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Goodbye Old Year, Good Riddance Page Mill Properties! 
In one last rally for the year 2009, housing activists said a long overdue "good riddance" to mega-landlord Page Mill. They raised cups of sparkling apple juice and pledged to continue working for rent relief for Page Mill tenants.
Photos and reporting by Ruth Robertson...
Posted: Thu, Dec 31, 2009 4:52pm PST
Western Workers Labor Heritage Festival 2010 
A weekend long celebration of worker's struggles and the Civil Rights Movement. Bringing together song, spoken word, video and theater....
Posted: Sat, Dec 26, 2009 9:39pm PST
Christmas at the Day Worker Center in Mountain View 
Christmas is bittersweet for Maria Marroquin this year. As Executive Director of the Day Worker Center of Mountain View, she looks back at the financially bleak 2009 with high hopes for the promise 2010 holds.
Photo by R. Robertson: Maria at a celebration with day laborers and supporters....
Posted: Thu, Dec 24, 2009 12:46am PST
Detroit Auto Show West Event At Tesla Motor’s Menlo Park Dealership 
Tesla Motors Inc. Menlo Park Dealership
300 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025
(650) 413-6250
For information from Tesla Motors Inc. call 650-413-4000
http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS310&q=tesla+motors+menlo+park+dealership&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=...
Event Date: Sat, Jan 9, 2010 11:30am PST
Posted: Mon, Dec 21, 2009 12:01pm PST
IATSE Local 44 Movie Propmaker Steve Basile At Tesla Motors To Report On Downey Toxic Dump 
IATSE Local 44 movie propmaker Steve Basile and his wife went to Tesla Motors in San Carlos, California on Dec 10, 2009 to report on the dangers at the highly toxic dump site. Tesla is considering building a green auto assembly plant on the site despite the fact that many movie and Kaiser hospital workers have become seriously ill at the toxic site. He was joined by his wife Skye Ashly and other injured workers and their advocates....
Posted: Mon, Dec 14, 2009 7:27am PST
Tesla "Not Rushing Into Anything" as They Decide on Venue for Electric Car Plant 
Tesla Motors' VP of Communications Ricardo Reyes assured activists from the California Coalition for Workers Memorial Day that Tesla "wants to make an informed decision as we grow the company" and will not rush to a decision on a location for an auto assembly plant. The activists are questioning the use of Department of Energy Funds for Tesla to build a green assembly plant on a toxic site in Downey, California. They visited Tesla's headquarters in San Carlos, California today.
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Posted: Thu, Dec 10, 2009 9:41pm PST
Public Option Gone: Peanuts for Healthcare, Billions for Insurance Companies 
As the Senate debates continue over health care reform, advocates of a Medicare for All plan for the nation say that what the Senate has come up so far is "peanuts for the people". They fear that insurance company interests will continue to be protected....
Posted: Tue, Dec 8, 2009 10:39pm PST
12/10/2009 Press Conference At World Tesla Headquarters About Injured Workers On Auto Site 
On Thursday at 2:00 PM at the world headquarters of the "green" electric car Tesla, injured workers from Downey, California will report on the continuing contamination and dangerous working conditions on the southern California Downey site. Hundreds of movie workers and Kaiser Downey hospital workers have been sickened by the failure of the City and toxic site developer Stuart Lichter have not properly cleaned up the site. Downey city officials have covered up the illnesses at the Downey toxi...
Posted: Tue, Dec 8, 2009 7:56pm PST
Palo Alto Protest of Obama's Escalation of the Afghanistan War 
Members of the Palo Alto community gathered in front of Democratic Representative Anna Eshoo's office on Emerson Street, Wednesday evening, to protest Obama's escalation of the Afghanistan war and to urge Congresswoman Eshoo to vote against any further funding of the war. The event was sponsered by the Penninsula Peace and Justice Center....
Posted: Thu, Dec 3, 2009 9:42pm PST
Protesters Demand East Palo Alto City Council Intervene in Landlord Dispute 
East Palo Alto residents and tenant rights supporters surrounded city council members one by one as they attempted to enter City Hall for a meeting on December 1.
