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Oakland Tenants Declare Big Victories On July 19th, California ACORN announced victories on demands to equal language access in local government. The Tenant's United Chapter in Oakland received confirmation from the City Administrator's office that the City will be putting a multi-lingual message on the Code Enforcement answering machine for non-English speakers to leave messages and file complaints. There will be more multi-lingual operators/staff on the phones to field calls from non-English speakers Oakland ACORN also won mass...
Posted: Fri, Jul 29, 2005 6:38am PDT
Labor, Housing, Arts Advocates United in Opposition to SF Tourist Hotel Conversions More than one hundred union members and supporters sat alongside housing rights advocates in a packed Land Use Committee meeting yesterday to voice their support for legislation barring the conversion of tourist hotel rooms into luxury condominiums. The legislation, forwarded by Supervisor Aaron Peskin, comes in response to efforts by the Fairmont Hotel to sell off almost half their rooms as residences. The Committee forwarded the proposal on without objection after hearing from a variety of ...
Posted: Thu, Jul 28, 2005 8:00am PDT
Homeless die in Arizona heat wave In Phoenix, Arizona last week at least 21 people, 14 of whom have been identified as homeless, have died from exposure to extreme temperatures in excess of 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Centigrade). In addition, at least 13 undocumented immigrants have died trying to cross the desert region on the Arizona-Mexico border. Temperatures have exceeded 100 degrees in Phoenix for weeks on end, with 14 days in July having highs of 110 degrees or more....
Posted: Tue, Jul 26, 2005 8:20am PDT
Peskin to Request City to Enter Fight Over Important Tenant’s Rights Case Supervisor Aaron Peskin will present a resolution to the Board of Supervisors today calling for the City Attorney’s office to weigh in on a controversial tenant’s rights case currently on its way to the California Supreme Court. The outcome of the case, Action Apartment Association vs. City of Santa Monica, could potentially make wrongful eviction lawsuits far more difficult, opening the door for landlords to harass, threaten, and evict tenants without providing them legal recourse. Peskin’s ...
Posted: Tue, Jul 26, 2005 8:10am PDT
Bringing Technology To The Poor Local Man's Effort To Bring Technology To The Poor......
Posted: Sun, Jul 24, 2005 11:14pm PDT
Court Hands Tenants Massive Victory in TIC Battle Judge Charlene Mitchell gave San Francisco tenants a major victory today, ruling against a group of real estate speculators who tried to evict the residents of 424-434 Francisco Street. Mitchell declared that the speculator’s creation of TICs in a building of 5 or more units with the intent of evicting the tenants from their homes and then selling their units individually, without first obtaining a public report form the Department of Real Estate (DRE), constituted unfair business practices. ...
Posted: Fri, Jul 22, 2005 6:25am PDT
Can you legislate morality? If you believe decdes of seasoning from Brown vs. Board of Education made America more moral, then you may understand how the World Service Corps congressional proposals could do that again for America and the world....
Posted: Mon, Jul 18, 2005 9:22pm PDT
‘Folks back home’ defend Social Security from Republicans PITTSBURGH — “Dear congressperson: What part of ‘no privatization, no private accounts to replace Social Security’ don’t you understand?”...
Posted: Sat, Jul 16, 2005 11:28am PDT
Hunger in California’s Central Valley: rising poverty in leading food-producing region According to a report released by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Center for Health Policy Research in June, the pains of poverty are sharpening in California with hunger and food insecurity on the rise in the state. In the cruelest of ironies, the study found that some of the worst conditions in the state prevail among the poor and working poor in the Central Valley region of San Joaquin County—one of the nation’s centers of agricultural production....
Posted: Sat, Jul 16, 2005 11:26am PDT
Spazport is being evicted tuesday Remember that thing you left there, go get before the sherriff's come and take it. Another community space destroyed by gentrification and Berkeley progressive pogroms....
Posted: Fri, Jul 15, 2005 2:54pm PDT
CCAP public action against slumlord
The community will take direct Action Against Oakland/Berkeley Slumlord on Friday July 15th in Downtown Oakland...
Posted: Fri, Jul 15, 2005 11:28am PDT
Poverty, Capitalism, & Mental Health Stumbling across The Modesto Bee/LocalNews section, i couldnt help but to diagree with Modesto Bee's typical "Headline", misleading, additude towards a recent woman taking her life because of her struggle with Mental Illness, abusive upbringing, being poor, ect (yeah, ect.). Over focus on the fact that she wore a lot of black clothing & not enough emphasis on her baddering father & other disease breeding, enhaling enviornmental catastrophies. R.I.P. Mary Jesus!...
Posted: Thu, Jul 14, 2005 7:02pm PDT
San Jose Medical Center Site Community Forum San Jose Medical Center Site
(formerly located at 14th and Santa Clara)
Community Forum
Sunday July 24th at 2 pm...
Posted: Tue, Jul 12, 2005 9:46pm PDT
America Awakens to Redevelopment Nightmare On June 23, millions of middle-class Americans learned from the Supreme Court what the nation's poor have long known : Redevelopment Agencies have virtually total power over property within their jurisdiction. The ruling upholding New London, Conn's right to demolish people's homes to enrich private developers has led progressives like Congressmembers Maxine Waters and John Conyers to join conservatives in demanding that Redevelopment's power be curtailed. But as any former property owner vic...
Posted: Thu, Jul 7, 2005 12:40pm PDT
July 23rd! Smash the State - Build the Community! Why we are Occupying Tower Park! ...
Posted: Tue, Jun 28, 2005 3:09pm PDT
Permaculture and Peak Oil Peak Oil and Permaculture explains the dynamics of the impending peak in global oil production and the implications for Australian society. Declining energy availability will spell the end of global economic growth and the consumerist culture it supports....
Posted: Mon, Jun 27, 2005 9:13pm PDT
Reclaim the Parks! Reclaim Modesto! Occupy Tower Park to demand the city disclose what happened to funds that were supposed to go towards an emergency shelter! The emergency still is not over, with hundereds of people needing places to sleep, and warm food to eat....
Posted: Sun, Jun 26, 2005 1:13am PDT
BTL:Shortage of Nurses in U.S. Connected to Cost-Cutting, Restructuring and... ...Disrespect ~ Interview with Suzanne Gordon, author and journalist, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Fri, Jun 24, 2005 4:42am PDT
House prices Soaring house prices have given a huge boost to the world economy. What
happens when they drop?
PERHAPS the best evidence that America's house prices have reached dangerous
levels is the fact that house-buying mania has been plastered on the front
of virtually every American newspaper and magazine over the past month. Such
bubble-talk hardly comes as a surprise to our readers. We have been warning
for some time that the price of housing was rising at an alarming rate all
around the g...
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 4:23pm PDT
Fare strike action in Auckland, New Zealand The following is taken from 'New From Nowhere,' an excellent anti-capitalist info source in Auckland, New Zealand.
http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/nfn...
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 1:28pm PDT
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