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Guns and Youngstas -- Three Youth Perspectives San Francisco recently passed a law banning the ownership of handguns; across the Bay in the Berkeley hills, a teen was stabbed at a party attended by more than 100 young people. New America Media contributor Geanise James, 16, remembers a house party she threw with her friends in Oakland that ended in gunfire. Lil E, 16, talks about why he doesn't carry a gun right now, and Lil' Chopper, 17, explains why he does. Geanice and Lil' E are writers for YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia -- Lil' Chopper...
Posted: Wed, Feb 15, 2006 7:35am PST
3/7: STOP EVICTIONS IN BAYVIEW-HUNTERS POINT PLEASE DISTRIBUTE FAR AND WIDE!! A CALL TO ACTION!!
STOP EVICTIONS IN BAYVIEW-HUNTERS POINT
TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 4:00 p.m.
ROOM 416, CITY HALL, S.F....
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 11:11pm PST
"Have a Heart" Katrina Evacuee Press Conference TUESDAY "Have a Heart" Katrina Evacuee Press Conference
February 14th, Valentine's Day 4:00pm...
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 10:32pm PST
Eviction notice served on Bayview Hunters Point The cop who supervised the gang of police who beat and molested five children in Hunters Point on Martin Luther King Day 2002 gave us notice: “As long as you people are here, we will act like this,” he told the children’s terrified parents....
Posted: Fri, Feb 10, 2006 6:30pm PST
Affordable Housing Revision Tabled San Francisco’s Planning Commission voted Thursday to recommend that the Board of Supervisors table a proposed revision of affordable housing regulation until the results of a pending study are released this summer....
Posted: Fri, Feb 10, 2006 6:29pm PST
Why it matters that families are fleeing San Francisco We are child advocates, and we stand for the simple idea that our children ought to be our highest value. We believe that children are precious beyond measure and that any successful society invests its best resources and hopes in the success of its children....
Posted: Fri, Feb 10, 2006 6:35am PST
The Anti-Liquor Store Movement: an interview with Yusef Bey IV of Your Black Muslim Bakery The anti-liquor store movement in Oakland is part of the new Blackpower era that is emerging in Oakland. A few months ago, some brothas ran up in two liquor stores in North Oakland and threw all of the liquor that was being sold on the ground. That one action kicked off a movement that has Muslims from every faith involved. A Muslim brotha at the "Muslims against so-called Muslim-owned liquor stores" rally told me that 90 percent of Oakland's 930-plus liquor stores are owned by so-c...
Posted: Fri, Feb 10, 2006 6:32am PST
As Families Leave SF, Land for Affordable Housing Grows Scarce Mission District activists released a study yesterday that shows that only eight of 287 condominium units recently built in the Mission house families with children. The report by the Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition calls on the Board of Supervisors to reject at today’s meeting proposed new condos at 2660 Harrison Street, and urges the Planning Commission to assess the cumulative impacts of the production of market-rate housing in the Mission....
Posted: Tue, Feb 7, 2006 10:00am PST
New Orleans: The American Disaster A week-long series of panels and workshops examining the institutionalized disparities magnified by Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Mon, Feb 6, 2006 7:49pm PST
Disaster Capitalism After Katrina (2/21) "Come on Home" documentary video on Katrina reconstruction --- disaster capitalism in action!...
Posted: Mon, Feb 6, 2006 5:03pm PST
KATRINA ACTION ON FEMA TUESDAY Action Alert
For Tuesday, February 7th, Noon to 1:00pm
Corner of Broadway & 11th Street in Oakland...
Posted: Sat, Feb 4, 2006 8:40pm PST
rent strike Ceres,Ca. Mobile home park (audio/mpeg 7.4MB) Audio interview with rent strikers Colony Park Estates. Ceres,Calif. 12min. mp3...
Posted: Sat, Feb 4, 2006 4:58pm PST
Bang4Change 2006 ! Human & Civil Right Revival Fest, 2-25 SF Civic Center Plaza Bang4Change 2006 ! Human & Civil Right Revival Fest, 2-25 SF Civic Center Plaza, noon to five !...
Posted: Sat, Feb 4, 2006 1:54am PST
ACORN Demands Money Mart End Predatory Tax Practices For over two years, ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) has been waging a campaign to change the practices at individual tax preparers. The group has won reductions in the prices of Refund Anticipation Loans (RALs) and other refund products at the three largest tax preparation companies in the country - H&R Block, Jackson Hewitt, and Liberty Tax - and has won improvements in the disclosures and information that these companies provide to their customers about the...
Posted: Fri, Feb 3, 2006 7:34am PST
Muslim coalition marches through West Oakland to rally at Frank Ogawa On a chilly Saturday morning, dozens of concerned Muslims from throughout the Bay Area assembled at Defremery – aka Lil Bobby Hutton – Park in West Oakland, despite inevitable rainfall, to address the issue of Muslim-owned liquor stores in poor neighborhoods....
Posted: Fri, Feb 3, 2006 7:33am PST
The Worker Health Care Ordinance Money was the hot topic at the Budget and Finance Committee meeting yesterday. All were in agreement that every worker should have the right to adequate medical coverage, and supported Supervisor Tom Ammiano’s Worker Health Care Security Ordinance. Small business owners fear that the money they would have to spend on health care will destroy their businesses. Also, citizens worry that if employers do not fund this project, taxpayers will have to make up the difference....
Posted: Thu, Feb 2, 2006 8:00am PST
Tonight in Oakland: Finding our Folk Sendoff >
> FINDING OUR FOLK - OAKLAND SEND OFF
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> Wednesday, February 1st, 7-9pm
> Ella Baker Center, 344 40th Street, Oakland
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Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 4:13pm PST
Law Suit: Housing Authority Abuses Citizenship Question [Note: By the time this story reaches it's reading audience during the month of February, please be aware that an Injunction has just been filed in Federal Court in an effort to stop the Oakland Housing Authority from violating Federal Law.]...
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 1:52am PST
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