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Public housing tenants to pay higher rents Many public housing tenants are now facing major rent increases according to Section 210 of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Appropriations Act of 2014. The FY 2014 omnibus appropriations bill (H.R. 3547) affecting public housing tenants was passed by a Senate vote of 72 to 26 on January 16, 2014, and shortly after was signed into law by President Obama....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2014 3:10am PDT
National Day of Solidarity with Albuquerque, May 10th On May 10th, we are calling out for a nationwide display of Solidarity with the people of Albuquerque, James Boyd, The strikers behind prison walls, and all of those who have been murdered and imprisoned under the guise of ‘the justice system’. We are calling out for a nationwide display of resistance against a society that wishes to incarcerate us, kill us, beat us, and repress us. Spread this everywhere, and organize this everywhere! Link up with friends, large or small, and do the fuckin t...
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2014 5:49pm PDT
Announcing the Qilombo Community Social Center Grand Opening In January of 2014, the Holdout temporarily closed its doors to do some serious cleaning. Now that the space has gone through several transitions, it’s time to reopen as a radical social center that supports community in struggle–with new energy and a new name....
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2014 10:18am PDT
An Open Letter to Bay Area Anarchists An ugly precedent has been set by the episode of crude authoritarian behavior at the 2014 SF Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair...
Posted: Fri, Apr 4, 2014 8:47pm PDT
Groups Help Acquire 79 Acres of Key Open Space, Wildlife Habitat in North Livermore LIVERMORE, Calif.— The Center for Biological Diversity and the Alameda Creek Alliance have contributed to the public acquisition of open space in North Livermore that’s home to rare wildlife and alkaline soil plant species. The East Bay Regional Park District this week approved the purchase of a 79-acre private parcel known as “Eddie’s Flat” adjacent to the western edge of Brushy Peak Regional Preserve. This expands an important wildlife corridor, protects populations of several rare plants t...
Posted: Fri, Apr 4, 2014 6:23pm PDT
Apple and Google busses blocked in Oakland Report of action at Alameda/Oakland border...
Posted: Tue, Apr 1, 2014 10:24am PDT
Why we are Striking An Open Letter to University of California Grad Students...
Posted: Mon, Mar 31, 2014 5:33pm PDT
HUD grants $1.8 billion to local housing authorities and elsewhere In California, 52 housing agencies are receiving a total of $69,788,666 in capital funds from HUD to repair and maintain their public housing units. According to HUD, California currently has 38,719 public housing units, and on average this works out to be around $1,802.43 in capital funds being available to repair and maintain these public housing units. However, all PHAs are not equal, and it turns out that some PHAs will receive more in capital funds for their public housing units than ot...
Posted: Sun, Mar 23, 2014 11:40pm PDT
Problems of U.S. Anarchism: A Lack of Engagement with the Larger World Here's a telling example of the terminal disengagement of our cultural identity zone from the larger society around us......
Posted: Sat, Mar 22, 2014 9:53am PDT
Possible fraud may be occurring at the Berkeley Housing Authority? According to public records, on March 19, 2014, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has given the Berkeley Housing Authority $112,334 in capital funds to repair and improve their public housing units. As noble of a cause as that may sound, it should be noted that on March 13, 2014, the Berkeley Housing Authority announced that it has sold and transfered all of it's public housing units to the Related Companies on February 14, 2014. Now that Berkeley's public housing units ha...
Posted: Sat, Mar 22, 2014 4:41am PDT
Why Summer Reese Is Still The Executive Director Of The Pacifica Foundation January 30th 2014, Pacifica foundation signed a 3 year contract for Executive Director with Summer Reese. The relevant parts of that employment contract show why Summer Reese remains the Executive Director in spite of actions taken by “the board” * on March 13th....
Posted: Wed, Mar 19, 2014 11:55pm PDT
Berkeley public housing tenants speak out about billionaire takeover Billionaires made out like some fat rats in public housing takeover. Public records reveal that the out-of-state billionaires got a sweet deal for their efforts to grab Berkeley's public housing units from the poor. It cost The Related Company around $35 million to buy Berkeley's 75 public housing units, at a cost that works out to be around $99 per square foot, even though the median price of housing in Berkeley is currently going for around $454 per square foot....
Posted: Tue, Mar 18, 2014 10:59pm PDT
info on conflict at Pacifica Here are some messages put out on March 17 which may help to inform KPFA listeners and others about the events now taking place at the Pacifica National office, and at the recent PNB meeting which attempted to fire the current Executive Director, Summer Reese....
Posted: Tue, Mar 18, 2014 6:11pm PDT
What is going on at KPFA/Pacifica? Last week, I believe Friday, 3/14/14, the 6 p.m. news announced Summer Reese, a director of the Pacifica National Board that oversees the 5 stations that include KPFA, was terminated from employment immediately. Today, the 6 p.m. news announced she had been padlocked out, had the good sense to have the padlocks removed, and the infamous Margy Wilkinson, who sits on the Local Station Board, has allegedly volunteered for the same position. Meanwhile, there have been no LSB elections as was re...
Posted: Mon, Mar 17, 2014 7:24pm PDT
Billionaires take control of Berkeley's public housing Out-of-state billionaires Jorge M. Perez and Stephen M. Ross of The Related Companies took control of Berkeley's 75 public housing units on February 14, in a complicated deal that edged out local nonprofit housing developers. Many of Berkeley's low-income families have become displaced as a direct result of the sell out of Berkeley's 75 public housing units that originally were supposed to remain as public housing units into perpetuity, when they were built with taxpayer funding....
Posted: Sat, Mar 15, 2014 2:02am PDT
ALDF, PETA Sue to Stop Dangerous and Illegal California Great Bull Runs SAN FRANCISCO — Today, the national nonprofits Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) filed a lawsuit against the Great Bull Run and the Lone Star Rodeo in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The lawsuit aims to stop the Great Bull Run events currently scheduled in Northern and Southern California this summer—on June 21 at Temecula Downs Events Center in Riverside County, near Los Angeles, and July 26 at the Alameda...
Posted: Thu, Mar 13, 2014 4:13pm PDT
Operation LIPSTICK: A Case Study in Propaganda and Counterinsurgency Greetings from Boston! The below editorial is about a group called Operation LIPSTICK, which is basically a combo platter of snitch recruitment tool and propaganda platform disguised as an anti-violence program that has cropped up back here in the last few months. Sadly it's not just confined to Boston anymore - they have already had one meeting in San Mateo and are reportedly targeting Oakland. Hence we are reposting the editorial here to give y'all a heads up. Best of luck, Boston IMC...
Posted: Thu, Mar 13, 2014 1:49pm PDT
Occupy the Farm rally in response to City Council decision March 12 For Immediate Release
March 7, 2014...
Posted: Sat, Mar 8, 2014 4:03am PST
Unchecked Mass Surveillance of the Entire City of Oakland is Not OK The following letter was sent to the Oakland City Council via electronic mail re: Domain Awareness Center, Phase 2 Contract Award on March 4, 2014....
Posted: Tue, Mar 4, 2014 6:23pm PST
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