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Part III: EPA Residents Fight for Tenants' Rights
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....
Posted: Fri, Mar 13, 2009 10:58pm PDT
Part II Rally in EPA: Tenants Unite to Fight Page Mill
Although many tenants of properties owned and managed by Page Mill Properties have fled due to landlord harassment, those who remain continue to battle the mega landlord.
Top photo: Tenants deliver their message to Congresswoman Anna Eshoo by R. Robertson for indybay...
Posted: Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:54am PDT
Rally in EPA: Tenants Unite to Fight Page Mill Properties Pt. I
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:
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Anna Eshoo Must Do More!
Photos by Justin Miel...
Posted: Thu, Mar 12, 2009 1:30pm PDT
We're Here to say Prop 8 Go Away!
Photos from March 4 Eve of Justice Rally in Palo Alto.
Please contact the photographer for permission to reprint. Justin [at] gotmiel [dot] com...
Posted: Thu, Mar 5, 2009 12:17pm PST
Time to Tell the California Supreme Court
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...
Posted: Thu, Mar 5, 2009 1:34am PST
On the Eve before Supreme Court Hearing on Prop 8
In front of Stanford University, students, faculty, university community and Raging Grannies say REPEAL Prop 8! Marriage Equality for all!...
Posted: Thu, Mar 5, 2009 1:15am PST
Brides Against Prop 8 in Palo Alto
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....
Posted: Thu, Mar 5, 2009 12:27am PST
Reviews and Interviews for *Raging Grannies -- The Action League*
With only 4 days left until the premiere of Pam Walton's documentary on the Raging Grannies of the San Francisco Bay Area, the reviews are coming in....strong!
Top photo: Pam Walton and two Grannies get ready for another interview....
Posted: Tue, Mar 3, 2009 9:23pm PST
No More Tenant Intimidation! Palo Alto Police Lieutenant No Longer Works for Landlord
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, ...
Posted: Sun, Feb 22, 2009 1:14am PST
Caravan for Justice on Thursday for Oscar Grant and more
There will be caravan of cars and buses this Thursday, February 19, to lobby legislators in Sacramento on the issues of Oscar Grant and police killings (revising the "Police Bill of Rights" that shields their misconduct records from the public), repressive gang laws, reforming Three Strikes, and the San Francisco 8, former Black Panthers and associates being retried by Attorney General Jerry Brown for a 1971 police killing based on evidence extracted by torture in 1973....
Event Date: Thu, Feb 19, 2009 7:30am PST
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2009 1:20pm PST
E. Palo Alto Landlord Hits Rock Bottom with Extreme Tactics
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.....
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2009 12:30am PST
Questionable Police Practices Continue After Palo Alto Police Chief Forced to Retire
Palo Alto Police Officer On Payroll of Harassing Landlord
Former police chief Lynne Johnson, who retired in December amidst allegations of racial profiling, authorized an officer to do contract work for Page Mill Properties early in 2008 despite a department policy that regulates off-duty employment to avoid conflict of interest. The officer went to the apartment of an outspoken advocate of tenant rights, loitered near his residence, and photographed the tenant and his car.
Photo: East P...
Posted: Sat, Feb 7, 2009 3:45am PST
Mega-Landlord Offers Tenant Activist $20,000, then Twists Bribe into Extortion Charge
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...
Posted: Sat, Feb 7, 2009 2:45am PST
CodePink & Raging Grannies Go Tell it in Mountain View
The Raging Grannies bar-hopped through downtown Mountain View, then joined up with San Jose CodePink at St. Stephen's Pub to educate Obama-manic celebrants with songs and chants....
Posted: Fri, Jan 23, 2009 11:20pm PST
Pro-Choice Action Counters Catholic Church in Los Altos
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...
Posted: Thu, Jan 22, 2009 5:32pm PST
MLK Jr Day in Palo Alto
High school students invited to speak in the Palo Alto City Council Chamber said they hoped for freedom from police brutality, amongst other things, and a Raging Granny wore a "Oscar Grant is my Son" sign on her chest. The ceremony recognized community volunteers and remembered Martin Luther King, Jr. for his message of hope....
Posted: Mon, Jan 19, 2009 4:46pm PST
Raging Grannies Return to Facebook HQ
On our second visit to protest Facebook's discrimination against breastfeeding moms, we were greeted by many Facebook employees who wanted to pose with us for photos. They encouraged us to get a Facebook page...we tried to explain to them that we won't play into the hands of corporations... that drew some blank looks, so we sang them our song about Riseup.net....
Posted: Fri, Jan 16, 2009 7:16pm PST
East Palo Alto Accidental Shooting Investigation Takes 24 Hours
The Alameda County district attorney said it would take two weeks to complete an investigation into the shooting death of Oscar Grant by a BART cop. But it took police in East Palo Alto only 24 hours to make an arrest in an accidental shooting that happened there. What's up with that?...
Posted: Sat, Jan 10, 2009 9:28pm PST
Stanford Peace Vigil: What's that Spell?
A message spelled out in candlelight lit up the evening in Stanford University's White Plaza....
Posted: Thu, Jan 8, 2009 11:08pm PST
San Mateo Protest Draws Disparate Demonstrators
This morning the call went out from San Mateo Peace Action for an emergency rally to stop Israeli bombing of Gaza. By early evening the protest included participants from high school through Raging Granny ages. A representative of World Can't Wait stood side by side with a lone Republican, both on the side of Palestine resistance. All called for a Free Gaza and immediate halt to the reign of Israeli terror!...
Posted: Mon, Dec 29, 2008 7:54pm PST