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Shelter Beat

09/24/2021 - 11:34 by Anonymous (not verified)
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pstrongPart #3 An Apology of Sorts /strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TDIMG SRC= "../sites/default/files/arch_img/461/photo_1_supplement.jpg" //td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby Michael Lea Morgan/PNN shelter beat reporter/p pLast week’s installment of “Shelter Beat” came out of chaos and created chaos. But not bad chaos. It was good chaos. Good and bad chaos? Man, that is chaotic thinking. But it’s true, there are different kinds of turmoil and confusion. So maybe I should use those words instead, as chaos has come to be a very deep kind of word, even gaining scientific useage (as in Chaos Theory). Okay, so I put some ideas into a folder on the POOR computer (oh, poor little computer, it works so hard) and, because I was really late in getting over to Poor to write last week’s article, POOR’s copyeditors put together an article from those writings and chaos (oh yes, I’m not using that word) resulted. It’s all the copyeditor’s fault!! I never wrote that. Well, maybe I wrote some of it. Okay, I wrote it. But, they put it together and caused all the trouble. Okay, I caused the trouble. And now I feel like journalism is too hard for me; I’m just a simple Louisiana boy. Boy? Yea, right./p pWhat happened was that someone I wrote about last week in the PAES office at DHS read the article, printed it, and showed it to me Then another PAES person came out and talked to me about my characterization of the PAES program. So, I had my first experience of having to be accountable for my writings—being confronted by someone I had writen about in a less than flattering fashion./p pWhat I learned from the experience of having made a written statement of opinion was that no subject or issue is completely black or white, nor can we perfectly present our own viewpoint. So, I will always be careful when putting into writing an opinion which effects the life of another person./p pAn employee of PAES told me that their program is manned by people who care (which, in my opinion is generally true), as though I had written a piece putting PAES in a bad light, which I did not. A GA worker of mine told me she was involved with the design of a new program called PAES and, when I heard what the program entailed, and her high hopes for its success in providing people with access to jobs, training, and housing, I was impressed./p pJust for the record, my PAES specialist apologized for having gotten angry with me; she is a person working under the constraints of DHS guidelines and pressure from clients./p pThere is always a negative side to being positive, because both forces are necessary in a universe based on polarity, like the Milky Way; people working for a utopian world are probably conjuring memories from a universe they recently came from where “It’s all one.” But here there is good and bad in everyone, and that includes not only politicians but also activists and people who claim to be on the side of the poor./p pThe results of publishing last week’s opening lines is a great example of my point: when I went in to see my PAES specialist, she had a print-out of my piece #2 which started out saying that she, “ yelled the words ‘you have no choice, you have no choice,’" at me. A positive became a negative for her when I took a positive action and published her words, and this became a negative for me when a man in a suit came out to talk to me about journalists who make blanket assesments of programs based on the actions of one or two employees (my specialist, by the way, apologized to me later and is, in fact, normally a very polite person). This conversation then became a positive when he went on to reveal to me the positive intentions of the PAES workers who just work under the negatives of guidelines and restrictions placed on them. /p pI agree with him and so had mixed feelings (positive and negative) about the piece I wrote. Not that I had in any way misconstrued the facts, which I did not. Nor were there any overt blanket statements about the PAES program. But I had mixed feelings because of the nature of this universe and how a simple positive action can be turned into a complex negative reaction by bureaucrats seeking only to avoid negative publicity (which means that they want to maintain a positive iimage [whether their programs are truly positive or not])br / /i/p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p
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A Living Evolving Revolution

09/24/2021 - 11:34 by Anonymous (not verified)
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pstrong pbHow will our lives changebr / when tiny nudges of Life Extensionbr / gives us more time?/b/p p/p/strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TDIMG SRC= "../sites/default/files/arch_img/462/photo_1_supplement.jpg" //td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby Joe. B/p pAs mere Mortals, death is our friend and foe but what if we become more resilient with self repairing broken bones or if brain tumors is another non lethal concern?/p pHow would any of us feel if by science and technology in the service of extending the quality and quantity of our human life span gave us a bonus to strive for to live and take better care of ourselves? /p pSome weird though logical situations begin to happen, it can be compared to quantum mechanics scaled up to gross human form, here are a few examples. /p pWe already have grandparents in their mid 40’s and 50’s that’s simple their children are having children at younger ages./p pBut in our near futures those same grandparents or children with advantages of medical science may start a new family, temporarily divorce and remarry. Think of Florida with an increasingly healthy, horny popu-lation as the demographic of A.I.D.S. hits the randy elders with more time to spare./p pThe father’s tradition of getting beaten in basketball, football, or other sports by his son or son’s. /p pWhat happens when "old dad" maintains and improves vim and vigor while his wife doesn’t want "second youth" for herself or visa versa? Maybe both chose a "Second Youth serum, pill, or combinations of what Gerontology Mega Pharmaceutical firms offer./p pSon’s still have youth, quickness, speed, endurance, and stamina.br / But after awhile it slowly fades while ‘dear old dad’ and mom keep "busy"br / ‘doin the dirty daily’ for even grown up children the visual idea is a[disgusting, distasteful, visions come to mind]. /p pBut the old guy regains all he’s had before plus his own unique experience?/p pIt becomes difficult for sons to beat their de-aging, ever youth-ening fathers especially for selfish vain ones – it will be up to fathers willing to suffer some humiliations on behalf of their son’s psychological will being./p pSome weird though logical situations begin to happen, it can be compared to quantum mechanics scaled up to gross human forms here are a few more examples. /p pMother’s and daughter’s dynamic change as mother’s, grandmother’s look, act, feel younger compete on equal footing (did I say equal) more like unequal with experience daughter’s has yet to live through./p pThe ratio of Widow’s to Widower’s shift as men finally take better care of themselves. The ‘Women live longer and higher libido at 40’ no longer applies and is less of an advantage or burden as men not only maintain sexual vitality but may be resented by women as men spend time both marrying, playing the field, or going back to school, learning new skills, for careers they never thought they’d live long enough to enjoy./p pBeing young means nothing when women and men in their 60’s to 80’s compete and win any endeavor that requires regained youth./p pIn love and sex youth is alluring at first but over time experience, seasoned romance of mature age makes sex an infinite game where age is an asset, advantage and not a hindrance. Grown Daughters must now make sure their mates do not see to much of their mother or she’ll become baby sitter for her own mother’s and young father in-law./p pIf a woman in her 60’s has the hormones, figure, and looks of a 20 year old her biological age belies her chronological years. /p pYoung women in their late teens or early 20’s are at a disadvantage because age is no longer a relevant criteria. /p pA vivacious, vibrant, sexy senior in her 60’s has learned much that a new young women won’t know as they vainly try looking older or lying about how young they really are./p pChildren of today see their elders not acting their age and hope they’re as full of