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Interviews With Stanyan St Community Gardeners (audio/mpeg 2.8MB) Interviews with gardeners and a supporter at the Stanyan St. squatted community garden. 6 minute MP3 audio file....
Posted: Mon, Apr 2, 2007 1:58pm PDT
Homeless Families Campaign for Affordable Housing The Coalition on Homelessness, a number of other advocates and homeless families from all over San Francisco gathered on March 30 at City Hall to denounce the city’s housing policy. With 4,500 units of affordable housing in the pipeline, only six percent of that would go towards homeless families under the current plan....
Posted: Mon, Apr 2, 2007 7:08am PDT
Call 434-5113 to Stop Use of Toxic Weed Killer in Oakland Adopt-A-Spot on 40th St/Broadway Toxic chemicals were spread on a Community Garden by the City. Please call today, now (leave message) to end this immediately....
Posted: Sun, Apr 1, 2007 10:22pm PDT
Safety and Health of San Franciscans in peril The Public Safety Committee that has met a couple of times continues to do injustice to Safety, Health, and adversely affects Public Services. Some, Board of Supervisors (BOS) continue to talk the talk but fail again and again to walk the walk. Making things worse an inept, inexperienced, person Lenore Anderson - who has little if no clue what San Francisco is all about. Has little knowledge about Law Enforcement and is surround by cronies that will continue to cause damage to San Francisco i...
Posted: Sun, Apr 1, 2007 6:09pm PDT
Save Our Communtity Garden Corner of Fulton and Stanyan...
Event Date: Sat, Mar 31, 2007 10:00am PDT
Posted: Sat, Mar 31, 2007 12:03pm PDT
Richmond District Community Garden Organizes for Eviction Threat 
People from the neighborhood, supporters rally around a squatted "Guerilla Garden" that people in the neighborhood say has been transformed from an area of blighted waste to a community garden....
Posted: Fri, Mar 30, 2007 2:13pm PDT
Problems with SF 49ers' Park proposed in Hunters Point Radioactive Shipyard 
Longtime activist Espinola Jackson stands firm that public safety is primary to moving the Hunters' Point Redevelopment plan forward. Video 1min. 30sec....
Posted: Fri, Mar 30, 2007 11:26am PDT
Castro Die-In Demands Housing for All 
About 50 activists demonstrated under sunny skies in the Castro on March 29, commemorating the 20th anniversary of ACT UP and demanding housing and healthcare for all....
Posted: Fri, Mar 30, 2007 12:11am PDT
Notice of Trespass and Clean-Up 
The City of Fresno is threatening to dismantle another homeless encampment. They are doing this even though there is a preliminary injunction to prevent them from taking and immediately destroying homeless peoples property. Will the homeless resist? Has the city figured out a way around the court order? See article below for the details. Below is the notice that was posted on Thursday, March 29, 2007 on the homeless encampment just west of Roeding Park in Fresno....
Posted: Thu, Mar 29, 2007 9:40pm PDT
Newsom Supportive – But Non-Committal – of Youth Commission’s Priorities At a March 27th meeting at City Hall, the San Francisco Youth Commission unveiled its budgetary priorities to an attentive and responsive Mayor Gavin Newsom. “Your priorities are certainly my priorities,” said Newsom after hearing all of the Commission’s various committees report out on their principal concerns....
Posted: Thu, Mar 29, 2007 10:16am PDT
SF: Homes Not Jails Civil Disobedience Training and Banner-Making for Housing Takeover April 7 Coalition on Homelessness
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Event Date: Sat, Mar 31, 2007 11:00am PDT
Posted: Wed, Mar 28, 2007 3:14pm PDT
Senate committee to decide on Gov. Schwarzenegger’s budget attack on California’s disabled IHSS Advocates decry Governor's gamble with independence for people with disabilities...
Posted: Wed, Mar 28, 2007 7:29am PDT
Tenderloin Parking Lot Gets New Lease On Life For two years, the parking lot at 163 Eddy Street has been plagued by an increasing amount of violence, drugs, prostitution, and public urination. These problems affect nearby SRO residents in the hotels that border the area, and the neighborhood residents have organized to do something about it. But on April 1st, the parking lot – located between Mason and Taylor – will have a new lessee. And hopefully, the new management will result in better upkeep for the benefit of the community....
Posted: Wed, Mar 28, 2007 6:26am PDT
Trinity Plaza – FINALLY! – Gets Out of Land Use Committee The mood was upbeat and celebratory at yesterday’s Land Use Committee meeting – as committee members unanimously voted to approve San Francisco’s largest rental housing project in fifty years. After Supervisor Chris Daly announced that the developer (Angelo Sangiacamo) has agreed to some last-minute amendments, the committee gave the project the green light. Supervisor Jake McGoldrick decided not to press with his additional amendments, allowing the project to finally go to a full Board meeti...
Posted: Tue, Mar 27, 2007 7:34am PDT
Mayor Newsom simply does not get it - the 49ers are simply not interest in San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has it all wrong - you can take the horse to the edge of the water but you cannot force it to drink. Doctor John York will not bow down to the wishful thinking of Gavin Newsom a young punk of a Mayor - who has NO credibility. The Mayor cannot manage his own life - and now wants to make decisions that involve the 49ers when all this time he has said one thing and done another. Professional men do not behave as do Gavin Newsom - he is a spoilt brat.Nothing good comes from Gav...
Posted: Mon, Mar 26, 2007 7:50pm PDT
Award-winning Indie Filmmakers Threatened With Eviction in Berkeley Tomorrow, the Berkeley City Council will hold a special 8:30 p.m. meeting at the Maudelle Shirek Building (formerly Old City Hall) to address the plight of the 40-plus independent documentary filmmakers, radio producers and other artists who face eviction from their longtime studios at the Saul Zaentz Media Center in West Berkeley....
Posted: Mon, Mar 26, 2007 6:12am PDT
Mon 3/26 6pm near 16th St in the Mission Newsom Town Hall Mtg on Health Care 825 Shotwell St
Cesar Chavez Elementary School...
Posted: Sun, Mar 25, 2007 7:47pm PDT
Court of Appeals Saves Tenant Activist’s Home Jose Morales, well-known as “San Francisco’s most tenacious tenant,” prevailed at the California Court of Appeals yesterday to – once again – save his home from demolition. In the latest phase of a never-ending struggle for the 78-year-old activist, a unanimous three-judge panel affirmed a prior Court ruling that the San Francisco Planning Commission and the Board of Appeal did not abuse their discretion when they rejected his landlord’s permit to gut Jose’s building....
Posted: Tue, Mar 20, 2007 8:54am PDT
Fire in Hayes Valley District 
An apartment building caught fire today around 5:10pm at 52 Page St....
Posted: Mon, Mar 19, 2007 11:58pm PDT
Trinity Plaza Faces Do or Die Vote at Supes Meeting Today Seven months after being overwhelmingly approved by the San Francisco Planning Commission, the rebuilding of the Trinity Plaza Apartments at 8th and Market will finally get a full and fair hearing at the Monday, March 19 Land Use Committee. The outcome of the hearing will decide whether San Francisco builds its largest rental housing project in over 50 years, and whether hundreds of Trinity Plaza tenants get new, upgraded permanently rent-controlled units at their current, often well below-ma...
Posted: Mon, Mar 19, 2007 7:19am PDT
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