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The latest target of Mayor Jerry Brown's gentrification efforts is the the Alice Arts Center. Brown plans to displace the 50 residents and the 22 arts organizatioins that call the Alice Arts Center home to expand his charter school. The Alice Arts Center has been home to the multicultural arts community of Oakland for more than 20 years. On May 27th there was a demonstartion to save the Alice Arts Center. More Info

San Francisco, 5/20: Mind Freedom-Support Coalition International's weekend of resistance to the mental health orthodoxy in San Francisco culminated in a protest at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. Where 19,000 shrinks gathered inside the Moscone Center, some 40 psychiatric survivors (some of whom endured forced "treatment" and labels affixed to them) picketed the APA in a peaceful display of dissidence (as well as dissonance). Freedom of choice, self-determination and the end of the drug industry's tyranny were the major themes that afternoon. More Info

Oakland 5/21: About 100 people, including many young people from the community, packed the Oakland City Council District 2 Town Hall to protest the evictions of elderly Chinatown residents from the Rennaissance Park Plaza housing complex and to convince City Councilmember Danny Wan to put pressure on the owner to stop the evictions. Fifty residents of Renaissance Plaza were served eviction notices that said they had to be out by 7/31. Many of the residents have nowhere to go, and are mainly Cantonese speaking elderly people that depend on the services in Chinatown to survive.

For more than one year, Indymedia Argentina has been more than a simple site on the internet. It is a network, a place to meet, a tool for thousands of people from around the world to inform themselves about what is happening in Argentina - to talk and to get together. Organizing out of a beautiful home, a building that at one time was simply a bank, whose owners had abandoned it, this Indymedia center is now under threat of eviction. "It is question of hours that will define our situation - we could lose one of our most important spaces, where not only do we keep our few computers, and archives - but where dozens of people go to visit us and bring their news. To our friends in all parts of the world - we are looking for the solidarity in whatever form it is best expressed." - Indymedia Argentina. Read more about the situation | Stay informed