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Squatters Take Over 47 Page Street 
The Autonomous Collective, a local anti-capitalist group, orchestrated a morning-long stand-off in order to draw attention to the affordable housing shortage and rampant homelessness that continue to plague San Francisco....
Posted: Fri, Mar 19, 2004 6:13pm PST
Pictures From the "Money For Warfare Means Squat For Housing" Protest 
Several housing activists occupied a building this morning near Market and Van Ness in San Francisco over the city's housing policies and the US's spending priorities. Hundreds rallied outside in support. After several hours, the police moved in and took control of the building removing the banners. The squatters were neither arrested nor cited, but several protesters who sat down in the street were arrested....
Posted: Fri, Mar 19, 2004 3:08pm PST
Photos of Benefit Concert for Coalition on Homelessness 
Wednesday night, March 17, the Coalition on Homelessness held a benefit concert at Slim's, a South-of-Market nightclub....
Posted: Fri, Mar 19, 2004 2:09am PST
Why is the San Francisco afraid of Theresa Coleman For the past eights years the low-income communities of color in the Southeast Section of San Francisco, the ex Mayor Willie Brown corner the Federal money, Community Development Block Grants (CDBG). From there the money was stolen, sent to another community, of given to his appointed Community Based Organizations. (CBO)
Since 1998, every election there has been voter fraud in distrist 10 by ex Mayor Willie Brown people. Just look at the Dec 2003 election....
Posted: Tue, Mar 16, 2004 4:13pm PST
Oakland: Larry Reid’s good intentions To hear Larry Reid tell it, his Nuisance Eviction Ordinance sounds like a great way to get rid of the bad guys. And without a doubt, given a perfect police department, perfect city officials, etc., it would work just perfect. Unfortunately, Councilmember Reid overlooks the fact that we live in a less than perfect world where officials routinely abuse their power....
Posted: Tue, Mar 16, 2004 2:45pm PST
Jerry Brown Ethics Hearing Postponed PUEBLO has asked for a continuance because
Jerry's Subpoena was rejected on a technicallity and there is no point in
holding the hearing without the man himself....
Posted: Tue, Mar 16, 2004 10:37am PST
Protect San Francisco's Low Income Communities of Color and Working Class The Redevelopment Agency is setting up for another Fillmore in the low income and communities of color in several districts especially Bayview Hunters Point. make copies cirulate the petition and get signatures and send to the San Francisco Bayview Newspaper. Remember the Fillmore stop Redevelopment, make them accountable to the Board of Supervisors....
Posted: Mon, Mar 15, 2004 12:25am PST
Mar 16-Defend Oakland Renters At Oakland City Hall! Join The Struggle To Defend Oakland Renters From The Nuisance Eviction Ordinance At Oakland City Hall On March 16!
Say No To Agenda Items 16 through 16.3 at the Mar 16 Oakland City Council Meeting! Be there by 5:45pm to sign up as a speaker in opposition to the NEO!...
Posted: Sun, Mar 14, 2004 5:50pm PST
Sign Up Here To Stop Oakland's Eviction Scheme! Only You Can Stop Oakland's Proposed Nuisance Eviction Ordinance (NEO)! Please Fill Out Speaker Card To Oppose The NEO!...
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2004 8:00pm PST
PUEBLO Update! Update on the ongoing struggle at People United for a Better Oakland....
Posted: Thu, Mar 11, 2004 1:18pm PST
Chronicle Goes into Attack Mode to Serve Landlord's and Real Estate Interests "It's no surprise that many San Francisco residents have fled to the suburbs in search of reasonably priced homes while the rhetoric and finger-pointing about the lack of housing continues unabated in the city." [Good! Good news! Rethugnicans are fleeing to the suburbs! Go ahead and go already!]...
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 2:05pm PST
February Floods sink Family School Again On February 25th, San Francisco street drains backed-up, overflowed and sent three foot high rapids of flooding water, rushing into the Family School, sinking the non-profit agency deeper in despair, immediately shutting the facility down causing 25 families and 32 children to be without available daycare....
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 1:36pm PST
What is going on at PUEBLO? A cry for help for help appeared on a website. The progressive community was being asked to take sides in an internal dispute, but the strange message seemed to conceal more than it told. What was it all about and was it even legitimate?...
Posted: Mon, Mar 8, 2004 12:34pm PST
3/18 Protest Jerry Brown re: PUEBLO LET'S FILL UP THE ROOM AND SPREAD THE WORD -----
WE ARE HOLDING JERRY BROWN ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS BEHAVIOR.
On Thursday, March 18th at 6:30 PM, the Ethics Commission will hear the complaint
filed against Mayor Jerry Brown and Council Member Danny Wan by Rashidah Grinage,
obo PUEBLO. We are exceedingly fortunate to represented at the hearing by Bob Bloom,
one of the award-winning team of attorneys in the Judy Bari law suit .
The allegations are that Mayor Brown viol...
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 10:01am PST
Nazi Newsom Votes to Destroy Workers' Homes Nazi Newsom, the Democratic Party's latest pro-landlord hoodlum sitting illegally in the mayor's office, vetoed legislation that would have stopped the demolition of 377 rent-controlled apartments at Trinity Plaza at 8th and Market, San Francisco....
Posted: Sat, Mar 6, 2004 12:46pm PST
Lizz Brown In Oakland! What: Lizz Brown, St. Louis Radio Host to Be Featured at “Taking Back Our Community’s Future: Going From Miseducation to Community Control of Education!” Conference
When: Saturday, March 13th, noon to 6pm
Where: Uhuru House, 7911 Mac Arthur Blvd, Oakland, California
Media Contact: Wendy Snyder, 510-295-7834...
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 10:50am PST
Call to Action Project in Sacramento The following press release is from Faye Kennedy, a long time anti war, community and civil rights activist, about the Call to Action Project....
Posted: Thu, Feb 26, 2004 9:33pm PST
2/25: Workforce Against Prop J Press Conference, Rally, Leafletting We will rally at the Parkview Commons (a REAL workforce housing development that is affordable for San Franciscans earning as little as $45,000 per year). We will then march down Haight Street for some leafleting....
Posted: Tue, Feb 24, 2004 10:42pm PST
Jerry Brown's Contaminated and Crowded Downtown and … Behind the smart growth and affordable housing rhetoric is a well connected political and financial machine generating billions in profits for large-scale developers, investment bankers, and income property owners. Aside from the military budget for the war on terrorism, smart growth and affordable housing development generate the nation’s single largest source of corporate welfare. Money siphoned from the right for the war on terrorism and from the left by smart growth redevelopment are larg...
Posted: Tue, Feb 24, 2004 1:23am PST
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