Saturday, May 31st
Reclaim The Streets! Mobile Dance Party!
- Because dancing in the streets is more fun than driving in them!
Starting 1pm at Dolores Park! From there, we take to the streets!
This event will last ALL DAY, be entirely outdoors, 100% FREE.

They’re trying to get rid of rent control in San Francisco through Prop 98, so we decided we’d throw a party to get the word out and to celebrate the city we all live in! Meet us in the streets at the end of May to dance, sing, resist and take the streets! Read the rest of this entry »

New press release: http://reclaimsf.org/?page_id=19 

Updated information about Prop F: http://reclaimsf.org/?page_id=20

Awesome new flyer. Print and distribute!

Slingshot Flyer
In English:
Full: http://friendlyfirecollective.info/images/52.jpg
Quarter: http://friendlyfirecollective.info/images/53.jpg

In Spanish:
Full: http://friendlyfirecollective.info/images/54.jpg
Quarter: http://friendlyfirecollective.info/images/55.jpg

Other flyers below. Check em out, pick your favorites, and download them. Put one on your fridge, your friends fridge, plaster them everywhere you go! If you don’t see one you like, make your own and put it up here! You can also download them from our website.

• May 1st * Mayday RTS
• May 31st * Renters Rise Up! (”Prop 98 is coming”)
• May 31st * Renters Rise Up! (”Our Party Kicks Your Ass”)
• May 31st * Renters Rise Up! (’Live”) - Color
• May 31st * Renters Rise Up! (”Live”) - B/W
• May 31st * Renters Rise Up! (See thru letters) - Color
• May 31st * Renters Rise Up! (See thru letters) -B/W

Handbills - Give these to folks on the street. They are smaller.

• May 1st * Mayday RTS - 4-in-one handbill

¡Arrendatarios Resisten!, antes que nada, es una fiesta. Es una fiesta por y para la comunidad, una fiesta de calle y de barrio, que se echa para cualquiera que quiere participar y por cualquiera que quiere planificarlo. Y ¿por dónde sería más apropriado tener una fiesta para la comunidad que en las calles mismas?

¿Por qué vamos a echar esta fiesta? ¿Por qué se echa una fiesta? Para festejar.

¿Y qué celebramos? Celebramos nosotros y nuestras comunidades. Nosotros que vivimos aquí en la Bay Area vivimos en un lugar increíble. Pero es por la gente que la Bay Area es así. Y ¡reconozcámoslo! Nosotros somos gente maravillosa, de veras.

Si todo eso no es razón suficiente para echar una fiesta grandote en las calles, ahora es el momento en el que hay que resistir y valorizar lo que hemos hecho aquí. Porque nosotros y nuestras comunidades están siendo atacados.

Es así porque el Control de Alquiler, la ley que deja que alquiler en las ciudades de alto costo de vida como San Francisco sea acesible y de precio razonable para la gente que trabaja, está en peligro de ser derrumbado.

La fiesta tendrá lugar en el Parque Dolores, 18th y Dolores cerca de la estación BART 16th y Mission, el 31 de mayo, a la una de la tarde. ¡Nos vemos alla!

MAS INFORMACION SOBRE LA PROPOSICION 98

Como ya hemos dicho, esta fiesta de barrio, ¡Reclamamos nuestros barrios: Inquilinos resisten! se echa principalmente para aumentar conciencia de la engañosa Proposición 98.  Esta cuestión une más que cientos sindicatos, organizaciones comunitarias, y grupos medioambientales por el estado entero en estar contra la Proposición 98 y en apoyar la verdadera inciativa reformatoria de dominio eminente Proposición 99.

La Prop. 99 prohíbe que la Prop. 98 elimine el control de alquiler mientras reformar el dominio eminente, protegiendo ambos inquilinos y propietarios de casa.

Más información de estas proposiciones es disponible abajo:

Texto completo de la Proposición (inglés):

http://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/initiatives/pdfs/i684_2007-05-03_07-0015_Initiative.pdf

Información en español: 

• http://www.mivcalifornia.org/resources/docs/2008/miv-prop98n99-flyer-es.doc
• http://homepage.mac.com/davegun2/SFSaveRentControl/page13/files/SRCSpanishFlyer.pdf
• http://www.cabrillohoa.com/1-MH-No98SpanishLogo.pdf

 Por qué votar NO en la 98 (y sí en la 99) el 3 junio

La Proposición 98 tiene intenciones escondidas. Aumenta ganancias para los propietarios y corporaciones desarrolladoras, displazando los costos a los de bajo recursos.  Así es:

·          La 98 elimina el control de alquiler, anula requisitos de vivienda de precio asequible, y puede eliminar leyes que aseguran el devolvimiento justo de depósito y avisos de 60 días, además elimine leyes que protegen los ancianos y deshabilitados. Se quita protecciones para dueños de casas móviles.

·          Aumentará pobreza; esto se víncula con la súbida de crimenes.

·          La frase que prohibe “transferencia de beneficios económicos a uno o más personas al gasto del dueño privado” significa que Regulaciones de AB 32 para bajar emisiones de gas con efecto invernadero, protecciones de la calidad de agua, regulaciones de urbanización, áreas protegidas, y restricciones del desarrollo de industria contaminante, pueden ser eliminados.

