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Lyrics Below and also as subtitles in this 1:13 movie Sung by members of the Raging Grannies Action League in Menlo Park, CA on Oct 24, 2009...

CalPERS will lose hundreds of millions of dollars in predatory real estate investment schemes according to recent reports in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the San Jose Mercury News, and other publications. What has not been adequately reported is that these schemes are classic examples of what housing advocates call “predatory equity,” over leveraged investments that rely on the displacement of tenants from rent-regulated housing in order to turn profits....

For four years Vilma Serralta, a 71-year-old immigrant from El Salvador, worked more than 80 hours a week as a live-in housekeeper and nanny in the nearly 10,000-square foot Atherton home of Silicon Valley entrepreneur Sakhawat Khan and his wife Roomy, a private investor. Yet they paid Ms. Serralta a monthly salary equivalent to between $3 and $4 per hour - far below the minimum wage at the time of $6.75 per hour. Ms. Serralta, who was regularly required to work 14 hours a day, six days a wee...

The Juana Briones house is the oldest building in the city of Palo Alto, having been built in the 1840's, and is recognized as both a local and a state historical landmark. Preservationists, California history aficionados, and the Raging Grannies gathered in a park named for the heroine of the *Californio* period of California history....

Bill Clinton, can you say *Single Payer*? The 42nd US President spoke at an event dubbed a "health care rally" late this afternoon, but he was really stumping for California Lt. Governor John Garamendi, the Democratic nominee in a November 3 special general election to replace former U.S. Rep. Ellen Tauscher. Progressive Democrats, union members and health care activists were happy to hear Clinton call for a health care system that sounds an awful lot like a Single Payer system, but the ...

Palo Alto launches a new reminder campaign today to help residents remember to bring their reusable shopping bags. The percentage of reusable bag use has doubled from 9 percent to 18 percent between 2008 and 2009 and the city aims to increase reusable bag usage again to 30 percent in 2010....

Page Mill Properties abruptly closed both their tony downtown Palo Alto office and their East Palo Alto property management office last week, but they abandoned the tenants long before that. The Menlo Park Fire Department says that only ONE of the current alarm systems is "even remotely working". The fire chief gave the giant landlord a citation and notice to repair months ago, but the situation remains dangerous. Top Photo: Rent increases that flaunted East Palo Alto's rent stabilization...

Congresswoman Anna Eshoo held a town meeting on health care reform at Gunn High School in Palo Alto September 2. A capacity crowd endured the heat of a warm evening. Eshoo is one of the authors of the health care reform bill spearheaded by President Obama. She struggled to maintain decorum as right-wing protesters booed and heckled....

Here are some photos and songs that the Raging Grannies sang at the Town Hall on heath care reform last night. They were accompanied by ukulele. Thanks, Grannies!...

More photos from Billionaires for Wealthcare at Town Hall meeting in Menlo Park, CA on August 26. Billionaires tell Tea Party Participants (known to themselves and others as "teabaggers"): Thanks for helping Billionaires in your fight against health care reform! It keeps us rich while the unwashed masses whine about their taxes....the wealthy enjoy generous tax breaks!...