life when they as old.b(not)/bbr / Few relate. Two seniors playing video games is no longer a tv joke but becoming a serious reality./p pImagine: You who are generation X, Y, or Next, its 2057, are now in your early to mid 40’s or 50’s taking youth-ening treatments, pills, serums, and other medications to keep you fit and strong./p pIts no joke now, you love life extended ‘tech, aren’t you lucky the WW2 and the 60’s generation cracked the genetic code, true and artificial gene therapy-insertion put your life youthful overdrive but some young 2020 Geezers want to stop this and now you know what your great grandparents went through and there still alive, vital, helping you x, y, and next gen’s rebel against a dying government, state system./p pMarried or single Woman or Man you go about your business enjoying your retirement keeping yourself fit with a not to strenuous regiment which is varied enough not to bore you./p pYou jog, swim or lift weights and one day you find you have a constant partner male or female and they are much younger than you./p pThey want you in the best way – you’re married that’s too bad but if you are single then life gets more interesting as young squirts be they boys or girls are after your old, strong, muscular fit female or male form. What do you do have fun, keep it platonic, stay lonely?/p pIt will be a world where age is no longer a bar or factor the only danger is not changing as the youth-then-ing process changes us all./p pAll this is the start of life extension and later true immortality may be another 40, 50 years or more away. If we can make it through this interim process then immortality will be an easier undertaking./p pAs we know there will always be some saying longer life and fooling with certain biological constructs is against God and Nature remember the Stem Cell/Embryo debates?/p pThis is the time to support Life Extension, Anti-Aging, clinics around the country this could be the vanguard of the ultimate ‘Human Race" to see which country or nation state really can keep and maintain their citizens health./p pMay the winning nation get the honors and the people – Prolonged life glory while loser prepare notes to see if they can achieve better results./p pWe’ve know how to kill ourselves, lets learn how to heal, prevent death, and when possible bring people back from death or the brink of it.br / This does not sound radical to me, all we need do is place on a ballot a permanent on-going Anti-Aging, Life Extension, to Immortality Project./p pIt will make both the Manhattan Project , Human Genome, and Stem Cell controversy moot by comparison. It would show humanity moving toward a life centered mindset rather death centered one./p pAnd if politicians can’t see this as an intermediate state: Prolonged –Extended Life Span to eventual Immortality then Guilds of Futurists, /ppScientist’s, Researcher’s Science Minded Citizen’s, Artist’s, and Creative people from all over the world will take it on./p pHow will our lives change when tiny nudges of Life Extension has given a lucky few of us more time?/p pStill mortal, death our friend and foe but we’re more resilient with self-repairing broken bones, brain tumors are another non-lethal concern./p pHow would any of us feel if by science and technologies in the service of extending the quality and quantity of the human life span was give to us as any more./p pThat could be why America is watching China,b [it’s not all about war]./bJapan, and other cultures where aging is grace and not a drag on the population. /p pI don’t know what our future as "young oldsters" or "Boomer Geezers" will be but it must be confronted now or suffer some sort of elder/youth generational war like the ‘1960’s only this time youth will be outnumbered by if not rich but, creative, crafty, experienced campaigners using their vast energies and experience to shut down "minority youth" rebellion./p pWhat do you readers think? How long before a Geritol Generation holds sway over politics, power, privilege, technological innovation and birth control?/p pThis not pie-in-the-blue-sky wishful thinking its happening now!/p pLet’s get off our death cycle and ride a new life cycle. /p pIt will be terrifying at first but this time we as individuals can choose when to get off./p pSo form groups, get together, brain storm, Let’s bC.B.M. this Now!br / C R I T I C A L B R A I N M A S S. This Process NOW!br / /b/p pI know. "He’s a flake." Then get my milk and sugar and don't forget the corn./p pEverybody dies, It’s up to you./p pI made my pitch, tell me what you think? Bye.br / br /Please send donations to br /Poor Magazinebr / br /C/0 Ask Joe at 255 9thbr / br /St. Street, Sanbr / br /Francisco, CA. 94103br / br /USAbr / br /For Joe only my snailbr / br /mail:PO Box 1230 #645br / br /Market St.br / br /San Francisco, CA 94102br / br /Email: br /a href="mailto:askjoe@poormagazine.org"askjoe@poormagazine.org/abr / /p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p
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ECHO'S OF WORLD WAR II, IS THIS THE OPENING SALVO OF 3?

09/24/2021 - 11:34 by Anonymous (not verified)
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pstrongb pOUTSIDE JOB WITH INSIDE HELP?/p/b/strong/p pbMY "MESS ON MARKET ST."br / IS POSPONED BY NEW YORK'S TWINbr / TOWER BUILDINGS BOMBED BY 3br / HIJACKED COMMERCIAL PLANESbr / SUICIDE CRASHES INTO THEM./bbr / /p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TDIMG SRC= "../sites/default/files/arch_img/463/photo_1_feature.jpg" //td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby Joe. B./p pIts crowded, people have a sluggish look or it's just me being sluggish and looking at it through tired eyes./p pSept. 11, 2001, 7:10 am. don't have time, gonna check out something at City Hall about Section 8 housing where 30 percent of my rent money is paid by the Housing Authority allowing one to save parts of your money for whatever extra stuff I may need which in my case us books, clothes, and essential toilettries hurried with washing up, brushing teeth and hair to be at City Hall before 8am. to get a Section 8 application that was given out Monday on September 10th. /p pI hadn't thought of moving but afterwards it seems this would be a good chance of moving into a if not newer building, maybe another area yet still be in San Francisco./p pCrossing Market Street is a blur, I didn't see any people so focused am I on this Section 8 lottery turning of at Jones and Mc Allister./p pI'm thinking efficientcy studio or apartment with a kitchen, bathroom I might have my own room with a view even if its on the 1st. Floor. /p pWhen reaching City Hall by 7:25./p pUsually I pay my rent on time now that I do have a regular job, unless their are unforseen circumstances. /ppIf I get picked that would be great maybe because I don't drink, smoke, or sell any drugs, and play my tv and music low it could help./p pPolice in cars, two or three cops in light tan uniforms blocking the front door turning people away because of some happening in New York./p pAn asian quazi religous group advertizing for followers but I'm walking too fast to see their name. /ppI go back home to call the job and get my message then to 450 Phillip Burton, Federal Court House building./p pThrough automatic revolving glass doors there more police telling me Housing Authority is closed. /ppI'm about to give up when I see 440 San Francisco Housing Authority building near by. /p pAfter picking up an application someone informed me what happended./p p"Why are the Federal Buildings closed?" I asked really getting frustrated and confused. "They blew up the Twin Towers in New York"/p p"What, What-time?"br / "Around about 6am here, A plane man, I was 'lookin at a big old commercial plane hit the building" "Sounds like its on purpose"br / "There a terrorist group...br / "SHIT"br / "Then the Pentagon-one hit that"br / "So it was... a coordinated plan"br / "Yeah"br / "No wonder they closed up, well thank you much because I wouldn't of known."/p p"America's a mother fucker"br / "I think America's behind it"br / "America's got too many people with their war planes and we got to many poor people our days on the streets..."/p p"They spend their money on bombs"br / "Its rediculous."br / "I'm going home to check the news, thanks."