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Lennar BVHP LLC is in deep shit and Mayor Gavin Newsom and his cronies continue to sell out the community in the Bayview Hunters Point. Fore most among the Blacks selling out the community Sophie Maxwell, Doris Vincent, Willie B. Kennedy, Aurelious Walker, Calvin Jones, and a host of other all Black Uncle Toms. Lennar BVHP LLC now wants to hold an emergency meeting to amend the Disposition and Development Agreement (DDA). They now want to make all of Parcel A and the proposed 1600 homes built...

One week after City Attorney Dennis Herrera disenfranchised over 33,000 San Franciscans by invalidating the Bayview referendum, over 100 Bayview residents and activists gathered at the corner of Third Street and Williams to protest, march and rally to save their neighborhood. “We’re marching because people spoke – and people have to be heard,” said Francisco DeCosta, Executive Director of Environmental Justice Advocacy, a local non-profit in the Bayview District. For decades, Bayview-Hunters ...

An article about writer and activist Janie Kryski and her farewell to KDRT Radio and her friends in Davis. Kryski an amazing person with many unique stories about her life, struggles, education, travels, friends and her travel adventures around the world. She is funny and fiesty! She hosted a radio program on KDRT Radio during the last year- Rolling with Janie. Tune in KDRT 101.5FM in Davis and hear her remarkable story. This interview will also replay on The Voice of Sacramento. Janie's...

As San Francisco struggles with the affordable housing crisis, some help may be along the way this November. California’s Proposition 1C, the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act, is a $2.85 billion affordable housing bond that will pay for much-needed assistance including shelters for battered women, housing for low-income seniors, and, especially helpful in the Tenderloin, funds for non-profit supportive housing units. Californians passed another housing bond in 2002 that created 10...

Local Tenants Rally To Save The Berkeley Housing Authority! Click on links below for updates and more information......

Oakland's Youth Are Being Moved Into Locations That Do Not Provide Adequate Supervision For The Teenagers In Need!...

“This is a last-ditch effort to deny the people the right to take part in their government.” That’s what I’m telling the press who are calling in response to news received just this morning that the San Francisco City Attorney has issued a 13-page opinion claiming to invalidate the referendum petition on the Bayview Hunters Point Redevelopment Plan. According to City Attorney Dennis Herrera, the opinion was requested by Mayor Gavin Newsom, Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, District...

Under a new ordinance passed in Fresno today, the man in the above photo, could be arrested, fined $1,000, and spend up to a year in jail. It does not matter that the police could not prove that he was not returning this abandoned shopping cart to a grocery store. The ordinance says that if you are in possession of a shopping cart, away from the business that owns it, you could be arrested, fined, and jailed. Photo by Chris Schneider...

Fresno's Division of Community Sanitation will meet next week to deal with what they call the developing situation with the city's homeless....

Life will get much worse for residents of San Francisco's 6,000 public housing units if Congress doesn't take action now. Properties that are already in dire need of major repairs, more security services, improved management and more housing units will futher deteriorate if the latest HUD budget cuts remain unopposed. This year's federal assault on low-income housing comes in the form of $600 million dollars in cuts to the public housing operating budget. This is the only money that local hou...