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Investigation Of Oakland Housing Authority Underway Corruption At Oakland's Housing Authority Exposed...
Posted: Fri, Jun 16, 2006 12:31pm PDT
Now or never: Stand and fight for Bayview Hunters Point Ethnic cleansing is a less genteel word for gentrification. Prior mayors of San Francisco have successfully racially cleansed the Fillmore, renamed the Western Addition. They drove out Black people or coopted the opposition by signing treaties, much as did the white man and the American Indian. These mayors passed out script and money. Those that they could not hire, they gave script. This script was as worthless as confederate money....
Posted: Fri, Jun 16, 2006 6:49am PDT
Save The Civic Center Hotel! Support Our Resolution before the Board Our building still doesn't have the City-mandated seismic retrofit for Unreinforced Masonry Buildings. We have a resolution to be heard by the Land Use Committee of the SF Board of Supervisors. Come express your support....
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2006 2:53pm PDT
Crucial vote for drug safety next week! Take Action, send a letter to your rep! Consumers and doctors aren't getting the full story about the safety and effectiveness of pharmaceutical products. Please support this drug safety bill which would require that all health study data, for drugs sold in CA, be made available to the public. Right now we are NOT getting all of the information! People can not make informed decisions without all of the information!...
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2006 12:40pm PDT
Community based bicycle shop opens in Sacramento. - Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen The Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen and its all-volunteer staff invites the public to tour the shop facility, learn how to get involved, listen to live music and enjoy healthy snacks. The Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen is a non-profit, community-centered organization focused on teaching bicycle safety, bicycle maintenance and repair, and promoting bicycle culture. Our aim is to empower the community and provide very low-cost alternative transportation for individuals...
Posted: Wed, Jun 14, 2006 7:18am PDT
Has Surplus Property Ordinance Become Another Empty Promise? The Board of Supervisors will hold a hearing this Friday regarding 150 Otis Street, a piece of surplus owned by the city that has quickly become an indicator of San Francisco’s level of commitment to enacting the Surplus Property Ordinance. Passed in May of 2004, the ordinance stated that the city’s surplus property would be converted to housing for the homeless. Yet despite this, the Mayor’s Office of Housing recently rejected an attempt to turn 150 Otis in to such housing, despite it repres...
Posted: Tue, Jun 13, 2006 9:22am PDT
Sign the petition to save Bayview Hunters Point Petitions to save Bayview Hunters Point, the 91% Black and Brown neighborhood slated for “repeopling” by San Francisco City Hall’s Redevelopment wrecking ball, were circulating all over town today, at farmer’s markets and street fairs and bus stops....
Posted: Mon, Jun 12, 2006 1:06pm PDT
Don't let the City of Sacramento shut down our only Vegan Food Truck! Local merchants Roots N Kulchah, the 100% vegan food truck, is under attack! The City of Sacramento is proposing an ordinance that will have an adverse effect on the operation of mobile food trucks and venders, and criminalize those who do not follow the ordinance! Call your council members/country supervisers, and come to the hearing!...
Posted: Mon, Jun 12, 2006 11:26am PDT
Lt. Governor Candidate Proposing Socialize Health Care The United States has fallen behind many other countries to protect the health of our citizens, including Canada, England and most other European countries. As a nation our government is first concerned with protecting corporate profits and the interest of big business above the health of our citizens. Now Stewart Alexander, Candidate for California Lieutenant Governor with the Peace and Freedom Party, is proposing socialize health care to protect the health of our society....
Posted: Sun, Jun 11, 2006 8:33pm PDT
Black Churches Fail The Youth When It Comes To Black Youth And Violence In The Bayview Our Black youth are being killed in the Bayview Hunters Point and the Black Church have NOT steped up to the plate to do the right thing. Often times in the Bayview you will hear Black Pators scream and shout but nothing more and nothing less. At one time the Black Pastors were a force to be reckoned with - no more. Today, most of them are on the take and play second fiddle to those issues that really affect the community - the Black on Black killing in one of them....
Posted: Sun, Jun 11, 2006 4:14pm PDT
Mayor Gavin Newsom and Downtown Developers ready to move into Bayview The recent SF Propostions saw Mayor Gavin Newsom use Downtown Magnets most dubious in nature back the propositions that Mayor Gavin Newsom did not want to pass. Behind the scenes Mayor Gavin Newsom is working with the Chamber of Commerce and other crooked developers to come into the Bayview, steal the land, and drive the poor people away. Many home owners - people of color will lose their homes because side by side with Mayor Gavin Newsom the SF Redevelopment Agency is seeking to use Blight, ...
