[sudo-discuss] Evictions in California

[Vicky Knox]

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.

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: <
http://oaklandwiki.org/Domain_Awareness_Center>. 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!

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: <
http://oaklandwiki.org/tags/communityproposal>

Gabrielle and others: Like Jeremy mentioned, the article on AB-1513 <
http://oaklandwiki.org/tags/communityproposal> needs a lot of work. So do
the many other articles tagged with "Gentrification": <
http://oaklandwiki.org/tags/gentrification>. 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". <http://oaklandwiki.org/Vator>
Please add to it! Another article talking about Oakland as an "Emerging
Tech Hub" in general can be found here:<
http://oaklandwiki.org/Emerging_Tech_Hub>

The SF Wiki could use some work, too. ;] <
http://localwiki.net/sf/Google_Bus_Protests>

See you at the bookfair!
ykciV


2014-03-21 17:50 GMT-07:00 GtwoG PublicOhOne <g2g-public01 at att.net>:

>
> 1)  Fight fire with a bigger fire:
>
> Find a progressive legislator who can introduce a bill calling for:
>
> 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.
>
> 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."
>
> Don't just play defense, always play offense.
>
> 2)  Dealing with NIMBYs:
>
> It's useful to parse out actual NIMBYism from honest concerns such as
> parking shortages, inadequate water mains, blocked solar access, etc.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Win/win/win solution all round.
>
> -G.
>
>
> =====
>
>
>
> On 14-03-21-Fri 4:30 PM, Gabrielle Silverman wrote:
>
> 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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