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Oakland Nonprofit (EBALDC) - A Money Making Machine East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC) a so-called nonprofit housing developer is one of Oakland's largest landlords, and is so close to Oakland city officials that EBALDCs own employees feel that they cannot tell the difference between the actions of EBALDC, and the City of Oakland at times!...
Posted: Fri, Sep 12, 2008 11:28am PDT
Keeping Santa Cruz Weird: Is Drumming a Crime? 
On September 10th, the City of Santa Cruz took measures trying to prevent the weekly gathering and drum circle in Parking Lot #4 alongside the Farmer's Market. New mesh fences and several police officers were not enough to prevent Raging Grannies and other free-thinkers from singing, playing instruments, sharing food and reclaiming an important community space under the trees. Police took surveillance photographs, passed out information, and harassed some people, but the drum beats and musica...
Posted: Thu, Sep 11, 2008 11:54pm PDT
Victory at Parking Lot #4 -- The beat goes on! (video/x-ms-wmv 56.4MB) Video of the Sept 10th protest to support the drummers circle with commentary by Tim Rumford & Robert Norse....
Posted: Thu, Sep 11, 2008 4:47pm PDT
This is for all our ancestors who were removed, displaced and evicted.. 
Indigenous peoples from San Jose to New Orleans who have survived and resisted eviction, gentrification and displacement joined POOR Magazine's First Annual TAKING BACK THE LAND CEREMONY...
Posted: Thu, Sep 11, 2008 11:34am PDT
Farm worker families desperately need your help for safe drinking water. Approximately 200 farm workers and their families live in the Rafael L. Silva Migrant Family Housing Center in Los Banos, CA. These workers don’t have access to safe drinking water....
Posted: Wed, Sep 10, 2008 9:00am PDT
Fresno’s 10 Year Plan to End Homelessness Approved 
The City and County of Fresno voted to adopt a 10 Year Plan to End Homelessness. At the start of the hearing before the Fresno City Council, mayor Alan Autry (photo below) apologized for the suffering he has caused the homeless in this community....
Posted: Tue, Sep 9, 2008 6:21pm PDT
Trash Orchestra to Defend Drummers from SCPD The market drummers are being harassed by police again. In January, the community spoke and acted out to prevent our town from becoming as flavorless as Carmel. We will defend the drummers from police harassment and we will win again....
Posted: Tue, Sep 9, 2008 11:58am PDT
Good news for E. Palo Alto tenants 
The East Palo Alto Rent Stabilization Board held an Appeal Hearing on 27 August 2008, and ruled in favor of the tenants.
More good news: during the first week of September a judge denied Page Mill Properties' request to withhold evidence from East Palo Alto, which the city needs to legally challenge rent hikes.
Photos by R. Robertson...
Posted: Mon, Sep 8, 2008 3:32pm PDT
Blueshirts Erase Drum Circle: New Ban on Public Assembly Near Farmer's Market Police established what apparently amounted to a public assembly dispersal unit in Parking Lot #4 Wednesday September 3rd from noon to 6 pm. Musicians, dancers, observers--all who've regularly gathered in this space for the last ten years were ordered to leave....
Posted: Fri, Sep 5, 2008 6:25pm PDT
Rich Swig and Ramon Romero from the SFRA help Lennar re-arrange their fiscal woes. Some months ago the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (SFRA) tried to help Lennar get a $25 million dollar grant from the State of California. Lennar was told to go take a hike. Lennar has been declaring bankruptcy left, right and center all over the United States. Lennar, technically has been given the opportunity to develop the entire Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. It has NO money - but is trying to use the little equity it has to garner money - creating fake Limited Liability Companies and...
Posted: Wed, Sep 3, 2008 9:32am PDT
Sit-In at Slum Landlord's Office Pt. II 
More from East Palo tenants, Youth United for Community Action, and the Raging Grannies
September 2, 2008 Sit-In and Demo at Page Mill Properties in downtown Palo Alto
Top photo: The Rally Continues Outside the Building...
Posted: Wed, Sep 3, 2008 12:53am PDT
Police Brutality On the Streets and in the Court: Deiss Pre-Trial 10 AM Wednesday Sept 3 Donna Deiss Yovino, represented by attorney Ben Rice, will be at a Preliminary Hearing 10 AM tomorrow either in Department 1 or Department 2 at the County Courthouse at 701 Ocean St. Sgt. Christian LeMoss broke her arm in what witnesses describe as an egregious and excessive use of force on May 9th at the Three Tree Lot out on Westcliffe Drive. Donna invites supporters to attend. There have been other serious incidents of police violence reported recently....
Posted: Tue, Sep 2, 2008 10:38pm PDT
Sit-In at Slum Landlord's Office Pt. I 
Sit-In at Page Mill Properties Protesting Rent Control Violations by Landlord Utilizing Legal Loopholes
Top Photo: Sitting-In/Standing-In at the Office
Page Mill Properties is located in downtown Palo Alto and manages properties in East Palo Alto....
Posted: Tue, Sep 2, 2008 7:34pm PDT
Bay Area Katrina Commemoration Draws 200+ 
On the heels of media announcements that Hurricane Gustav could hit the Gulf Coast with devastating effects, Bay Area activists rally to demand a halt to ethnic cleansing and disaster capitalism on the 3rd anniversary of Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Mon, Sep 1, 2008 8:38pm PDT
Diane Feinstein is pushing for a stadium on Hunters Point on land prone to liquefaction. Senator Diane Feinstein is pushing for a stadium to be built on land prone to liquefaction - on Hunters Point Naval Shipyard....
Posted: Mon, Sep 1, 2008 11:31am PDT
San Francisco Fumbles: MARIAN RESIDENCE CLOSES! (video/quicktime 41.1MB) San Francisco, the city that frequently gets it right, really got it wrong here. The Marian Residence for Women is closed and there are no plans for the City to take up the slack....
Posted: Sun, Aug 31, 2008 5:40pm PDT
Speak Out on 45th Anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech 
With endless wars, job losses, and erosion of civil liberties pushing the American dream farther out of reach for the vast majority, San Jose residents spoke out for grassroots empowerment and alternatives at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library on August 28, 2008....
Posted: Sun, Aug 31, 2008 5:29pm PDT
Don’t Pick up the Soap! 
This is Boston Woodard’s latest article from inside the Prison Industrial Complex. Boston is in Solano State Prison, near Vacaville. This article address a new California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) policy of condom distribution in the prison....
Posted: Sat, Aug 30, 2008 10:51am PDT
FOOD NOT BOMBS Protest Serving @ City Hall! City Hall @ Civic Center (Polk St. & Grove St.)...
Event Date: Wed, Sep 3, 2008 5:45pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Aug 29, 2008 1:49pm PDT
Keeping Santa Cruz Weird: Coonerty Gets 'Hammer of Justice' Award from Local ACLU 
If the Santa Cruz chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is trying to "Keep Santa Cruz Weird", then Ryan Coonerty was a fitting recipient for the "Hammer of Justice" award during their annual fundraiser at Long Marine Lab on August 24th. Coonerty is the mayor of Santa Cruz and either an owner of Book Shop Santa Cruz, or merely an employee of the bookstore, depending on which side of his mouth he is talking out of. His actions since becoming a Santa Cruz City Council-member in 20...
Posted: Fri, Aug 29, 2008 12:21pm PDT
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