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Where Can a Homeless Man Sleep in America, If Not at a Church? Homeless man arrested for not having a home!...
Posted: Wed, Jul 28, 2004 4:37pm PDT
Peace and Justice Community Summit Saturday Peace & Justice Community Summit: Saturday, July 31,
2004, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the First Unitarian
Church, 685 14th Street in Oakland, (near 12th Street BART)...
Posted: Tue, Jul 27, 2004 11:19am PDT
Reclaim the Parks!: Modesto Aug 21st! Solidarity is needed in Modesto, as the homeless are still being harassed and driven out of some of the only parks left they can gather by police and churches. A day of direct action, and community strength!...
Posted: Tue, Jul 27, 2004 2:21am PDT
Sac County Debates Affordable Housing Program July 28 The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors will hold a public workshop on July 28 to consider a draft proposal to govern all new construction in the unincorporated County which will contribute to the County’s obligation under state law to provide housing for all income groups. Plan to attend and make sure your voice is heard in setting the goals and requirements for low income housing....
Posted: Mon, Jul 26, 2004 6:47pm PDT
Report from West Oakland Rally Against the "Central Station" redevelopment master plan (video/quicktime 1.6MB) Oaklanders resist new upper-income mega-development around the historic 16th Street train station. Town Hall Meeting: 7 p.m., Wednesday, July 28, at the West Oakland Senior Center, 1724 Adeline Street. 1 minute mini-video....
Posted: Sat, Jul 24, 2004 4:38pm PDT
7/24: Potluck+Presentation on Progressive Residential Cmties Many of our members have expressed interest in forming
progressive residential communities, ranging from communes
to condos, from group houses to co-housing to co-op apartment
buildings. Such intentional communities have traditionally been
centers for activism, community-building, and personal support.
Attorney Jesse Palmer will make a presentation on legal and
financial aspects of making these dreams a reality...
Posted: Fri, Jul 23, 2004 11:49pm PDT
Sat. 7/24 & 7/31: Oakland Rallies Against Gentrification & Wal-Mart, for Housing and Jobs Updates from Just Cause Oakland...
Posted: Thu, Jul 22, 2004 7:33pm PDT
Muni, CCSF Conduit Fiasco Taxpayer and Ratepayer get ready to Pay 
It is well-known that Muni’s Third Street Rail project has had a devastating impact on communities in southeast San Francisco. But it now involves up all as ratepayers and taxpayers....
Posted: Thu, Jul 22, 2004 2:25pm PDT
Alameda Cty Board of Supes Doesn't Follow Laws About Medical Center The Alameda County Board of Supervisors are either unwilling or unable to ensure the
competent administration of Measure "A" funds. In fact the Board of Supervisors are
almost entirely occupied thinking up new ways to take funds away from the Medical
Center and put them back in the county's pocket (a 1.7 million dollar rent increase
being the most recent example)....
Posted: Wed, Jul 21, 2004 12:34am PDT
Screeds & scoops Scooplet: Two members of the Bd. of Supes are about to lose their seats. ... The Mayor plans to appoint them to high office. That will allow The Gav to appoint two new, seemingly more amenable, members to the board, solidifying the mayor's strength and weakening Aaron Peskin's grip on the group....
Posted: Mon, Jul 19, 2004 1:07pm PDT
Tenants speak up for a fair and balanced Rent Board "The San Francisco Rent Board has become controlled by landlords – 65 percent of the time the Rent Board rules in favor of landlords, and only 16 percent of the time do they even hear cases brought before them by tenants,” said Ted Gullickson of the San Francisco Tenants Union, citing a Tenants Union study....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:33am PDT
San Francisco families protest Bush’s Section 8 de-funding San Francisco families protest Bush’s Section 8 de-funding...
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:30am PDT
BUMS' PARADISE in Emeryville 
This Award-Winning Documentary screens this Saturday night, with music starting at 8 and the movie at 8:30pm. All permits secured, so we won't get shut down this time!...
Posted: Thu, Jul 15, 2004 1:20am PDT
Democrats Peskin & McGoldrick Attack Tenants Democratic Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Jake McGoldrick refused to support putting on the ballot a Tenant Union proposal to reform the Rent Board appointments so that tenant representatives are 2/3 of the Board, as we are 2/3 of the City's population....
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 8:40pm PDT
Section 8 in Trouble The former head of a local African American landlords association has charged that the Berkeley Housing Authority’s new Section 8 rules will result in a severe reduction in available Section 8 housing and a drop in minority renters using the program....
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 10:42am PDT
7/12, SF at noon: RALLY TO SUPPORT SAFE & STRONG RENT CONTROL Rent Board Reform Charter Amendment Also Headed For Ballot: Rules Committee Approves Measure By 3-0 Vote; New 7 Member Board Will Have 2/3 Tenants
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS TO VOTE ON JULY 13
COME TO THE RALLY TO SUPPORT SAFE & STRONG RENT CONTROL ON JULY 12, NOON, CITY HALL...
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 12:55am PDT
Hellarity House under threat of eviction!!! Long lived east bay house in Oakland known as Hellarity under threat of eviction!!!...
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 8:41pm PDT
Stealing From The Poor, The Section 8 Scandal The Bush Administration Is Stealing Billions In Assets Used By The Poor To Cover Their Housing Needs!...
Posted: Sat, Jul 10, 2004 9:26pm PDT
Unemployment in the Central Valley 
Chart and brief analysis of the most recent unemployment figures from the Central Valley....
Posted: Sat, Jul 10, 2004 12:01pm PDT
4th of July Parade: Alameda Section 8 tenants march to resist eviction Red like a river of blood, co-mingling with a dark bruise blue flattened against glaring, headlight white - so much white ... in the houses, on the curbs, spilling out of trucks and draped over horses. It was the 4th of July in the richest country in the world. The air was filled with popcorn, barbecue sauce, marching music, horse hair and the sounds of hundreds of families facing eviction....
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 9:04am PDT
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