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A very interesting and informative article written by Sandi Trend, Mother of David Bell, former Assistant Researcher/Microbiologist of Agraquest, Inc. in Davis California. Ms Trend urges EVERYONE to watch the new documentary, “THE FUTURE OF FOOD” on LINK TV... [DIRECTV Channel 375 | DISH Network Channel 9410]...

This is a story that would not have come to light without the dedicated work of tenants' rights activists in the Fair Rent Now Coalition. Coalition volunteers are determined to keep Page Mill Properties' many violations in the news. They contacted both mainstream media and indybay to provide details of Cal/OSHA's investigations and fines resulting from the electrocution death of a Page Mill employee. Photo: Demonstrators in front of Page Mill Properties March 11, 2009 by Justin Miel. ...

More photos from March 11 demonstration with Youth United for Community Action (YUCA), Raging Grannies Action League Displacement Watch Team, and tenants of properties owned by Page Mill Properties. The group marched from East Palo Alto, ending at Congresswoman Anna Eshoo's Office where they presented their case in speeches and letters to the staff....

Youth United for Community Action organized a rally of tenants and supporters. The march started in East Palo Alto, stopping in front of Page Mill Properties headquarters in Palo Alto, and continuing on to Congresswoman Eshoo's Office where they made their appeal to the Representative. Encouraging supporters to call Eshoo's office to complain about Page Mill Properties' tenant harassment they chanted: 323-2984 Anna Eshoo Must Do More! Photos by Justin Miel...

We know it is just a matter of time...but marriage equality can't come soon enough! Top photo: a Stanford graduate student lights a candle...

California's State Supreme Court hears oral arguments on March 5 about Prop 8 (banning same-sex marriage), which voters narrowly approved in November 2008. So on the *Eve of Justice* demonstrators in Palo Alto, some dressed as brides, stood at the corner of El Camino and Embarcadero to make the case for the right to marry....

A Palo Alto police lieutenant who did contract work for East Palo Alto's biggest and most controversial landlord has had police department permission to work for Page Mill Properties revoked. The Palo Alto Police Department, just now recovering from its own controversial reputation for racial profiling, is proceeding with an internal investigation into what appears to be a clear conflict of interest. Tenant rights activists say East Palo Alto renters suffer many indignities from Page Mill, ...

Could it get any worse than this? Page Mill Properties has hired an active police officer to work for them in his off-duty hours. He is easily recognized by tenants as both a body guard for the company and an intimidator of tenants, yet his full time job is as a lieutenant in the Palo Alto Police Dept. Page Mill also sent an employee on more than one occasion to tear down "tenants' rights" flyers from the East Palo Alto neighborhood where the overbearing landlord owns apartment complexes.....

Last November East Palo Alto's biggest landlord tried to bribe community organizer Christopher Lund with a large sum of money to make him cease his efforts on behalf of renters in low-income East Palo Alto. This week it was revealed that the mega-landlord twisted the story around, calling the bribe an act of extortion committed by the activist. Palo Alto police launched an investigation, going so far as to record Lund's phone coversations with the landlord; the District Attoney's Office decl...

AAUW Leading the Charge! The American Association of University Women, Los Altos-Mountain View Branch, has held the reigns of a vigorous counter-protest to Catholic Church anti-choice marches for the last seven years. They are ready to turn the mantle over to other pro-choice organizers starting with next year's action. Interested in joining this yearly event? Contact AAUW Los Altos-Mountain View or Planned Parenthood Mar Monte. Photos: Action of January 22, 2009 on the anniversary o...