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Court of Appeals Saves Tenant Activist’s Home
Jose Morales, well-known as “San Francisco’s most tenacious tenant,” prevailed at the California Court of Appeals yesterday to – once again – save his home from demolition. In the latest phase of a never-ending struggle for the 78-year-old activist, a unanimous three-judge panel affirmed a prior Court ruling that the San Francisco Planning Commission and the Board of Appeal did not abuse their discretion when they rejected his landlord’s permit to gut Jose’s building....
Posted: Tue, Mar 20, 2007 8:54am PDT
Fire in Hayes Valley District
An apartment building caught fire today around 5:10pm at 52 Page St....
Posted: Mon, Mar 19, 2007 11:58pm PDT
Trinity Plaza Faces Do or Die Vote at Supes Meeting Today
Seven months after being overwhelmingly approved by the San Francisco Planning Commission, the rebuilding of the Trinity Plaza Apartments at 8th and Market will finally get a full and fair hearing at the Monday, March 19 Land Use Committee. The outcome of the hearing will decide whether San Francisco builds its largest rental housing project in over 50 years, and whether hundreds of Trinity Plaza tenants get new, upgraded permanently rent-controlled units at their current, often well below-ma...
Posted: Mon, Mar 19, 2007 7:19am PDT
Stephen Dunifer speaking at the 12th annual Anarchist Bookfair (audio/mpeg 17.7MB)
Stephen Dunifer spoke on 3-17-07 at the 12th annual Anarchist Bookfair in San Francisco.
Stephen Dunifer is the founder of Free Radio Berkeley in Berkeley, California. Free Radio Berkeley, an unlicensed micropower pirate radio station, was involved in a protracted legal case with the Federal Communications Commission in the mid-1990s They were eventually acquitted of all charges, marking a major victory for micropower radio. FRB eventually stopped broadcasting and turned all their resources...
Posted: Sun, Mar 18, 2007 4:12pm PDT
Silicon Valley Economy Has 'Recovered,' but No One Told Us
Silicon Valley is supposed to be back on track after a six-year slump, but according to NAM contributing writer, Raj Jayadev, there is a permanent underclass in the area that is not benefiting from the "Sizzling" job market. Raj Jayadev is the director of Silicon Valley De-bug, a collective of writers, artists, workers and organizers in San Jose, Calif....
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 7:16am PDT
San Francisco Supervisors Should Take Control of Housing Authority
The scene has been happening for decades: low-income tenants complaining at City Hall hearings about the lack of repairs, inadequate staffing, and other problems in housing projects operated by the SF Housing Authority. As Supervisors earn cheers by vowing to make the Housing Authority perform its job, ignored is the question of why they and their colleagues have not stepped in to take responsibility for the failed agency. Progressives regularly bemoan the decline in San Francisco’s African-A...
Posted: Tue, Mar 13, 2007 8:01am PDT
Sunset Community Activist Wins Owner Move-In Trial
A local jury voted 11-1 yesterday to save the home of Susan Suval, a disabled tenant who has lived in her Sunset home for 26 years – after concluding that the landlord did not have a “good-faith” intent to move in. Even in San Francisco, owner move-in evictions can be difficult for tenants to win at trial because it generally boils down to the parties’ credibility – and there’s a prevailing feeling towards the right to live in your own property. Despite the City’s two-thirds tenant majority, ...
Posted: Tue, Mar 13, 2007 8:01am PDT
Free Screening-Katrina Survivor Documentary "Down but not Out" (3/25)
Free Screening- Katrina Survivor Documentary "Down but not out"
2940 16th st #207 San Francisco
Saturday, March 25th at 5pm...
Posted: Mon, Mar 12, 2007 10:11pm PDT
Regional Black Farmer Forum ~ Senator Obama Supports Black Farmers
Come and support Senator Obama Oakland Rally, Black Farmers are an endangered species in the California Food and Farm community. Poor health outcomes directly related to the lack of fresh fruit and vegetables in our communites can be changed in the 2007 Farm Bill....
Posted: Mon, Mar 12, 2007 4:44pm PDT
Fresno Homeless Win Another Round in Court
Homeless people in Fresno are standing up for their rights. A hearing in federal court today ended in a victory for homeless people and one more step forward in their struggle for justice. Through his attorney, Will Kempton, the director of Caltrans, asked for the court to dismiss the charges against him. The court refused to let him off the hook. The photo below shows a Caltrans bulldozer actively destroying a homeless encampment. The story about today’s court hearing is below....
