AB 1081 bill passed the Public Safety Committee yesterday. Definitely a victory but just a first step. What is AB 1081? AB1081 is a state bill, also know as the TRUST Act, which would require counties to officially agree to opt in to S-Comm, as opposed to now, where counties have been involuntarily forced to [...]
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The SF Guardian Reports on Pride at Work’s Banner Action Against AZ Law
Thursday, August 26th, 2010http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2010/07/29/immigrant-advocates-protest-az-law-and-jerry-browns-securecomm-support Immigrant advocates protest AZ law and Jerry Brown’s SecureComm support SF Pride’s Gabriel Haaland reports that the California Highway Patrol made them take down their “No One is Illegal” drop banner at 9.a.m. The SF Pride action came on the heels of yesterday’s protest in which over a hundred people gathered in front of [...]
Help End Anti-Gay Discrimination
Friday, August 6th, 2010Op-ed by from the Harvey Milk Club and SF Pride at Work regarding the firing of gay deckhand Vincent Atos by Hornblower Cruises. Help end anti-gay discrimination by David Waggoner and Josué Argüelles The movement for LGBTIQQ equality is making real progress. Congress is finally set to pass an Employment Non-Discrimination Act inclusive of gender [...]
Why is Pelosi killing ENDA?
Thursday, August 5th, 2010Op-Ed by Gabriel Haaland for The Guardian questioning why Pelosi hasn’t called for a vote on The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) which would prevent workplace discrimination for LGBT people nationwide. Why is Pelosi killing ENDA? OPINION Why is the Congressmember from the gayest city in America blocking legislation that protects lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender [...]
Citi Apartments in disaray due to tentacity of CitiStop tenant organizing
Friday, June 4th, 2010Great San Francisco Bay Guardian article about the success of the CitiStop campaign. Features one of CitiStop’s key tenant leaders Darin Dawson! Pride at Work HAVOQ has played a key role keeping the CitiStop Campaign going by doing grass roots organizing and education with tenants on resisting eviction and illegal buyouts. Triumph of tenacity The [...]
“Caught in a Bad Hotel” goes viral!
Friday, May 21st, 2010The video of our flashmob protest “Caught in a Bad Hotel” has gone viral bringing national and international attention to the San Francisco hotel workers’ struggle for affordable healthcare and a fair contract! At last count the video had been viewed by well over 150,000 people on you tube! You can track the spread of the [...]
HAVOQ Stands Against Sit Lie
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010SF Pride at Work / HAVOQ has been organizing to oppose a proposed “sit lie” city ordinance that would ban sitting and lying on city sidewalks as part of a city-wide progressive coalition. New about HAVOQ’s participation in the recent Sidewalks are For People day of action: Bay Rea Reporter Article In the 70s, the [...]
Debt swamping Lembi Group, big S.F. landlord – SF Chronicle
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009Debt swamping Lembi Group, big S.F. landlord San Francisco Chronicle article by Andrew S. Ross: Wednesday, September 9, 2009- One of San Francisco’s biggest landlords is disappearing beneath waves of debt. Defaults, receiverships and foreclosures are threatening to sink Lembi Group Inc., which in the not-so-distant past owned more than 300 apartment buildings containing approximately [...]
Editorial on the success of our “CitiStop” organizing
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009The future of a giant landlord SF Bay Guardian, Opinion piece by Pride at Work member Jane Martin, Wed Feb 11 2009: In the past few years, tenant organizing has brought attention to CitiApartments’ aggressive tactics and put a kink in the company’s plans.OPINION The business model of CitiApartments is in crisis. The local landlord [...]
The Chronicle manufactures a crisis – SFBG
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008The Chronicle manufactures a crisis SFBG October 1st, 2008 Op Ed by Pride at Work members Sofia Lee and Robert Haaland of Pride at Work in response to The Chronicle’s articles on undocumented youth in the juvenile justice system and San Francisco’s Sanctuary City Ordinance.