/p pAt home I turned on the tv and saw a commercial plane crashing into the World Trade Building and then another crash - slowly both buildings fall one after the other. /p pIt looked like some special effects you see in the movies but this is absolutly REAL./p p I have relatives all over Manhattan, the Bronx, and Long Island, not telling where they'd be going in their everyday lives./p pLooks like Select President Bush and friends can now spend up Social Security for a hugh long or short term war chest./p pI don't know if Marshal law will be considered in New York, San Francisco or other states affected by this terrible horrific chaotic catastrophe. We've been attacked but will we in turn find the true terrorists with the help of Military Intelligence, Interpol, or combined Secret Service Agencies from other allies creating a united front (no pun intended) because if America can be attacked so can other nations./p pIts like some weird comicbook scenario only in real life there is no gathering of superhero's, heroines, real flesh'n blood mortal men and females heroe's will emerge without superpowers doing their best to solve this humanity killing crime./p pI and hope many Pray for all the innocent lives taken in this well coordinated, timed, inside-outside American and foreign aided death stroke. /p pLet's spend cash on artificial intelligence systems that intantly scan for air/land/sea threats and invisible eletromagnetic force field or shields for buildings and personal force shields for individuals or small devices high in the atmosphere changing chemical poisons into clean air while searching for toxins or smart bombs or I.C.B.M.'sbr / b[Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles change them to non nuclear threats and also converting their molecules into harmless water and oxygen./b/p pOh, Dear, God I hope Tuesday, Sept. 11, 8:50 - 9:04 - 9:38, and 10:20am. crashes all over the country./p pHope this isn't a prelude to the Sept. 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor-Day of Infamy and Act Of War Scriptl, this is not 1941 all over again... is it?/p pAnd money spent on more bombs, planes, or jell explosives are 'primo investments./p pAny Ideas People Inform because I don't know... What The Hell's Going On? Bye./p pbr /Poor Magazine orbr / br /C/0 Ask /ppJoe at 255br / br /9th St.Street, Sanbr / br /Francisco, CA.94103 USA/p pbr /For Joe only my snailbr / br /mail:PO Box 1230 #645br / br /Market St.San Francisco, br /CA 94102br / br /Email:askjoe@poormaga zine.org/p p/p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p
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ANGELS OF CATASTROPHY- A Book Review

09/24/2021 - 11:34 by Anonymous (not verified)
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pstrongReViewsForTheReVoLution for all your literary, visual,and audio art needs. /strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TDIMG SRC= "../sites/default/files/arch_img/467/photo_1_supplement.jpg" //td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby George Tirado/p pI can't tell you how excited I was when I heardbr / that Peter Plate wrote the last book in the Mission Quartet,br / iAngels of Catastrophe/i. What a treat it is to seebr / another angle on such a diverse place, whenbr / "most Americans pay taxes, vote, and think of death asbr / a slice of reality-television they can turn off whenbr / they want to." But not here, not in the Missionbr / District, and most of all, not here in Peter Plate'sbr / Mission./p pThe story is simple—a cop is killed, a pettybr / thief street hustler named Ricky Durrutti is the onebr / the cops are after. Now, put this problem in thebr / middle of the Mission District, add in just the rightbr / amount of Salvadoran gangs, drag queen dealers,br / junkies, hookers and Jewish gangsters and what do youbr / get—Angels of Catastrophe./p pThis book is fast-paced. Not only does Peter Platebr / follow in that great line of noir writers likebr / Dashell Hammett, but he follows a tradition deeply intrigued withbr / San Francisco's seedy darker side. /p piOn the street is another story, every dollar bill is marker, everybr / killing has a witness, and nobody gets away withbr / anything.i/i/i/p p This is a story which is played outbr / everyday in a world where most will never venture, in abr / place which is slowly dying. The killer here isbr / not a person, but it could be it's gentrification andbr / progress. When this is all gone and the Mission hasbr / been replaced by more cop stations and GAP outlets,br / and god-forbid, Niketowns, and the only ones allowedbr / to live here are millionaires, who will remember? Whobr / will find the poetry in the madness to come? And willbr / they feel the same pride as say Lonely boy in thebr / story when he says, "Who do you think rules Missionbr / St.?" He answers himself, "The motherfuckers willing tobr / die for it."/p pThis book is a great read. I suggest everyone find thisbr / treasure and read it. You will not be disappointed./p p/p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p
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It's Not all that it Seems.

09/24/2021 - 11:34 by Anonymous (not verified)
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pstrongBombs dropped on the US today by Terrorists....What does a terrorist look like?/strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TDIMG SRC= "../sites/default/files/arch_img/465/photo_1_supplement.jpg" //td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby PNN staff/p pAt 8:40-8:45am on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, two planes crashed into New Yorks two Largest Skyscrapers -The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center - then another plane crashed into The Pentagon - and then a report of three more planes disappearing - two of them on the way to California. Thousands dead... several thousand wounded. /p pBush says: “A Full scale investigation will be launched into this full-scaled attack... Freedom has been attacked and Freedom will be defended at any cost!!-Full resources of the federal government will be used to defend our freedom. We will hunt down and punish anyone connected to this.” /p pFive battleships and several air force planes entered the New York Harbor today at 11:00 am -Auxillary police officers were granted full police credentials. A New Yorker who made a statement implying that “The US government deserved this” is practically killed by mob rule in New York City./p pUnofficial “insider” rumours reported that three months ago all security personnel at the Federal building in San Francisco, had all their weapons upgraded from 30 to 40 clip “glocks” and last Friday another warning went out to all government security personnel that something “big” was going to “happen”. /p pbAll I can say is.... it’s not all that it seems..../bHere's a few questions to ponder...What does a terrorist look like? a person of color, a homeless person in the wrong neighborhood. And how do you “hunt down” and punish human beings? Who and what would gain from a “World War” or better yet- martial law?. What better way to bolster a waning defense fund or an argument for a national “security” budget? and why would we want a major military presence in the New York Harbor....? maybe...to kill innocent Arab or Arab-alike immigrant hot dog vendors - clothiers and maybe a few unlucky prosititutes and panhandlers caught in the fray... /p pAs a very low income person who is a part of a very poor family -and is working with an extremely grassroots (read: poor) organization... catastrophy is terrifying - we are already on the bottom of every totem pole- we have no backing and no help and if anything gets any harder we will just fall down further -/p pTo all freedom fighters, organizers and conscious citizens out there already fighting racism and classism, marginalization, media manipulation, police profiling and on and on, our struggle continues- it has just become more polarized and more intense -do not take anything for granted!!- question EVERYTHING you hear and read - Free Speech is all we, sort-of have -and we must support each other in our efforts to be HEARD, be a community, love and be there for each other!! /p p/p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p
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Goodbye Mr. Stag

09/24/2021 - 11:34 by Anonymous (not verified)
