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Alameda County Public Defender Wins COVID-19 Release of More Than 300 Inmates 
OAKLAND, Thursday, March 19 – Lawyers with the Public Defender’s Office in collaboration with the Sheriff, prosecutors and courts have secured the release of more than 300 people because of the threat of COVID-19 in Santa Rita County Jail....
Posted: Fri, Mar 27, 2020 3:16pm PDT
Learning from the Past, Preparing for the Future: Lessons from Depression-era Mutual Aid 
As coronavirus spreads and the death toll begins to climb, our most immediate concern is (and should remain) staying healthy and supporting our communities through the immediate crisis. As radicals, however, we must also begin to strategize how we will respond to the economic collapse that will continue to affect our lives long after a vaccine or herd immunity render the virus itself a past issue. Looking back to our local history, we can learn a great deal from Great Depression era worker se...
Posted: Fri, Mar 27, 2020 2:54pm PDT
No More "One Mask Per Shift"! SF NNU Nurses Demand Real Protection At St. Mary's Hospital 
San Francisco NNU CNA nurses rallied on 3/26/20 outside St. Mary's hospital to protest the management's order use the same mask all day which threatens the health and safety of nurses and patients. They collected donated masks and also were angry against the CDC regulations which have been downgraded threatening their health....
Posted: Thu, Mar 26, 2020 6:13pm PDT
2020 Scenes from a Pandemic: Lockdown Pt. II 
Photo credits as indicated go to: Wesley Chang, Ruth Robertson, Bob Shonkoff, and Teri Vershel. All for Pro Bono Photo. Top photo by Teri Vershel, Pro Bono Photo.
Part I of this story is at link below....
Posted: Thu, Mar 26, 2020 3:51am PDT
S.F. has 8,000 Homeless, 30,000 empty homes, 42,000 empty hotel rooms We are now seeing the boarding up of businesses in San Francisco, including the huge Sir Francis Drake Hotel near Union Square due to loss of tourist business. Meanwhile, San Francisco has an estimated 8,000 homeless, 30,000 empty homes and 42,000 empty hotel rooms. The homeless must be housed right now to save their lives from the coronavirus and to stop the epidemic. At https://sfunitedincrisis.org/, 100 medical professionals have a letter with their recommendations....
Posted: Wed, Mar 25, 2020 4:24pm PDT
San Francisco Dept of Public Health Site Offers Help to Everyone San Francisco now has 178 Coronavirus cases and for the first time today, 1 death. See the Department of Public Health website at https://www.sfdph.org/dph/alerts/coronavirus.asp The same website has all kinds of helpful tips good for everyone, no matter where you live, translated into Chinese, Filipino, Spanish, Arabic and Vietnamese....
Posted: Wed, Mar 25, 2020 10:13am PDT
2020 Scenes from a Pandemic: Lockdown Pt. I 
Please credit these Pro Bono Photo photographers as indicated:
Steve Disenhof, Mary Martin DeShaw, Jack Owicki, Rachel Podlishevsky and Terry Scussel.
Top Photo "East Bay Farmer's Market" by Mary Martin DeShaw....
Posted: Wed, Mar 25, 2020 2:11am PDT
Santa Cruz Police Prohibit Food Distribution to Homeless at Town Clock 
Santa Cruz Chief of Police Andrew Mills has addressed a cease and desist letter to Keith McHenry, the co-founder of Food Not Bombs, demanding McHenry, "cease feeding people at the clock tower immediately." Additionally, Police have issued a public notice to vacate the area of the Town Clock, which states that all personal belongings must be removed from the park by March 25 at 9 am. Since the Coronavirus/COVID-19 shelter in place order issued by the County took effect on March 17, Santa Cruz ...
Posted: Tue, Mar 24, 2020 3:29pm PDT
San Francisco Food Not Bombs Adds Sharings During Shelter In Place Order San Francisco Food Not Bombs expands its serving schedule during the shelter in place order....