·          La 98 facilita la privatización de agua por ilegalizar el uso de Dominio Eminente para obtener tierra para proyectos públicos de agua.

·          El language deja alta posibilidad de miles de pleitos frívolos y que se paraliza la aprobación de casas nuevas, negocios, y otros proyectos, al cargo del contribuyente.

·          Pero hay alternativa: la Prop. 99 (en vez de la 98) ofrece reforma de veras con la ley de Domino Eminente, la que protegería dueños de casa sin las medidas escondidas y consecuencias negativas de la 98.

·          Un os pocos grupos contra la 98: la Coalición por la Supervivencia Económica, la Comisión de San Francisco para los Derechos Humanos, el Comité Pro-Derechos de Vivienda,   Para una lista más completa en ingles, vea http://www.no98yes99.com/go/who-we-are/prop.-98-opponents/ y para más información de la ordenanza de alquiler, vea http://www.hrcsf.org/espanol.html

·          A pesar de una coalición amplia de grupos en oposición, la 98 tiene chance de ser aprobada porque sus apoyantes tienen presupuestos grandes para publicidad, la asistencia de los votantes es en junio es baja, y porque es un iniciativa estatal. Entonces, por favor tómese el tiempo para votar No en la 98

El 3 de junio (¡no es en noviembre!)

May 31st, starting 1pm at Dolores Park!

From there, we take to the streets!

Renters Rise Up is first and foremost a party. It is a community party, being thrown for anyone who wants to participate by anyone who wants to help plan it. And what better place for the community to have a party than in the streets?

Why are we having this party? Why does anybody have a party? To celebrate.

And what are we celebrating? We are celebrating ourselves and our communities. We here in the Bay Area live in a pretty amazing place. But it is the people of the Bay Area who make it what it is. And let’s face it. We here in the Bay Area are pretty kick-ass people.

If that wasn’t reason enough to have a dance party in the street, right now we need to stand up and appreciate what we have made here. Because we and our communities are under attack.

This is because rent control, the law that makes cities like San Francisco affordable to regular working people, is in danger of being overturned.

As previous posts make clear, this street party, Reclaim the Streets: Renters Rise Up! is being thrown largely in order to raise awareness about the dangerous and predatory Proposition 98.  Reclaim the Streets joins over a hundred unions, community organizations, and environmental groups statewide in opposing Proposition 98 and endorsing the real eminent domain reform measure Proposition 99.  More information about these measures can be found below:

Full Text of Proposition 98:

http://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/initiatives/pdfs/i684_2007-05-03_07-0015_Initiative.pdf

Western Center on Law and Poverty’s Analysis of Prop. 98:

http://www.sftu.org/071220%20Western%20Center%20Memo.pdf

State Campaign for No on 98, Yes on 99:

http://www.no98yes99.com/

SF Campaign to Save Rent Control

http://homepage.mac.com/davegun2/SFSaveRentControl/

We in the Bay Area live in one of the most expensive places in the United States, and a major reason for this is the high price of rent. It is hard enough to pay rent here as it is. But if you think things are difficult now, watch out. Unless we act, they are about to get a lot worse, and fast.

On June 3, 2008, Californians will go to the polls. And on the ballot will be a nasty and deceptive little measure known as Proposition 98. Presenting itself as a measure to limit the power of local governments to exercise the right of eminent domain (the law that allows governments to seize private land for public purposes), Proposition 98 is in fact a far reaching and radical measure that would, among other things, eliminate rent control laws statewide.

The effect of this measure should it become law would be nothing short of catastrophic for the over one million families in California who live in rent-controlled apartments and mobile homes. The makeup of cities such as San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley would be quickly and irrevocably altered as poor and working-class people would be driven from their homes in droves. Proposition 98 would not only allow landlords to raise rents as high as the market will allow, but would also permit them to evict tenants without just cause. The principal victims of this law will be working class families, the poor, disabled people, and the elderly.

Proposition 98 will also erase the ability of local governments to enact inclusionary housing requirements – the laws that require developers to build affordable housing. Clearly this will only benefit developers and property owners at the expense of working class people and communities.

It is absolutely essential that we get out the word on this measure and defeat Proposition 98. Come join us in the streets of the Mission District on May 31^st and help us get the word out to save rent control, put people before profit, and to shake that ass all the way to the ballot box!

Mayday! Reclaim The Streets! Mobile Dance Party!
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
This event will last ALL DAY, be entirely outdoors, 100% FREE.

Gather at 2pm at Dolores Park (19th & Dolores), SF
Parade begins at 3:30pm to Civic Center Plaza (Polk & Grove)
Leave Civic Center Plaza around 5pm to a secret location

This event will be friendly for families, cyclists, rollerskaters, sk8ers, pedestrians, wheel-chair-operators, stilt-walkers, unicyclists, etc!

Bring food, beverage, costumes, hats, masks, jump rope, noisemakers, boomboxes, yourself, your good mood, your lovely friends and families, balloons, sidewalk chalk, face paint, glitter, sign making materials, markers, paint, hula-hoops, pogo-sticks, mobile BBQ… …

…oh yeah and GENERAL STRIKE! Call in sick! Buy NOTHING! Sell NOTHING! Burn an effigy of your boss(es).

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