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“Critical Mass" Puts Blind Pedestrians At Risk The July version of bicyclists' "Critical Mass" ride exposed a long-time problem that SF's political glitterati have steadfastly, adamantly, religiously, unrelentingly, and without exception refused to respond to: hazards to pedestrians. At the July Critical Mass demonstration, a blind pedestrian who uses a white cane was walking along the south side of Union Square after work. This ped. was stopped, for minutes and minutes and minutes, by the circling swarm of cyclists. Here's where it gets ...
Posted: Thu, Aug 24, 2006 9:00am PDT
California Legislature passes outpatient commitment bill 
With bipartisan super-majority votes that stunned and dismayed mental health clients and advocates, the California Senate and Assembly passed involuntary outpatient commitment (IOC) bill AB 2357, sending the bill to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign or veto. The bill would extend Laura's Law, California's existing outpatient commitment law, by five years. Opponents, including the California Network of Mental Health Clients, plan to launch a letter-writing campaign to urge the Governor to...
Posted: Thu, Aug 24, 2006 3:13am PDT
Watsonville Benefit Show Ramsay Park Center
1301 Main St.
Watsonville...
Event Date: Sat, Sep 9, 2006 6:30pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Aug 22, 2006 4:45pm PDT
KATRINA COMMEMORATION EVENTS, UPCOMING! > GREAT FLOOD COMMEMORATION EVENTS: ONE YEAR LATER
> Take time to honor and remember our dead. Fight for the right to
> return for all those still displaced. Stop the Ethnic Cleansing of New
> Orleans....
Posted: Mon, Aug 21, 2006 3:03pm PDT
Promoting Homelessness (audio/mpeg 13.7MB) 15-min excerpt of 58-min R.I.S.E. audio program on Bush attack on low-income housing. Lynda Carson, a Section 8 tenant in Oakland, CA, is an anti-eviction activist....
Posted: Fri, Aug 18, 2006 10:26pm PDT
Herrera Sues Skyline Realty, CitiApartments for Pattern of Illegal Business Practices City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed suit against one of the largest residential landlords and property managers in San Francisco today, alleging an egregious pattern of unlawful and unfair business practices whereby rental units were illegally recovered from tenants; renovated in clear violation of building and safety codes; and then unlawfully relet at dramatically increased rental rates -- occasionally as short-term corporate housing, representing still another violation of local law. The li...
Posted: Thu, Aug 17, 2006 8:31am PDT
Berkeley City Manager Takes Control Of Aug. 26, Tenant's Event City Manager Takes Control Of Tenant's Event!...
Posted: Tue, Aug 15, 2006 3:56pm PDT
9/1: Engaging a New Generation of Activists WHAT: Engaging a New Generation of Activists-- Anti-Poverty Teach-in and Strategy Forum From crowded urban blocks to isolated rural counties, there is a "Lower Ninth Ward" of poverty in every community. It's Time for Bold Action!
WHEN: Friday September 1, 6-9 PM (Reception to follow)
WHERE: Laney College Theater, 900 Fallon Street, Oakland CA...
Posted: Tue, Aug 15, 2006 11:17am PDT
New Distribution Point for Street Spirit (Justice News and Homeless Blues) Newspaper New Street Spirit newspaper distribution point in City of Santa Cruz....
Posted: Sat, Aug 12, 2006 12:04am PDT
Final vote on involuntary outpatient commitment bill AB 2357 held over until August 14 
Mental health clients mobilize last-minute letter-writing campaign to stop bill in Senate...
Posted: Fri, Aug 11, 2006 11:47pm PDT
8/14 Screening of Soma: An Anarchist Therapy in Watsonville 
Documentary screening:
Soma: An Anarchist Therapy
8/14/2006 - Monday
7pm
www.brownberets.info
18 W Lake Ave, Watsonville, CA 95076
the film maker, Nick from Houston Indymedia will be present to do a Q & A and a workshop...
Posted: Fri, Aug 11, 2006 12:19pm PDT
Increased Tenant Relocation Benefits, Sick Days On Ballot for November Two measures squeezed their way onto the November's ballot yesterday, hours before the deadline for submitting them to the city. The first proposal, sponsored by tenant groups, would guarantee that victims of no-fault evictions receive adequate relocation benefits from their landlords. The second, sponsored by a broad coalition of social justice and labor groups, would mandate a certain amount of paid sick days for all workers. Both progressive measures stand a solid chance at passing, and co...
Posted: Fri, Aug 11, 2006 6:42am PDT
Phony Berkeley Liberals Cancel Aug. 26, Tenants Community Meeting, After Failed Take-Over! Phony Berkeley Liberals Cancel An Aug. 26, Tenants Community Meeting At The South Berkeley Senior Center, After Failed Take-Over Bid Falls Short!...
Posted: Wed, Aug 9, 2006 5:09pm PDT
New Development in 1030 Post Street Affordable Housing Scam As we reported last week ( http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=3450 ), the owners of 1030 Post are currently trying to use a federal program designed to create affordable housing to displace the building’s tenants. Even more shocking, however, is recently discovered proof that these owners misstated facts to the State of California in their attempt to do so....
Posted: Tue, Aug 8, 2006 9:45am PDT
Soma: An Anarchist Therapy screenings in the Bay Area With difficulty walking, and half-blinded from torture by the Brazilian military dictatorship, 79 year-old Roberto Freire continues to develop somatherapy, completing his life's work. Incorporating the ideas of Wilhelm Reich, the politics of anarchism, and the culture of capoeira angola, Soma is used by therapists organized in anarchist collectives to fight the psychological effects of authoritarianism. Nick Cooper travelled to Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Bahia, and São Paulo to find the exerci...
Posted: Mon, Aug 7, 2006 4:28pm PDT
Soma: An Anarchist Therapy Station 40...
Event Date: Sat, Aug 12, 2006 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Aug 7, 2006 4:18pm PDT
National Action Network Helps the Homeless 
Community activists, most of them connected with the National Action Network, helped the homeless clean up their encampment today. This clean up, which treated the homeless with dignity and respect, was in sharp contrast with recent attacks on this encampment carried out by the Fresno Police Department....
Posted: Sat, Aug 5, 2006 5:24pm PDT
BANK OF AMERICA PATRONS GET TWO CENTS GRATIS (video/quicktime 28.4MB) Seniors and disabled ask patrons to put in their two cents worth to the Bank of America: Tell the bank to stop financing Ellis Act evictions. Four-minute QT movie. 28MB....
Posted: Sat, Aug 5, 2006 8:14am PDT
SRO Collaborative Celebrates 5th Anniversary The Central City SRO (Single Rent Occupancy) Collaborative recently celebrated its fifth year anniversary. Located in the Tenderloin, the organization has been organizing SRO tenants in San Francisco’s central city neighborhoods in order than they can better utilize the affordable housing options available to them. SRO organizers, supporters and tenants celebrated with a jazz band, a display of photographs by tenant rep Mark Ellinger depicting local streetscapes and neighborhoods, and a showi...
Posted: Thu, Aug 3, 2006 9:23am PDT
Bayview Redevelopment Referendum Update With just three weeks left to qualify a referendum on the Bayview Redevelopment Plan for the ballot, organizers say they've obtained more than 18,000 signatures. While the city only requires 20,800 signatures to qualify, the campaign probably needs at least 10,000 more signatures to compensate for the thousands city officials may throw out as unverifiable. Campaign organizer Brian O'Flynn remains optimistic about their chances, and is currently paying for an independent party to review the al...
Posted: Thu, Aug 3, 2006 9:19am PDT
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