Posted: Tue, Mar 24, 2020 2:09pm PDT
California Nurses Association protest in Oakland against lack of protective gear Last Friday, I watched around 4 first responders from a fire truck in Oakland respond to the needs of someone that was hauled off to the hospital. I was shocked that the first responders were not wearing any protective gear or N95 respirators. Barely three days later, nurses from the California Nurses Association and National Nurses United held a protest Monday evening March 23, in front of Kaiser Permanente in Oakland. They protested against the lack of protective gear and weakening of stand...
Posted: Tue, Mar 24, 2020 3:00am PDT
Real Estate Interests Seek Limits on Proposed Eviction Moratorium in Santa Cruz 
Santa Cruz Together is calling for a 90-day "repayment period" to be written into the proposed emergency eviction moratorium ordinance on the agenda of tomorrow's Santa Cruz City Council meeting. The ordinance seeks to, "protect the health, safety, and welfare of the larger community by preventing residential or commercial evictions for non-payment of rent as a result of economic losses related to the coronavirus pandemic to avoid further homelessness and loss of jobs and employment opportuni...
Posted: Mon, Mar 23, 2020 11:26pm PDT
AC Transit offers free bus service starting March 23, 2020 For those of you walking on the cool streets of Oakland, even though you may have been ordered to shelter-in-place, the good news is that AC Transit is offering free bus service starting today (March 23, 2020) until further notice for all of you who may be trying to get from one place to another!...
Posted: Mon, Mar 23, 2020 4:43pm PDT
All Marin Parks to be Closed Amid COVID-19 Spread 
Ignoring epidemic rules, crowds seeking recreation fill Marin's open areas. Food workers in delis and markets endangered....
Posted: Sun, Mar 22, 2020 11:11pm PDT
Five Demands for Emergency COVID-19 Survival 
With the Bay Area and now all of California on coronavirus lockdown, millions going without paychecks and health insurance, prisoners and unsheltered folks at great risk of contracting the virus, wheatpaste posters have gone up in Oakland making five reasonable demands to increase our collective chance at survival....
Posted: Sun, Mar 22, 2020 2:30pm PDT
Legality of shelter-in-place orders is questionable 
Coronavirus pandemic fears result in California Lock-down!...
Posted: Sat, Mar 21, 2020 5:14pm PDT
Jewish Activists Demand Governor Newsom Release Detainees In Light of Covid-19 Outbreak 
In a March 21 press release, Never Again Action Bay Area calls on Governor Newsom to take immediate steps to release migrants from unsanitary, overcrowded “death camp” detention centers...
Posted: Sat, Mar 21, 2020 11:29am PDT
Shutdown of Post Office Encampment After Denial of Portapotties & Wash Stations There Chief Mills and a dozen or more cops, rangers, and camp trashers moved on to evict and fence out the homeless tent-shelter-in-place encampment along Water St. near the Post Office. This "out of sight/out of town" policy, while claiming a public health rationale rings false given the lack of protected indoor shelter being offered in spite of the funding available....
Posted: Fri, Mar 20, 2020 7:57pm PDT
Food Not Bombs is still serving free food at People’s Park in Berkeley 
Food Not Bombs!...
Posted: Fri, Mar 20, 2020 5:30pm PDT
At Port of Oakland, ILWU Tells SAA We Want Health/Safety Protection from COVID-19 
ILWU Local 10 and 34 leaders and rank and file had a press conference in front of SSA in Oakland demanding that they have proper health and safety in their port jobs. Tra-Pack was forced to clean the equipment and they are demanding the same action from SSA. They also discussed the issue of the conditions of the Grand Princess Crew docked in Hunters Point...
Posted: Fri, Mar 20, 2020 5:01pm PDT
Station 40 on Rent Strike 
CrimethInc. talks to long running anarchist housing collective, Station 40, about their recent decision to launch a rent strike in San Francisco, California....
Posted: Fri, Mar 20, 2020 4:58pm PDT
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