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3/7: STOP EVICTIONS IN BAYVIEW-HUNTERS POINT
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE FAR AND WIDE!! A CALL TO ACTION!!
STOP EVICTIONS IN BAYVIEW-HUNTERS POINT
TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 4:00 p.m.
ROOM 416, CITY HALL, S.F.
STOP EVICTIONS IN BAYVIEW-HUNTERS POINT
TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 4:00 p.m.
ROOM 416, CITY HALL, S.F.
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE FAR AND WIDE!! A CALL TO ACTION!!
STOP EVICTIONS IN BAYVIEW-HUNTERS POINT
TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 4:00 p.m.
ROOM 416, CITY HALL, S.F.
Companeros/companeras:
Below please find an editorial by Willie Ratcliff,
publisher of SF Bay View, about a March 7 hearing
before Redevelopment Authority, which will seal the
fate of Bayview Hunter's Point. Many of us have been
saying for years that the Bayview will be the new
Fillmore. March 7 is, as Ratcliff says, an eviction
notice for the residents of Bayview Hunters Point. Not
long after coming into office, Mayor Gavin Newsom did
photo ops with young black men on a basketball court
in Bayview (he was lavished with praise by our
mindless media for that), but he knew damn well then
that their displacement was imminent. It's all part of
San Francisco's hypocrisy about racism and classism.
"Oh, we're a liberal city, we oppose racism and
classism..." people and politicians say, even as they
stand idly by while more and more poor, working-class
and people of color are pushed out of the city by
Ellis Act evictions for TICs for the upper middle
class and Redevelopment Authority's "negro removal,"
as it was called by black activists in the 60s.
Why is it that removing "urban blight" from our cities
means giving poor, working-class and people of color a
one-way ticket to another city? Why can't
Redevelopment work on building communities from within
(with no-interest business loans and subsidies to
homeowners and landlords to fix up their properties,)
instead of declaring "eminent domain" and stealing the
land from folks who have nothing else? If
Redevelopment wants to do some real cleaning of urban
blight why not confiscate the mansions in Pacific
Heights and do a little redistributing of the wealth!
But that's not the game in America. Redevelopment is a
tool of the real-estate interests that want to
gentrify all of our neighborhoods. It's about removing
poor folks so that middle-class and upper-class folks
can have their homes. It's a time-honored American
tradition. Native Americans were pushed from their
land as wagon trains of settlers, driven by manifest
destiny, spread westward. Similarly, the new Bayview
is not for the folks who live there now. As former
Mayor Willie Brown himself said before he left office,
the new Bayview will be market-rate condos with the
best views in town.
Your help is desperately needed.
Come to the hearing on March 7 at City Hall room 416,
4pm. It is imperative that we stand with the residents
of Bayview. It is imperative that people from all
communities and struggles come together to oppose the
annexing of 1300 acres of land next to the shipyard.
No more Fillmores! No eviction notice for Bayview! No
more gentrification! Redistribute the wealth, don't
steal our homes! The land does not belong to the
realtors or the rich! Nuestra tierra, nuestro mundo!
Our land, our world!
Estamos juntos en la lucha...we are together in the
struggle--or we all go down separately!
tommi avicolli mecca
Read:
Eviction notice served on Bayview Hunters Point
Editorial by Willie Ratcliff
http://www.sfbayview.com/020806/evictionnotice020806.shtml
STOP EVICTIONS IN BAYVIEW-HUNTERS POINT
TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 4:00 p.m.
ROOM 416, CITY HALL, S.F.
Companeros/companeras:
Below please find an editorial by Willie Ratcliff,
publisher of SF Bay View, about a March 7 hearing
before Redevelopment Authority, which will seal the
fate of Bayview Hunter's Point. Many of us have been
saying for years that the Bayview will be the new
Fillmore. March 7 is, as Ratcliff says, an eviction
notice for the residents of Bayview Hunters Point. Not
long after coming into office, Mayor Gavin Newsom did
photo ops with young black men on a basketball court
in Bayview (he was lavished with praise by our
mindless media for that), but he knew damn well then
that their displacement was imminent. It's all part of
San Francisco's hypocrisy about racism and classism.
"Oh, we're a liberal city, we oppose racism and
classism..." people and politicians say, even as they
stand idly by while more and more poor, working-class
and people of color are pushed out of the city by
Ellis Act evictions for TICs for the upper middle
class and Redevelopment Authority's "negro removal,"
as it was called by black activists in the 60s.
Why is it that removing "urban blight" from our cities
means giving poor, working-class and people of color a
one-way ticket to another city? Why can't
Redevelopment work on building communities from within
(with no-interest business loans and subsidies to
homeowners and landlords to fix up their properties,)
instead of declaring "eminent domain" and stealing the
land from folks who have nothing else? If
Redevelopment wants to do some real cleaning of urban
blight why not confiscate the mansions in Pacific
Heights and do a little redistributing of the wealth!
But that's not the game in America. Redevelopment is a
tool of the real-estate interests that want to
gentrify all of our neighborhoods. It's about removing
poor folks so that middle-class and upper-class folks
can have their homes. It's a time-honored American
tradition. Native Americans were pushed from their
land as wagon trains of settlers, driven by manifest
destiny, spread westward. Similarly, the new Bayview
is not for the folks who live there now. As former
Mayor Willie Brown himself said before he left office,
the new Bayview will be market-rate condos with the
best views in town.
Your help is desperately needed.
