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Hardly Strictly
I knew I had stopped having a good time when Emmylou Harris gave Warren Hellman a big hug at the Banjo Stage in Speedway Meadows....
Posted: Tue, Oct 9, 2007 6:56am PDT
Second Quarter Reporting: What will Barrick hide from their shareholders this time?
August 2 marks the publishing date of Barrick Gold's second quarter results. With profits down by 14 percent, the Pascua Lama project delayed, and Norway's pension fund considering pulling their investment on ethical grounds, things aren't looking good for this gold mining giant. But, are any of these developments a big surprise? There are many shareholders who might think so, but that is only because Barrick has been systematically hiding vital information from them through glaring omissions...
Posted: Thu, Aug 2, 2007 3:15am PDT
CISPES Declares its Solidarity with the Salvadoran Political Prisoners
On July 2 the Salvadoran police violently attacked a peaceful protest against water privatization and arrested 14 people. President Saca was scheduled to announce water “decentralization” – the first step in the privatization process – in the town of Suchitoto....
Posted: Thu, Jul 12, 2007 4:43pm PDT
Fault Lines Distro Dinner and a Movie Night
Station 40 (16th & Mission)...
Event Date: Thu, Jul 12, 2007 8:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Jul 10, 2007 9:53am PDT
In San Francisco, Tenants Have Rights!
Most housing unites in SF are rent controlled. If yours is, your landlord can only evict you for a "just cause." Your landlord cannot evict you because they feel like it. If your landlord is trying to evict you, get help!...
Posted: Sun, Jun 24, 2007 1:43am PDT
Rent is Theft, Housing is a Human Right
The housing situation in San Francisco is a prime example of the greatest evil of capitalism. Only those who
can afford it get to be housed. Everyone
else lives on the streets. They get trash
talked by neighbors and politicians alike
for the sin of being homeless. They are
arrested or cited with “quality of life” citations....
Posted: Sun, Jun 24, 2007 1:39am PDT
Former Tenant Pickets as Realtors Tries to Sell House
Currently, I am picketing the building
I was Ellised* from in 2001 by speculators Michael Gallin and Elba Borgen.
The apartments were sold as TICs* in
2003 and 2004 after the building sat
empty for almost two years. Three of
the four apartments are for sale again as
TICs. The purpose of the picket is to
make sure prospective buyers know the
building’s history. While an Ellis Act
eviction must be recorded on the deed,
many realtors try to hide this information or omit it i...
Posted: Sun, Jun 24, 2007 1:30am PDT
What Do More Condos Mean for the Mission?
At a time when affordable family
housing is on the political agenda, Seven Hills Properties is pushing a condo
development through the planning
process for 60 new condos and another Walgreen’s Drug Store. The site in
questions is 3400 Cesar Chavez Street
(at Mission), now a empty parking lot
where day laborers wait for work daily....
Posted: Sun, Jun 24, 2007 1:24am PDT
The Ellis Act Defined
The Ellis Act is a state law that says
landlords have the unconditional right
to evict tenants to “go out of business.”
For an Ellis eviction, the landlord must
remove all of the units in the building
from the rental market. The apartments
cannot be re-rented, except at the same
rent the evicted tenant was paying, for
five years following the evictions. There
are no such restrictions on converting
them to ownership units (e.g., tenancies
in common or condos)....
Posted: Sun, Jun 24, 2007 1:23am PDT
Pacifism Summer: Revolution Summer Through the Lens of Churchill's Pacifism as Pathology
State police, often serving as the order-preserving arms of global capitalism, have a simple formula for dissolving
groups that pose a threat to that order.
This formula has been documented for
decades in the US and has even been
applied against completely nonviolent
groups. According to Ward Churchill
in Pacifism as Pathology, reissued this
year by AK press, the existence of such
a formula brings up an inherent flaw in
the logic of American Liberals and other totally inef...
Posted: Sat, Jun 23, 2007 8:39pm PDT
Sacco and Vanzetti: A Review
The story of Niccolo Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti was one so powerful
that it is still lamented almost 90 years
later. In 1920, the two Italian-American anarchists were convicted of murder
outside of Boston and held for seven
years before their execution in 1927. To
the authorities’ chagrin, the execution
resounded as an electric shock heard
‘round the world, as the two had garnered support from the far-reaching
corners of the planet. Everyone knew
the names Sacco and Vanze...
