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New HUD Proposals Are A Threat To All Subsidized Renters New HUD Proposals Threaten Everyone Including Children, In The Nations Subsidized Housing Programs!...
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 3:09pm PDT
NASGA response to Marin County defamation lawsuit Robin Westmiller, president of the National Associaiton to Stop Guardian Abuse responds to Marin County defamation lawsuit...
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 7:05am PDT
No Way Out: Lack of Education Traps China's Rural Youth Monday, June 25, 2007 :China's booming economy has spurred a massive village-to-city migration for its youth seeking a better life, but those without a college education find themselves forced to return home to the village....
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 6:45am PDT
Storm wreaks havoc across Australia's Hunter Valley and Central Coast Sunday, June 24, 2007 :People across the Hunter Valley and Central Coast regions in the southeast Australian state of New South Wales are still cleaning up nearly three weeks after devastating storms ravaged the area over a three day period, causing widespread damage and claiming nine lives....
Posted: Sun, Jun 24, 2007 9:30pm PDT
Rent is Theft, Housing is a Human Right 
The housing situation in San Francisco is a prime example of the greatest evil of capitalism. Only those who
can afford it get to be housed. Everyone
else lives on the streets. They get trash
talked by neighbors and politicians alike
for the sin of being homeless. They are
arrested or cited with “quality of life” citations....
Posted: Sun, Jun 24, 2007 1:39am PDT
Former Tenant Pickets as Realtors Tries to Sell House Currently, I am picketing the building
I was Ellised* from in 2001 by speculators Michael Gallin and Elba Borgen.
The apartments were sold as TICs* in
2003 and 2004 after the building sat
empty for almost two years. Three of
the four apartments are for sale again as
TICs. The purpose of the picket is to
make sure prospective buyers know the
building’s history. While an Ellis Act
eviction must be recorded on the deed,
many realtors try to hide this information or omit it i...
Posted: Sun, Jun 24, 2007 1:30am PDT
What Do More Condos Mean for the Mission? 
At a time when affordable family
housing is on the political agenda, Seven Hills Properties is pushing a condo
development through the planning
process for 60 new condos and another Walgreen’s Drug Store. The site in
questions is 3400 Cesar Chavez Street
(at Mission), now a empty parking lot
where day laborers wait for work daily....
Posted: Sun, Jun 24, 2007 1:24am PDT
The Ellis Act Defined The Ellis Act is a state law that says
landlords have the unconditional right
to evict tenants to “go out of business.”
For an Ellis eviction, the landlord must
remove all of the units in the building
from the rental market. The apartments
cannot be re-rented, except at the same
rent the evicted tenant was paying, for
five years following the evictions. There
are no such restrictions on converting
them to ownership units (e.g., tenancies
in common or condos)....
Posted: Sun, Jun 24, 2007 1:23am PDT
War on the homeless heats up in Berkeley Recently The War On Berkeley's Homeless Population Heated Up Again, As The City Is Rapidly Becoming Just Another Conservative Haven For The Wealthy!...
Posted: Sun, Jun 24, 2007 12:02am PDT
Response to Santa Cruz Sentinel artilce on Plesant Care. Santa Cruz Sentinel article gives false hope to residents....
Posted: Sat, Jun 23, 2007 8:49am PDT
Agent Orange victims have day in court Friday, June 22, 2007 : Ken BeSaw/PWW. NEW YORK — In 1964 Nguyen Thi Hong, then a young woman of 17, joined the struggle against the U.S. occupation of her country, Vietnam. She knew that she might lose her life. But she had no idea that she would become sick and remain so for more than 30 years....
Posted: Sat, Jun 23, 2007 8:35am PDT
Street Heat on KFCF 88.1 FM in Fresno -- June 2007 (audio/mpeg 21.0MB) Pam Whalen interviews Pam Kincaid, Al Williams, and Cynthia Greene who are homeless about the status of the lawsuit against the City of Fresno (for taking and destroying their property), the new anti-camping ordinance, and other attacks against the homeless. Recorded June 22, 2007....
Posted: Fri, Jun 22, 2007 11:02pm PDT
Swim A Mile for Women with Cancer Mills College Pool
5000 MacArthur Blvd.
Oakland, CA 94613...
Event Date: Sat, Oct 6, 2007 10:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, Jun 22, 2007 6:36pm PDT
‘Sicko’ energizes health care debate Friday, June 22, 2007 :Even before it officially opens in thousands of theaters across the country on June 29, Michael Moore’s latest documentary “Sicko” is already impacting the national health care debate....
Posted: Fri, Jun 22, 2007 6:36am PDT
Forum on Universal Health Care Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Hall
1924 Cedar St. at Bonita (a block above MLK Wy,) Berkeley 94709...
Event Date: Sun, Jun 24, 2007 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Jun 21, 2007 10:36pm PDT
Abstinence Funds Chopped, Ryan White Money Upped Thursday, June 21, 2007 :(Washington) A controversial federal program that stresses abstinence outside heterosexual marriage has been chopped by $28. million. Previously, under the Republican Congress, the federal government spent about $50 million annually on abstinence-until-marriage education....
Posted: Thu, Jun 21, 2007 10:28pm PDT
Death in Los Angeles hospital exposes social crisis in US Thursday, June 21, 2007 :Edith Isabel Rodriguez died on May 9th while two people called the emergency services phone number, 911, frantically trying to get her medical help. She died just outside the emergency room in Los Angeles’ King-Harbor hospital after spending hours seeking treatment for a steadily worsening condition....
Posted: Thu, Jun 21, 2007 10:07pm PDT
Fighting to Win in East Harlem and Beyond Thursday, June 21, 2007 “For Movement for Justice in El Barrio, the struggle for justice means fighting for the liberation of women, lesbians, people of color, gays and the transgender community. We all share a common enemy and its called neoliberalism. Neoliberalism wishes to divide us and keep us from combining our forces. We will defeat this by continuing to unite our entire community until we achieve true liberation for all.” — Victor Caletre, Movement for Justice in El Barrio...
Posted: Thu, Jun 21, 2007 4:56pm PDT
Monday Night feed re-satrts! Humanity for Homeless helping with donations to keep Monday night feeding alive. Help comes!...
Posted: Thu, Jun 21, 2007 11:56am PDT
San Francisco Dyke March: Healthcare for All Starting from Dolores Park, at 18th and Dolores
Rally and Stage Begins @ 3:00 p.m.
March Takes Off @ 7:00 p.m....
Event Date: Sat, Jun 23, 2007 3:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Jun 21, 2007 11:42am PDT
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