April 3rd - planning hearing on whether two 6 -unit buildings owners should be allowed to convert the building into condos - and therefore evict the tenants.<div><br></div><div>The planning commission is made of humans, who are highly affected by people in the room yelling at them. This is 12 units worth of peoples lives that will be very affected by the outcome of this hearing.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you want to help them, and can take the afternoon off, go to the hearing and help them. <br><br>On Friday, March 21, 2014, Vicky Knox <<a href="mailto:vknoxsironi@gmail.com">vknoxsironi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hey everyone!!! You're right, Gabriell--I totally forgot that that meeting was taking place! Thanks for the info. And I really like Public Oh One's suggestions for moving forward. <br>
<br></div>I really want to encourage you all to follow in the example of the Oakland Privacy Working Group's and other citizen journalists' use of Oakland Wiki for movement-building around the Domain Awareness Center: <<a href="http://oaklandwiki.org/Domain_Awareness_Center" target="_blank">http://oaklandwiki.org/Domain_Awareness_Center</a>>. Oakland Wiki is both a tool for housing information about these issues, and a strategy for collectively making sense of these issues and taking action. Let's not stop with the DAC!<br>
<br></div>Public Oh One: If you want to house any of your thoughts on the wiki, something people are starting to do is create Community Proposals: <<a href="http://oaklandwiki.org/tags/communityproposal" target="_blank">http://oaklandwiki.org/tags/communityproposal</a>><br>
<br></div><div>Gabrielle and others: Like Jeremy mentioned, the article on AB-1513 <<a href="http://oaklandwiki.org/tags/communityproposal" target="_blank">http://oaklandwiki.org/tags/communityproposal</a>> needs a lot of work. So do the many other articles tagged with "Gentrification": <<a href="http://oaklandwiki.org/tags/gentrification" target="_blank">http://oaklandwiki.org/tags/gentrification</a>>. I just started an article critical of Vator, a start-up incubator that is working with Bryan Parker on the "Oaktown Tech Start-Up Competition". <<a href="http://oaklandwiki.org/Vator" target="_blank">http://oaklandwiki.org/Vator</a>> Please add to it! Another article talking about Oakland as an "Emerging Tech Hub" in general can be found here:<<a href="http://oaklandwiki.org/Emerging_Tech_Hub" target="_blank">http://oaklandwiki.org/Emerging_Tech_Hub</a>><br>
<br>The SF Wiki could use some work, too. ;] <<a href="http://localwiki.net/sf/Google_Bus_Protests" target="_blank">http://localwiki.net/sf/Google_Bus_Protests</a>><br><br></div><div>See you at the bookfair!<br></div>
<div>ykciV<br>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-03-21 17:50 GMT-07:00 GtwoG PublicOhOne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','g2g-public01@att.net');" target="_blank">g2g-public01@att.net</a>></span>:<br>
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1) Fight fire with a bigger fire:<br>
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Find a progressive legislator who can introduce a bill calling for:<br>
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a) Landlords convicted of illegal evictions or slumlording, to be
subjected to civil forfeiture of their properties. Seized
properties to be sold to nonprofit housing-oriented groups and
tenant co-ops at subsidized rates. <br>
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b) Felony enhancement for landlords found to have made materially
false statements under oath or in any legal documents pertaining to
their tenants or cases. This part can be bargained away as a
"compromise." <br>
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Don't just play defense, always play offense. <br>
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2) Dealing with NIMBYs: <br>
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It's useful to parse out actual NIMBYism from honest concerns such
as parking shortages, inadequate water mains, blocked solar access,
etc. <br>
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The most useful thing to do about parking, and excessive reliance on
automobiles generally, is to use strong tax incentives for
telecommuting & telework. Any job that does not involve putting
hands on products is a potential telework job. Any job that
primarily involves using a computer and/or phone is an obvious
telework job.<br>
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Conversion to teleworking will enable large numbers of workers to
happily give up automobiles that they only keep due to a need to
commute to work. This will substantially reduce parking congestion
in residential areas. <br>
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Conversion to teleworking will also reduce the need for large office
space by downtown businesses. Consolidation of office space into
fewer buildings opens up potentially huge square footage that can be
converted to housing.<br>
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Win/win/win solution all round. <br>
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-G.<br>
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<div>On 14-03-21-Fri 4:30 PM, Gabrielle
Silverman wrote:<br>
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<p>There were two groups meeting at Sudo yesterday doing anti-
eviction work. </p>
<p>AB- 1513 was written as a state wide anti-squatting bill, but
its so broad and so bad that it affects everyone. The earlier
afternoon group meeting yesterday was squatters from a number of
different households likely to be directly affected if the bill
passes.</p>
<p>AB- 1513 creates a means of extra judicial eviction. If it
passes, a property owner (or someone representing themselves as
such) can declare residents to be "unauthorized occupants" and
get them immediately evicted. No court process, no rights for
the residents. This is immediate eviction more or less on the
honor system for the owner.</p>
<p>This can apply for families in foreclosure battling banks, for
tenants on shaky ground fighting their landlords, for squatters,
homestraders, community gardens, people living in mobile homes
and vehicles...</p>
<p>The bill as it was originally written also had this creepy
felony enhancement making it "felony punishable" for residents
to refuse to leave after being ordered, or using violence or
threats of violence during the extra-judicial eviction. The
felony component (almost like hate crime enhancement for real
estate) was stricken down and is no longer part of the bill, but
I mention it because this is some sick twisted shit.</p>
<p>I encourage anyone interested to look up the text of AB- 1513
and give it a read.</p>
<p>The big update from today is that the bill is getting moved
around between committees so Tues is not the hard deadline we
thought it was. </p>
<p>We want to kill the bill at the committee level where there's
fewer votes that we need to shut it down and kill it dead.</p>
<p>Find us at the Anarchist Bookfair Sat and find out more about
how to help! We'll be by a big banner raining turds, warning of
the coming "eviction shit storm"....</p>
<p>Gabby<br>
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<<a>vknoxsironi@gmail.com</a>>
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<div>Thanks Jeremy for the Oakland Wiki shoutout! <br>
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Yar, the people who came to Sudo last night at the
Anti-Eviction Mapping Project data vis team. <<a href="https://antievictionmap.squarespace.com/" target="_blank">https://antievictionmap.</a></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote>
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