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pstrongThe Myth on Market Street Series Continues..../strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TDIMG SRC= "../sites/default/files/arch_img/464/photo_1_supplement.jpg" //td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby Martha Bridegam/p pMarket Street between Sixth and Seventh offers a large choice of restaurantsbr / where you can buy coffee for less than a dollar. Pick a place with a large,br / clean, front window. Sit down with your coffee where you can see into thebr / street. There is usually something to watch./p pThis immediate area contains a pharmacy, some bars, a methadone clinic, twobr / nude theaters, a lot of residential hotels, and two check cashingbr / storefronts. Also nearby are the respectable Golden Gate and Warfieldbr / theaters, a federal courthouse, and several tourist hotels. And a slummers'br / best-kept secret, the the ambrosial Tu Lan Vietnamese restaurant on Sixth./p pThis is a picturesque block but it is not a slum exactly. It is a necessarybr / kind of urban place where people of all social classes mingle andbr / occasionally communicate. Now it is going the way of New York City's Timesbr / Square: it is being cleaned up./p pWhile drinking your coffee you may see someone pass by wearing a paddedbr / winter jacket in an unusual silver-tan color with a wide black stripebr / running across the shoulders and down both sleeves. The Mr. Stag Fashionbr / Center, down the block at 1041 Market, was selling those in early Octoberbr / 2000 as "The Puff Daddy Jacket." For a while they were asking only 30 dollarsbr / apiece, marked down first from 80 dollars and then from 59 dollars. At least one man whobr / bought a 30-dollar jacket was homeless at the time. After some days'br / wear he said the jacket was a good one./p pBut the 30 dollar jackets—and the 20 dollar second-hand bluebr / jeans—are no longer for sale. After 31 years Mr. Stag was evicted in thebr / fall of 2000, along with its brother institution, Jeffrey's Men's Shop. Inbr / their place is a plywood enclosure covered in layers of advertising posters.br / Inside, renovations are still going on. High up on the front wall is anbr / architect's drawing of the property's future as an office building./p pIn the block around Mr. Stag, one of the two House of Blue Jeans stores isbr / closed. Other bits of the neighborhood are gone, too. The Homeless Advocacybr / Project, where I work sometimes, has been displaced from Sixth and Market tobr / Ninth and Mission. The Eviction Defense Collaborative itself was unable tobr / hang on to its mid-Market offices and shifted to South Van Ness. The St.br / Francis movie theater has closed and now has its own dreary shell of plywoodbr / sheathing./p pWhile new "live-work" loft projects stand empty in suddenly boomless Southbr / of Market, the renovations continue around Market and Sixth. Maybe therebr / really will be tenants to fill these newly cleared buildings once they'vebr / been polished up to Financial District standards. But whether new payingbr / tenants do or don't appear, the evictions of the old neighbors can't bebr / undone./p pIn 1969 Al "Big Red" Sultan founded Mr. Stag and Jeffrey's on the groundbr / floor of the seven-story former Weinstein's department store, along thebr / south side of Market between Sixth and Seventh. He hung on for 31 yearsbr / through earthquake, fire and riot, and watched three different owners givebr / up on renovating the rest of the building. The upper floors stood empty allbr / that time, except when unauthorized pigeons and persons found their way in.br / A small storefront between the two clothing stores was vacant for eight orbr / nine years, too after a McDonald's restaurant failed there. But Sultan saidbr / his own business thrived right up until the eviction./p pThe building is a hodgepodge of structures from the early 20th Century, abr / fact that makes renovation difficult. Paul Boschetti, who sold the propertybr / for development this past spring, said the section that housed Jeffrey's—on the right as you face it—is the former Hotel America, built in 1910.br / The rest of the building is probably 70 to 80 years old. City records showbr / the department store's founding family assembled the property from smallerbr / lots between 1924 and 1931./p pBut by 1969, Sultan said the store had closed and the upper floors were "inbr / terrible shape" from disuse. He convinced the owners to let him convert thebr / ground floor to storefronts. "The electrical, elevators didn't work. It wasbr / just a bad situation up there, you know."/p pI taped a long interview with Sultan the day he closed up shop for good.br / That was October 17, 2000—11 years to the day after the Loma Prietabr / earthquake kicked Mid Market into an economic slump but failed to dislodgebr / Mr. Stag and Jeffrey's./p pSo what was the neighborhood like 31 years ago?/p p"You know, funny, much like it is now," said Sultan. "Hasn't changed—tobr / me, I don't see it changed at all. It's the same bunch of people, samebr / crowds, same everything, you know. We do get a few more tourists now than webr / did years ago because they've made some improvements of hotels a block awaybr / around the corner."/p pWhat would he miss here? "Every customer, every face—I miss itbr / all. To me, this is—it's like burying one of my children. This is, thisbr / is the feeling I have, closing this store."/p pRight up until moving day, these two stores formed a lively part of Marketbr / Street's toughest block. Both stores, especially Mr. Stag, had broad openbr / displays that extended onto the sidewalk during business hours. This meant thatbr / they had to be watched carefully against theft. Like many Mid Marketbr / business people, the staff stood up front with the merchandise, or sometimesbr / out on the broad sidewalk facing it. They were part security guards, partbr / salesmen, part bartenders—part of the lively jumble in a downmarketbr / retail district that is now being smoothed out./p pThey packed up Mr. Stag first, on the morning of the 17th, loading all thebr / merchandise into a truck bound for a warehouse in Sacramento. Sultan saidbr / the inventory of both stores would stay there until it could be sold at fleabr / markets./p pManager Delbert Hicks, who had helped to run both stores for most of the 31br / years, paused in loading the truck to answer a shocked questioner on thebr / sidewalk. No, the business hadn't failed, he said, "We've been dot-commed."/p pEvicted, yes—dot-commed, no, not exactly. Scott Harper, a Whitneybr / Cressman broker working with the building's new owner, said in late 2000br / that he would want conventional office tenants for the rehabbed building,br / like engineers, architects and lawyers—not dot-coms. "The landlord isbr / motivated by having someone he knows will be paying the rent in a fewbr / years," he said dryly./p pThe afternoon of the 17th, Jeffrey's was full of customers paying lastbr / visits. One of them, John Lamantia, had made a special trip from San Jose—"because he has outstanding clothes, and they're something you can't findbr / all over, and I look good in them."/p pThe two stores' stock in trade was a shrewd mix of the flashy and thebr / practical. Mr. Stag featured puffy jackets, plus a table abundantly stackedbr / with 20 dollar pairs of second-hand blue jeans—the only second-handbr / goods sold in either of the two stores. Jeffrey's front window showed off anbr / impossibly oversized display model of the wide-lapel "Joe Hollywood" blazer,br / specially made for this store only, available in six colors of brightbr / wave-pattern velour. Inside, the stock was mainly modest-colored men's suitsbr / and jackets, though a shirt with "Millenium 2000" holograms—a big sellerbr / the previous winter—was still on display./p p"We don't compete with nobody, because nobody competes with us," Sultanbr / laughed. "Nobody dares compete with us because they don't dare carry what webr / sell."/p pHe claimed to have no equal among neighboring stores, though Kaplan'sbr / sporting goods and military surplus does carry some new outdoor wear, andbr / there are several storefronts nearby selling shoes and casual clothing. Hebr / guessed his customers would shift to the Ross's and Marshall's bargainbr / stores along Market to the east of Sixth./p pA grizzled customer, who gave his name as Lucky, said Marshall's would makebr / a poor substitute. "I know. I've been, I've gone here a lot of times. He'sbr / got the best little location, the best clothes for a working man's, uh,br / pocket." His voice gathered strength as he repeated himself: "That's whatbr / you're dealing with. You're dealing with a working man's pocket. You know,br / he had good quality clothes for—for the average man who really couldn'tbr / afford to go into, like, Nordstrom's and stuff."/p pAsked when he got the eviction news, Sultan turned serious. "May. May. Endbr / of May... that was when the bomb fell." Despite a "financial settlement,"br / Sultan expected to lose three to four hundred thousand dollars. "I wantedbr / my year. I wanted my year here. A year, I could have liquidated my stores inbr / an orderly manner."