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DESCRIPTION:PLEASE DISTRIBUTE FAR AND WIDE!! A CALL TO ACTION!!  STOP EVICTIONS IN 
 BAYVIEW-HUNTERS POINT  TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 4:00 p.m.  ROOM 416, CITY HALL, 
 S.F.  Companeros/companeras:  Below please find an editorial by Willie 
 Ratcliff,  publisher of SF Bay View, about a March 7 hearing  before 
 Redevelopment Authority, which will seal the  fate of Bayview Hunter's 
 Point. Many of us have been  saying for years that the Bayview will be  the 
 new  Fillmore.  March 7 is, as Ratcliff says, an eviction  notice for the 
 residents of Bayview Hunters Point. Not  long after coming into office, 
 Mayor Gavin Newsom did  photo ops with young black men on a basketball 
 court  in Bayview (he was lavished with praise by our  mindless media for 
 that), but he knew damn well then  that their displacement was imminent. 
 It's all part of  San Francisco's hypocrisy about racism and classism.  
 "Oh, we're a liberal city, we oppose racism and  classism..." people and 
 politicians say, even as they  stand idly by while more and more poor, 
 working-class  and people of color are pushed out of the city by  Ellis Act 
 evictions for TICs for the upper middle  class and Redevelopment 
 Authority's "negro removal,"  as it was called by black activists in the 
 60s.  Why is it that removing "urban blight" from our cities  means giving 
 poor, working-class and people of color a  one-way ticket to another city? 
 Why can't  Redevelopment work on building communities from within  (with 
 no-interest business loans and subsidies to  homeowners and landlords to 
 fix up their properties,)  instead of declaring "eminent domain" and 
 stealing the  land from folks who have nothing else? If  Redevelopment 
 wants to do some real cleaning of urban  blight why not confiscate the 
 mansions in Pacific  Heights and do a little redistributing of the wealth!  
 But that's not the game in America. Redevelopment is a  tool of the 
 real-estate interests that want to  gentrify all of our neighborhoods. It's 
 about removing  poor folks so that middle-class and upper-class folks  can 
 have their homes. It's a time-honored American  tradition. Native Americans 
 were pushed from their  land as wagon trains of settlers, driven by 
 manifest  destiny, spread westward. Similarly, the new Bayview  is not for 
 the folks who live there now. As former  Mayor Willie Brown himself said 
 before he left office,  the new Bayview will be market-rate condos with the 
  best views in town.  Your help is desperately needed.  Come to the hearing 
 on March 7 at City Hall room 416,  4pm. It is imperative that we stand with 
 the residents  of Bayview. It is imperative that people from all  
 communities and struggles come together to oppose the  annexing of 1300 
 acres of land next to the shipyard.  No more Fillmores! No eviction notice 
 for Bayview! No  more gentrification! Redistribute the wealth, don't  steal 
 our homes! The land does not belong to the  realtors or the rich! Nuestra 
 tierra, nuestro mundo!  Our land, our world!  Estamos juntos en la 
 lucha...we are together in the  struggle--or we all go down separately!  
 tommi avicolli mecca  Read:  Eviction notice served on Bayview Hunters 
 Point  Editorial by Willie Ratcliff  
 http://www.sfbayview.com/020806/evictionnotice020806.shtml\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/02/25/89173.php
SUMMARY:Hearing to Stop Evictions in Bayview-Hunters Point
LOCATION:Come to the hearing on March 7 at City Hall room 416,  4pm.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/02/25/89173.php
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