 85--is once again returning to the California state ballot on November 4th, 2008. If a teenager wishes to terminate a pregnancy, Prop 4 would require parental notification issued by the provider, a judiciary bypass obtained by the teen, or a letter written by the teen to the physician detailing parental abuse that i...
Posted: Thu, Oct 16, 2008 7:37am PDT
Town Hall Meeting to Save the Hmong Community Garden 10/15
"Their only hope is that the city of Fresno -- not the government, but the people who live here and make up this city -- say, 'This is something worth saving. If you can't save this kind of network, this kind of support, this kind of love, then pretty soon the only thing left to save is concrete.'"
- Chukou Thao, executive director of the Hmong American Farmer's Association...
Posted: Tue, Oct 14, 2008 1:03pm PDT
Drum Circle Defense: Drum-De-Dum-Dum at Parking Lot #4 This Wednesday
Obstructive green mesh fencing continues to appear like virulent weeds every Wednesday morning around the public assembly area at Cathcart and Cedar Sts. in Parking Lot #4 next to the weekly Santa Cruz downtown Farmer's Market. The larger the supportive crowd, the less vulnerable are those reclaiming the public space. Come on down and help out....
Posted: Tue, Oct 14, 2008 10:33am PDT
Farewell to Daniel Cassidy
Well known writer and Irish-American activist Daniel Cassidy has passed away in San Francisco....
Posted: Tue, Oct 14, 2008 10:02am PDT
Press Statement by Friends of Kirsten Brydum
PRESS STATEMENT BY FRIENDS OF KIRSTEN BRYDUM
who was murdered in New Orleans on September 27, 2008 at the age of 25...
Posted: Mon, Oct 13, 2008 8:41pm PDT