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Drum Circle Challenge City fascists try for third week in a row to shut down the farmer's market drum circle....
Posted: Wed, Sep 17, 2008 12:24pm PDT
San Fracisco does not get it with Lennar but San Diego surely has shafted corrupt Lennar. The Marriot chain of hotels has decided not to have any dealing with the corrupt Lennar Corporation that the City and County of San Francisco has embraced. Marriot has decided that it will pull out and have nothing to do with building thousands of rooms - in one of the largest developments in San Diego. Good for San Diego. Linked to this project - many heads are falling. Where ever Lennar makes its appearance - corruption is rampant....
Posted: Tue, Sep 16, 2008 7:15am PDT
Tenant Describes Landlord Negligence 
An East Palo Alto tenant describes safety issues resulting from landlord David Taran's negligence at apartments owned by his company, Page Mill Properties. While tenants suffer, the exchange of legal challenges continues between the City of East Palo Alto and the landlord. Recently the city obtained a court order to compel Page Mill to produce documents it has denied city attorneys in a case that has tenants and displacement watch observers eagerly awaiting an outcome.
Report by R. Roberts...
Posted: Mon, Sep 15, 2008 11:33pm PDT
Keeping Public Spaces Public In parking lot #4 at Cedar and Cathcart--the lot next to the Wednesday Farmer's Market. At the traditional spot used by the community drummers for the last 10 years under the trees....
Event Date: Wed, Sep 17, 2008 3:30pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Sep 15, 2008 2:18pm PDT
Crime on the streets of San Francisco affects Quality of Life issues. Crime on the streets of San Francisco is on the increase and most people in authority seem to have no answer. So, what is Mayor Gavin Gavin Newsom and his cronies doing about this dire situation?
His recent ploy - the crime seems to come to our City from outside - by some sort of osmosis!...
Posted: Mon, Sep 15, 2008 7:25am PDT
Oakland plans to abandon the poor in public housing Oakland plans to dispose of 1,554 families from public housing, with 3,885 people including children. City officials and nonprofit housing organizations are sitting back in silence as this impending disaster unfolds!...
Posted: Sun, Sep 14, 2008 8:06pm PDT
Santa Clara Fairgrounds Risk Privitization by Catellus Corportation The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors are recommending that Catellus, a $40 billion development corporation based out of Colorado, buy the SCC Fairgrounds to develop into residential housing, which would constitute the largest land sale in county history....
Posted: Sun, Sep 14, 2008 10:03am PDT
When the Big One strikes - is San Francisco Office of Emergency Services - ready? When the Big One strikes - San Francisco must be ready. As things stand - the San Francisco Office of Emergency Services - talks the talk but cannot walk the walk. When the Big One strikes there will be a lots of finger-pointing and stuff like that. It is amazing to hear - folks that - purport they are "experts" talk foolishly - with no real plans, no empirical data, no captains in place linked to some hubs, quadrants, or centers in the various neighborhoods - that must be geared into action ...
Posted: Sun, Sep 14, 2008 9:21am PDT
Hypocritical Landlord Refuses Court Order 
East Palo Alto Landlord Will Not Turn Over Critical Documents
Page Mill Properties says that they should not have to submit crucial documents to the City of East Palo Alto, despite a court ruling. The landord/investor's lawyer said that CEO David Taran is only trying to protect the tenants' privacy. One tenant who is working with others to have his rent restored to legal levels called that argument "the height of hypocrisy"....
Posted: Fri, Sep 12, 2008 6:49pm PDT
Oakland Nonprofit (EBALDC) - A Money Making Machine East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC) a so-called nonprofit housing developer is one of Oakland's largest landlords, and is so close to Oakland city officials that EBALDCs own employees feel that they cannot tell the difference between the actions of EBALDC, and the City of Oakland at times!...
Posted: Fri, Sep 12, 2008 11:28am PDT
Keeping Santa Cruz Weird: Is Drumming a Crime? 
On September 10th, the City of Santa Cruz took measures trying to prevent the weekly gathering and drum circle in Parking Lot #4 alongside the Farmer's Market. New mesh fences and several police officers were not enough to prevent Raging Grannies and other free-thinkers from singing, playing instruments, sharing food and reclaiming an important community space under the trees. Police took surveillance photographs, passed out information, and harassed some people, but the drum beats and musica...
Posted: Thu, Sep 11, 2008 11:54pm PDT
Victory at Parking Lot #4 -- The beat goes on! (video/x-ms-wmv 56.4MB) Video of the Sept 10th protest to support the drummers circle with commentary by Tim Rumford & Robert Norse....
Posted: Thu, Sep 11, 2008 4:47pm PDT
This is for all our ancestors who were removed, displaced and evicted.. 
Indigenous peoples from San Jose to New Orleans who have survived and resisted eviction, gentrification and displacement joined POOR Magazine's First Annual TAKING BACK THE LAND CEREMONY...
Posted: Thu, Sep 11, 2008 11:34am PDT
Farm worker families desperately need your help for safe drinking water. Approximately 200 farm workers and their families live in the Rafael L. Silva Migrant Family Housing Center in Los Banos, CA. These workers don’t have access to safe drinking water....
Posted: Wed, Sep 10, 2008 9:00am PDT
Fresno’s 10 Year Plan to End Homelessness Approved 
The City and County of Fresno voted to adopt a 10 Year Plan to End Homelessness. At the start of the hearing before the Fresno City Council, mayor Alan Autry (photo below) apologized for the suffering he has caused the homeless in this community....
Posted: Tue, Sep 9, 2008 6:21pm PDT
Trash Orchestra to Defend Drummers from SCPD The market drummers are being harassed by police again. In January, the community spoke and acted out to prevent our town from becoming as flavorless as Carmel. We will defend the drummers from police harassment and we will win again....
Posted: Tue, Sep 9, 2008 11:58am PDT
Good news for E. Palo Alto tenants 
The East Palo Alto Rent Stabilization Board held an Appeal Hearing on 27 August 2008, and ruled in favor of the tenants.
More good news: during the first week of September a judge denied Page Mill Properties' request to withhold evidence from East Palo Alto, which the city needs to legally challenge rent hikes.
Photos by R. Robertson...
Posted: Mon, Sep 8, 2008 3:32pm PDT
Blueshirts Erase Drum Circle: New Ban on Public Assembly Near Farmer's Market Police established what apparently amounted to a public assembly dispersal unit in Parking Lot #4 Wednesday September 3rd from noon to 6 pm. Musicians, dancers, observers--all who've regularly gathered in this space for the last ten years were ordered to leave....
Posted: Fri, Sep 5, 2008 6:25pm PDT
Rich Swig and Ramon Romero from the SFRA help Lennar re-arrange their fiscal woes. Some months ago the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (SFRA) tried to help Lennar get a $25 million dollar grant from the State of California. Lennar was told to go take a hike. Lennar has been declaring bankruptcy left, right and center all over the United States. Lennar, technically has been given the opportunity to develop the entire Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. It has NO money - but is trying to use the little equity it has to garner money - creating fake Limited Liability Companies and...
Posted: Wed, Sep 3, 2008 9:32am PDT
Sit-In at Slum Landlord's Office Pt. II 
More from East Palo tenants, Youth United for Community Action, and the Raging Grannies
September 2, 2008 Sit-In and Demo at Page Mill Properties in downtown Palo Alto
Top photo: The Rally Continues Outside the Building...
Posted: Wed, Sep 3, 2008 12:53am PDT
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