/p pWalter Armer, a director at Seligman Western Enterprises, said part of thebr / building was seismically unstable, to the point where "we felt badly aboutbr / having occupants in the building." He said his company is overseeing thebr / renovations on behalf of the new owner. The owner is a limited liabilitybr / corporation with its address at the Michigan offices of Seligman Assocs.,br / Inc./p pAbout the eviction agreement, Armer says, "Suffice it to say, I think thatbr / everybody was happy at the end of the day. That was certainly our goal and Ibr / think that Mr. Sultan felt that way as well."/p pThose vacant floors upstairs wore out a lot of investors' hopes over thebr / years. Although the department store closed in the sixties, the building didbr / not change hands until 1984. That year property records show the Weinsteinbr / Investment Co. deeded the property to Alexander and Binyamina Anolik, whobr / were to pay $1.75 million for it over time. But by 1996 the Anoliks werebr / facing foreclosure and had to hand the property back. Sultan says thebr / Anoliks' development hopes for the building failed because of the savingsbr / and loan crisis and an early—'80s glut of San Francisco downtown officebr / space./p pOn retaking the property, the department store's legal successor, a trust,br / sold it to Paul G. Boschetti, owner of the nearby Aida and Verona Hotels.br / Boschetti says he got the building for just $650,000 by agreeing to take itbr / "as is"—which meant a leaking roof and upper floors full of pigeons andbr / trespassers' damage that looked like a "war zone."/p pBoschetti fixed the roof and elevator and covered a window to shut thebr / pigeons out. (Well, mostly out. Some were shut in, with unfortunatebr / results.) He originally planned to develop the property into a touristbr / hotel, and was thinking of converting the former McDonald's storefront intobr / a lobby. However, Boschetti, too, had to give up on developing the place./p pIn spring 2000, the building finally gave Boschetti a profit. He sold it onbr / June 2, 2000 to a limited liability company identified on public papers asbr / 1050 HCT LLC. Computed from public transfer tax information, the sellingbr / price from Boschetti to 1050 HCT was $5.5 million./p pFour days after the purchase from Boschetti, 1050 HCT sold the propertybr / again to 1035 Market Street LLC, which is the current owner. The purchasebr / price in this second sale, also as computed from the transfer tax, works outbr / to $7.75 million./p pThe "1050 HCT" entity—the buyer that apparently bought and sold thebr / property at a $2.25 million profit in four days—was represented on thebr / sale documents by James I. Hunter and had its address in care of Hunter'sbr / HCT Investments, Inc. in Alameda./p pReached by phone recently, Hunter took a moment to remember the buildingbr / involved, then said the $2.25 million difference between the prices soundedbr / high—"I didn't think we made *that* much money. There must have beenbr / something else." Later, commeting on the deal, he said, "Sometimes you losebr / and sometimes you win." He declined to name the investors, but confirmedbr / that the profit from such a deal goes in several directions. "Yes, and itbr / goes in several directions when you lose."/p pHow could the buying and selling prices have been so different from eachbr / other within such a short period? He said, "at that time it tooked likebr / offices were going to go down Market and that area was going to bebr / rejuvenated." He said, office businesses had previously avoided the areabr / because of too much "hassle." Had I seen the alley behind 1035 Market?br / "They're dealing drugs all the time... It hadn't been regarded as safe."/p pBut Hunter was speaking in the past tense, at least about the San Franciscobr / office space market. "All that has changed."/p p"There's millions of square feet [of office space] available 'cause of allbr / those dot-commers gone bust."/p pDid he eventually expect buildings along Mid Market would turn into businessbr / offices? Sure, he said, "They eventually should." They're near BART, andbr / "Market is a hell of a street...That area should've gone a long timebr / ago.... it should've gone in advance of the South of Market area." Whybr / hasn't it? "The difficulty of doing business in San Francisco." /p pWhy did South of Market "go" first? He guessed because the warehouses, with detailsbr / like "big wooden beams" were more to the taste of the dot-com companies,br / and there were "not as many people to hassle their employees."/p pDid he feel sorry for the current owners, stuck renovating the building inbr / the newly fallen market? "I think they'll be fine in the long term."/p pTheories vary about what has kept mid-Market rents low since the days when abr / department store could flourish between Sixth and Seventh. Some old-timersbr / think it started with the BART subway construction diggings on Market Streetbr / in the early 1970s. Also in the 1970s, Boschetti suggests, the city'sbr / skid-row focus was driven westward from Third Street to Sixth by thebr / hard-fought Yerba Buena displacements, which cleared two whole blocks ofbr / dense, cheap housing to build the complex between Third and Fourth Streetsbr / that is now a park, convention center and entertainment complex./p pAfter the displacements came the downtown office space glut of the 1980s,br / and then the 1989 earthquake—all of which has probably helped preservebr / Sixth Street as the last big low-rent enclave in the South of Marketbr / district. "Low-rent" being a relative concept on Sixth, however: subsidizedbr / rooms at the Seneca Hotel cost $450 per month, and even the worst privatelybr / run hotels can now get $150 per week and upward for a single room withbr / bathroom down the hall./p pWith nonprofit offices being replaced by businesses up and down the street,br / and even Sixth Street poverty getting expensive—well, yes, the lastbr / scruffy block of Market Street is probably turning around./p pLast fall Armer, of Seligman Western, expressed excitement at the task inbr / front of his company: making a commercially rentable property out of "almostbr / a hundred thousand feet of vacant space that's been collecting pigeons." Hebr / said the renovation would keep the existing facade and fire escape for abr / "funky, retro-type look," while doing some seismic strengthening andbr / bringing the mismatched parts of the building to a uniform height. Thebr / architect is Gelfand RNP./p pIt's still not clear what kind of tenant is likely to replace Mr. Stag andbr / Jeffrey's. Sultan mentioned a rumor about a Starbucks moving into his spot,br / but Armer chuckled at that suggestion, saying a Starbucks would need highbr / pedestrian traffic and a lot of nearby office workers—not a likelybr / combination around Sixth Street. Sultan also guessed his space might bebr / attractive to a large drug store chain if it decided to crowd out the fadingbr / Merrill's pharmacy at Seventh and Market. Armer declined to comment on thebr / suggestion about Merrill's./p pMerrill's is distinctly part of old Mid-Market. Its red and white awningbr / formed the background to a memorable realist scene in the 1994 Terry Zwigoffbr / documentary "Crumb." On a visit to one of his eccentric brothers, thebr / cartoonist R. Crumb sits sketching on a sidewalk bench while an elderlybr / woman with flaky dry skin and a painfully bent neck stands nearbybr / overfeeding the pigeons./p pWhether or not Merrill's hangs on, the "Crumb" scene already belongs to abr / different Market Street of the early 1990s that is no longer reproducible.br / The pigeon lady disappeared around 1995. Around that time they took out thebr / benches, too. Mr. Boschetti takes credit for reducing the pigeon populationbr / by shutting off their roost in the empty floors above Mr. Stag. Everythingbr / is cleaner and duller now./p pOne of the customers taking a last look at Jeffrey's on closing day was citybr / police officer Darryl Jones. He looked at the jackets and bought a tan suit.br / Sultan carried the pants back to his work table in the storage room and tookbr / in the cuffs while reminiscing about his store's dramatic moments./p pHe told about a 1979 fire that demolished part of the Kaplan's building andbr / caused smoke damage at Jeffrey's and Mr. Stag. Then the earthquake in 1989,br / which caused "a depression" in mid-Market retail and forced Sultan to watchbr / expenses for a while. Then there was the Rodney King riot in 1992, whenbr / looters broke into Mr. Stag and set a fire. Luckily Sultan arrived in timebr / to put it out, so his loss was limited to theft and carpet damage. And nowbr / it was time to leave./p p"You know what's going to happen when I leave? When this business closes,br / after today and tomorrow, every business in this block is going to feel thebr / impact of the loss of these stores because of the customers that we drawbr / here... Lots of times... if I get a customer for shoes, I mean, I alwaysbr / send them down to my neighbor down the street, where he can get some nicebr / shoes. Sometimes my neighbor sends them here because they know, well, youbr / know, where they can go to get a nice suit. And... everybody benefits frombr / that. But now, we'll be gone, what are you going to do?"