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A group of Mission tenants staved off eviction this week, beating back an attempt to remove them from their homes with the Ellis Act. The residents of 2808-2818 Folsom Street include multiple seniors, several of them disabled, as well as multigenerational Latino families. Their landlords have been trying to remove them since 2004, but were stopped for the second time by the San Francisco Superior Court on Monday. The building’s owners filed a petition with the Rent Board claiming they had alr...

Sunday January 8th @ 7:00pm Sunday February 12th @ 7:00pm @ the long haul 3124 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley Join us for food, discussion, and a film or speaker about Radical Mental Health. Also find about about Upcoming Events and how to get involved. $5-$25 (no one turned away) All money is going to support a Spring 2006 Radical Mental Health Conference....

Activists Expose The Wrong Doing Occurring In The Richmond Courts....

One of the main distinctions of this Administration at City Hall is that in 2004, there were 88 murders. This year, there has been 94. For the last ten years prior to this administration, we averaged 72 murders a year. Our apprehension rate is one of the worst in the Country among major cities. In 2004, we caught 22 people out of 88 murders. This year, only 19 people out of 94 murders have been caught. Does City Hall have any answers? I doubt it seriously. As citizens of this city, we have ha...

Just another slum statistic?...

The Ethics Commission will hear a proposal Monday that advocates hope will be a major step towards leveling the playing field in mayoral elections. Dubbed ‘voter-owned elections,’ the legislation would promise more public funding to candidates who demonstrated a large base of supporters. In exchange, the candidate would them voluntarily cap the amount of money they could obtain from private fundraising. With San Franciscans seeing wealthier candidates outspending their opponents by margins as...

The appeal of DBI Director Amy Lee’s home renovation permits by notorious eviction attorney Andrew Zacks and his client, the mysterious “Citizens for the Equal Treatment in the Permit Process,” will be heard Wednesday at the Board of Appeals. Since filing the appeal Zacks has steadfastly refused to identify any members of the previously- unheard of group, leading many to conclude that the appeal simply sought to further harass Amy Lee. Documents obtained by Beyond Chron reveal that two of Zac...

The flicker of the changing images held the packed warehouse community co-op audience spellbound. At least 70 people, mostly white social justice activists, turned out to watch the New Orleans update from the Common Ground Collective’s Video Committee. The new video is a compendium of footage and images from at least seven Bay Area volunteers who took part in the organization’s rebuilding New Orleans campaign....

Today December 8th the Governor of California is holding a private hearing for Tookie Williams to hear him out and will later make a decision…we caught up with Snoop who held an impromptu press conference as he was leaving San Quentin and asked him what he thought about the whole situation… He spoke about the spirit of Tookie and how he was moved by him. he talked about what Tookie meant to fellow gang bangers and why he would be better alive then dead....

For the past three years, the San Francisco Chronicle’s “Shame of the City” series has sought to chronicle the city’s battle to reduce homelessness. The paper has written dozens of stories on Care not Cash, Project Connect, and other strategies, and has been overwhelmingly supported of Mayor Newsom’s response to homelessness. But when several prominent religious leaders held a City Hall press conference last Thursday to criticize a dramatic increase in criminal citations for camping under New...