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10/11-12: We Need You to Save Rent Control; Save Homeless; Support Public Power
We have just three weeks to save rent control, stop the scapegoating of the homeless and finally bring public power to San Francisco. We need your help now in defeating the anti-workingclass
Propositions N and R and passing the public power initiative, Proposition D....
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2002 2:19am PDT
Why Proposition N Won't Work
Offering less cash assistance and no new funds for additional housing or treatment, Care-Not-Cash has the potential to be catastrophic both to San Francisco’s economy and to the lives of thousands of people....
Posted: Thu, Oct 10, 2002 9:54am PDT
Position Paper: Opposing Prop N (Care not Cash)
Religious Witness urges SF voters to reject Prop N on moral and poltical grounds....
Posted: Wed, Oct 9, 2002 2:50pm PDT
PROPOSITION N STANDS FOR NIGHTMARE, A PRE-HALLOWEEN FESTIVAL OF RESISTENCE
October 25th 5:30 pm at Webster and Chestnut Streets, San Francisco Gay Shame plans to take on Gavin Newsom's Proposition N, misnamed "Care Not Cash", in his home turf with a pre-Halloween Festival of Resistence in the Marina District. Events include an Exploitation Runway, a Gavin Newsom Look-Alike Contest, and food and music will be provided. Dress to ragged, stultifying, terrifying excess and join us in the Marina to defeat Prop N!...
Posted: Mon, Oct 7, 2002 2:51pm PDT
Campaign for Renters Rights - Monthly Meeting - Oct 7-Temescal Library-6pm
The Campaign for Renters Rights wants you to join their ranks......
Posted: Sat, Oct 5, 2002 3:29am PDT
10/5-7: Voter Reg, Precinct Walks & Phone Banks: No on N&R; Yes on D
Midnight Madness, a San Francisco election tradition, is Monday, October 7, 2002, when you can register to vote at City Hall, not only 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. but also from 6:30 p.m. to 12 midnight. You can register while sitting in your car on the Grove Street side of City Hall, between Van Ness & Dr. Goodlett St, when Grove will be open only to people wishing to register to vote....
Posted: Fri, Oct 4, 2002 5:50pm PDT
The largest gated community in the country
The HOPE proposal, Prop N, is part of a larger plan to make San Francisco a gated community for the rich by driving out low-income renters...
Posted: Fri, Oct 4, 2002 2:03am PDT
Conservativism Under Corporatism
I apologize for any inconvenience, but must strongly urge the reader to read my article What is American Corporatism? before reading this one, which draws upon the concept of corporatism as basic....
Posted: Thu, Oct 3, 2002 9:52pm PDT
Come to a benefit for the No on Prop N grassroots media campaign!
Media activists and folks on GA got together to make some TV commercials that expose the lies behind Gavin Newsom's Prop N campaign. This dinner/performance/dance party benefit will help put these truth-telling ads on the air in the weeks before the election....
Posted: Thu, Oct 3, 2002 9:11am PDT
10/3: SF No on N Campaign Kickoff; Phone Bank for No on N; Ballot Arguments
The SF No on N campaign kickoff is October 3. Phone bankers and precinct walkers are also needed for this outrageous, anti-workingclass proposition. This article contains the press release on the kickoff and the ballot arguments against Prop. N....
Posted: Sun, Sep 29, 2002 8:54pm PDT
Latest Housing Stats - Bay Area Nightmare
The recipe for homelessness is unaffordable housing offered by unscrupulous characters.
The latest Housing Stats reveal the nightmare
Bay Area renters face from greedy landlords....
Posted: Sun, Sep 29, 2002 1:47am PDT
Come Here Uncle Al's Band Down By the Bay-side
Humor and an Al Gore Speech- Believe..... (housing issue) Rats infested hotels are just fine without bombs but does a good samaritan act extend to relief by war against governance by terror.
In Wake of Attack #1002+ on Babylon in world history, Al by the Bay for your just-war consideration among the family of man....
Posted: Sat, Sep 28, 2002 10:18pm PDT
CITY OF FRESNO CRIMINALIZES POVERTY
Fresno Criminalizes Poverty
Police attack homeless in the downtown area...
Posted: Mon, Sep 23, 2002 8:01pm PDT
URGENT -- Protect CA renters
Call the Governor and ask him to sign AB2330!...
Posted: Mon, Sep 23, 2002 3:39pm PDT
Evictions, A Cause for Intervention
Oakland Anti-Eviction Activists Hit The Streets In Creative Ways To Put Pressure On Landlords....
Posted: Sat, Sep 21, 2002 4:34pm PDT
URGENT: 9/21 Precinct Walks to Save Rent Control
Sept. 21 precinct walks to defeat Prop R and Save Rent Control are in the Castro, gathering between 11 a.m. and Noon at the Metropolitan Community Church, 150 Eureka St., between 18th and 19th St. We MUST have 100 people at this site to cover the crucial tenant precincts. If you cannot be there on 9/21, call 415/282-5525 and arrange for a time to pick up your literature and precinct maps. If you run out of time, return to the precinct another day and finish it....
Posted: Thu, Sep 19, 2002 7:15pm PDT
Martina Gillis discusses welfare reform (video/x-pn-realvideo 3.2MB)
Martina Gillis of the Coalition for Ethical Welfare Reform discusses issues facing working poor and people on welfare. 27 minutes...
Posted: Wed, Sep 18, 2002 8:48pm PDT
SF: Precinct Walking To Save Rent Control
Precinct walking has started to save rent control in San Francisco and we need EVERYONE at the barricades to save our homes. It is 7 weeks to election day and only 3 weeks until Vote by Mail starts, when at least one-third of the voters will vote. Whether or not you are a San Francisco voter, you can participate in the campaign. It is absolutely mandatory that every single tenant voter in San Francisco vote in this election if we are to defeat Prop R, the Repeal of Rent Control; defeat P...
Posted: Sun, Sep 15, 2002 9:26am PDT
Tenants Are Taking Charge in California
A new movement is building across the state of California in response to one of the most severe housing crises in the Country....
Posted: Fri, Sep 13, 2002 11:07am PDT
Housing Leadership Day
The Housing Leadership Council of san mateo is sponsoring Housing Leadership Day on October 11, 2002 to bring together all the organizations working towards finding a solution in the field of housing." If you are part of the solution be a part of the fair."...
Posted: Wed, Sep 11, 2002 11:15am PDT