/p pSultan finished with Officer Jones' trouser cuffs and excused himself towardbr / the front of the store, muttering, "I gotta go back and get him to put hisbr / pants on." He turned me over to his accountant, Julian McClendon, who wasbr / sentimental too, and also a little bit dazed./p p"...Well, Al is like, an icon, you know, certainly from my point of view, Ibr / mean, not so much from the point of San Francisco, I'm not quite sure howbr / they view him, but I'm sure that with - with all the customers that theybr / have in here that they're going to miss him. But this is probably my lastbr / client that's on this street. Most of them are in the Financial District andbr / although you get tired of the smell sometimes and that sort of thing whenbr / you walk up Sixth Street, still, it's a part of what sort of keeps peoplebr / alive, all those different smells and things that they see, you know, thatbr / sort of thing, and when you're no longer on Market Street because yourbr / clients are gone, and you're just in the Financial [District] area, youbr / know, they kind of change, and you just kind of miss it."/p pHow does Sultan see his block two or three years from now?/p p"Well, I see it as the same characters walking the street. I don't care howbr / many millions of dollars they put in fixing buildings here, everything,br / you're not going to change the same people that walk here, because of allbr / the types of remaining businesses that are here - check cashing places, andbr / those places, you know."/p pSome time ago one of the Sixth Street hotel landlords told me he expectedbr / the residential hotels there would turn into hostels for young backpackbr / tourists. But Sultan dismissed this prediction—"No, I don't think so...br / eventually somehow the city will buy up those buildings somehow and try tobr / get all of those places closed out and get everybody out of there and thenbr / resell the properties to developers. But I think that—the only reason whybr / it's there now... it's the only place they can get housing for, you know,br / the poor."/p pMcClendon, the accountant, agreed Sultan's stores could have survived if notbr / for the eviction, but at the same time he predicted the neighborhood wouldbr / change. "Oh, it's just—it's just dot-coms, and—and in the retail areabr / it'll be selling to people that can buy retail but they'll also be able tobr / afford four-thousand-dollar-a-month apartments... 'Cheap'br / four-thousand-dollar-a-month studio apartments. So the kind of retail thatbr / you're going to see in here is going to be a different kind of retail.br / Because the common folk will just be out of here."/p pbr /© 2001 Martha Bridegambr / /p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p
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I Just Want to Know What Happened

09/24/2021 - 11:34 by Anonymous (not verified)
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pstrongMeesha Irazarry, mother of Idriss Stelley, is forced to file civil claim against SFPD for excessive force and negligence/strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TDIMG SRC= "../sites/default/files/arch_img/466/photo_1_feature.jpg" //td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby Leroy Moore and Tiny/PoorNewsNetwork/p pIdriss Stelley’s soul is not at rest although his physical body was put down by San Francisco police on June 13th at the Sony Metreon Theater! Idriss’s soul was beside his mother on the front steps of City Hall for a press conference and community rally on Wednesday, September 5th. Through her words and the strength of her son’s spirit, Meesha Monge-Irizarry discussed why she, community activists, her lawyer, representatives of Bay Area Police Watch, and many more have called on the media to shed the truth about her son’s killing at the hands of San Francisco police officers./p p"The undertaker had to charge me extra because there were so many bullet-holes in my baby’s body." With each word Ms. Irizarry’s eyes trembled with tears. "He said there was a bullet in his head... I cremated the body because it was the right thing to do at the time—I guess I shouldn’t have."/p pIt has been 11 weeks since Idriss Stelley, a 23-year old African American college student with a 4.0 average who lived with mental illness was shot more than twenty times by San Francisco police officers at the Sony Metreon Theater. In those 11 weeks the Bay Area community, grassroots organizations, activists and progressive media outlets have strategized on how to get justice for the family and others who have been put in the grave because of the encounters between police and people with mental illness. After 11 weeks of putting pressure on the police commission, the mayor and other political leaders, Meesha Monge-Irizarry still doesn’t have the basic information about her son’s killing, access to his property—his bookbag or a list of witnesses who were present at the Metreon Theatre. /p pOut of desperation at the lack of responsiveness to all of her inquiries for help from local police and most government officials, Meesha Irizarry sought help from activists and government officials in France. Meesha is of Basque descent, born in France. In contrast to the local climate of apathy, French political leaders immediately signed on to support the efforts of Meesha and her supporters to get justice for her son and other young folks who have been victims of these kinds of police crimes./p pAfter her well-needed rest and organizing in France, Meesha came back to the Bay Area only to find out that she had to file a civil claim for damages against the SFPD for excessive force and negligence. This is an administrative claim filed last week with the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, which names the officers involved in the shooting as well as the Chief of Police, and cites the inadequate training of the officers involved. "We hope that the filing of this claim and any subsequent litigation will force the SFPD to finally release basic information such as the names of the civilian witnesses," said Samantha Liapes of Bay Area Police Watch. /p p "I just want to know what happened that night!" Meesha whispered to the multitude of press present on Wednesday. The same tactic, to file a claim for damages, was done by the son of Margaret L. Mitchell, a Black mentally ill homeless woman that was shot by Los Angeles Police Department. Unfortunately just recently the police officer who shot Margart L Mitchell walked away a free man. A police officer in the shooting and killing of Errol Shaw, a Black deaf man with mental illness was set free by a juror. We must stop this deadly, uncontrollable train of police getting away with shootings and brutality of people with mental illness. We can stop this train before it rolls into San Francisco by supporting the efforts of the Idriss Campaign which will look into the training of police around people with mental illnessbr / among other institutional changes./p pLeroy F. Moore Jr., Executive Director of Disability Advocates of Minorities Organization and staff writer for PoorNewsNetworkbr / Tiny, co-editor and founder POOR Magazine and PoorNewsNetwork.br / /p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p
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one-way ticket to Palookaville

09/24/2021 - 11:34 by Anonymous (not verified)
