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On December 3rd we received an eviction notice from Wedgewood LLC, the company that has been holding this house vacant. We won’t give up without a fight. Please, sign the petition in support....
Posted: Thu, Dec 5, 2019 4:10pm PST
In California the SNAP Program (food stamp program) is known as CalFresh, with 3,912,714 food stamp recipients in California during July 2018, including 100,430 food stamp recipients in Alameda County during 2018 according to Kidsdata.org....
Posted: Tue, Dec 3, 2019 8:46pm PST
The Mayor and her administration are failing miserably in helping homeless people...
Posted: Sat, Nov 30, 2019 6:43pm PST
The Pop Up Care Village includes free food, clothing, showers, haircuts, acupuncture, art & music, animal care, mental health services, social services, medical services, legal aid, and harm reduction....
Posted: Sat, Nov 30, 2019 6:07pm PST
According to the most recent U.S. Census 138,000 San Franciscans do not have internet from their homes. The San Francisco Public Library did not take this into account when recently it mplemented a unprecedented change in its borrowing policy very damaging to seniors, low-income and disabled - those most likely to be without internet in their homes.....
Posted: Thu, Nov 28, 2019 2:45pm PST
22 people arrested for taking the Oscar Grant Plaza to seek solutions to homelessness....
Posted: Mon, Nov 25, 2019 5:10pm PST
A video summary of the eviction and some of the arrests....
Posted: Mon, Nov 25, 2019 1:32pm PST
Last night, dozens of unhoused community members with The Village and East Oakland Collective placed their tents on the lawn of City Hall; demanding to be seen, heard and helped by city officials. Instead they were terrorized, brutalized, arrested and taken to Santa Rita Jail....
Posted: Mon, Nov 25, 2019 12:52pm PST
Tents are up in Oscar Grant Plaza in front of Oakland City Hall to protest the city's never ending homeless encampment demolitions and evictions, its lack of seriousness and urgency in addressing the housing crisis. If you can support, come by!...
Posted: Sun, Nov 24, 2019 1:21pm PST
Anonymous has announced that Commander X, also known as Chris Doyon, will present himself to the government of Mexico during the first week of December at the Federal Building in San Miguel de Allende, where he will ,"tender his petition for political asylum and request refugee status." The announcement comes after two years of waiting and planning from safe-houses provided to Commander X by Mexican friends and supporters. Commander X had been living in hiding in Canada since 2012, after he e...
Posted: Fri, Nov 22, 2019 4:46pm PST
On October 18, two homeless mothers born and raised in Oakland reclaimed possession of a vacant investor-owned property in West Oakland. The mothers, Dominique Walker and Sameerah Karim, are the founding members of Moms for Housing, created to address the extreme challenges working mothers face in finding safe and affordable housing for themselves and their children. Here's video from their move-in day....
Posted: Wed, Nov 20, 2019 9:40pm PST
The SF Public Library has jeopardized its long-standing policy of serving all patrons equally with the same level of service by making it very difficult if not impossible for low-income, seniors and disabled to access the full range of services at this $160 million funded library system. (SFPL spends $3 million per year on digital service contacts)....
Posted: Wed, Nov 20, 2019 3:29pm PST
In a cruel development, the Chilean military is targeting protesters' eyes as protests over economic inequality intensify....
Posted: Tue, Nov 19, 2019 10:13pm PST
Wedgewood Investments Kept Home Vacant for Over 18 Months...
Posted: Mon, Nov 18, 2019 7:31pm PST
A number of homeless residents staying at the Phoenix Camp in Santa Cruz say they were not offered any shelter options when police raided the encampment and evicted them from public property, without prior notice, on the morning of November 15. Statements from homeless residents of the camp contradict the official statement released by the City of Santa Cruz during the eviction that, "everyone is being offered alternative shelter options." Phoenix Camp resident Jeff Fowler, who uses a wheelch...
Posted: Mon, Nov 18, 2019 3:35pm PST
Mainstream media have distorted and omitted various facts about the Friday morning November 15th police assault on the survival camp sending dozens into the bushes, streets, and neighborhoods for the winter. Camp Phoenix sheltered more than 60 people, many of them disabled and elderly, assisting with cooking, storage, and sanitation facilities and free access to its residents. The double sided flyer posted here attempts to correct false City claims echoed by the media....
Posted: Sat, Nov 16, 2019 4:08pm PST
Camp Phoenix had just been renamed yesterday. "In Memory of Deseire Quintero. Because we Rise From the Ashes." "We are a stand our ground Survival Camp." Today it is once again closed!...
Posted: Fri, Nov 15, 2019 7:29pm PST
Statement of the California Homeless Union...
Posted: Thu, Nov 14, 2019 6:49am PST
Today was a cooler day than yesterday. I was at the camp for a while in the morning and a short time in the afternoon. I must say that the camp is really taking shape!...
Posted: Wed, Nov 13, 2019 9:28pm PST
"This cause is a great cause and we’re tired of being treated like dirt. We’re not, we’re human beings. We bleed just like you and we’re good people. We need a safe place and this is a safe place right here.” - Deseire Quintero...
Posted: Tue, Nov 12, 2019 8:53pm PST