Posted: Sat, Jun 23, 2007 8:29pm PDT
Guerrilla Gardens
For those of us living in our modern cities land is a foreign concept. Stories of land conjure romantic images of countrysides far from our crowded neighborhoods, images that seem irrelevant to our lives. Even though we inhabit a landscape smothered with buildings and concrete, the struggles for land fought by rural people hold many important lessons for us as we strive for control over our lives and communities. When we consider the landless state of most poor people the world round and h...
Posted: Sat, Jun 23, 2007 8:01pm PDT
The Scapegoat's Tale: An Interview with Gabe Meyers
Fault Lines interviewed Josh Wolf and Gabe Meyers, the two people targeted by the federal and local authorities after the July 8, 2005 Anarchist Action Anti-G8 demonstration in San Francisco. Anti-capitalist protests and demonstrations
against the G8, WTO, and other institutions that represent neo-colonial domination and corporate globalization
have always been met with more aggression and hostility than normal marches for peace. Granted, these demonstrators are often much more militant. ...
Posted: Sat, Jun 23, 2007 7:39pm PDT
Anti-G8 Fallout: Learning from Past Actions in San Francisco: An Interview with Josh Wolf
Fault Lines interviewed Josh Wolf and Gabe Meyers, the two people targeted by the federal and local authorities after the July 8, 2005 Anarchist Action Anti-G8 demonstration in San Francisco. Anti-capitalist protests and demonstrations
against the G8, WTO, and other institutions that represent neo-colonial domination and corporate globalization
have always been met with more aggression and hostility than normal marches for peace. Granted, these demonstrators are often much more militant. ...
Posted: Sat, Jun 23, 2007 7:26pm PDT
No G8: Heiligendamm Report Back
This year’s meeting of the Group of 8
(G8, the 7 richest nations in the world:
Great Britain, United States, Germany,
France, Japan, Italy, and Canada, plus
Russia) was held in the resort of Heiligendamm, Germany from June 6-8.
At the meeting, the 13 percent of the
world’s population was “represented” to
decide policies that will have tremendous effects on the other 87 percent of
the world....
Posted: Sat, Jun 23, 2007 7:06pm PDT
Indigenous Resurgence in Abya Yala
As the historic march flooded into
the old colonial central plaza, there was
a moment of great jubilation. From the
side streets flowed legions of people
from the feeder marchers, swelling the
ranks of the main body. As the rivers
of indigenous marchers merged, a tremendous roar filled the air as hundreds
of smiling faces greeted each other like
long lost brothers and sisters re-uniting—which of course in many respects,
they were....
Posted: Sat, Jun 23, 2007 4:32pm PDT
No Love for Golddiggers
From the uselessness of the final
product to the dramatic environmental and social impacts of its excavation,
modern-day gold mining serves as an
absurd illustration of the dangers and
complexity of our global economy....
Posted: Sat, Jun 23, 2007 3:55pm PDT
Biojustice Diary: Oranized Opposition to the Biotech Industry's Annual Meeting in Boston
Chinatown - 5.03.07
Up a dusty flight of stairs in the heart of Boston’s Chinatown lies the arterial lining of the Boston anti-biotech movement. Banners for the US Social Forum line the walls, stacks of the Bioustice 2007 underground newspaper sit prepared for distribution, and various flyers await eager hands. Amidst these tools of resistance, there is a murmur of activity as a motley crew of committed individuals plot and laugh heartily. These are not your typical anti-authoritarians....
Posted: Sat, Jun 23, 2007 3:30pm PDT
Microradio Blues: SF Liberation Radio's Court Defeat Exemplifies Federal/Corporate Control
On February 15, 2007, three years after its demise, San Francisco Liberation Radio’s (SFLR) case against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) finally reached the Ninth Circuit Court. This was the station’s third appearance in court, and it unfortunately reached the same conclusion as the previous
two: a decision overwhelmingly in favor of the FCC. A victory would have done nothing in regard to the station’s ability to broadcast, but would have made it more difficult for the FCC to ra...
Posted: Sat, Jun 23, 2007 3:08pm PDT
Clean Burn: SF City College Administrators Swindle Students out of $200G Biodiesel Grant
On April 19, City College of San
Francisco celebrated Earth Day by
showcasing alternative fuel and electrically powered vehicles on the school’s
Ram Plaza. Among the line-up of vehicles was a biodiesel hot rod that some
fellow CCSF students and I built in
the school’s Automotive Department.
The hotrod is a 1974 El Camino Super
Sport that was originally gas powered
with a 350 Chevy engine. We pulled
the engine and replaced it with 6.2 liter
GMC diesel engine and filled the ...
Posted: Sat, Jun 23, 2007 2:27pm PDT