Meet Thurs Apr 2 for May 1st 2015 Event, Action Notes: Monster in da Mission Plaza 16 Coalition

May 1st Planning Meet: Thursday-04/02/15

In this email: TONIGHT :: Planning Commission/Dept. strategy meeting THURSDAY :: May 1st event/action planning meeting  FRIDAY, MAY 1st :: SAVE THE DATE :: Big action to demand affordable housing for the Mission! TAKE ACTION :: Send our message to City Hall     ++ TONIGHT ++ Planning Commission/Department Strategy Meeting Tuesday, March 31 at 6:30PM L's Cafe 2871 24th Street (between Florida/Bryant) Plaza 16 is joining with groups and residents from across   the Mission to work on a unified strategy for upcoming   Planning Commission hearings and for getting the  Planning Department to respond to the real needs of   our community.   We need to be informed and able to mobilize as the    Monster in the Mission and other market-rate projects    come up for approval at the Commission. Come tonight to learn how you can participate and help   develop the strategy and infrastructure needed for us   to be successful in fighting for what the community   needs at the Planning Commission.     ++ THURSDAY ++ May 1st Event/Action Planning Meeting Thursday, April 2nd at 6:30PM Redstone Building, Room 302 2940 16th Street at Capp Plaza 16 is also joining with groups and residents from across the Mission District and across the city to plan a major event and action on May Day.   We will need everyone's help to make this event a big success. Bring your ideas to our next meeting this Thursday.  ++ FRIDAY, MAY 1st :: SAVE THE DATE ++ Big Action for Affordable Housing in the  Mission/SF Details to be announced On May 1st the Mission community will unite to  demand truly affordable housing for the community  and a moratorium on market rate development until  affordable housing needs are met.  Stay tuned for details!    ++ TAKE ACTION ++ Make certain our elected officials hear  our message from  March 4th   Here's how you can help spread our message rom March 4th to  our city's elected leaders and decision makers.  Email and/or tweet them a video and/or your personal account  from our March 4th on Maximus action! 1. Copy and paste this list of addresses of elected officials  and commissioners into an email: mayoredwinlee@sfgov.org, SandraFewer@sfusd.edu,  EmilyMurase@sfusd.edu, MattHaney@sfusd.edu,  ShamannWalton@sfusd.edu, Hydra.Mendoza@sfusd.edu,  RachelNorton@sfusd.edu, JillWynns@sfusd.edu, cwu.planning@gmail.com, planning@rodneyfong.com, wordweaver21@aol.com, christine.d.johnson@sfgov.org, richhillissf@yahoo.com, mooreurban@aol.com, dennis.richards@sfgov.org, Eric.L.Mar@sfgov.org, Mark.Farrell@sfgov.org, Julie.Christensen@sfgov.org, Katy.Tang@sfgov.org, Breedstaff@sfgov.org, Jane.Kim@sfgov.org, Norman.Yee@sfgov.org, Scott.Wiener@sfgov.org, David.Campos@sfgov.org, Malia.Cohen@sfgov.org, John.Avalos@sfgov.org, policy@plaza16.org 2. Then copy and paste into the body of the email, these  links to powerful videos from the action. The Community wants 100% affordable housing and           has no use for luxury apartments. http://youtu.be/gVJFEyp06cc Teacher Mic checks luxury developer Maximus http://youtu.be/X3ZIzLKTmOo 3.   In your email tell our city officials that we are already  facing a severe displacement crisis in the Mission and  we need affordable housing not more luxury-priced units  that will drive even more displacement in our community.  4. Share this link with others so they can join the action too! http://plaza16.org/action/ More info on the website: Plaza16.org. Join and endorse the Plaza 16 Coalition. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Get Tickets to SF Homeless Town Hall Meeting Next Wed Mar 11, 2015

    We just got 4 Tickets to the SF Project Homeless Connect 'SF HOMELESS TOWN HALL MEETING' set for March 11, 2015 6pm - 9pm Event...  We want ALL OF YOU to write some notes about what you want and need OUR CITY TO DO FOR YOU to enable you and empower you -- where you are -- as you are.

     If you want to improve conditions where you are or wish to move into a home here or there or anywhere...

    YOU must share with everyone WHERE you wish to live and WHAT YOU NEED FROM OUR CITY TO DO WHAT YOU WISH THEM TO DO -- TO HELP REDUCE HARM AND IMPROVE YOUR LIFE SAFELY.

