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textCalifornia Hotel Unlawful Eviction Update by Lynda Carson
On July 14 (Bastille Day), the tenants of the California Hotel and their supporters held a 6pm rally & protest to demonstrate against the unlawful attempts to evict the long-time tenants out of their housing! CaHon Associates and Oakland Community Housing, Inc., told the tenants (over 70 of them) that they wanted them out of their housing units by July 15 after threatening to shut off the gas, water and electricity at the California Hotel. The tenants refused to comply with the unlawful...
Posted: Tue, Jul 15, 2008 8:29pm PDT
documentCDFA LBAM Eradication Program reported to be a Fraud 
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by Report by Professor Glen Chase
Glen Chase, a Professor of Systems Management, has released a report identifying the CDFA LBAM eradication program as a fraud. "CDFA claims the moth is an emergency and pretends that they can eradicate it in order to steal $100's of millions from taxpayer emergency funds, set aside for real emergencies."...
Posted: Tue, Jul 15, 2008 2:08pm PDT
documentModesto Anarcho #8! Out Now! Download PDF
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by Modesto Anarcho
Modesto Anarcho, the Central Valley's insurrectionary journal of class struggle is back with it's summer issue!...
Posted: Tue, Jul 15, 2008 1:04pm PDT
textReturning US veterans' lives shattered: the growing toll of PTSD by wsws (reposted)
Monday, July 14, 2008 :Increasing numbers of US veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Haunted by the brutality of their experiences in combat and the horrors inflicted on the civilian populationoften with their own participationthey return home only to receive woefully inadequate treatment for their condition, go undiagnosed or face an intolerant military culture in which a stigma against PTSD and other mental disorders sti...
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2008 9:38pm PDT
imageStop the eviction! No to slumlords! part 2
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by E.
Residents at the California Hotel are threatened with eviction. They received a letter on July 1, notifying them that the hotel will close on July 15. Some of the residents have lived in the affordable housing unite for 20 years. tenants at the California Hotel in Oakland and their supporters had gather at 3501 San Pablo Avenue Oakland to protest the attempt to illegally lock them out of their housing by their landlord Cahon Associates, and Oakland Community Housing Inc. These two sluml...
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2008 8:54pm PDT
imageStop the eviction! No to slumlords!
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by E.
Residents at the California Hotel are threatened with eviction. They received a letter on July 1, notifying them that the hotel will close on July 15. Some of the residents have lived in the affordable housing unite for 20 years. tenants at the California Hotel in Oakland and their supporters had gather at 3501 San Pablo Avenue Oakland to protest the attempt to illegally lock them out of their housing by their landlord Cahon Associates, and Oakland Community Housing Inc. These two slumlord...
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2008 8:31pm PDT
imageUC Santa Cruz Service Workers Strike
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by strobismstyle
UC Santa Cruz Service Workers Strike July 14-18, 2008. One Union, One Fight. AFSCME Local 3299...
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2008 8:31pm PDT
textAnti-Gentrification Action in Santa Cruz by Neighborhood Watch
On the 4th of July, amidst the tourist frenzy and sounds of fireworks, at least 8 windows were broken on a condominium that is being built in the lower Ocean neighborhood....
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2008 7:14pm PDT
imageCounty , Federal and State Social Services - Keeping the impoverished poor since 1935
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by Tim Rumford
A look at the state of County, State and federal health insurance. MediCruz, Medi-Cal, and Medicare as well as Social Security Disability....
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2008 3:57pm PDT
imageAFSCME-strike at UC Berkeley
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by Larry
AFSCME, taking back UC, for patients students and our families! Schedules for the rest of the week, Tuesday- picket lines, Bancroft @ Telegraph 5am- 7pm. Wednesday- picket line UCOP (office of president) 1111 Franklin St. Oakland 6am-7pm, rally at 12pm Thursday- picket line-UCOP 1111 Franklin St. Oakland 6am-7pm. Friday- picket line UCOP (office of president) 1111 Franklin St. Oakland 6am-7pm, rally at 12pm union representatives thanked Indybay for all the good work and coverage....
