[sudo-discuss] Evictions in California

[Gabrielle Silverman]

There were two groups meeting at Sudo yesterday doing anti- eviction work.

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.

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.

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...

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.

I encourage anyone interested to look up the text of AB- 1513 and give it a
read.

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.

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.

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"....

Gabby
 On Mar 21, 2014 11:39 AM, "Vicky Knox" <vknoxsironi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Jeremy for the Oakland Wiki shoutout!
>
> Yar, the people who came to Sudo last night at the Anti-Eviction Mapping
> Project data vis team. <https://antievictionmap.squarespace.com/> I'm in
> direct contact with them and will forward the OW article along. They are
> potentially interested in using LocalWiki (Oakland Wiki is a part of the LW
> network) as a tool for collective storytelling and resource-sharing. We'll
> be presenting to them next week. I can keep the list posted. ;]
>
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