    EMAIL YOUR WISHES FOR YOUR HOUSING NEEDS AND HUMAN SERVICE HELP, - TODAY -  TO:    SFAWARENESS@ZOHO.COM

Example:  We hate policies that DIVIDE couples and families WHO ARE SAFER TOGETHER - Yet, by policy, they are SPLIT APART and become easy prey for the hordes of abusers we have WORKING in our agencies, non-profits, shelters and programs who have been there FOR DECADES.

Tell EVERYONE that DIVIDING SAFE COUPLES IS WRONG!

  We'll make summaries of Your Wishes to present to all at next week's SF Homeless Town Hall Meeting... BE THERE !

  ** THIS IS ABOUT YOU PEOPLE TELLING OUR CITY WHAT YOU WANT AND NEED **  IF SOME OF THEIR NOT-FROM-HERE IDEAS WORK FOR US, GREAT.  IF NOT, THEN THEY WILL KNOW WHAT YOU WANT AND WE CAN HELP CRAFT OUR OWN SOLUTIONS -- FOR OUR SELVES AND OUR SF COMMUNITY.   **

   See The Story posted here for details:

  https://sfawareness.blogspot.com/2015/02/attn-all-sfhomeless-peers-be-ready-for.html

   To get your tickets go here:   http://www.projecthomelessconnect.org/events/endhomelessness-town-hall/

ATTN: ALL SF HOMELESS, PEERS: SF Town Hall Meet-Be Ready With OUR IDEAS, NOT THEIRS!

    Okay, these folks are using flowery words like SF FAMILY and what not, but remember, the man who is organizing this may mean well, but he has not lived among us for many years and decades, as the rest of us have, here in San Francisco.

    He (Gopman) also has admitted recent, prior bias, if not hatred or anger towards our homeless, but now claims 'he's seen the light'.   

     And he may have, and he's spent some time inside homeless world, as observer, but don't mistake that for the decades of in depth experience that thousands of you residents have in our city, deep in homeless, shelter, human services and city, state and county programs and agencies, that these folks coming to us with THEIR WAYS AND IDEAS AND THEIR SOLUTIONS do not have.

    BRING WHAT YOU WANT AND KNOW TO THE TABLE TO MAKE SURE WE GET WHAT WE ALREADY KNOW WE WANT AND NEED, AT COST, NOT TO ENABLE MEGA PROFITS TO RUN PROGRAMS THEY LIKE DOWN OUR THROATS, AS THEY'VE DONE FOR DECADES NOW.   

       BE AWARE AND DOUBLE CHECK EVERY FACT AND PERSONA AND CORPORATE OR NON-PROFIT BACKER, SPONSOR OR PROGRAM THEY APPROACH US WITH BEFORE WE AGREE TO ANYTHING!

   And he's already linked up to not-from-here ideas and organizations, so, this looks like they wish to present their plans for all of us... but, we need to make sure WE, THE PEOPLE, are the ones who present them, with what we want, where we are, as we are... we must inform them of OUR NEEDS from our point of view where we are at now....     

   They may try to get us all to go move into some complexes they're doing with government - private partnerships FOR PROFITS which means costs for what they 'provide' for us, will always increase, being controlled by bankster faux market values.

   The National Coalition on Homelessness says the majority of all human service programs FAIL because they are not created, designed, managed and operated by local clients, themselves.

   Every time out of towners or newbies come with big programs to solve problems that locals did not create, they fail.   Meaning, they make megabucks for organizers, managers, investors and tax agents... but over time, they fail and collapse on the clients, then there's another crisis and more new top down, not-from-here programs are introduced as 'the next homeless solution'.

      Okay, our teams are meeting with peers and local groups to make sure THE PROGRAMS are to be not for profit and are at lowest cost possible and must be owned, operated and managed by OUR LOCAL PEOPLE and must enable us all to be where we are and stay where we are and not be transported in and out of targeted zones for development or condos, et cetera.   

    Remember, the Elite in our city have hijacked every good program, process, campaign and 'town hall' meetings we've had over decades, to ensure their needs and profit motives are met, ahead of our critical human needs.  

         We saw that with the 'train' to reform the shelters, after we, the people, with Eric Bayer started the SF Power Group (which got our most hardcore folks off the streets and fully housed and employed or enrolled in school in 11 to 20 weeks, with natural foods, self direction and at one tenth of the cost of any other program to date with a 75% success rate).

     And again with the SF Shelter Standards of Care Workshops and Laws that we, the people created, that The Elite wanted to block with then Mayor Gavin Newsom's Veto, which didn't happen.  We passed that law that we wrote and both of the 'from-the-people up' campaigns became world class models.  

