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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
Fresno Homeless Under Attack 
The homeless in Fresno are under attack. This is the latest in a series of reports about the treatment of the homeless in this community....
Posted: Thu, May 25, 2006 10:43am PDT
Rent Ordinance Measure Moves Forward at City Hall The movement to protect tenants’ rights gained critical ground Wednesday when the Board of Supervisors Land Use and Economic Development Committee recommended that a tenant protection measure move forward. The residential rent ordinance would clarify existing law and require landlords to prove just cause when severing services included with a rental unit. The specific services in question were primarily related to common areas including access to garages and parking spaces, laundry facilities...
Posted: Thu, May 25, 2006 8:50am PDT
Youth have no place to congregate and be safe in the Bayview Hunters Point area The Lee Gym is under construction by the Bayview Opera House and youth hang at the corners. The Gyms on Kiska Road are shut and the youth have no where to go. In the mean time the Mayor is talking WiFi and inviting the Governor's wife to make vain speeches that defy the truth. San Francisco is a Racist City and the Mayor is heading the diatribe that makes it so....
Posted: Thu, May 25, 2006 4:13am PDT
Paradise Lost: A Recipe for Gentrification in Chicago, San Francisco, and Beyond The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency’s plan to take over more than 1,300 acres in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood is the opening salvo in the final struggle for the soul of San Francisco. Combined with the 500 acres of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard that are currently undergoing redevelopment by the Florida-based Lennar Corporation, close to three-quarters of the Bayview Hunters Point area may soon come under the control of the City’s Redevelopment Agency. Although there has been m...
Posted: Wed, May 24, 2006 8:13am PDT
Feel More in the Bayview - history repeats itself with crooked SFRA in the seat 7-4 the SF Board of Supervisor gave San Francisco Redevelopment Agency the green signal to work in the Project Area that is the Bayview Hunters Point - what happened in the Fillmore is now going to happen in the Bayview Hunters Point. The poor will suffer and the crooks will make hay while the sun shines....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 4:54pm PDT
After Eviction Victory, Tenants Seek Further Protections After winning passage of tough new restrictions on condo conversions, tenant activists are now moving to eliminate other incentives for speculator evictions. On Wednesday, the Board of Supervisors Land Use Committee will consider legislation sponsored by Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi to prevent landlords from eliminating tenants parking spots, decks, and even bedrooms without just cause. Supervisor Sandoval will soon have a hearing on his measure to require rental units that convert to ownership ...
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 9:45am PDT
The Truth About Dufty’s Housing Policy In an interesting essay published May 16 in the SF Examiner, Bevan Dufty argues that “SF housing should not be a zero sum game”. In the essay, Dufty tours some key pieces of his own failed legislation and unsuccessfully attempts to justify his pro-downtown motives, as well as his history of opposing the interests of renters....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 9:41am PDT
Staff Reports for Parking Lot Paranoia Law 
Scanned PDF images of the various otherwise unavailable staff reports associated with the Parking Lot Paranoia Law, including the "call logs" cited as evidence of a flood of problems. Also includes ACLU Letter....
Posted: Mon, May 22, 2006 6:08pm PDT
Calls needed today to stop massive land grab of Bayview/HP Tomorrow, Tuesday, May 23, shortly after 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time, a final vote will be taken on a massive land grab, a plan by the City to take control of nearly all of San Francisco's Black heartland, Bayview Hunters Point....
Posted: Mon, May 22, 2006 4:26pm PDT
Victory For Oakland's Public Housing Tenants Fraud And Corruption At Oakland Housing Authority, Convinces Alameda County Superior Court To Block The Evictions Of Families At Lockwood Gardens!...
Posted: Sun, May 21, 2006 8:05pm PDT
Tonight: Radical Mental Health Café Night about Food and Body Image Reminder: Cafe Night Tonight - Food and Body Image - - Also: Free Skool Classes will return in June...
Posted: Sun, May 21, 2006 2:10pm PDT
Dump Two Dumb Laws and Diss the Demonic Duo Tuesday May 23rd 2:15 PM Neal Coonerty, Bookshop Santa Cruz owner and Supervisoral candidate, is largely responsible for the 1994 Downtown Ordinances--specifically the harsh law restricting or eliminating much peaceful sparechanging.
Ryan Coonerty, his son, City Councilmember, has been pushing the Parking Garage Paranoia Law. He works at Bookshop SC....
Posted: Fri, May 19, 2006 12:50am PDT
Disability Perspective: Concerns About Bikes on Transit MUNI says we are one of the only major transit systems to NOT allow bikes inside streetcars. They conveniently forget to tell people how badly these programs were planned, i.e. WITHOUT consulting with their transit system's respective counterparts to MAAC, in Chicago and in St. Louis, cities I have visited several times in the past year....
Posted: Thu, May 18, 2006 9:41am PDT
SF Redevelopment Agency (SFRA) and Thugs that work with SFRA History repeats itself and not long ago we had a Jesse James that dealt with Railroad magnets and thugs that killed, raped, and stole property to make way for the railroad heading West. It is the same today in the Bayview - SF Redevelopment is using thugs many convicted jail birds to push an agenda that adversely impacts thousands. SF Redevelopment has failed at Mission Bay, the Fillmore, and all over the City and County of San Francisco. Eminent Domain, Blight , and Tax Increment are tools t...
Posted: Wed, May 17, 2006 7:03am PDT
Pro and con arguments on Prop D "Mental Health Community Opposes Prop D" and "Alzheimer’s Advocates Should Support Prop D"...
Posted: Wed, May 17, 2006 6:35am PDT
Online Petition: Oppose the Parking Lot Panic Law To: Santa Cruz City Council...
Posted: Wed, May 17, 2006 12:01am PDT
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