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pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TDIMG SRC= "../sites/default/files/arch_img/469/photo_1_supplement.jpg" //td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby Dee Gray/p pb p3rd Letter To Mid-Market PAC From Dee Gray at POOR Magazine/p pRe: Update on Joseph Bolden's possible return to the Mid Market PAC/p/b/p pDear Ms. Diamond and Mid Market PAC Members, September 11, 2001 /p pDee Gray, Joseph Bolden and the staff at Poor Magazine are currently discussing Joseph Bolden's possible return to the Mid Market PAC. There are certain conditions, however that must be arranged. Because Joseph Bolden is poor and living in an SRO in the Mid Market area, his life is sometimes too overwhelming. Therefore, he cannot always attend the Mid Market PAC meetings, and should not be terminated as a result./p pA possibility would be for a participant in our bMedia Studies Program/b to attend occasionally in his stead. We are in the process of developing this and then proposing it to the Mid- Market PAC group./p pI wonder if they have the kind of empathy needed to understand this situation regarding Joe Bolden. If not, I wonder why they are attempting to change the conditions of the lives of those living in the Mid Market area./p pThank-you,br / br /Dee Graybr / br /Co-editor, `POOR Magazine andbr / The New Journalism/Media Studies Program/p pb2nd Letter to the Mid- Market PAC for the Mid-Market Redevelopment Project/b/p pRe: A response letter from Dee Gray/p pDear Carolyn Diamond, br /August 28, 2001/p pIt is interesting to note that although Joseph Bolden missed the time stated in your letter you did not feel it necessary to terminate his position in Mid-Market PAC until the day he brought some of his colleagues from Poor Magazine to your meeting./p pOne of his colleagues questioned a developer at the meeting to attempt to find out if that developer had ever bothered to ask the people that now sleep and hang out on 6th Street, close to the space he wants to develop into a parking lot and office space for Nordstrom's, what kinds of development they would like to see. The developer answered that his company had not done surveys but others had. At this time police sweeps are done routinely in that area to get rid of the so called "bad people" who hang out there./p pAffordable housing was mentioned at the meeting, but this term is utterly meaningless. For example, HUD defines affordable housing as housing costing up to $200,000. Low-income housing is the kind of development most needed in that area./p pHowever, in many cases people that hang out, rant and rave, use shopping carts for their possessions, loiter, yell at people or don't yell at people, sit quietly, sleep, and eat in this area don't necessarily want to live in any housing. So where will they go when the businessmen, parking lots, and affordable housing take over? Why can't San Francisco, like other cities, have a place for them? Why does SF have to clean up and cutesify every area in town?/p pThese were the issues voiced and implied at the last meeting Joseph Bolden attended. What an odd coincidence it was that within a day or two you sent Joseph Bolden his termination letter, which was of course read aloud to all of his colleagues at Poor Magazine./p pWe, the colleagues of Joseph Bolden, do not accept this termination.We believe it is your way of halting our influence, through Joseph, on your committee decisions about what development is allowed in the area under discussion. Incidentally, Joseph is the only person on your committee who is currently experiencing living in a Single Room Occupancy (SRO) hotel./p pRather than being terminated, Joseph Bolden should become chairman of your committee. Joseph was one of the those folks on Market Street that you want to be rid of. Now, through many struggles, he is housed on Market Street in a room and works full time at Poor Magazine. He is a POVERTY HERO and yet you demean him as though he was one of those people in "The Mess on Market Street" to whom you are trying to give a one-way ticket to Palookaville./p pRespectfully, /p p br /Dee Graybr / br /Co-Editor of POOR Magazine/p p br /Joseph Boldenbr / br /and Staff at Poor Magazine/p pb1st Letter- A letter of termination from the Mid-Market PAC for Joseph Bolden, PNN "inside the mess" beat reporter/b /p pFrom: Mid-Market PACbr / br /870 Market Streetbr / br /San Francisco, CA 94102/p pAugust 21, 2001/p pDear Joe:/p pThe by-laws of the Project Area Committee for the Mid-Market Redevelopment Project, as amended on May 10, 2001, state that any member of the PAC absent from (4) meetings within one calendar year shall result in the termination from the Mid Market PAC./p pOur records show that you have not attended 6 PAC meetings this calendar year. Therefore, you are considered terminated from the Project Area Committee for the Mid-Market Redevelopment Project./p pWe thank you for your participation and hope that you will continue to have an interest in the PAC's work./p pIf you have questions please do not hesitate to contact me./p pSincerely,/p pCarolyn Diamondbr / br /Mid Market PAC Staff/p p/p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p
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Micro Stuff. Sex, Suicide, Space, And Sup. G. Newsom.

09/24/2021 - 11:35 by Anonymous (not verified)
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pstrong pbWho's Behind Newsom orbr / am I wrong and he's his own man./bbr //p pbIts better know if ourbr / chain is being pulled andbr / who if anyone is at the other end./bbr / /p/strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby Joe B./p pI’ve been thinking about the so-called battle of the sexes, it occurred to me killing each other does not bode well for surviving generations repeating the cycle. /p pThere always be Misogynists on both sides of the sexes./p pHowever there are friendly allies the enemies. /p pI propose that we of like and love persuasion should build starships with cryonics sleep or suspended animation that double as emergency escape pods. /p pLeave earth for living on asteroids, natural or artificial satellites while groundhog earthers tare at each other’s throats./p pBy the time a few centuries have passed and they’ve learned what we already knew b"Peaceful Co-existence Between The Sexes" /b /p pWe'll have made other kinds of humanity, evolving quicker, living every where in the cosmos./p pI know it’s an extreme solution but better that than both sexes constantly killing each other. /p pI was just thinking of space as an extreme survival mechanism./p pOther than that I don’t how our species will survive let along survive if males are killing women or circumventing births of females assumed not as valuable./p pMaybe people will figure out what makes certain males rage enough to kill or women do the same. /p pAny neuroscience to prevent this from happening? br / /ppLast Thursday, July 18, 2002 after a meeting with the Coalition on Homelessness, Media Alliance, and I think another but I’ve forgotten./p pI don’t know where we went but it was in someone’s comfortable Van to a pro test against small business at O’Keeffe O’Keeffe Attorney’s at Law offices./p pOne of the green street signs has Taraval on it and across the street are apartments and a nail manicure business./p pA guy I’ll car Art has more investigative chops than I talk of Newsom loving the publicity and as cops on cycles, standing around, and across the street. /p pGetting 7 to 10,000 dollars overtime for essentially doing an easy stand-do-nothing payday while protesters and tax payers’ foot the bill while Sup. Gavin Newsom gets free on-air time./p pIt never occurred to me that constant talking about Newsome, his plans actually fuel-feeds his campaign run for mayor for 2004!/p pArt said, "It’s not Newsom we should protesting he’s probably a figurehead and behind him are people backing his run like The Golden Gate Restaurant Association and Small Business concerns" He is sure there are other organizations and people too and that who we should be targeting."/p pHmmm, Sup. Gavin Newsom, a straw-man or public face to focus on while others with more power and influence pulling strings like some bPower- Behind -The –Throne/b uPuppet on a string deal. /u/p pMr. Art may just be able to have something there. /p pHey, San Franciscan’s and I’m writing to those both for and against Newsom before I’d make a commitment to vote for a future Mayor, Senator, Governor, or possibly higher office holder./p p Wouldn’t you want to know where his true loyalties lie?/p pHe probably is his own man, however with former candidate for President Pat Robertson or Buchanan with his "Culture War" you may not have liked what he said but he was being real on how he felt and what he is for and against./p pWith Sup. Gavin Newsom what is unknown is most of his backers./p pThere’s probably an old hunter’s saying, "If a dog is tame, wild, or plain lazy watch who’s holding the end of the chain. /p pSo who is Newsom ultimately beholden too. /p pIt does not matter to me but for true blue for Newsom voters./p pWouldn’t you really want to know who is behind the Newsom campaign?/p pBecause win or lose if Newsom isn’t his own man it would be best to know it now rather than have folks come from out surrounding that cannot trust because you don’t know or recognize them./p pHope you all are thinking ahead a little bit about the people behind Newsom. /p pNow, its up to you readers to do what you can, choosing the next Mayor or other political posts … Bye./p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p
