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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 PDT
Campaign for Renters Rights
A report on the July Campaign for Renters Rights Meeting in Oakland...
Posted: Sun, Jul 7, 2002 7:12pm PDT
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 PDT
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 PDT
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 PDT
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 PDT
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 PDT
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 PDT
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 PDT
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 PDT
ROLL BACK THE RENTS!
Rent increases have gone too far and now is the time to unite to ROLL BACK THE RENTS!...
Posted: Fri, May 24, 2002 4:55pm PDT
Slumlord ordered to return refugee's possessions
Local Slumlord Gets Cornered In Oakland Court Room, For Trying To Rip Off a Refugee And His Family, From Central America!...
Posted: Wed, May 22, 2002 9:36pm PDT
II.Housing demo SF May 16th (video/quicktime 6.0MB)
Bill Hart speaking at the demonstration at City Hall in San Francisco. QT movie: 1 min, 8MB....
Posted: Mon, May 20, 2002 10:52am PDT
Sun-Tue: Memorial service for homeless who die on SF's streets
3-Day Memorial Service for the homeless that have died on the streets of San Francisco....
Posted: Sun, May 19, 2002 1:22am PDT
Housing demo SF May 16th (video/quicktime 17.7MB)
Eduardo Paloma spoke at a City Hall housing demo in SF May 16th. 4 minute QT movie....
Posted: Fri, May 17, 2002 12:56pm PDT
Homes Not Jails! A ReViEwsForTheReVoLution Book review
A review of Michael Steinberg's novel, an early history of the housing advocay organization....
Posted: Wed, May 15, 2002 2:44pm PDT
A Real Answer for the Bay
Leading American expatriots have formulated an real solution to issues plagueing San Francisco and the Bay Area. Become a Canadian Province!...
Posted: Sat, May 11, 2002 7:17pm PDT
Policing The Non-Profits
The rent scams continue to spread, and the
non-profits are getting caught up into them...
The renters continue to be the losers in more ways than one......
Posted: Thu, May 9, 2002 7:15pm PDT
RECLAIM YOUR OPINION
...the media makes its main profit not from selling information to an audience, but rather from selling an audience to its advertisers...
Posted: Thu, May 9, 2002 3:46pm PDT
Support Needed for Alternative Proposals on Homelessness
SF Supervisors are considering nasty new legislation that threatens to further criminalize homelessness. Your support is urgently needed at the upcoming hearing to push forward a community sponsored plan & contest the pending draconian measures....
Posted: Thu, May 9, 2002 2:02pm PDT