Posted: Mon, Mar 12, 2007 3:46pm PDT
Food Not Bombs Presentation in Santa Cruz (3/19)
A Food Not Bombs presentation by Keith McHenry...
Posted: Sun, Mar 11, 2007 4:41pm PDT
CitiApartments/Skyline Tightens Grip on S.F. Apartment Market
The San Francisco Business Times reports today that the ever-expanding Lembi real estate empire added another 15 apartment buildings to its portfolio in February. This brings the number of San Francisco apartment units controlled by CitiApartments (aka Skyline Realty) to 6152. The investor groups controlled by the Lembi family paid $137.6 million for the properties, which are located throughout San Francisco. The purchases renew questions as to the impact Lembi’s increased control of the San ...
Posted: Sat, Mar 10, 2007 8:18am PST
People Paddle for AIDS (4/15)
On April 15, 2007, 20 AIDS service organizations will have individuals kayaking on the bay to help the fight against AIDS. Paddlers will start from the South Beach Marina turn around at Cupid's Arrow, paddle to a turn in McCovey Cove and paddle back to South Beach Pier 40! The event will end with an awards ceremony and live music....
Posted: Fri, Mar 9, 2007 10:37am PST
Land Use, small contractors, blue collar workers and good citizens of San Francisco.
Land Use ordinances affect everyone in San Francisco. In recent years, ever since Sophie Maxwell has been on the SF Land Use Committee as the Chair - we see fake Resolutions, which try to become faulty Ordinances and adversely impact decent citizens living in San Francisco. Impact adversely small building contractors that work hard to make a decent living, who pay taxes, create jobs, and help our San Francisco economy. Young families and young people can no longer afford to live in San Franci...
Posted: Fri, Mar 9, 2007 9:09am PST
San Francisco Housing Rights Committee Opposes Federal HUD Security Cuts
Press conference on the steps of City Hall followed by Budget Committee hearing....
Posted: Thu, Mar 8, 2007 1:41pm PST
Supes Question Housing Authority
As George Bush declares war on low-income housing, budget cuts are affecting public housing tenants in San Francisco where it hurts the most. At various apartment buildings for senior and disabled tenants, the local Housing Authority has eliminated 24-hour security – while the City’s most vulnerable tenants are afraid to leave their apartments. Supervisor Chris Daly called a public hearing at yesterday’s Budget Committee to review the Housing Authority’s finances, and demand answers from Exec...
Posted: Thu, Mar 8, 2007 8:10am PST
Tenant Group Helps Save Berkeley Housing Authority
At An Extra Cost Of "$500,000 to $1 million per year," Berkeley Should Be Able To Keep Local Control Of It's Housing Authority!...
Posted: Tue, Mar 6, 2007 1:31pm PST
San Francisco Homeless Numbers Fall to New Low
The number of homeless single adults receiving welfare in San Francisco fell to 333 in December 2006, its lowest total ever according to data released on March 5 by the Mayor’s Office and SF Stat. This compares to the 2175 on the rolls when Care not Cash began in May 2004. Where did the 2175 go?...
Posted: Tue, Mar 6, 2007 9:30am PST
Radical Mental Health/Anti-Psychiatry comes to the Central Valley
the Wingnut's Liberation Project (WLP) has been in construction (piece by piece) since Oct. of 2006 now. Nobody is claiming any credentials &/or claiming any "professionalism" here. Just another average working class Joe/Joan that suffers from Depression (without giving it a Conventionally Institutionalized Label) & has years under there belt fighting addiction(s)/Substance Abuse(s).
I quess you could say that the DIY (Do It Yourself) Culture & Autonomous practicing communities is what sp...
Posted: Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:41pm PST
The first Annual Homelessness Awareness Day at UC Davis
The Homeless Awareness Day at UC Davis was inspired by the death of
Jesse Newberry, a 24 year old youth who died by being hit by an Amtrak
train around Freeborn Hall near the UC Davis campus. Activists took
the idea of a homeless awareness day to the Associated Students at UC
Davis and the Associated Students went to work on a senate
resolution....
Posted: Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:40pm PST