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2008 3:20pm PDT
textDona Spring, councilmember from Berkeley, passes away by KTVU repost
Dona Spring represented my district in Berkeley for several terms. She was a strong political progressive, and was surprisingly responsive to letters about very mundane issues like cars and trash cans blocking the sidewalk. One thing that she was fairly well known for is the fact that she used a wheelchair, and in her last year, attended the council meetings via telecommunications devices because she couldn't get out of bet. When you compare Berkeley with most other larger and small cities, i...
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2008 12:35pm PDT
imageSF & S. Bay Meetings On New Orleans & Katrina to Public Health Hospitals in The Bay Area
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by Laborfest
Brad Ott, chair of the Committee To Reopen the Charity Hospital in New Orleans will be visiting the bay area on July 26 & July 27. The Charity Hospital was a WPA project and was the largest hospital in New Orleans with 5,000 workers. The hospital was the major healthcare provider for New Orleans where 65% of the people have not healthcare insurance....
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2008 12:34pm PDT
textApartment Investment Management Company (AIMCO) must help the workers and community. by Francisco Da Costa
Apartment Investment Management Company (AIMCO) situated in Denver, Colorado. controlling over 600 housing units at Bayview Hunters Point has a bad track record as a Property Management operation. In the last two months - many workers that were fired by AIMCO sub-contractors - returned to work with the help of the community. However, the healing process in not easy and AIMCO stands to lose - if AIMCO - does not do "good" by the community first and the workers - who suffered so much - AIMCO st...
Posted: Sun, Jul 13, 2008 2:48pm PDT
imageKrip-Hop Project is looking for Disabled Hip-Hop Artists & Media Coverage
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by Leroy F. Moore Jr.
Krip-Hop Mixtape Series My name is Leroy Moore and I produce Krip-Hop Mixtapes. Krip-Hop Nation is a project of disabled hip-hop artists. I'm looking for artists for upcoming Krip-Hop Vols. Read below for more info. Why Wait Get your Music to me know for Vol.3 of Krip-Hop If you miss Krip-Hop Mixtape Vol. 1 (that came out Jan 5, 2007 limited run), and Vol. 2 (coming out soon) please get on it for Krip-Hop Mixtape Vol. 3 You ask how? This is how it worked last time. If you're a d...
Posted: Sun, Jul 13, 2008 12:07pm PDT
textTough Times Now? Just Wait…. by Nick Oliva
Reasons behind the collapse of the housing market and general economy, and how it could have been avoided....
Posted: Sun, Jul 13, 2008 7:53am PDT
imagePublic Library Advocate Peter Warfield Says "No" to Excessive Fees and Fines
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by Robert B. Livingston
San Francisco July 13, 2008 Following is an interview with Peter Warfield, San Francisco's very own "Library Guy"-- a man whose heroic main-mission in life is to advocate for eternally free, accessible, and responsible public libraries. The interview was conducted yesterday morning on the steps outside San Francisco's Main Public Library where Warfield and supporters of his Library User's Association had gathered to pass out leaflets and collect petition signatures to help convince Cit...
Posted: Sun, Jul 13, 2008 7:22am PDT
textGermany: The campaign for euthanasia by wsws (reposted)
Saturday, July 12, 2008 :At the end of June, former Hamburg justice senator Roger Kusch assisted in the suicide of 79-year-old pensioner Bettina S., who lived in the city of Würzburg....
Posted: Sat, Jul 12, 2008 10:54am PDT
calendarU.S.Healthcare Needs Radical Surgery: What Will Cure Our Sick Medical System? by Freedom Socialist Party
New Valencia Hall, 625 Larkin Street,Suite 202, San Francisco...
Event Date: Sun, Jul 20, 2008 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 11, 2008 7:11pm PDT
textU.S.Healthcare Needs Radical Surgery: What Will Cure Our Sick Medical System? by Freedom Socialist Party
Freedom Socialist Party Meeting and Movie Screening!...
Posted: Fri, Jul 11, 2008 7:02pm PDT
textJudge Grants TRO To California Hotel Tenants To Stop Shutoff Of Utilities by Lynda Carson
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Rausch Grants Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) To California Hotel Tenants, And Orders Oakland Community Housing, Inc. (landlord), To Keep The Gas, Electricity and Water Services Turned On At The California Hotel! The California Hotel Tenants Plan To Protest Their Unlawful Evictions On July 14 (6pm). See more details below......
Posted: Fri, Jul 11, 2008 6:38pm PDT
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