  So, we're dealing with CORPORATE TYPES who have a certain nature, no matter how much they may be changing... BE AWARE.

 BE PREPARED FOR ADD ON PROGRAMS THAT COST US MORE AND COME FROM OUTSIDE THE MINDS OF OUR PEOPLE (i.g. Agenda 21, behavior modification, public safety programs from New York, Sweden, et al) that DON'T work here.

    Give us what we know we need and want, how we want it is how programs work best here... we're reasonable adults capable of explaining what we need... we don't need others telling us what we want or what they're going to do for us...

Onward, mark this event on your calendar and organize all your groups now!

You are invited to the following event: Town Hall Event to be held at the following time, date, and location: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (PDT) Nourse Theater 275 Hayes Street San Francisco, CA 94117 View Map Attend Event Share: To our #SFCares Family: Are you ready to see real change in San Francisco? Join us, Supervisor Mark Farrell, and our co-host Project Homeless Connect at the Town Hall to #EndHomelessness on March 11th. We'll be discussing big ideas that could transform homeless services in SF. Come ready to challenge the status quo and join our community of change-makers. Questions or concerns? Reach out to us at homelesstownhall@gmail.com See you there! A Better SF (previously San Francisco Cares)

This invitation was sent to sfhomeless@gmail.com by Project Homeless Connect the organizer.  Eventbrite | 155 5th St | San Francisco, CA 94103

URGENT ACTION! ON MARCH 2ND & 4TH-MAXIMUS PLAZA 16 COALITION PROTEST!

From our friends....

In this email: TAKE URGENT ACTION (DEADLINE MARCH 2nd): Send comments to Planning Department MARCH 4th ON MAXIMUS: We need you there! PLANNING MEETING for March 4th Event: This WED. 3/24 at 6PM REPORT BACK from 2/19 Plaza 16 Coalition Community Meeting   ::: PLEASE TAKE URGENT ACTION :: DEADLINE MON. MARCH 2nd ::: Please take a moment right now to email, fax, or mail the Director of Environmental Planning requesting increased scoping for the 1979 Mission Environmental Impact Report (EIR). We've made it easy! Just visit the website for submission instructions, sample letter, and sample text.   ::: MARCH 4th ON MAXIMUS ::: WE DEMAND AFFORDABLE HOUSING NOT MEAGER "COMMUNITY BENEFITS!" Please join the PLAZA 16 COALITION, CALLE 24 LATINO CULTURAL DISTRICT, OUR MISSION NO EVICTION, and the LATINO DEMOCRATIC CLUB in this action to stop the monster luxury development at 16th and Mission. MARCH 4th ON MAXIMUS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4 MEET at 5:45 PM LABORERS LOCAL 261 UNION HALL 3721 18TH STREET at SHOTWELL RSVP ON FACEBOOK AND INVITE YOUR FRIENDS On March 4th we will march into Maximus's public meeting. We will demand truly affordable housing for our community, instead of monster luxury towers and meager "community benefits." MAXIMUS Real Estate Partners--the developers who have proposed the twin ten-story towers at 16th and Mission Street, better known as the MONSTER IN THE MISSION--have announced a public meeting on March 4th. At this meeting Maximus will present a package of "community benefits" intended to mitigate the tremendous detrimental impact their development would have upon the Mission District. But, of course, no meager community benefits package will make up for the drastically increased residential and commercial rents, and the widespread displacement this project will cause in our community.  On March 4th, we will have an opportunity to face representatives of Maximus directly and tell them that the only community benefit we need is affordable housing, and that we refuse to let them build their luxury towers in our community. Contact Andy@Plaza16.org for more info.   ::: HELP US PLAN AND PREPARE FOR THE CRUCIAL MARCH 4th EVENT ::: Planning Meeting for March 4th on Maximus WED. FEB 25 at 6PM PODER: 474 Valencia Street near 16th Suite #125 Contact Andy@Plaza16.org for more info.   ::: REPORT BACK FROM 2/19 PLAZA 16 COMMUNITY MEETING ::: On Thursday, February 19, the Plaza 16 Coalition held its first community meeting for 2015 and it was a rousing success. Community folks once again packed St. John’s Church at 15th and Julian Street to get the latest updates on Maximus Real Estate Partners' proposed development for 1979 Mission St. (at 16th), learn about the City’s approval process for such developments, and to initiate a community-led process for developing a community-serving vision for development for Plaza 16.  Read the full report on our website. More info on the website: Plaza16.org. Join and endorse the Plaza 16 Coalition. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.