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DESCRIPTION:Monday January 27 2003 at 9pm the squatters at 2161 Sutter Street in 
 Pacific Heights were forcibly evicted\nby the police from a property owned 
 by United Dominion Realty Trust. Please phone United Dominion 
 925/224.8670\n(Fax: 925/225.8657 http://www.udrt.com) and ask United 
 Dominion why they prioritize profit over housing for the poor.\nThe 
 squatted building had been bought from the Macedonia Baptist Church on the 
 same block where it had once been housing\nfor women with mental 
 disabilities and then left to sit empty for nearly a year.\n\nCorporate 
 greed and political repression have been the cause of the total 
 erradication of the neighborhood's history and the\ndisempowerment of the 
 community there. Being the site of major Black Panther Party organizing in 
 the past, the area\nsurrounding the block the squat was on had once been a 
 large black neighborhood. United Dominion has since built an\napartment 
 complex there which dominates the entire block except for the Macedonia 
 Baptist Church and the evicted squat\nstanding next to it. This same block 
 had been also the home of Winterland, a very popular music hall, where 
 Janis\nJoplin performed her last show.\n\nIn a city where the political 
 climate has been advocating the criminalization of homelessness, the 
 occupation of an abandoned\nbuilding in this affluent neighborhood is a 
 bold statement against big money squashing people's rights for profits. The 
 San\nFrancisco Planning Commission needs to block the further development 
 of expensive over-sized lofts and commercial spaces\nthat, with the economy 
 as it is at present, sit vacant and unoccupied while people die on the 
 streets in the cold. It must take\nsteps to preserve the rich cultural 
 history of the many communities that make San Francisco important and 
 beautiful.\nHomes Not Jails and the Autonomous Collective had been 
 organizing self-managed social housing at this location ongoing\nfor an 
 unprecedented five months or more. It was providing shelter for at least 30 
 persons at the time of eviction, eight blocks\nfrom callous "Care Not Cash" 
 district Supervisor Gavin Newsom.\n\nThis Saturday at noon there will be a 
 rally, march and more. People are encouraged to meet at Western 
 Addition\nPublic Library at 1550 Scott (at Geary). Muni 22 and 38 Lines, 
 Take Bart to 16th St. Transfer to Muni # 22.\nHomes Not Jails, Autonomous 
 Collective\nContact HNJ 415/346.3740 or email the AC 
 autonomouscollective@mutualaid.org\nTell United Dominion that evicting 
 homeless people to make way for overpriced trendy yuppie apartments is 
 wrong!!\nDeman all new units be turned into self-managed low-income social 
 housing now!!\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/15293.php
SUMMARY:Homes Not Jails Action
LOCATION:Western Addition\nPublic Library at 1550 Scott (at Geary).
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/15293.php
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