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Save Oakland's Public Housing The City Of Oakland Filed Suit Against The Oakland Housing Authority (OHA), Accusing The OHA Of Being A Slumlord & Accusing Oakland's Public Housing Tenants Of Being Drug Dealers, Gang Members & Prostitutes!...
Posted: Sat, Feb 17, 2007 6:14pm PST
Santa Cruz Homeless crack down in full selective force 
Rise in Homeless harassment...
Posted: Sat, Feb 17, 2007 4:20pm PST
New Front Opens in the War on Social Security (video/quicktime 10.3MB) Senator Diane Feinstein takes the lead in tryiing to establish what will be called the "Social Security and Medicare Solvency Commission." One-minute QT movie. 10MB....
Posted: Sat, Feb 17, 2007 5:59am PST
Open Letter: Section 8 Rent Increases In Berkeley Rent Increases Threaten Berkeley's Senior and Disabled Community!...
Posted: Fri, Feb 16, 2007 8:59pm PST
WHERE IS THE LOVE? 
The State of California, because of its own incompetence, is raising the cost for obtaining a state Medical Cannabis ID card almost 400%...
Posted: Fri, Feb 16, 2007 8:30am PST
News Flash: Oakland Housing Authority Faces Lawsuits For Poor Behavior As first read in recent days on Indy Bay News Wire, the Oakland Housing Authority faces major problems for mistreating it's public housing tenants, and now faces numerous lawsuits as a result... See the latest below......
Posted: Thu, Feb 15, 2007 12:34pm PST
Schools, Youth, and Parks Department Must Collaborate How would you spend your spare time if you were a youth in San Francisco today?
The San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department suffers greatly from a misunderstanding of what young people desire for recreational services. No matter how tight their budget, the Department can claim no shortage of property and facilities to accommodate its users. At the same time, the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) is not able to keep pace with demand for athletic and after school programs. ...
Posted: Thu, Feb 15, 2007 9:18am PST
‘We shall not be moved!’ 
Making history in Black History Month, 1,000 residents demand no more ‘Negro Removal’...
Posted: Thu, Feb 15, 2007 1:02am PST
Newsom’s San Francisco: Most Racist City in California Will you be joining me Saturday morning at Whitney Young Child Development Center for our rally at 9:30 and then a meeting with the mayor that he describes as “an in-depth community discussion”? It should be interesting....
Posted: Wed, Feb 14, 2007 6:19am PST
How San Francisco’s taxi paratransit program is getting ruined by politics San Francisco’s taxi paratransit program has long been a blessing for our disabled citizens. Since 1979—more than a decade before the federal ADA law of 1991—our city government has provided subsidized transportation for frail seniors, wheelchair users, dialysis patients and others with serious disabilities. Its innovative use of taxicabs for paratransit has been emulated nationwide....
Posted: Wed, Feb 14, 2007 6:16am PST
Oakland Housing Authority To Spend $400,000 On Evictions Oakland Housing Authority Plans To Spend $400,000 On Evictions, Despite Claiming Poverty!...
Posted: Wed, Feb 14, 2007 6:16am PST
Supes Support Alice Griffith Tenants – But Endorse Lennar The Board of Supervisors passed 8-2 a resolution yesterday to “endorse efforts” by the City, the Redevelopment Agency and the Lennar Corporation to transform parts of Hunters Point into a mixed use development – with a new 49ers Stadium, open spaces and various “tangible economic benefits” to the community’s low-income residents. Supervisors Chris Daly and Ed Jew were the only dissenting votes. Responding to an outcry from tenants at the Alice Griffith Housing Project (who fear losing their h...
Posted: Wed, Feb 14, 2007 6:16am PST
Groups With more than 8 Million California Members Launch “It’s OUR Healthcare!” Campaign Seniors, Consumer Advocates, Health Advocates, Communities of Faith, and Labor Unite to Ensure That the People of California Have a Strong Voice to Shape Healthcare Reform...
Posted: Tue, Feb 13, 2007 2:11pm PST
Fears About Public Housing Show City Hall’s Disconnect Rumors abound about the fate of San Francisco’s public housing developments. In a recent rant on Indybay.org, activist Francisco Da Costa claims that the City’s plan is to “slowly board up all of Public Housing at Potrero Hill, bring in the SF Redevelopment Agency and build high rise buildings for the filthy rich.” As reported in Beyond Chron on February 12th, angry residents of the Alice Griffith housing development marched on the Mayor’s “town hall” meeting protesting the City’s plans to de...
Posted: Tue, Feb 13, 2007 9:19am PST
Open Letter to the San Francisco Bay Area and Monterey Bay Area 
We would also be interested in finding out if there are any other groups working on this particular issue, as not to "reinvent the wheel." So if someone from a group working on the Livermore issue can contact Kyoko, that would be great....
Posted: Mon, Feb 12, 2007 11:57am PST
Demolition of Alice Griffith Homes Dominates Newsom Forum As he continues to defy the voter-approved “Question Time” at the Board of Supervisors, Mayor Gavin Newsom held a second Town Hall on February 10th at the Whitney Young Child Development Center in Bayview. In stark contrast to his first meeting in the Richmond, the audience did not let the Mayor run a scripted, staged event where he is in complete control. The largely low-income African-American residents of Bayview were upset about the past, frustrated about the present, and anxious about th...
Posted: Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:47am PST
Breaking Story: Oakland Housing Authority loses appeal in mass eviction case A bizarre case of alleged "Fraud and Corruption" ends in Oakland, when the Oakland Housing Authority lost an appeal to evict 35 families accused of being squatters, from their public housing units at Lockwood Gardens!...
Posted: Sun, Feb 11, 2007 6:56pm PST
A stabbing in Oakland, and mugging of America The Brutal Policies Of The Bush Administration Wreak Havoc On America, and The World!...
Posted: Sat, Feb 10, 2007 12:56pm PST
Potrero Hill Public Housing Potrero Hill Public Housing is suffering because of lack of funds and personnel cuts to the SF Housing Authority. Sophie Maxwell the District 10 Supervisor and her cronies like the Potrero Boosters that you see at most of the Land Use Meetings - will not lift a finger to help those that need help most at the Potrero Hill Public Housing. While Sophie Maxwell gives large breaks and bends backwards to help the Matag Mogul on Potrero Hill - innocent, poor folks suffer each and every day....
Posted: Sat, Feb 10, 2007 5:01am PST
TODAY (2/10), 9:15am- Protest SF Landgrab Gentrification, Relocation, Disenfranchisement....
Posted: Fri, Feb 9, 2007 1:56pm PST
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