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California Hotel tenants are not alone with eviction fears Like the tenants in the California Hotel, owned by Oakland Community Housing, Inc. (OCHI), the low-income families of Drasnin Manor in Oakland, are also at risk of losing their housing and are very concerned about their future....
Posted: Sat, Jul 19, 2008 4:04am PDT
UC workers rally @ Office of the President 
UC workers rally @Office of the President....
Posted: Fri, Jul 18, 2008 5:50pm PDT
DOS AMERICAS: A Night of Immigrant Worker Justice from New Orleans to San Francisco! 
The Women's Building
3543 18th St. btw. Valencia and Guerrero
San Francisco, CA 94110...
Event Date: Wed, Jul 30, 2008 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Jul 17, 2008 10:51pm PDT
"Homeless Court" : Rules for Fools Though the law library in the basement of the County building didn't initially have any info, they graciously got the Judge's Chambers to fax over the following document--which defines the rules for Santa Cruz's "Homeless Court". "Homeless Court" is the skeletonic grinning mask of "compassion" that Santa Cruz County wears over its gruesome pointless life-threatening anti-homeless ordinances (the Sleeping, Sitting, Sparechanging, Blanket, Parking Lot Bans)...
Posted: Thu, Jul 17, 2008 5:28pm PDT
Toxic Construction and Environmental Racism in Hunters Point Shipyard 
Bayview residents and supporters accuse the San Francisco Department of Public Health of turning a blind eye to Lennar Corp's toxic construction in the Hunter's Point Shipyard....
Posted: Thu, Jul 17, 2008 2:43pm PDT
Donna Deiss Update Donna Deiss and others who live in their vehicles continue to face harassment. Those interested in her case should check out the continued arraignment hearing happening Wednesday July 30th in Departments 1 or 2. Police reports detailing the extensive follow-up whitewash investigation to discredit non-police witnesses are now in Deiss's hands. Those who want more background should check out http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/25/18511178.php?show_comments=1#18515273 ....
Posted: Thu, Jul 17, 2008 2:31pm PDT
California Hotel tenants fight against non profit to remain in housing California Hotel tenants fight against one of Oaklands non profit housing organizations to remain in their housing, and over 500 tenants total are at risk of losing their housing due to the mismanagement of the Oakland properties being operated by the Oakland Community Housing, Inc., and John Stewart Company!...
Posted: Thu, Jul 17, 2008 8:01am PDT
Burners without Borders Fundraiser and Celebration of our Final Month in Peru You are Invited to Burners without Borders Celebration and Fundraiser!...
Posted: Wed, Jul 16, 2008 9:03pm PDT
Chevron Offers Richmond $61 Million to Approve Refinery Expansion Richmond Residents and Bay Area Community say, “Our Health is Not for Sale.” In a last minute effort to lock-in City Council approval for Chevron’s refinery expansion, yesterday Chevron presented the City of Richmond with a $61 million dollar ‘Community Benefit Agreement’ (CBA). The Agreement, submitted to the city council in closed session immediately before the public council hearing, would reportedly include $6.75 million for jobs and education programs, $6 million for community health pr...
Posted: Wed, Jul 16, 2008 6:39am PDT
California Hotel Unlawful Eviction Update On July 14 (Bastille Day), the tenants of the California Hotel and their supporters held a 6pm rally & protest to demonstrate against the unlawful attempts to evict the long-time tenants out of their housing!
CaHon Associates and Oakland Community Housing, Inc., told the tenants (over 70 of them) that they wanted them out of their housing units by July 15 after threatening to shut off the gas, water and electricity at the California Hotel. The tenants refused to comply with the unlawful...
Posted: Tue, Jul 15, 2008 8:29pm PDT
CDFA LBAM Eradication Program reported to be a Fraud  
Glen Chase, a Professor of Systems Management, has released a report identifying the CDFA LBAM eradication program as a fraud. "CDFA claims the moth is an emergency and pretends that they can eradicate it in order to steal $100's of millions from taxpayer emergency funds, set aside for real emergencies."...
Posted: Tue, Jul 15, 2008 2:08pm PDT
Modesto Anarcho #8! Out Now! Download PDF 
Modesto Anarcho, the Central Valley's insurrectionary journal of class struggle is back with it's summer issue!...
Posted: Tue, Jul 15, 2008 1:04pm PDT
Stop the eviction! No to slumlords! part 2 
Residents at the California Hotel are threatened with eviction. They received a letter on July 1, notifying them that the hotel will close on July 15. Some of the residents have lived in the affordable housing unite for 20 years.
tenants at the California Hotel in Oakland and their supporters had gather at 3501 San Pablo Avenue Oakland to protest the attempt to illegally lock them out of their housing by their landlord Cahon Associates, and Oakland Community Housing Inc.
These two sluml...
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2008 8:54pm PDT
Stop the eviction! No to slumlords! 
Residents at the California Hotel are threatened with eviction. They received a letter on July 1, notifying them that the hotel will close on July 15. Some of the residents have lived in the affordable housing unite for 20 years.
tenants at the California Hotel in Oakland and their supporters had gather at 3501 San Pablo Avenue Oakland to protest the attempt to illegally lock them out of their housing by their landlord Cahon Associates, and Oakland Community Housing Inc.
These two slumlord...
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2008 8:31pm PDT
UC Santa Cruz Service Workers Strike 
UC Santa Cruz Service Workers Strike July 14-18, 2008. One Union, One Fight. AFSCME Local 3299...
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2008 8:31pm PDT
Anti-Gentrification Action in Santa Cruz On the 4th of July, amidst the tourist frenzy and sounds of fireworks, at least 8 windows were broken on a condominium that is being built in the lower Ocean neighborhood....
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2008 7:14pm PDT
County , Federal and State Social Services - Keeping the impoverished poor since 1935 
A look at the state of County, State and federal health insurance. MediCruz, Medi-Cal, and Medicare as well as Social Security Disability....
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2008 3:57pm PDT
AFSCME-strike at UC Berkeley 
AFSCME, taking back UC, for patients students and our families!
Schedules for the rest of the week,
Tuesday- picket lines, Bancroft @ Telegraph 5am- 7pm.
Wednesday- picket line UCOP (office of president) 1111 Franklin St. Oakland 6am-7pm, rally at 12pm
Thursday- picket line-UCOP 1111 Franklin St. Oakland 6am-7pm.
Friday- picket line UCOP (office of president) 1111 Franklin St. Oakland 6am-7pm, rally at 12pm
union representatives thanked Indybay for all the good work and coverage....
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2008 3:20pm PDT
Dona Spring, councilmember from Berkeley, passes away Dona Spring represented my district in Berkeley for several terms. She was a strong political progressive, and was surprisingly responsive to letters about very mundane issues like cars and trash cans blocking the sidewalk. One thing that she was fairly well known for is the fact that she used a wheelchair, and in her last year, attended the council meetings via telecommunications devices because she couldn't get out of bet. When you compare Berkeley with most other larger and small cities, i...
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2008 12:35pm PDT
SF & S. Bay Meetings On New Orleans & Katrina to Public Health Hospitals in The Bay Area 
Brad Ott, chair of the Committee To Reopen the Charity Hospital in New Orleans will be visiting the bay area on July 26 & July 27. The Charity Hospital was a WPA project and was the largest hospital in New Orleans with 5,000 workers. The hospital was the major healthcare provider for New Orleans where 65% of the people have not healthcare insurance....
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2008 12:34pm PDT
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