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Homeless Women Speak Out 
Two Fresno women tell us what it is like to be homeless in Fresno. The photo below is Pam Kincaid, as she told her story to the press in front of Fresno City Hall....
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2006 1:22pm PDT
Bay Guardian Bayview Brouhaha With the November election just two weeks away, a disturbing dispute has sapped enormous energy out of San Francisco progressives. More disquieting, it has generally pitted white progressives (the “Bay Guardian” crowd) against black homeowners who live in the Bayview....
Posted: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 7:20am PDT
SF: Prop H Opposed by Realtors & Democrat Mayor Newsom Two weeks before election day, November 7, the voters of San Francisco, tenants and homeowners, received a vicious lying multicolor slick mailer against the pro-tenant Prop H, endorsed by the real estate industry, the Republican Party and Democrats "Mayor" Gavin Newsom and Democrats Supervisors Elsbernd, Ma and Alioto-Pier....
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 10:20pm PDT
Homeless Group Told to Leave Public Land 
While the homeless in Fresno are starting to stand up for their rights, they continue to be hassled. The photo and story below are about the ongoing harassment they are experienced. A lawsuit filed last week would force the City of Fresno to stop taking and immediately destroying homeless peoples property....
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 8:20pm PDT
Maxwell’s Housing Agenda Sacrifices Tenants San Francisco Supervisor Sophie Maxwell will be easily re-elected on November 7. Maxwell pledged in 2001 to help preserve the city’s economic and racial diversity, but has increasingly moved to undermine this goal. She has promoted upscale development in the low-income African-American neighborhoods of Bayview and Hunters Point, and last week endorsed Lennar’s breaking its agreement to build 400 rental units at the Hunters Point Shipyard. Maxwell is also urging her colleagues to kill Angelo S...
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 8:07am PDT
Why I’m Voting NO on Prop 86 Proposition 86, the Tax on Cigarettes Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute, deserves a vote of NO on November 7. And here’s why I’m urging a NO vote....
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 7:38am PDT
Hope VI Project Double-Crosses Oakland Renters Low-Income Oakland Renters Are Being Displaced By Hope VI Projects!...
Posted: Sun, Oct 22, 2006 11:50pm PDT
Fresno Homeless Camp out at City Hall 
The homeless issue has reached a new level of significance in Fresno as the homeless and their supporters are starting to take action to defend their civil rights. First, a lawsuit was filed by several civil rights legal groups against the City of Fresno to stop the attacks against the homeless. Late last week a Federal judge issued a Temporary Restraining Order to stop the police from taking the homeless peoples possessions and immediately destroying them. Yesterday, there was a rally in ...
Posted: Sun, Oct 22, 2006 9:42am PDT
An Affordable Studio, A View of the City, and Your First Private Kitchen in Years Bruce Allison hasn’t had a private kitchen in five years – now he cooks spaghetti in his studio apartment. David Boyd hasn’t had a private kitchen in eight years – now he cooks chicken breasts and baked potatoes. Jennifer Washington hasn’t had a private kitchen since 1992 – now she cooks chicken, sweet potatoes and peas. And Bob Bowers, a lifelong bachelor who hasn’t had a private kitchen in 24 years and has lost the habit of cooking, has so far made “beef stew, rice and that old-fashioned To...
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 6:42am PDT
A Victory for the Homeless in Fresno 
Homeless residents of Fresno won a victory today in Federal court. A temporary restraining order was issued that stops the City of Fresno from taking and destroying homeless peoples property. Under this ruling, the city is prevented from using their bulldozers to destroy encampments, like the one below (this photo was taken in May 2006)....
Posted: Thu, Oct 19, 2006 6:53pm PDT
We want Lennar BVHP out of our community Parcel A was conveyed to the City and County for $1. The Navy did the clean up of Parcel A and could not finish it all because they had to convey Parcel A under presurre. Nancy Pelosi, Barabara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Sophie Maxwell, Linda Richarson, Willie Brown all went to Washington DC to pressure the Under Secretry of the Navy to hand over the dirty parcle A surrounded by even more dirty parcles B, C, D, E, and F that is under the Bay....
Posted: Wed, Oct 18, 2006 8:18am PDT
Police Foot Patrols in the Tenderloin May Become a Reality Back in 2000, when I had just started working for the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, Chris Daly was a 28-year-old tenants’ rights activist running for Supervisor. While addressing a group of tenants at the Jefferson Hotel, I remember him suggesting that the cops should get “out of their cars and start patrolling the streets.” It sounded like a great idea to me. Anyone who spends time in the Tenderloin knows that it’s what the neighborhood needs. As rampant drug activity occurs on the sidewalk, po...
Posted: Wed, Oct 18, 2006 6:23am PDT
Support Actions for the Homeless in Fresno Solidarity Action - this Saturday and Sunday....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 9:04pm PDT
Civil Rights Groups File Suit Against City of Fresno to Stop Raids Against Homeless People 
The article below is from the American Civil Liberties Union website. The press conference announcing the lawsuit took place on the steps of Fresno City Hall on Tuesday, October 17, 2006....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 3:55pm PDT
October 16, 2006 - A Movement is in place with actions every week There was no room on the steps of City Hall to hear some good speakers talk about a MOVEMENT that is here to stay. Mayor Gavin Newsom had no comment because the coward is a Racist and is never with the good people. The City Attorney met me on the steps on City Hall trying to convince me that he was right - I tried to tell him that he did not represent the people and that his decision to invalidate 33,400 signatures was wrong....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:39am PDT
Bayview Rallies to Save the Neighborhood With a far more impressive turnout than the march on September 27th, concerned neighborhood activists from Bayview-Hunters Point rallied on the steps of City Hall to protest the Redevelopment Agency’s planned take-over of their neighborhood....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:29am PDT
Oct 18-6pm: Save Oakland's Condo-Conversion Protections! The Profiteers Are Out To Weaken Oakland's Rent Laws, By Weakening The Current Condo-Conversion Protections! Thousands Of Oakland Renters Will Face Eviction If The Greedy Profiteers/Landlords Are Allowed To Convert 1,500 Rental Units Per Year Into Condominiums, As They Are Demanding! Only You Can Stop Them!...
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 12:56am PDT
Defying Critics, Unique Affordable Housing Project Opens On October 19, the Tenderloin Housing Clinic will mark the official opening of the Galvin Apartments, a 56-unit apartment building at 785 Brannan named in honor of Sister Bernie Galvin, founder of Religious Witness With Homeless People. The building is unique, since a private developer covered the entire cost of land acquisition, construction and permanent rental subsidies. The Galvin is forever affordable without any public funds, while serving tenants of very low incomes. As non-profit hous...
Posted: Mon, Oct 16, 2006 7:18am PDT
Mass rally at San Francisco City Hall Monday, Oct. 16, 11am: Enough Is Enough! This is the press release for the historic rally at San Francisco City Hall Monday. The rally begins at 11 a.m., the press conference at noon. Then the rally continues until 4 p.m....
Posted: Sun, Oct 15, 2006 1:36pm PDT
Eastern Neigborhoods Plan influenced by misinformed Supervisor Maxwell and McGoldrick The Housing Element plays an important role in the policy making at the SF Planning Department, the SF Planning Commission and impacts our Transit First City. Added to that it is critical that the SF Planning Department work on a Transportation Document that is now not in place. Sophie Maxwell has no clue about the Housing Element. Jake has some clue but full of misinformation. Together these two jokers are now introducing Resolutions trying to hoodwink the SF Planning Department and destroy ...
Posted: Sun, Oct 15, 2006 9:12am PDT
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