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Join Kris Welch Of KPFA For A Program Exposing The Richmond Courts That Unlawfully Deny Poor Tenants Facing Eviction, Their Right To A Jury Trial!...

Earlier this week New York’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg denounced striking transit workers as overpaid and selfish “thugs” who were indifferent to the impact of their walkout on the city’s working poor. These comments were rather rich coming from a mayor who, with a net worth of $5 billion, is rated number 34 on Forbes magazine’s list of wealthiest Americans....

mobilization to travel to New Orleans and work with Common Ground...

A group of Mission tenants staved off eviction this week, beating back an attempt to remove them from their homes with the Ellis Act. The residents of 2808-2818 Folsom Street include multiple seniors, several of them disabled, as well as multigenerational Latino families. Their landlords have been trying to remove them since 2004, but were stopped for the second time by the San Francisco Superior Court on Monday. The building’s owners filed a petition with the Rent Board claiming they had alr...

A group of Civic Center Hotel residents and housing activists rallied in front of the Plumber’s Union yesterday, calling on the union to kill its plan to demolish the 156-unit building. Protestors underscored the disparity between the holiday season and the union’s potentially fatal decision not to retrofit the Civic Center, a decision that could kill any tenants in the building should an earthquake occur, and well as their decision to demolish the hotel and displace its low-income residents....

CHICAGO, Dec. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The U.S. Conference of Mayors/Sodexho USA annual hunger and homelessness survey released yesterday reports increased need for emergency food and shelter in 24 U.S. cities, especially among the nation's working poor families. Requests for emergency food assistance increased by an average of 12 percent in the past year with 76 percent of the cities surveyed reporting an increase in demands....

Weekly Peer-led Group Therapy for Radicals @ the Berkeley Free Clinic 2339 Durant Ave Mondays 6:30-8:00 Please be a few minutes early!!! [holiday break 12/26/05 - 1/2/06, no group]...

Almost a year after the Boxing Day tsunami ripped through Indian Ocean coastal villages, more than 1.5 million people remain in temporary accommodation, fighting a continuing battle with the elements....

One of the main distinctions of this Administration at City Hall is that in 2004, there were 88 murders. This year, there has been 94. For the last ten years prior to this administration, we averaged 72 murders a year. Our apprehension rate is one of the worst in the Country among major cities. In 2004, we caught 22 people out of 88 murders. This year, only 19 people out of 94 murders have been caught. Does City Hall have any answers? I doubt it seriously. As citizens of this city, we have ha...

Support Katrina Survivors in New Orleans and Beyond! Join Bay to Gulf People's Pipeline and Demand Justice for Katrina Survivors in New Orleans and SF. Stop Evictions of Katrina Survivors!...