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Fears About Public Housing Show City Hall’s Disconnect Rumors abound about the fate of San Francisco’s public housing developments. In a recent rant on Indybay.org, activist Francisco Da Costa claims that the City’s plan is to “slowly board up all of Public Housing at Potrero Hill, bring in the SF Redevelopment Agency and build high rise buildings for the filthy rich.” As reported in Beyond Chron on February 12th, angry residents of the Alice Griffith housing development marched on the Mayor’s “town hall” meeting protesting the City’s plans to de...
Posted: Tue, Feb 13, 2007 9:19am PST
Open Letter to the San Francisco Bay Area and Monterey Bay Area 
We would also be interested in finding out if there are any other groups working on this particular issue, as not to "reinvent the wheel." So if someone from a group working on the Livermore issue can contact Kyoko, that would be great....
Posted: Mon, Feb 12, 2007 11:57am PST
Demolition of Alice Griffith Homes Dominates Newsom Forum As he continues to defy the voter-approved “Question Time” at the Board of Supervisors, Mayor Gavin Newsom held a second Town Hall on February 10th at the Whitney Young Child Development Center in Bayview. In stark contrast to his first meeting in the Richmond, the audience did not let the Mayor run a scripted, staged event where he is in complete control. The largely low-income African-American residents of Bayview were upset about the past, frustrated about the present, and anxious about th...
Posted: Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:47am PST
Breaking Story: Oakland Housing Authority loses appeal in mass eviction case A bizarre case of alleged "Fraud and Corruption" ends in Oakland, when the Oakland Housing Authority lost an appeal to evict 35 families accused of being squatters, from their public housing units at Lockwood Gardens!...
Posted: Sun, Feb 11, 2007 6:56pm PST
A stabbing in Oakland, and mugging of America The Brutal Policies Of The Bush Administration Wreak Havoc On America, and The World!...
Posted: Sat, Feb 10, 2007 12:56pm PST
Potrero Hill Public Housing Potrero Hill Public Housing is suffering because of lack of funds and personnel cuts to the SF Housing Authority. Sophie Maxwell the District 10 Supervisor and her cronies like the Potrero Boosters that you see at most of the Land Use Meetings - will not lift a finger to help those that need help most at the Potrero Hill Public Housing. While Sophie Maxwell gives large breaks and bends backwards to help the Matag Mogul on Potrero Hill - innocent, poor folks suffer each and every day....
Posted: Sat, Feb 10, 2007 5:01am PST
TODAY (2/10), 9:15am- Protest SF Landgrab Gentrification, Relocation, Disenfranchisement....
Posted: Fri, Feb 9, 2007 1:56pm PST
The Homelessness Marathon The Broadcast will originate from the Mexican American Baptist Church at the corner of “E” street and Mariposa in Fresno....
Event Date: Tue, Feb 20, 2007 4:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 7:52pm PST
The Mayor, the Broadcast and the Truth 
The Homelessness Marathon comes to Fresno...
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 7:29pm PST
California Food & Justice Coalition February Newsletter > :: Farm Bill News
> :: Internships with CFJC
> :: New Resources and Reports
> :: Funding Opportunities
> :: Roots of Change Fund Information & Outreach Meeting
> :: World Hunger & Food Price Protest (from Hunger Action Los Angeles)
> :: ACTION: Stop Amendments That Would Cut Farm Workers from the Minimum Wage
> (from UFW via Hunger Action Los Angeles)
> :: Member Announcements jobs, events, alerts and more.......
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 5:14pm PST
Protest At San Franscisco General Hospital to Reninstate City Medical Pot Card Axis of Love San Francisco is Putting a Call out to all Medical Marijuana Patients, Disability Activists, Aids Activists and Our Allies in San Francisco to Come and Protest the IMMENSE Increase in the FEE for a State Medical Marijuana Card by Over $125 bucks – Ross Mirkarimi has put a resolution to reinstate the city card program that would cost 25-50 bucks. It is facing an uphill battle....
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 4:54pm PST
Camp Quixote Supporters To Call Free Radio Tonight (2/8) Homeless activists and their supporters have responded to the anti-homeless Pedestrian Obstruction Law (Olympia Washington's latest version of the Santa Cruz Downtown Ordinances) with civil disobedience. On February 1st they created a homeless-run encampment--Camp Quixote. Ray, an Olympia activist, will call in tonight around 6:15 PM on Free Radio Santa Cruz at 101.1 FM (www.freakradio.org) to educate, agitate, and organize....
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 12:37pm PST
Getting My GED When I’m Sleeping Outside Countless hours of studying is perhaps the simplest part of preparing for the GED for homeless youth Alex Gutierrez. Gutierrez is a writer for Silicon Valley De-bug....
Posted: Wed, Feb 7, 2007 8:13am PST
SF meetings for ACT UP/20 action, March 29 at Dem HQ Organizing for ACT UP's 20th anniversary action at SF Dem HQ...
Posted: Tue, Feb 6, 2007 7:55pm PST
Top priority-Do not Cut AB. 2034 AB. 2034 currently funded by the state of California is at risk of being cut. Such a program allows social service workers in California to outreach to the homeless of our state. The California Governors office intends to force California counties to fund the AB. 2034 program through Proposition 63 dollars that have been provided to fund mental health outreach for our most marginalized and mentally ill. After reading my piece call the Governors Office and convince the governor to fully fund t...
Posted: Tue, Feb 6, 2007 3:25pm PST
West Fresno Group Struggles to Save Hinton Center 
Members of the Hinton Center Action Community Committee (below) held a press conference to ask why the City of Fresno has allowed the Hinton Community Center to go into a sharp decline. They want to volunteer to bring the center back to its previous condition and are having a hard time communicating with elected officials and city staff. They feel disrespected and frustrated in the contact they have had so far....
Posted: Mon, Feb 5, 2007 9:45pm PST
The Privilege of Privacy and Homelessness When I’ve been homeless, the hardest part has been the lack of privacy. The *privilege of privacy* is something many take for granted, but for those of us who have experienced homelessness firsthand, privacy becomes a mindset, rather than a physical reality. And that fortress of privacy within one’s *mind* adds to the wide chasm between the housed and the homeless, often making homeless people seem “crazy” to housed folks. And when one has been forced to make *mental* doors that shut, since p...
Posted: Mon, Feb 5, 2007 2:44am PST
Feinstein: Don't cut the heart out of Social Security! SF Office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein
1 Post St (at Market St) San Francisco
Montgomery BART...
Event Date: Wed, Feb 14, 2007 11:00am PST
Posted: Sun, Feb 4, 2007 11:48pm PST
Confronting the Coonerty in his Lair: Another Protest at B.S. Santa Cruz 1-3 PM Today (Friday February 2nd) A Gathering in the "Free Speech Zone" Outside Vice-Mayor Coonerty's Bookshop Santa Cruz Asking for Answers to Simple Questions About Homeless Survival Shelter and Public Access to Information: Get Fed (Thanks to Jumbogumbo Joe Schult'z Vegan Yumyums), Have Fun, Sing & Sign Petitions! Help the Vice-Mayor hear the voice of those his cops are harassing....
Posted: Fri, Feb 2, 2007 8:32am PST
Herbal First Aid and Emergency Medicine Courses 
Want to be prepared in the case of an emergency? Do you prefer to use natural remedies? The American School of Herbalism will be offering a five week course in Herbal First Aid and Emergency Medicine, starting Wednesday evening, February 28th....
Posted: Thu, Feb 1, 2007 12:20pm PST
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