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Housing Justice Village Arrestees Respond to Jailing by City of Oakland 
In a political show of force, the city of Oakland directed a small army of police to mass arrest and jail 22 housing rights demonstrators on November 24, for nothing more than setting up tents in front of city hall to protest the city's never ending war against the homeless. Most arrestees spent at least 24 hours in Santa Rita, and some remained jailed for over two days, on what would otherwise be a citable infraction. On December 2, arrestees held a press conference to address the city's ...
Posted: Thu, Dec 26, 2019 12:22am PST
Tenant screening companies wage war on tenants with blacklists 
Tenant screening companies and landlords depend on Experian, Equinox, and TransUnion to get the information they depend on to be able to blacklist tenants all across the nation, resulting in tenants becoming homeless and living in tent cities!...
Posted: Wed, Dec 25, 2019 10:24pm PST
Winter Shelter Suggestions for Community Action 
Here's the flyer version of a regularly updated series of suggestions I make when announcing my twice-weekly netcast show on Free Radio Santa Cruz at freakradio.org. The shows are archived as audible files at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html with content summarized at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/category/huff-communications/ ....
Posted: Wed, Dec 25, 2019 8:15pm PST
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Orders Mass Arrest of Housing Justice Village Protesters 
An inspirational day of solidarity with unhoused Oaklanders turned into a traumatic night after mayor Libby Schaaf directed a small army of police and DPW workers to smash a housing rights protest held on the doorstep of City Hall. For daring to challenge the Oakland's never ending war against the homeless — the city's encampment demolitions and evictions, the towing of residential vehicles, and a lack of earnestness and urgency in addressing the housing crisis — twenty-two people were arres...
Posted: Mon, Dec 23, 2019 8:14pm PST
Memorial to Remember Those Who Died on Our Streets 
Outside the Downtown Post Office at Front and Water Streets in Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Sat, Dec 21, 2019 4:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Dec 19, 2019 2:43pm PST
Winter Shelter Demands for Law Enforcement 
These flyers are being distributed to encourage the community to contact police and politicians and demand a sane, compassionate and lawful winter policy regarding those outside in public places. They include a Sentinel opinion piece exposing criminal inaction regarding Winter Shelter by the Santa Cruz City Council...
Posted: Wed, Dec 18, 2019 10:49am PST
SCPD: Emergency Winter Demands for Homeless Survival 
Santa Cruz Police Station 155 Center St....
Event Date: Wed, Dec 18, 2019 2:00pm PST
Posted: Tue, Dec 17, 2019 7:19am PST
Support needed for emergency rental assistance program to fight evictions 
Help may be on the way to fight back against evictions if enough people support some legislation that would fund what is known as the eviction crisis act, also known as the emergency rental assistance program!...
Posted: Mon, Dec 16, 2019 9:28pm PST
The unhoused continue to have protections for sleeping on public property 
A 2008 photo of some low-income tenants in front of the California Hotel in Oakland, fighting back against their evictions by the John Stewart Company & the now dissolved Oakland Community Housing, INC. (OCHI), that would have made them homeless! Photo by Lydia Gans...
Posted: Mon, Dec 16, 2019 5:18pm PST
March For Housing Now Confronts MacArthur Commons in Oakland 
The East Bay Housing Justice Week of Action included Moms4Housing reclaiming a West Oakland home, demonstrations at Citibank and Wells Fargo on Broadway downtown, and housing rights banner hangs, among other actions. On November 23, a large March for Housing Now confronted the economic injustices represented by the new high-end MacArthur Commons housing complex....
Posted: Mon, Dec 16, 2019 1:40am PST
Interview with Dominique Walker and Sameerah Karim of Moms4Housing on Move-In Day (video/mp4 66.4MB) On November 18, two mothers without shelter, born and raised in Oakland, took possession of a vacant investor-owned property in West Oakland. Here, Dominique Walker and Sameerah Karim speak about the economic hardships of life in today's Oakland and how much this opportunity means to them and their families....
Posted: Sun, Dec 15, 2019 5:39pm PST
Being There Activist Carol Denney e-mailed me this account which she is also sending to the Berkeley Daily Planet. She writes the satirical Pepper Spray Times (available on line at Berkeleydailyplanet.com), sings, composes, and copwatches among other things....
Posted: Fri, Dec 13, 2019 4:58pm PST
Poor People’s Campaign In Night March From City Hall 
Photos: Leon Kunstenaar, Pro Bono Photo
Call for moral revival: “Poverty in the midst of wealth is a sin.”...
Posted: Thu, Dec 12, 2019 6:22pm PST
Emergency Life & Death Staffing Crisis At SFGH: SEIU1021 Nurses Speak At SF Board of Sups 
SEIU 1021 San Francisco General Hospital nurses spoke at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on 12-10-19 about severe health and safety conditions for the patients and staff....
Posted: Thu, Dec 12, 2019 9:34am PST
City Council Ducks Again: Two Speeches 
Outgoing Mayor Watkins refused group presentations Tuesday evening. Incoming Mayor Cummings and "Progressive" Councilmember Brown joined the Watkins muzzling of public comment by reducing Oral Communications from two minutes to ninety seconds. These are the full speeches I wrote exposing the Council and their CACH's attacks on survival campers....
Posted: Wed, Dec 11, 2019 10:03pm PST
Sonoma County Living Wage This is about whether or not the Sonoma County living wage is really a living wage, $11 making it hard for families to live comfortably....
Posted: Tue, Dec 10, 2019 3:27pm PST
Open Letter to Two Mayors The letter conveys numerous demands to outgoing Mayor Watkins and incoming Mayor Justin Cummings regarding the immediate need at the 12-10 Council meeting for emergency action...
Posted: Tue, Dec 10, 2019 8:36am PST
Oakland’s Homeless Efforts Are “Inefficient,” Often “Harm More Than Help,” Advocates Say 
Community members and the Oakland City Council came together this week to look at the successes and failures of ongoing local attempts to grapple with the city’s rapidly growing homelessness emergency and to propose comprehensive solutions that so far have remained elusive....
Posted: Mon, Dec 9, 2019 8:33pm PST
Winter Demands in Response to the Camping Ordinance Being Considered 
HUFF, Conscience and Action, Food Not Bombs and the Santa Cruz Homeless Union demand:...
Posted: Sun, Dec 8, 2019 5:31pm PST
A Renters’ Victory in Madera 
Renters, activists and supporters talk to the media before the Madera City Hall meeting on Nov. 20. City Council Member Santos Garcia is at the right of the image. Photo by Eduardo Stanley...
Posted: Thu, Dec 5, 2019 7:55pm PST
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