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The US Government Caused Me To Become Homeless Part 4

09/24/2021 - 11:34 by Anonymous (not verified)
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pstrong I discovered that citizens were sold homes that were not repaired as required by Title 7 USCS C.F.R. 1955.116. I was one of those citizens./strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TDIMG SRC= "../sites/default/files/arch_img/475/photo_1_supplement.jpg" //td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby Judith M. Hansel /p pI never expected that I would have to seek protection from another country when I purchased a home in Wisconsin that had been in a USDA housing program. But I discovered that citizens were sold homes that were not repaired as required by Title 7 USCS C.F.R. 1955.116. I was one of those citizens./p pThe first three reports in this series explained how I was defrauded by the US government; how I tried to remedy the fraud by making it public; and how I was jailed and threatened with involuntary commitment to the Winnebago Mental Institution when I refused to shut up. /p pI arrived at the Rainy River, Ontario border crossing at 10 AM on June 12, 1993. On June l4 I filed a claim for Convention Refugee status at the Canada Immigration Center in Thunder Bay. In order to gain refugee status, a person’s subjective fear must be based on objective events. I was fearful of involuntary commitment and my fear was based on my multiple arrests and violations of my U.S. Constitutional rights as well as my human rights. I had the documents that proved that these events had happened to me./p pThe Immigration Officers took my claim seriously and told me that I was eligible for a Convention Refugee hearing. That hearing took place four months later on October 6. I gave binders to the Immigration Refugee Board members that contained my documents. At the conclusion of the hearing, the Board members told me that they would mail their decision to me./p pI received the IRB’s decision in late November. It denied me Convention Refugee status. The decision was a lie that confused my statements, ignored facts and stated events out of sequence. I appealed this decision to the Federal Court-Trial Division in Ottawa. The Canadian Justice Department did not reply within the time limit imposed by law./p pIn March 1994 the Enforcement Division of the Ministry of Immigration tried to deport me in violation of Canadian law. I was able to convince the Prime Minister’s office and the Minister of Immigration that it would be a documented miscarriage of justice if they deported me. My deportation was put on hold./p pIn June 1994 the Minister of Justice finally responded to my Appeal by requesting from the Court an extension of time. A retroactive extension of time was granted./p pAs this point I decided to leave Thunder Bay. Many non-official incidents happened to me in Thunder Bay, all of which are recounted in my book./p pI spent July and part of August in Sudbury and late August until October in Toronto. In December I moved to Niagara Falls, Ontario. I received the denial of my appeal in February and on June 9 was arrested. (It should be noted that in Canada an appellant needs to request permission to file an appeal. That request was denied which meant the Court never addressed the issues). I was deported without a hearing (which is required by the Immigration Act) on June 12, 1995, two years to the day from when I had first arrived. On June 13 I returned to Canada using another person’s Canadian ID. I traveled to Sudbury and, late in July, rode a Greyhound bus to Calgary. Since I had all the evidence necessary to prove that I was a Convention Refugee, I had no intention of just giving up. I left Calgary on October 3l and arrived in Lethbridge, where I continued to live under my Canadian identity./p pIn January 1996 I was arrested again. At my arraignment I refused to sign a Recognizance that stated that I had arrived in Canada on January 4. A RCMP officer committed perjury when he swore that I returned on January 4, when he knew I could prove that I had returned on June 13, 1995. The prison psychologist threatened to send me to the Psych Ward at Foot Hills Hospital if I did not sign the Recognizance. I signed the perjured document in order to stay out of a mental ward./p pI was deported on January 17 and arrived in San Francisco late on January 18. I rented hotel rooms until March 29 when I traveled to Sacramento for two weeks and then spent a few days in Seattle. I submitted an affidavit to the Alberta Court in Lethbridge that outlined my Convention Refugee case and the dates of my arrivals in Canada. My trial was set for April 22 and I planned to defend myself./p pI crossed the border into British Columbia on April 17, 1996, exactly 90 days after my deportation. I was unable to attend my trial in Lethbridge due to insufficient funds and the fear that Lethbridge authorities might return me to Wisconsin. I lived in Vancouver and a few towns on Vancouver Island until September 13, when I was arrested again. /p pAt a hearing with the Senior Immigration Officer in Victoria, I relayed my story to her. She said that I was eligible for a second Convention Refugee hearing. After several weeks with frustrating contacts with the Vancouver Canadian Immigration Center, I requested a change of venue to Ottawa. I arrived in Ottawa on February 27 for my March 20 Convention Refugee hearing. In addition to my evidence from the earlier hearing, I added the violations of my human rights that occurred while I lived in San Francisco./p pIn June I received the denial of Convention Refugee status and immediately filed a Request for Leave and for Judicial Review. Again the Attorney General did not respond within the legal time limit, moved for an extension of time, and received it from the Court. On September 25 the Registrar of the Court told me that my Request was denied./p pI packed up two days later and went to Sudbury where I was arrested on January 5, and deported again on January 17, 1998./p pI spent a week with my sons and their families in Maryland. Brian, the youngest, was in a chronic care hospital with a neurological-genetic defect that was terminal. When I visited him he told me to “go for it” when I told him about my latest deportation and my indecision about returning to Canada. That weekend, Pope John Paul II was in Cuba where he told the people to “work for human rights.” It seemed that I needed to go back to Canada if only to carry on a lost cause for human rights./p pSince I had not received the written decision from the Federal Court-Trial Division, I returned to Niagara Falls, Ontario on January 27, 1998. In February I received the Court’s decision that my Request for Leave was “dismissed.” There is no provision in Canadian law for “dismissing” a Request for Leave and for Judicial Review; a Request is either granted or denied./p pFeeling on firmer ground and knowing that all decisions made in my case violated the Immigration Act of Canada, Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the 195l UN Geneva Convention on the Status of Refugees, I returned to Sudbury on May 1./p pOn November 13 I was arrested and on November 25 I was deported. An Immigration Adjudication officer threatened me with a criminal charge if I returned to Canada again./p pThis report is just the bare bones of my five and one-half years in Canada. I need to add four important facts:/p p-I have sent reports to the UN on at least a bi-monthly basis since 1994. I have received no response.br /br / -From 1989 to 1994, forty-five US citizens claimed Convention Refugee status in Canada. None was granted. What happened to these people?br /br / -The US has not signed the 1951 UN Geneva Convention on the Status of Refugees.br /br / -The US has not signed the May 1976 UN Convention on Civil and Political Rights. br / /p pSince November 25, 1998, I refuse to be repatriated by: /p pRefusing to register to vote and refusing to votebr /br / Refusing to participate in the Censusbr /br / Refusing to file IRS forms (since 1992)br /br / Refusing to have a permanent addressbr //p pMy book, iEscape from America, An Expose of International Treachery/i, goes into greater detail than these reports. /p pGandhi said, “Non-cooperation with evil is a duty.” The only thing I can do now is refuse to cooperate./p pIn my final report I will provide readers with a personal look at homelessness in San Francisco.br / /p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p
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