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Community based bicycle shop opens in Sacramento. - Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen The Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen and its all-volunteer staff invites the public to tour the shop facility, learn how to get involved, listen to live music and enjoy healthy snacks. The Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen is a non-profit, community-centered organization focused on teaching bicycle safety, bicycle maintenance and repair, and promoting bicycle culture. Our aim is to empower the community and provide very low-cost alternative transportation for individuals...
Posted: Wed, Jun 14, 2006 7:18am PDT
Has Surplus Property Ordinance Become Another Empty Promise? The Board of Supervisors will hold a hearing this Friday regarding 150 Otis Street, a piece of surplus owned by the city that has quickly become an indicator of San Francisco’s level of commitment to enacting the Surplus Property Ordinance. Passed in May of 2004, the ordinance stated that the city’s surplus property would be converted to housing for the homeless. Yet despite this, the Mayor’s Office of Housing recently rejected an attempt to turn 150 Otis in to such housing, despite it repres...
Posted: Tue, Jun 13, 2006 9:22am PDT
Sign the petition to save Bayview Hunters Point Petitions to save Bayview Hunters Point, the 91% Black and Brown neighborhood slated for “repeopling” by San Francisco City Hall’s Redevelopment wrecking ball, were circulating all over town today, at farmer’s markets and street fairs and bus stops....
Posted: Mon, Jun 12, 2006 1:06pm PDT
Don't let the City of Sacramento shut down our only Vegan Food Truck! Local merchants Roots N Kulchah, the 100% vegan food truck, is under attack! The City of Sacramento is proposing an ordinance that will have an adverse effect on the operation of mobile food trucks and venders, and criminalize those who do not follow the ordinance! Call your council members/country supervisers, and come to the hearing!...
Posted: Mon, Jun 12, 2006 11:26am PDT
Lt. Governor Candidate Proposing Socialize Health Care The United States has fallen behind many other countries to protect the health of our citizens, including Canada, England and most other European countries. As a nation our government is first concerned with protecting corporate profits and the interest of big business above the health of our citizens. Now Stewart Alexander, Candidate for California Lieutenant Governor with the Peace and Freedom Party, is proposing socialize health care to protect the health of our society....
Posted: Sun, Jun 11, 2006 8:33pm PDT
Black Churches Fail The Youth When It Comes To Black Youth And Violence In The Bayview Our Black youth are being killed in the Bayview Hunters Point and the Black Church have NOT steped up to the plate to do the right thing. Often times in the Bayview you will hear Black Pators scream and shout but nothing more and nothing less. At one time the Black Pastors were a force to be reckoned with - no more. Today, most of them are on the take and play second fiddle to those issues that really affect the community - the Black on Black killing in one of them....
Posted: Sun, Jun 11, 2006 4:14pm PDT
Mayor Gavin Newsom and Downtown Developers ready to move into Bayview The recent SF Propostions saw Mayor Gavin Newsom use Downtown Magnets most dubious in nature back the propositions that Mayor Gavin Newsom did not want to pass. Behind the scenes Mayor Gavin Newsom is working with the Chamber of Commerce and other crooked developers to come into the Bayview, steal the land, and drive the poor people away. Many home owners - people of color will lose their homes because side by side with Mayor Gavin Newsom the SF Redevelopment Agency is seeking to use Blight, ...
Posted: Sun, Jun 11, 2006 8:04am PDT
Bay Area youth are fighting for peace and jobs, without city help From 1995 to 1997, I had the pleasure of working with the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department in their Workreation program, a training program that allows teenagers to become assistant day camp directors for recreation centers and latchkey programs around the city. In three summers, I worked at Youngblood Coleman Park, Hamilton Recreation Center and John Muir Elementary School....
Posted: Fri, Jun 9, 2006 6:30am PDT
Support Bayview-Hunters' Point Referendum Effort Last month, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to approve the Bayview-Hunters' Point Redevelopment Plan, thus opening up the prospect that, in coming years, long-term residents and merchants of Bayview-Hunters' Point will find their properties forcibly seized via eminent domain, and / or find themselves otherwise dislocated or priced out of their community. Under the leadership of Bayview residents and activists, an effort is currently underway to put the Bayview-Hunters' Point Rede...
Posted: Thu, Jun 8, 2006 2:34am PDT
Transbay Advocates Victorious Proposition C moves Transbay Forward With Friday’s landmark vote at the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) to move forward with a two-phased development approach that will deliver the train-ready Transit Center by 2014, Proposition C proponents suspended campaign activity this weekend. “The decision to finally move forward with the region’s most important transportation project was a long time coming,” said Prop C spokesperson and BART Director Tom Radulovich of Livable City. “Prop C made that possible. Now we have to mainta...
