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ACORN Demands Money Mart End Predatory Tax Practices For over two years, ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) has been waging a campaign to change the practices at individual tax preparers. The group has won reductions in the prices of Refund Anticipation Loans (RALs) and other refund products at the three largest tax preparation companies in the country - H&R Block, Jackson Hewitt, and Liberty Tax - and has won improvements in the disclosures and information that these companies provide to their customers about the...
Posted: Fri, Feb 3, 2006 7:34am PST
Muslim coalition marches through West Oakland to rally at Frank Ogawa On a chilly Saturday morning, dozens of concerned Muslims from throughout the Bay Area assembled at Defremery – aka Lil Bobby Hutton – Park in West Oakland, despite inevitable rainfall, to address the issue of Muslim-owned liquor stores in poor neighborhoods....
Posted: Fri, Feb 3, 2006 7:33am PST
The Worker Health Care Ordinance Money was the hot topic at the Budget and Finance Committee meeting yesterday. All were in agreement that every worker should have the right to adequate medical coverage, and supported Supervisor Tom Ammiano’s Worker Health Care Security Ordinance. Small business owners fear that the money they would have to spend on health care will destroy their businesses. Also, citizens worry that if employers do not fund this project, taxpayers will have to make up the difference....
Posted: Thu, Feb 2, 2006 8:00am PST
Tonight in Oakland: Finding our Folk Sendoff >
> FINDING OUR FOLK - OAKLAND SEND OFF
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> Wednesday, February 1st, 7-9pm
> Ella Baker Center, 344 40th Street, Oakland
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Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 4:13pm PST
Law Suit: Housing Authority Abuses Citizenship Question [Note: By the time this story reaches it's reading audience during the month of February, please be aware that an Injunction has just been filed in Federal Court in an effort to stop the Oakland Housing Authority from violating Federal Law.]...
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 1:52am PST
New Orleans Revival - benefit for hurricane katrina survivors 
Benefit for hurricane katrina survivors.
Starts 6:30pm at Oakland Metro, 201 Broadway, Oakland...
Posted: Tue, Jan 31, 2006 4:31am PST
San Francisco and the Ellis Act - Pt. 1 (video/quicktime 24.2MB) John Melone and Herb Weiner tell what the Ellis Act means for seniors speaking in a demonstration at City Hall, January 25, 2006. Five-minute QT movie. 24MB....
Posted: Mon, Jan 30, 2006 11:05am PST
Banning the Box! Legislation recently passed in San Francisco that takes another step towards ending the rampant discrimination and criminalization of poor folks in Amerikka. "Its been a good morning, ‘cause we are ending the rampant discrimination that formerly incarcerated people face when they apply for a job, " shouted Dorsey Nunn from All of Us or None from San Francisco's City Hall steps. "As well as every time they apply for housing, for student loans and for benefits when they apply for...
Posted: Fri, Jan 27, 2006 3:41pm PST
Tenants Slam Newsom for Veto of Eviction Protection Legislation Responding to Mayor Gavin Newsom’s recent veto of a piece of legislation designed to slow evictions in San Francisco and his promise to veto another proposal aimed at achieving the same goal, over 50 tenants and housing activists gathered at City Hall yesterday to blast the Mayor’s decisions. A wide variety of tenants forced out of their homes by the Ellis Act spoke at the rally, providing human faces to the statistics that show the current wave of evictions sweeping across the city represent...
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 8:13am PST
Court of Appeal Appears Likely to Uphold San Francisco’s Ellis Relocation Benefits The State Court of Appeals heard a case yesterday that could dramatically affect tenants citywide who fall victim to the Ellis Act. A group of landlords represented by attorney Andrew Zacks hoped to strike down legislation passed last year requiring greater payments to tenants evicted with the Ellis Act. While local Superior Court Judge James Warren granted Zacks' plea the first go-around, it now appears the Court of Appeals will reverse Warren’s ruling, which would grant tenants a major vict...
Posted: Wed, Jan 25, 2006 7:56pm PST
March Against Oakland Liquor Stores - January 28, 2006 Well over 80% of the 350 liquor stores in Oakland are owned or operatedby Muslims. This march and rally is a mobilization ofour community to send a strong message that we areoutraged by the destructive and misrepresentativeactions of our coreligionists and that wejoin allies from other groups in the struggle tocreate healthy and enriching neighborhoods. It is onestep of many that are being and will be taken toaffect a long-term and lasting redress of this issue.Organized and endorsed by a Coa...
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 12:45pm PST
Forgotten Mid-Market Wednesday, January 25th, 5:30 p.m.
Music, Food, and over 50+ photos.
Book-signing by author of "Theaters of San Francisco."...
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 9:45am PST
Civic Center Hotel Tenants Take the Plumbers Union to the Rent Board Yesterday Civic Center Hotel residents turned in tenant petitions to the Rent Stabilization and Arbitration Board due to the Plumbers’ Union refusal to seismic retrofit the Civic Center Hotel. The completion of the seismic retrofit, which would make the building safe in case of an earthquake, is required in the Civic Center Hotel by February 15, 2006. As this deadline rapidly approaches, the Plumbers’ Union has still not applied for a permit for the seismic retrofit. This action or rather lac...
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 9:10am PST
Pregnant woman taken to jail in Arcata On Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day a pregnant woman who is past her due date was arrested by the Arcata Police Department and held in Jail....
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 11:01am PST
Mayor’s Office of Housing Refuses to Budge in Surplus Property Fight The Mayor’s Office of Housing (MOH) revealed Tuesday that it is rejecting the unanimous decision of the citizen’s body charged with providing public oversight of the Surplus Property Ordinance. That body, the Surplus Property Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC), decided they wanted to turn city property at 150 Otis Street into housing for the homeless. In a letter to the Committee, MOH declared it would instead continue to push the Board of Supervisors to sell the building. Affordable housing a...
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 7:33am PST
25 Years of Rent Control in SF, Berkeley & other Cal cities As the new year begins, a significant 25th anniversary event---directly impacting hundreds of thousands of Bay Area renters----was observed during 2005's final months: the passage, in 1980, of San Francisco's and Berkeley's respective Rent Stabilization and Good Cause Eviction ordinances, commonly known as rent control. Both cities' ordinances became effective from 1979 to 1981....
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 7:48pm PST
Dirty South- An all star DJ benefit for Common Ground in New Orleans- Fri. Jan 20th 
Fri Jan 20th at the Cell Space- outrageous lineup of dj's donating their talents to send support to the revolutionary work of the Common Ground Collective in New Orleans!
DJ's include Adam Ohana, Boreta, Laura, Brother, Donna Matrix, Little John, Olivia, Kraddy and more! 100% of proceeds will go directly to the grassroots anti racist movement building in New Orleans! 10pm-CELLspace 2050 Bryant St. / $20+Donation...
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 2:54pm PST
On MLK Jr. B-Day: Pelosi refuses to answer,"Will you stop the Bulldozing in New Orleans?" On Weekend of MLK Jr. Birthday, at SF Town Hall meeting, Pelosi refuses to answer: "Will you stop the Bulldozing of African American peoples' homes in New Orleans?"...
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 11:52am PST
Fresno Food Not Bombs celebrates 10 years of feeding the hungry 
Saturday January 14th Fresno Food Not Bombs celebrated 10 years straight of Saturday meal servings....
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 8:02am PST
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