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Housing authorities need more resources to administer Housing Choice Voucher Program
Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) are not receiving enough money from HUD to administer the Housing Choice Voucher Program (section 8 voucher program) properly. Reportedly there are around 140,000 vouchers being unused by people who are eligible for section 8 vouchers (Housing Choice Vouchers), partly because PHAs do not have enough resources to administer the program, according to the Public Housing Authorities Directors Association (PHADA)!...
Posted: Tue, Feb 21, 2017 1:23am PST
Rain at Midnight? Freedom SleepOut #85 Faces Wettest Winter
Back again to City Hall--still the dark center of Sleeping Ban law and enforcement under City Manager Martin Bernal and the Watkins-Terrazas City Council. Determined activists and a crew of homeless folks will be huddling beneath the eaves of the buildings at City Hall until being driven out into the rain , wind, and cold. Just looking for a night of community and relative safety from the Sleeping Ban, they'll be in sleeping bags, under tents, in vehicles, whereever they can, hoping to spar...
Event Date: Tue, Feb 21, 2017 4:00pm PST
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2017 11:19pm PST
Trump Trump Hate
The hate divide in America is great and growing. Can we work toward a non-violent approach and deal with the Trump administration by building on areas we can find agreement on? Here are some ideas for modeling a more positive political process in the face of world insanity....
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2017 9:51pm PST
"Remembrance" On The 75th Anniversary of Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066
On the 75th anniversary of President Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 which incarcerated 120,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese Peruvians, anniversary events were held throughout the US and in San Francisco....
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2017 7:23pm PST
Pour Taproom Community Night: Celebrating Steelhead
Pour Taproom located at 110 Cooper Street, Suite B, Santa Cruz, CA 95060...
Event Date: Thu, Feb 23, 2017 5:30pm PST
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2017 5:35pm PST
What Is Fascism? Is It Here Now?
Workers World Party
1305 Franklin St #411
Oakland, CA 94612...
Event Date: Wed, Feb 22, 2017 6:30pm PST
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2017 1:34pm PST
8th Annual World Naked Bike Ride - San Francisco 2017 - So. Hemi Edition
Ferry Building, 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, California 94111
Meet up between the Farmers Market and the Starbucks along the pier railing...
Event Date: Sat, Mar 11, 2017 11:00am PST
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2017 11:50am PST
Berkeley, Milo, & Free Speech
Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library
6501 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland (just North of Alcatraz Ave.)...
Event Date: Sun, Feb 26, 2017 10:30am PST
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2017 10:18am PST
Build the Movement to Defeat Racism!/¡Construir un Movimiento que Derroque el Racismo!
2969 Mission St. Near 24th St. BART, #14, 49 MUNI
$3 - $10 donation requested, no one turned away for lack of funds.Refreshments served. Wheelchair accessible. More info: 415-821-6171 or http://www.PSLweb.org.2969 Calle Mission esquiná de la calle 25 y 26, acerca de BART/24 St., MUNI #14, 49.
Sugerimos una donación de $3 a $10, todos bienvenidos, con o sin fondos.
Habrá antojitos.
Para mayor información llame al PSL, en 415-821-6171 o www.PSLweb.org....
Event Date: Fri, Feb 24, 2017 7:00pm PST
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2017 8:12am PST
Kucinich Warns of Deep State's Plans for War Post-Trump Impeachment
Long time anti-war Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) warns people of the deep state's plans to unseat Trump and replace him with warmonger Pence. The military-industrial complex despises Trump due to his unpredictability and general non-interventionist approach....
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2017 5:29am PST
Interview with Jeanette Vizguerra in Denver Sanctuary Church in Spanish (audio/x-wav 272.7MB)
Community activist Jeanette Vizguerra of Denver has received notice she could soon be deported to her home country of Mexico. Vizguerra's case has gained attention since she became one of the first undocumented immigrants in Colorado to share her story with the public.
An attorney for Vizguerra says she could be eligible for a special visa to remain in the U.S. after she recently cooperated with police who investigated a crime committed against her.
Vizguerra was arrested for driving with...
Posted: Sun, Feb 19, 2017 11:07pm PST
Kristie Middleton presents MeatLess
Book Passage
51 Tamal Vista Blvd
Corte Madera, CA 94925...
Event Date: Sun, Mar 19, 2017 1:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Feb 19, 2017 9:35pm PST
Teachers with whiteboards: Talking Trump with your peeps
La Boheme
3318 24th St.
San Francisco...
Event Date: Tue, Feb 21, 2017 6:00pm PST
Posted: Sun, Feb 19, 2017 6:34pm PST
Community Feed Before the Occupy Oakland General Assembly
Oscar Grant Plaza Amphitheater
14th & Broadway, Oakland, CA...
Event Date: Sun, Feb 26, 2017 2:00pm PST
Posted: Sun, Feb 19, 2017 6:03pm PST
The Connection Between Agribusiness and Disease
The Green Arcade
1680 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94102...
Event Date: Thu, Mar 9, 2017 7:00pm PST
Posted: Sun, Feb 19, 2017 5:58pm PST
Using Hope to Save Our Oceans
The Green Arcade
1680 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94102...
Event Date: Wed, Mar 1, 2017 7:00pm PST
Posted: Sun, Feb 19, 2017 5:53pm PST
Pack the Courthouse for Yuvette Henderson
Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building
1301 Clay Street, Oakland, California 94612...
Event Date: Thu, Feb 23, 2017 11:00am PST
Posted: Sun, Feb 19, 2017 2:44pm PST
Great-Grandson Of Mexican Revolutionary Flores-Magon to Speak at Fresno State
Henry Madden Library (Room 2206) at Fresno State...
Event Date: Thu, Feb 23, 2017 6:00pm PST
Posted: Sun, Feb 19, 2017 12:01pm PST
Activists Protest Hewlett Packard Enterprise Profiteering from Racist Policies in Israel-Palestine and the U.S.
A coalition of social justice activists demonstrated against Hewlett Packard Enterprise outside the annual RSA cyber-security conference in San Francisco. HPE enables and profits from Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories, and from racist immigration and incarceration policies in the United States....
Posted: Sun, Feb 19, 2017 9:51am PST