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2/18: Come out for Leno's Ellis Act Press Conf. this Friday, S.F.
Assembly Member Mark Leno has introduced legislation which will require
that landlords own a property for 5 or more years before they can do an
Ellis....
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 3:57pm PST
Newsom is lying
The reports about the homeless numbers dropping is a lie....
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 7:49am PST
The Message of Mary Jesus
The suicide of Mary Jesus was a prophetic warning, written in blood and death, that rent hikes and evictions destroy the lives of the poor...
Posted: Sat, Feb 12, 2005 12:45am PST
New Roseville Food Not Bombs
a new chapter of Food Not Bombs started yesterday in Placer County....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 12:04pm PST
Fight for Social Security (video/quicktime 34.2MB)
Workers and seniors protest against privatization of social security. Eleven-minute QT movie from Jan. 18, 2005. 34MB....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 12:03pm PST
No Muni Fare Hike
Press Release re: protest at City Hall 2/11/05 11:00 AM...
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 11:39am PST
The MUNI Disaster: Inequity, How We Got Here, and How to Get Out
Michael Burns began a full-court press yesterday to get his proposed MUNI budget passed, meeting with several members of the Board of Supervisors to request their support. MUNI representative Stuart Sunshine told the Chronicle they’re “looking at a balanced way to share the solution” to their current budget crisis. Yet Burns’ proposal balances the budget squarely on the backs of the working class, raising the yearly cost of a Fast Pass $109 and only upping the yearly cost of a residential par...
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 9:39am PST
2/11: Seniors, People With Disabilities to Tell Governor Schwarzenegger: 'Have a Heart!'
Hundreds to Deliver Signed Hearts, Photos Representing Those Who Will Suffer From Governor's Proposed Cuts to Home Care...
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 1:12am PST
Honoring Our Covenant of Compassion with Homeless People
Religious leaders, Houseless folks and Advocates meet to tell the truth of the racist, classist legislation, Care Not Cash...
Posted: Tue, Feb 8, 2005 1:20pm PST
Housing Clinic Marks 25 Years of Improving Tenants’ Lives
It was 25 years ago this week that the Tenderloin Housing Clinic opened its all-volunteer office. Nine months later Ronald Reagan was elected President, ushering in over two decades of federal backtracking from greater social and economic fairness. But today, Tenderloin residents, residential hotel tenants citywide, and low-income and working-class tenants across San Francisco enjoy far greater legal protections and better conditions than in 1980, countering the nationwide trend. This is the ...
Posted: Tue, Feb 8, 2005 6:44am PST
Upholding Social Security: Labor targets Schwab
SAN FRANCISCO — The labor movement and community organizations took on the financial institutions backing Social Security privatization as they held noontime demonstrations Jan. 26 in San Francisco and Boston to protest Charles Schwab and Co.’s leading role in trying to open up the system to Wall Street. Demonstrators in the two cities carried signs saying, “Don’t Pick Our Pockets to Line Yours!” They handed out fliers calling Schwab’s backing for the privatization scheme a conflict of intere...
Posted: Mon, Feb 7, 2005 9:57pm PST
Nurses Protest At Governor's Super Bowl Party
A small but out spoken group of activists from the California Nurses Association staged a protest outside the gates to the governor’s Brentwood estate today. The protest was held today at the mansion in response to the governor’s lavish Super Bowl party planned for tonight....
Posted: Sun, Feb 6, 2005 11:44pm PST
Planning Commission Says Yes to Unique Affordable Housing Project
The San Francisco Planning Commission voted 5-0 Thursday night to approve a 56 unit affordable housing project designed to provide apartments for current SRO tenants. The project at 785 Brannan, to be owned by the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, will house tenants whose incomes are too low to qualify under the city’s inclusionary housing law. The Commission hearing revealed much about class and racial attitudes in today’s San Francisco....
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 8:30pm PST
Super Bowl Party at Arnold's...Nurses, Patients, Students, Disabled Protest at Gov's Home
When: 2 PM, Sunday, February 6
Where: 12989 Chalon Road/ Corner of Mandeville Canyon Road & Chalon (North of Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles)...
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 11:13am PST
Muni Fare Hike?
Not a good idea! Seven-minute QT movie. 30MB....
Posted: Thu, Feb 3, 2005 11:50pm PST
2/4: Stand for Peace in the Streets of SF
Last year, SF passed Oakland as the homicide capital of the state
with 88 deaths. This year there are at least 8 and possibly 10
homicides in SF. The majority of these violent acts happen in the low
income, African American and minority communities....
Posted: Tue, Feb 1, 2005 8:13pm PST
MTA Hearing TODAY concerning Muni Budget
TODAY at 4 pm, the Municipal Transportation Agency (MTA) Board is
meeting to discuss the FY 2006 budget and proposals to eliminate an
estimated $55 million deficit. Fare increases and service cuts, as
well as increases in parking fees and fines, have been proposed....
Posted: Tue, Feb 1, 2005 1:49pm PST
Direct action against the attempted MUNI fare hike in 1993
Here's an article about an effort that might have played some role in defeating the attempted fare hike on MUNI in 1993:...
Posted: Mon, Jan 31, 2005 9:41pm PST
STOP THE MUNI FARE HIKE
A rally ,called by the Coalition For Transit Justice, was held Monday, 1/31/2005 on the steps of San Francisco City Hall to protest the proposed Muni fare hike. ....
Posted: Mon, Jan 31, 2005 5:27pm PST