Come to the hearing on March 7 at City Hall room 416,
4pm. It is imperative that we stand with the residents
of Bayview. It is imperative that people from all
communities and struggles come together to oppose the
annexing of 1300 acres of land next to the shipyard.
No more Fillmores! No eviction notice for Bayview! No
more gentrification! Redistribute the wealth, don't
steal our homes! The land does not belong to the
realtors or the rich! Nuestra tierra, nuestro mundo!
Our land, our world!
Estamos juntos en la lucha...we are together in the
struggle--or we all go down separately!
tommi avicolli mecca
Read:
Eviction notice served on Bayview Hunters Point
Editorial by Willie Ratcliff
http://www.sfbayview.com/020806/evictionnotice020806.shtml
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Calm down, hon! I realize that from the moment you set foo in town from Philly you have annointed yourself "princess protector" of the downtrodden. I guess you have moved on to the Bayview after having spent years whining about the "gentrification" of the Castro, something that has not happened but should. Tommi, in the real world, no one has a "right" to preserve a city in amber. Cities evolve. So do most people (hint, hint). The Bayview is going to change. You can go with it or be run over by the bulldozers like Ms Corrie.
so i don't think he'll get your message
Cities evolve and the goons who ruined that hood will soon ruin another hood.
Its people who ruin neighborhoods not the government. As soon as I step out my front door I see the people who will ruin the Tenderloin. Its the poor ass African American, white and hispanic people who run around in this city thinkin they are above the law exposing us to their disgusting habits.
OUT with the OLD and IN with the NEW.
Its people who ruin neighborhoods not the government. As soon as I step out my front door I see the people who will ruin the Tenderloin. Its the poor ass African American, white and hispanic people who run around in this city thinkin they are above the law exposing us to their disgusting habits.
OUT with the OLD and IN with the NEW.
so cities evolve by kicking people out of them? sounds like the early advocates for eugenics as a way of kicking inferior people out of the gene pool. and to the other racist dipshit that posted, you might want to move out to a white stronghold somewhere and regroup until the racial holy war
SF commission approves redevelopment plan
- Cecilia M. Vega, Chronicle Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
More than half of San Francisco's Bayview-Hunter's Point will fall under the jurisdiction of the city's Redevelopment Agency under a proposal approved Tuesday evening that aims to clean up blight, create jobs and build affordable housing in the struggling community.
The Redevelopment Agency commission unanimously backed the plan that turns more than 1,300 acres of the Bayview into a redevelopment area -- the largest redevelopment plan in San Francisco history.
Acknowledging the strained relationship between the city's black community and the agency, which in the 1960s bulldozed homes in the Western Addition and forced out many black families, commissioners said the goal of the Bayview plan is to keep residents living there, not somewhere else.
"We've got to stop looking at the past and looking to the future... and that is what this plan does," Commissioner Ramon Romero said.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has final say on the matter and is set to vote on the issue sometime this spring. Mayor Gavin Newsom expressed his support for the plan in a letter Tuesday.
Once the Bayview is declared an official redevelopment area, a portion of future property tax dollars can be used to fund improvements and build new housing.
With the construction of the Third Street light-rail, proponents of the plan say an economic boost is inevitable for the Bayview and that having a redevelopment plan in place gives residents control of their future. But opponents fear redevelopment means gentrification.
Despite hearing assurances that the plan strictly forbids eminent domain on any building where people live, some residents still said they did not trust the agency.
"If you do redevelop, what will happen to the old people like me? Will you throw us out," asked 84-year-old Bayview resident Eva Smith. "And what will happen to our young people... What are you going to do, throw our offspring away?"
E-mail Cecilia M. Vega at cvega [at] sfchronicle.com.
URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/03/07/MNG9EHK7H042.DTL
- Cecilia M. Vega, Chronicle Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
More than half of San Francisco's Bayview-Hunter's Point will fall under the jurisdiction of the city's Redevelopment Agency under a proposal approved Tuesday evening that aims to clean up blight, create jobs and build affordable housing in the struggling community.
The Redevelopment Agency commission unanimously backed the plan that turns more than 1,300 acres of the Bayview into a redevelopment area -- the largest redevelopment plan in San Francisco history.
Acknowledging the strained relationship between the city's black community and the agency, which in the 1960s bulldozed homes in the Western Addition and forced out many black families, commissioners said the goal of the Bayview plan is to keep residents living there, not somewhere else.
"We've got to stop looking at the past and looking to the future... and that is what this plan does," Commissioner Ramon Romero said.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has final say on the matter and is set to vote on the issue sometime this spring. Mayor Gavin Newsom expressed his support for the plan in a letter Tuesday.
Once the Bayview is declared an official redevelopment area, a portion of future property tax dollars can be used to fund improvements and build new housing.
With the construction of the Third Street light-rail, proponents of the plan say an economic boost is inevitable for the Bayview and that having a redevelopment plan in place gives residents control of their future. But opponents fear redevelopment means gentrification.
Despite hearing assurances that the plan strictly forbids eminent domain on any building where people live, some residents still said they did not trust the agency.
"If you do redevelop, what will happen to the old people like me? Will you throw us out," asked 84-year-old Bayview resident Eva Smith. "And what will happen to our young people... What are you going to do, throw our offspring away?"
E-mail Cecilia M. Vega at cvega [at] sfchronicle.com.
URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/03/07/MNG9EHK7H042.DTL
The funny thing about Tommi aka "Princess Protector" from back east, the people of the Bayview would spit on him. They're not really into the gay thing out there.
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