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HOMES NOT JAILS seizes vacant Kaiser-owned Apartment Building!
Homes Not Jails Housing Takeover in San Francisco
by Michael Steinberg
Monday Apr 11th, 2011
Squatter's group Homes Not Jails took over a large long vacant apartment building at the corner of Divisadero and O'Farrell, off Geary, in San Francisco today.
The building is owned by Kaiser Permanente, the HMO empire whose colossal hospital buildings dominate the medical landscape across California.
When I got home a while ago and told my housemate about the action and the location of the building, he recognized it. "They kicked a bunch of families out," he said, referring to Kaiser, "and it's been empty ever since."
On the front of the building a large banner proclaimed, "Kaiser Thrives, People Die." The cruel irony of a gigantic organization supposedly in the healing business intentionally keeping people from living in a perfectly good, and large, building, and for a long time, became perfectly clear though today's occupation.
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by Michael Steinberg
Monday Apr 11th, 2011
Squatter's group Homes Not Jails took over a large long vacant apartment building at the corner of Divisadero and O'Farrell, off Geary, in San Francisco today.
The building is owned by Kaiser Permanente, the HMO empire whose colossal hospital buildings dominate the medical landscape across California.
When I got home a while ago and told my housemate about the action and the location of the building, he recognized it. "They kicked a bunch of families out," he said, referring to Kaiser, "and it's been empty ever since."
On the front of the building a large banner proclaimed, "Kaiser Thrives, People Die." The cruel irony of a gigantic organization supposedly in the healing business intentionally keeping people from living in a perfectly good, and large, building, and for a long time, became perfectly clear though today's occupation.
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San Francisco Food Not Bombs: http://sffnb.org/
Homes Not Jails: http://www.homesnotjailssf.org/wb/
Western Regional Advocacy Project: http://wraphome.blogspot.com/
Coalition on Homelessness: http://www.cohsf.org/en/
Homes Not Jails: http://www.homesnotjailssf.org/wb/
Western Regional Advocacy Project: http://wraphome.blogspot.com/
Coalition on Homelessness: http://www.cohsf.org/en/
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