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What is "S-COMM" (Secure Communities):
S-COMM is a US program somewhat similar to the state's program in Arizona: S.B.1070.
S-COMM cities must send the fingerprints of all persons arrested to ICE - the US immigration agency. That's "all persons" -- even those arrested for a minor offense, such as sitting on the sidewalk. And those later found innocent after trial? Tough! ICE got your fingerprints months before.
ICE says S-COMM is optional for cities. SF Sheriff Mike Hennessey and t...
Posted: Tue, Aug 10, 2010 8:08am PDT
Pierre Labossiere, a Haitian national, co-founder of the Haiti Action Committee, has been a long-time social-justice activist and advocate for the Lavalas Party of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, currently exiled in South Africa. Pierre has also been active in the campaigns to free political prisoners in Haiti and the U.S....
Posted: Sun, Aug 8, 2010 4:46pm PDT
What is "S-COMM" (Secure Communities):
S-COMM is a US program somewhat similar to the state's program in Arizona: S.B.1070.
S-COMM cities must send the fingerprints of all persons arrested to ICE - the US immigration agency. That's "all persons" -- even those arrested for a minor offense, such as sitting on the sidewalk. And those later found innocent after trial? Tough! ICE got your fingerprints months before.
ICE says S-COMM is optional for cities. SF Sheriff Mike Hennessey and t...
Posted: Sun, Aug 8, 2010 12:40pm PDT
Our guest, Gioioa von Disterlo, is the current Civil Rights Organizer at Coalition on Homelessness. She also works as a staff writer and writer facilitator for Poor Magazine. Gioioa has organized in San Francisco for seven years, and has worked on a range of community issues including abuse, disability, mental health, racism, queer institutional predation, global systems of oppression, and civil rights....
Posted: Fri, Aug 6, 2010 5:14pm PDT
What is "S-COMM" (Secure Communities):
S-COMM is a US program somewhat similar to the state's program in Arizona: S.B.1070.
S-COMM cities must send the fingerprints of all persons arrested to ICE - the US immigration agency. That's "all persons" -- even those arrested for a minor offense, such as sitting on the sidewalk. And those later found innocent after trial? Tough! ICE got your fingerprints months before.
ICE says S-COMM is optional for cities. SF Sheriff Mike Hennessey and t...
Posted: Fri, Aug 6, 2010 9:56am PDT
What is "S-COMM" (Secure Communities):
S-COMM is a US program somewhat similar to the state's program in Arizona: S.B.1070.
S-COMM cities must send the fingerprints of all persons arrested to ICE - the US immigration agency. That's "all persons" -- even those arrested for a minor offense, such as sitting on the sidewalk. And those later found innocent after trial? Tough! ICE got your fingerprints months before.
ICE says S-COMM is optional for cities. SF Sheriff Mike Hennessey and t...
Posted: Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:28pm PDT
What is "S-COMM" (Secure Communities):
S-COMM is a US program somewhat similar to the state's program in Arizona: S.B.1070.
S-COMM cities must send the fingerprints of all persons arrested to ICE - the US immigration agency. That's "all persons" -- even those arrested for a minor offense, such as sitting on the sidewalk. And those later found innocent after trial? Tough! ICE got your fingerprints months before.
ICE says S-COMM is optional for cities. SF Sheriff Mike Hennessey and t...
Posted: Wed, Aug 4, 2010 1:56pm PDT
The marchers find the Hotel Sierra open and waiting.
Seven-minute QT movie. 32MB.
RALLY AT 16TH & MISSIONPart IPart IIPart IIIMARCH TO THE SIERRA HOTELSHELTER by Dee Allen
OPEN HOUSE: This is Pt. VI: Open House at the Hotel Sierra, finally back in the business of providing shelter....
Posted: Mon, Aug 2, 2010 10:02am PDT
Dee Allen reads his poem, "Shelter," which he dedicates to the late English housing activist Colin Ward.
Two-minute QT movie. 9MB.
RALLY AT 16TH & MISSIONPart IPart IIPart IIIMARCH TO THE SIERRA HOTEL
SHELTER by Dee Allen: This is V, Dee's poem.
Open House at the Hotel Sierra...
Posted: Wed, Jul 28, 2010 6:15pm PDT
The July 19th rally ends and the march down Mission St. to the Hotel Sierra begins.
Three-minute QT movie. 25MB.
RALLY AT 16TH & MISSIONPart IPart IIPart III
MARCH TO THE SIERRA HOTEL: This is Pt. IV, the march.
SHELTER by Dee Allen
Open House at the Hotel Sierra...
Posted: Sun, Jul 25, 2010 11:42am PDT
On July 19th an unoccupied & locked hotel in San Francisco with 42 rooms is opened up so homeless people would have a place to sleep.
Eight-minute QT movie. 42MB.
RALLY AT 16TH & MISSIONPart IPart II
Part III - This is Pt. 3
MARCH TO THE SIERRA HOTEL
SHELTER by Dee Allen
Open House at the Hotel Sierra...
Posted: Sat, Jul 24, 2010 2:15pm PDT
On July 19th an unoccupied & locked hotel in San Francisco with 42 rooms is opened up so homeless people would have a place to sleep.
Seven-minute QT movie. 31MB.
RALLY AT 16TH & MISSIONPart I
Part II - This is Pt. 2
Part III
MARCH TO THE SIERRA HOTEL
SHELTER by Dee Allen
Open House at the Hotel Sierra...
Posted: Thu, Jul 22, 2010 3:19pm PDT
On July 19th an unoccupied & locked hotel in San Francisco with 42 rooms is opened up so homeless people would have a place to sleep. Five-minute QT movie. 24MB.
RALLY AT 16TH & MISSION
Part I - This is Pt. 1
Part II
Part III
MARCH TO THE SIERRA HOTEL
SHELTER by Dee Allen
Open House at the Hotel Sierra...
Posted: Thu, Jul 22, 2010 10:05am PDT
Our Guest, Ricardo Alvarez, is the medical director of Clinica Esperanza, the Mission Neighborhood Health Center's HIV clinic, a multidisciplinary clinic serving the needs of mostly Latino uninsured or underinsured HIV patients....
Posted: Sat, Jul 10, 2010 3:12pm PDT