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Homeless camp raided

08.28.12 - 2:05 pm | Yael Chanoff |
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Belongings of homeless people in an encampment at Fourth and King were trashed this morning.
According to police, the raid was based on complaints from residents of neighboring apartment buildings
Residents had cultivated a garden under the freeway
"There were two American flags displayed and potted plants are scattered" said John Gallagher of the camp before the raid.
Encampment resident James Belcher served in the military between 1970 and 1976
Patrice Perkins, who had stayed in the camp more than two months, sorts through his belongings
The land "is not being used" said resident Patrice Perkins
Ecampment residents could take all that they could carry or wheel out

California Highway Patrol police, San Francisco police, Cal Trans workers, Department of Public Works, and workers from the mayor’s Homeless Outreach Team descended today on an encampment on Fourth and King.

Yesterday, 40-50 people lived on the sidewalk and under the freeway overpass next to the Caltrain tracks. The encampment had tents, mobile units, and other makeshift housing. One group of residents had a large tent with a well-maintained garden in the front yard. Read more »

Removal of large homeless encampment scheduled for tomorrow morning

08.27.12 - 5:19 pm | Yael Chanoff |
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The Coalition on Homelessness received word that a homeless encampment at Fourth and King is scheduled for eviction tomorrow. According to an outreach report from John Gallagher, a human rights organizer at the coalition, about 40 people live in the encampment including at least two children. It has approxamitely 15 tent and 3-4 mobile structures.Read more »

Diamond Dave's report from Romneyville

08.27.12 - 9:37 am | Yael Chanoff |
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Activists from San Francisco and around the country are descending on Tampa this week to protest the Republican National Convention. I got a call this morning from Diamond Dave Whitaker, the poet who hung with the beats and the hippies in his 75 years, CCSF student senator and San Francisco legend. He's has been serving food to protesters at election-season conventions for almost three decades. His first was 1984, the Democratic Convention here in San Francisco before he got hooked and headed to Dallas to protest the Republicans. Read more »

March for women's rights this Sunday

08.24.12 - 4:53 pm | Yael Chanoff |
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As the war on women rages on, Defend Women's Rights marches will fight back Sunday.Read more »

Farmville, for real

City spaces like Hayes Valley Farm, Kezar Gardens, and the Free Farm are disappearing. Is there a future for urban agriculture in San Francisco?

08.21.12 - 4:54 pm | Yael Chanoff |
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yael@sfbg.com

In the next few months, San Francisco will lose some of its most beloved urban farms.

The City Hall victory garden is now reduced to dirt. The grants that kept afloat Quesada Gardens Initiative, which creates community gardens in Bayview, were temporary and are now drying up. Kezar Gardens, funded by the Haight Asbury Neighborhood Council recycling center, is facing eviction by the city.

Time is up for Hayes Valley Farm, on the old freeway ramp, where developers are now ready to build condos.Read more »

Alerts

08.21.12 - 4:45 pm | Yael Chanoff |
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WEDNESDAY 22 Read more »

Alerts

08.21.12 - 4:45 pm | Yael Chanoff |
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EDITORIAL The first day of public school in San Francisco is also the opening of fund-raising season for thousands of parents, who spend a tremendous amount of time every year trying to come up with the money to keep desperately underfunded schools operating with reasonable facilities and staff. Much of the enrichment available at public schools, and some of the basics — whether it's second-language teachers, libraries, supplies, or class-size reduction — is supported by the money parents bring in from car washes, direct appeals, special events, and yes, bake sales. Read more »

Country Country Club workers plan picket after step towards victory

08.21.12 - 2:54 pm | Yael Chanoff |
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Workers at Castlewood Country Club in Pleasanton, represented by UNITE HERE Local 2850, received a favorable decision from Administrative Law Judge Clifford Anderson of the National Labor Relations Board on Monday. He found that the club owes all 61 union workers two years of back pay-- and their jobs back.

"For the workers it feels like a relief to be believed in some way," said Local 2850 organizer Sarah Norr. "The workers have been saying for two years that Castlewood was not really trying to reach a compromise." Read more »

A week after police crack down, People's Library still operating in East Oakland

08.17.12 - 5:26 pm | Yael Chanoff |
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The building where activists, some from Occupy Oakland, created a free library and garden August 13 was raided by police that night. But that was Monday, this is Friday-- and the Biblioteca Popular Victor Martinez, or People's Library, is still in full form. Read more »

As classes begin again, CCSF reconsiders its mission

08.16.12 - 11:10 am | Yael Chanoff |
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Fall classes at City College of San Francisco began yesterday.  Students streamed through all nine campuses, navigating their schedules.

But they are coming back to a different school than they left. On July 3, Interim Chancellor Pamila Fisher received a letter from the Accrediting Commision of Community and Junior Colleges saying that the school could lose it’s accreditiaton, leading to its closure, unless it is able to succesfully “show cause” for staying open. The letter laid out 14 "major problems" that the accreditation board says CCSF must fix.Read more »