Top Photo: Demonstrators on the steps of city hall, wait for council members to arrive....
Posted: Tue, Dec 1, 2009 9:32pm PST
Thanks Anna 
Move On members gathered to thank Anna Eshoo for supporting health care reform....
Posted: Sat, Nov 14, 2009 12:35am PST
Struggle to Recover from Rent Overcharges in East Palo Alto Continues 
The struggle continues for the victims of a major predatory equity scheme. Tenants concerned not only for themselves, but for former neighbors who were forced out of East Palo Alto properties, gathered to launch a series of actions to roll back rents and work together to recover their losses.
Top photo: A West Park Apartments neighbor called on community members to draw on the support of one another in their time of emotional and economic need....
Posted: Wed, Nov 4, 2009 8:44pm PST
Rally to Roll the Rents Back in East Palo Alto 
Today's rally was the the launch of weekly actions until rents are rolled back in East Palo Alto. Page Mill Properties, with their financial mismanagement and blatant disregard for the city's rent stabilization ordinance, is at the core of the problem. Now that Page Mill is in receivership and may go belly up, court-appointed Ward Realty is in control. Even with new management, the tenants see little relief in site....
Posted: Wed, Nov 4, 2009 7:05pm PST
Labor Stands With ACORN Despite recent negative news reports, the activist group ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) continues to advocate for poor and working class people in California and around the U.S....
Posted: Thu, Oct 29, 2009 11:22am PDT
Raging Grannies Sing "Save the Polar Bears" on Climate Action Day (video/mp4 14.3MB) Lyrics Below and also as subtitles in this 1:13 movie
Sung by members of the Raging Grannies Action League in Menlo Park, CA on Oct 24, 2009...
Posted: Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:00pm PDT
Raging Grannies in US & Canada Sing Out on Day of Action for Climate Clean-Up 
American and Canadian Raging Grannies sang a song written especially for this international day of action for the planet.
Top Photo: In Menlo Park, California, Raging Grannies sang for the city's Green Ribbon Committee about "cool roofs" and how they can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Find out more about cool roofs at the website here. http://bayareacool.org/...
Posted: Sun, Oct 25, 2009 12:25am PDT
CalPERS Loses $600M in Predatory Schemes that Relied on Mass Displacement of Tenants CalPERS will lose hundreds of millions of dollars in predatory real estate investment schemes according to recent reports in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the San Jose Mercury News, and other publications. What has not been adequately reported is that these schemes are classic examples of what housing advocates call “predatory equity,” over leveraged investments that rely on the displacement of tenants from rent-regulated housing in order to turn profits....
Posted: Tue, Oct 20, 2009 1:20pm PDT
Billionaires for Wealthcare at Republican Fundraiser (video/mp4 51.6MB) 4 Min Video. The Billionaires for Wealthcare were appalled to come upon the Raging Grannies mooning good American citizens driving into the Stanford Park Hotel to attend a fundraising event for the Republican National Convention! The Billionaires embarked upon a counter protest. See the confrontation of the two groups in Menlo Park, California on October 12, 2009....
Posted: Sun, Oct 18, 2009 2:39pm PDT
Live-In Domestic Worker Wins Settlement in Federal Lawsuit Against Wealthy Bay Area Couple For four years Vilma Serralta, a 71-year-old immigrant from El Salvador, worked more than 80 hours a week as a live-in housekeeper and nanny in the nearly 10,000-square foot Atherton home of Silicon Valley entrepreneur Sakhawat Khan and his wife Roomy, a private investor. Yet they paid Ms. Serralta a monthly salary equivalent to between $3 and $4 per hour - far below the minimum wage at the time of $6.75 per hour. Ms. Serralta, who was regularly required to work 14 hours a day, six days a wee...
Posted: Wed, Oct 14, 2009 8:45pm PDT
Raging Grannies v. Billionaires at Republican Fundraising Luncheon 
It was the Raging Grannies versus Billionaires for Wealthcare outside the Stanford Park Hotel where John Boehner was speaking to a $1,000 per plate Republican crowd in Menlo Park today....
Posted: Mon, Oct 12, 2009 5:55pm PDT
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