Posted: Sun, Jun 11, 2006 8:04am PDT
Bay Area youth are fighting for peace and jobs, without city help From 1995 to 1997, I had the pleasure of working with the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department in their Workreation program, a training program that allows teenagers to become assistant day camp directors for recreation centers and latchkey programs around the city. In three summers, I worked at Youngblood Coleman Park, Hamilton Recreation Center and John Muir Elementary School....
Posted: Fri, Jun 9, 2006 6:30am PDT
Support Bayview-Hunters' Point Referendum Effort Last month, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to approve the Bayview-Hunters' Point Redevelopment Plan, thus opening up the prospect that, in coming years, long-term residents and merchants of Bayview-Hunters' Point will find their properties forcibly seized via eminent domain, and / or find themselves otherwise dislocated or priced out of their community. Under the leadership of Bayview residents and activists, an effort is currently underway to put the Bayview-Hunters' Point Rede...
Posted: Thu, Jun 8, 2006 2:34am PDT
Transbay Advocates Victorious Proposition C moves Transbay Forward With Friday’s landmark vote at the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) to move forward with a two-phased development approach that will deliver the train-ready Transit Center by 2014, Proposition C proponents suspended campaign activity this weekend. “The decision to finally move forward with the region’s most important transportation project was a long time coming,” said Prop C spokesperson and BART Director Tom Radulovich of Livable City. “Prop C made that possible. Now we have to mainta...
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 9:04am PDT
Activists Launch Referendum to Overturn Bayview Redevelopment A press conference was held Monday to announce the launching of a petition drive to first suspend and then overturn the Board of Supervisors approval of the Bayview-Hunters Point Redevelopment Area. Referendum backers must obtain 30,000 signatures in only thirty days, whereas San Francisco initiatives typically allow six months for obtaining half this number. The referendum drives comes amidst a decline in the number of African-Americans throughout urban America, including New York City, Oakl...
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 9:01am PDT
Prop. D's misinformation campaign This article is written by Belinda Lyons who is the executive director of the Mental Health Association of San Francisco. This op-ed is also endorsed by Steve Fields, cochair of the San Francisco Human Services Network; Bill Hirsh, executive director of the AIDS Legal Referral Panel; and Herb Levine, executive director of the Independent Living Resource Center....
Posted: Sun, Jun 4, 2006 8:03am PDT
It’s fightback time! Read this week's Bay View The referendum petition drive to put the question of the Bayview Hunters Point Redevelopment Plan to the voters of San Francisco on the November ballot is launched! We must gather 30,000 signatures in 30 days, and the clock started ticking Thursday, June 1. If you’re in San Francisco, join us for a kickoff press conference on the steps of City Hall at noon Monday....
Posted: Sun, Jun 4, 2006 12:18am PDT
D5 Neighbors Protest Ellis Evictions Neighbors rallied at 1530 McAllister Street yesterday to protest Ellis Act evictions in District Five. The crowd quickly swelled to over 50 people. Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi called for an end to these immoral evictions and emphasized the need to protect the diversity of the Western Addition....
Posted: Sat, Jun 3, 2006 11:27am PDT
Another Hunters Point Shipyard cover-up In 2000, 87 percent of San Francisco voters passed Proposition P, which stated that there should be no development on the Hunters Point Shipyard until all of it was cleaned up to residential standards. In the years since, the U.S. Navy, its contractor, environmental consulting and engineering company Tetra Tech EM, Inc., and the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, with its “master developer” Lennar/BVHP, have continuously violated those rules by “developing” sites that are hazardous not only ...
Posted: Fri, Jun 2, 2006 6:34am PDT
Tenants to Rally Against Ellis Act Eviction A group of tenants facing imminent eviction will demonstrate publicly today with demands that their McAllister St. building’s new owners rescind the evictions. Though the story is not uncommon in today’s San Francisco—a rent-controlled building converted to market-rate condominiums at the expense of its residents—the tenants are joined by a surprisingly large group of supporters who see this attempted Ellis Act eviction as a watershed....
Posted: Thu, Jun 1, 2006 9:32am PDT
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