Statement from HRCSF on recent claims from Veritas Investments Veritas is selling 76 of their buildings, comprising over 2,000 units of rent-controlled housing. Will you stand with Veritas tenants in urging their landlord Veritas Investments to pause the sales and negotiate with the City and impacted tenants? We don't want to see these homes go to another speculator who's business model is to flip the units using various tactics, including harassement, renoviction and unnecessary passthrough rent increases, in order to bring them to market rate, which un...
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 4:03PM
Speculator Developer Shill Scott Wiener Takes More Real Estate Money Than Any Other Politician Speculator Developer Shill Scott Wiener Takes More Real Estate Money Than Any Other Politician In The California Legislature
And it’s not even close....
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 4:07PM
Remembering Michael Canright Michael Canright was a native San Franciscan, founder of the San Francisco Tenants Union, Zen student, union carpenter. father and grandfather....
Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2020 2:55PM
S.F. Rep Pelosi Postponed Vote on War Powers Act San Francisco Representative Nancy Pelosi postponed the urgently needed vote on a War Powers Resolution to prevent a US war against Iran. And Top House Democrats want to abandon any vote on a War Powers Resolution. See
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/08/kicking-can-next-week-irresponsible-progressives-rebuke-pelosi-delaying-iran-war...
Posted: Wed Jan 8, 2020 9:50PM
Jan 4, 2020: 5,000 March for Peace in San Francisco With only two days' notice and during the winter vacation, some 5,000 people managed to take over the streets of San Francisco, filling two wide blocks near Fifth and Mission, as we marched past the San Francisco Chronicle building on January 4, 2020, a clear, sunny 55 degree day for a peace march protesting Nazi Trump's war against Iran....
Posted: Sat Jan 4, 2020 6:05PM
Jan 18, 2020 March for Free Abortion on Demand The anti-abortion banners are on the poles in San Francisco on Market Street, starting at the foot of Market outside the Hyatt Regency. In this presidential election year, we need every single person who supports the right to abortion at our pro-abortion march on January 18, 2020 starting at 11 a.m. at the Civic Center celebrating the 1973 Supreme Court decision, Roe v Wade, legalizing abortion in the USA, so that our march is literally not just sidewalk to sidewalk as it usually is, but wal...
Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2019 10:13PM
Millstone and Me 2020 A San Francisco independent journalist reflects on the two decades anniversary of his book Millstone and Me: Sex, Lies and Eadiation in Southeastern Connecticut....
Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2019 4:01PM
20th anniversary of Indymedia / Seattle 1999 WTO protests Curriculum to commemorate and share the history and inspiration of the Independent Media Center network...
Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2019 8:44PM
Bay Area Youth Evade Unjust BART Fare San Francisco, California. Today, Friday November 29th, Bay Area (born and raised) youth evaded unjust fares and hopped the turnstiles en masse, stating their concern for their communities and a desire to hold BART accountable for attacks towards them. They say that many people from the Bay regularly hop as a basic point of survival and likewise, they have no intention of stopping these evasions....
Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2019 4:45PM
SF Public Library Commission: discrimination vs. seniors, low-income and disabled The SF Public Library has jeopardized its long-standing policy of serving all patrons equally with the same level of service by making it very difficult if not impossible for low-income, seniors and disabled to access the full range of services at this $160 million funded library system. (SFPL spends $3 million per year on digital service contacts)....
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 3:29PM
Chesa Boudin is DA; Dean Preston is District 5 Supervisor Chesa Boudin is the new district attorney and Dean Preston is the new supervisor for District 5 which includes the Fillmore and the Haight-Ashbury. See https://www.sfelections.org/results/20191105/data/20191109/da/20191109_da_short.pdf and
https://www.sfelections.org/results/20191105/data/20191109/d5/20191109_d5_short.pdf...
Posted: Sat Nov 9, 2019 8:39PM
Fledgling East Bay Filmmaker Re-Releases Mockumentary on San Francisco's Bird Population East Bay filmmaker, Jayson Johnson re-issues a documentary film made in San Francisco....
Posted: Fri Nov 1, 2019 9:26AM
HUD rejects Governor Newsom’s request to assist the homeless with additional funding According to the National Low-Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC), “HUD Secretary Ben Carson rejected California Governor Gavin Newsom’s request for increased federal investment in housing options for people experiencing homelessness, in a letter published on September 18....
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 11:18PM
S.F. Global Climate Change Strike + interviews SF Bay Area Youth and Allies Climate Strike rally + interviews (video)...
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2019 6:46PM
NNU Global Nurses Solidarity Assembly & UAW GM Strike Scab Threat KPFA WorkWeek radio hears about the Global Nurses Solidarity Assembly in San Francisco on September 13, 14 and 15th. We then talk with GM auto workers about the national strike and the threat of scabs at some plants....
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2019 9:03PM
Outing the Board Members of the NRA It seems that NOW is the time to take this a step further and expose some of the Board Members of the notorious NRA, a domestic terrorist organization!...
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 10:45PM
Appeals Court to Hear ACLU Discrimination Case Against Dignity Health SAN FRANCISCO—The ACLU is set to argue before the Court of Appeal in San Francisco Tuesday on behalf of Evan Minton, a man who was denied health care because he is transgender....
Posted: Mon Sep 9, 2019 4:02PM
Outing the Bay Area NRA contributors near you The contributors to the NRA are responsible for all the mass killings that are taking place with guns and ammunition provided by the gun industry, which is partnered with the NRA!...
Posted: Sat Sep 7, 2019 10:49PM
Exposing the contributors to the NRA, a domestic terrorist organization Now that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a resolution declaring that the National Rifle Association (NRA) is a domestic terrorist organization, this may mean that the NRA and it’s contributors should come under much closer scrutiny!...
Posted: Sat Sep 7, 2019 2:52AM
Fascist NRA gun organization labeled a domestic terrorist organization On Tuesday, September 3, 2019, a resolution passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors declared that the fascist right-wing extremist National Rifle Association of America (NRA), a very troubled organization that supports the Trump regime and Republicans with major political campaign contributions, is a domestic terrorist organization!...
Posted: Thu Sep 5, 2019 10:51PM