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Remember the I-Hotel! (video/quicktime 3.4MB) August 4th rally celebrating a quarter-century since the Bay Area turned out to resist the I-Hotel eviction. This is a one-minute excerpt of an 18min. 75MB QT movie on my web site.
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Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 10:25AM
SF: No on R-Save Rent Control Endorsements-Add Yours The endorsements are being listed now on the Save Rent Control website. Add your organization's endorsement to this crucial effort to defeat Prop R on Nov 5 in San Francisco and save rent control and the progressive and cultural communities which depend on rent control....
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2002 9:02PM
SF: Summary of Prop R-the Rent Control Repeal Measure The Save Rent Control website has an excellent summary of Prop R which is reprinted below. Please note that large buildings, as well as the small ones, can be converted to condos by Prop R, causing the tenants to be homeless!...
Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 12:01PM
SF: No on N&R; Yes on S: Save Our Homes; Defend the Homeless; Support Medical Marijuana The ballot is now final for the November 5, 2002 election and the call to arms has already been issued by the SF Tenants Union to defend rent control and defeat Prop R. We must also defeat Prop N, the latest Democrat-Republican attack on the homeless....
Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 11:14AM
SF Autonomous Initiative A new initiative is in the germinal stages of development to form a Autonomist Collective and eventually a People's Union...
Posted: Thu Aug 8, 2002 2:15PM
I-Hotel 25th Anniversary (video/quicktime 2.6MB) People gathered at Portsmouth Square Sunday (Aug.4) to honor the tenants of the International Hotel. QT slideshow of photos - 2 minutes. 2.6MB...
Posted: Tue Aug 6, 2002 2:35PM
I-Hotel Bittersweet Celebration (audio/mpeg 3.2MB) Twenty-five years ago, on August 4, 1977, the San Francisco police evicted the elderly Filipino men from their single occupancy rooms at the I-Hotel. Today, marks the 25th anniversary and a new project to build a Manilatown Community Center on the site where the I-Hotel once stood. KPFA broadcast this report on Sunday, August 4, 2002 at 6PM. 04:43 [MP3 file 3.3MB]...
Posted: Sun Aug 4, 2002 8:43PM
Rally to Save Summit Pain Clinic In Oakland, Gentrification Has Taken An Ominous Turn In An Effort To Chase Away The Poor By Stealing Their Pain Clinic!...
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2002 2:50AM
Patients Panic Over Pain Clinic Closure Oakland Sinks Ever Further Into The Realm
Of The Mad Hatters Tea Party While A Scheme
Is Underway To Deprive The Chronicly Ill From
Medications That Allow Them To Live! It Has Brought About The Birth Of The Painfighters!...
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 5:14AM
Oakland Public Housing Evictions Unfair The Oakland Housing Authority throws innocent families into the street when it "catches" one of its members with drugs. This unfair policy does nothing but victimize the poor and elderly who bare the brunt of the collateral damage in the drug war....
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2002 12:38PM
Tuesday Oakland City council Vote On Just Cause Oakland activists have collected over 36,000 signatures for a Just Cause Initiative which now needs the vote of an uncertain City Council before it may become a Ballot Measure....
Posted: Mon Jul 8, 2002 1:05AM
Campaign for Renters Rights A report on the July Campaign for Renters Rights Meeting in Oakland...
Posted: Sun Jul 7, 2002 7:12PM
Save our City: Tax the Rich Wednesday's homework is reading the Bay Guardian and this week's BG, 7/3/02, is a must read, with a comprehensive set of articles on how and why we must tax the rich now to Save Our City!...
Posted: Wed Jul 3, 2002 9:00PM
Oakland Poor Food Money Disappears Oakland City Manager Robert Bobb was referred to as a carpetbagger for getting a salary increase during the vote for budget cuts that take away money to feed the poor!...
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2002 1:10AM
Just Cause Initiative--A Beacon of Hope The Power of the People have served notice that the exploitation of Oakland renters shall be challenged by the signatures of 36,000 registered voters from the heart of Alameda County!...
Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2002 3:16AM
Did Ammiano Ask Brown to Suspend Daly? Donkey Puckey, Says Ammiano! The Examiner's P.J. Corkery Printed, then Retracted, a Rumor that Sup. Tom Ammiano Approached Mayor Brown to Suspend Sup. Chris Daly after the Hastings Civil Disobedience Action on Friday...
Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2002 3:06AM
Local Renters News In Brief In a 6/10/02 KPFA News Story, Steve Edrington of the Northern Alameda County Rental Housing Association vows that the landlords plan to fight back the Just Cause Innitiative if it ever becomes a Ballot Measure in Oakland....
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2002 3:41AM
NATION-WIDE MOBILIZATION TO END CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS OF HOMELESS On Monday June 10th, advocates from throughout the nation will converge in Covington, Kentucky to march with locals demanding an end to civil rights violations against people experiencing homelessness...
Posted: Thu Jun 6, 2002 1:35PM
SF Election Fraud and Gentrification While the US and the world suffer from the horrors of a Republican election fraud US president, San Francisco is also suffering from the horrors of a Democrat election fraud mayor, Willie Brown, who sits in office with 40% of the vote plus election fraud. The latest revelations come from the May 29, 2002 African-American newspaper, San Francisco Bayview, in Part 1 of its series on election fraud in the San Francisco African-American community, perpetrated by Willie Brown and his thugs....
Posted: Thu Jun 6, 2002 4:43AM
SF Examiner's anti-homeless bias For anyone who might still harbor doubts about the Examiner's anti-homeless bias, here's an object lesson....
Posted: Mon May 27, 2002 5:06PM