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 9:04am PDT
Activists Launch Referendum to Overturn Bayview Redevelopment A press conference was held Monday to announce the launching of a petition drive to first suspend and then overturn the Board of Supervisors approval of the Bayview-Hunters Point Redevelopment Area. Referendum backers must obtain 30,000 signatures in only thirty days, whereas San Francisco initiatives typically allow six months for obtaining half this number. The referendum drives comes amidst a decline in the number of African-Americans throughout urban America, including New York City, Oakl...
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 9:01am PDT
Prop. D's misinformation campaign This article is written by Belinda Lyons who is the executive director of the Mental Health Association of San Francisco. This op-ed is also endorsed by Steve Fields, cochair of the San Francisco Human Services Network; Bill Hirsh, executive director of the AIDS Legal Referral Panel; and Herb Levine, executive director of the Independent Living Resource Center....
Posted: Sun, Jun 4, 2006 8:03am PDT
It’s fightback time! Read this week's Bay View The referendum petition drive to put the question of the Bayview Hunters Point Redevelopment Plan to the voters of San Francisco on the November ballot is launched! We must gather 30,000 signatures in 30 days, and the clock started ticking Thursday, June 1. If you’re in San Francisco, join us for a kickoff press conference on the steps of City Hall at noon Monday....
Posted: Sun, Jun 4, 2006 12:18am PDT
D5 Neighbors Protest Ellis Evictions Neighbors rallied at 1530 McAllister Street yesterday to protest Ellis Act evictions in District Five. The crowd quickly swelled to over 50 people. Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi called for an end to these immoral evictions and emphasized the need to protect the diversity of the Western Addition....
Posted: Sat, Jun 3, 2006 11:27am PDT
Another Hunters Point Shipyard cover-up In 2000, 87 percent of San Francisco voters passed Proposition P, which stated that there should be no development on the Hunters Point Shipyard until all of it was cleaned up to residential standards. In the years since, the U.S. Navy, its contractor, environmental consulting and engineering company Tetra Tech EM, Inc., and the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, with its “master developer” Lennar/BVHP, have continuously violated those rules by “developing” sites that are hazardous not only ...
Posted: Fri, Jun 2, 2006 6:34am PDT
Tenants to Rally Against Ellis Act Eviction A group of tenants facing imminent eviction will demonstrate publicly today with demands that their McAllister St. building’s new owners rescind the evictions. Though the story is not uncommon in today’s San Francisco—a rent-controlled building converted to market-rate condominiums at the expense of its residents—the tenants are joined by a surprisingly large group of supporters who see this attempted Ellis Act eviction as a watershed....
Posted: Thu, Jun 1, 2006 9:32am PDT
AIDS: 25 Years Later The StopAIDS Project in San Francisco recently hung 90 huge handmade paper irises on shop awnings and telephone poles throughout the Castro to mark the upcoming 25th anniversary on June 6 of the reporting of the first AIDS cases by the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control. As part of this installation, the flower shop Ixia put up a 43-foot-long display of these same irises on the corner of 18th and Castro. The flower was chosen in part because it was the favorite of the ancient Greek god...
Posted: Thu, Jun 1, 2006 9:31am PDT
Chronicle Again Comes Out Against A Measure To Protect Tenants After more than 25 years of siding against tenants on every measure put on the city's ballot, it wasn't surprising to see the San Francisco Chronicle come down against Proposition B over the weekend. The measure would require property sellers to notify potential buyers early on if the eviction of a senior or disabled tenant occurred there, and the minor inconvenience it could cause landlords virtually guaranteed a 'No on B.' What was surprising, however, was the flippant way the Chronicle dis...
Posted: Wed, May 31, 2006 7:09am PDT
Will Change Finally Come to San Francisco Planning Commission? A majority of San Francisco’s Planning Commission will soon be up for reappointment. Although the Commission includes four mayoral and three Board of Supervisor appointees, Commissioner Christina Olague (whose term is not expiring) is the only member whose votes consistently reflect the Board’s progressive majority. Although voters approved the split appointment process in 2002, two of the three appointees by then Board President Tom Ammiano---Sue Lee and Kevin Hughes---have voted identically...
Posted: Tue, May 30, 2006 8:40am PDT
BAY BRIDGE CLOSURES COMING THE NEXT 2 WEEKENDS: JUNE 2-11 The western approaches to the Bay Bridge will be closed in one or
both directions during portions of the next TWO weekends (June 2-5
and June 9-12), according to CalTrans and the MTC's 511.org. The
following information was accurate as of 3:57 PM Sunday, but things
change rapidly....
Posted: Mon, May 29, 2006 12:56am PDT
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