People Organizing to Demand Environmental & Economic Rights

Join PODER for a free family outdoor movie night with all the fixins’… hot chocolate, popcorn, churros, kids flix, and family movies. We’ll also showcase short conscious videos produced by talented local young artists. Don’t forget to bring a blanket and warm clothes!

What: Movie Night for the whole family

Where: Mission/Ocean/Persia Triangle

When: Friday, October 16th, 2009

Time: 6:30 to 9:00pm

For more information please call PODER at (415) 431-4210

See the flier for the event.

Community demands affordable housing
by Greg Zeman, Sep 23, 2009

The Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition is trying to turn the parking lot at 17th and Shotwell streets into an affordable housing site with green, open space and a community center. 

 "Out of all the neighborhood, that area, the north-east, has the least amount of open space per capita," said Mariana Viturro, director of the St. Peters Housing Committee. "And it has the highest concentration of children and families."

 The lot is currently owned by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. According to PUC Commissioner Juliet Ellis, who sits on the Rate Payer Advocate Seat responsible for controlling product cost for consumers, "The PUC is responsible for all the water issues, waste water, drinking water and energy." Ellis said that the commission is responsible for providing electricity to some areas, like Treasure Island, and also is involved with waste management.  PUC holds all water rights from Yosemite, where it produces hydro-electricity, down to Santa Clara where that power is sold.

 MAC is trying to convince the commission to sell the site to the Mayors Office of Housing. However, MAC does not want the site sold at the market value of $6 million. They want to see the site transferred from the PUC to the housing office for the symbolic price of one dollar.  click here for full article...

Sept 11: Pachanga Pa'l Pueblo/Party For The People

 

What: Friday, September 11, 2009, PODER is throwing a Pachanga in support of our work to end environmental racism and uphold human rights in San Francisco. The only Latino/a environmental justice organization based in the Mission and Excelsior Districts of San Francisco, for the last 17 years PODER has served the people and organized grassroots campaigns to pass legislation and programs that reduce toxins, develop healthy and affordable neighborhoods, protect immigrant families and strengthen the civic leadership of everyday people .

 

Pachanga Pa'l Pueblo will feature live music by local global pop sensation Rupa & The April Fishes, hyphy salseros del East Bay Grupo Terroritmo, and the cumbia, rock and reggae styling of DJ's Santero, Rosa La Rumorosa and Mixtek. Plus, Do It Yourself button-making, barrio-style veggie tacos and fresh juices, raffle with prizes provided by local artists and mom & pop businesses, and many more social justice goodies.

 

When
Friday September 11, 9pm-1am (doors @ 8:30pm)

 

Where:
SubMission (Formerly Balazo Gallery)
2183 Mission St. (near 18th St), Mission District, San Francisco
alll ages; 21 w/ ID for bar

 

Tickets:
$5-$20 Sliding scale
Click here to buy online (in the Gift Information box write in Party & the # of tickets)

 

Information:
www.podersf.org
Oscar @ 415-431-4210

For up-to-date info check PODER SF on facebook

 Mission district activists heckled Newsom at March 2007 Town Hall lecture: Newsom’s Strange Notion of a “Healthy” Debate  by Paul Hogarth‚ Aug. 12‚ 2009  

After Nancy Pelosi accused the right-wing mobs who’ve disrupted health care town halls for being “un-American,” Mayor Gavin Newsom publicly disagreed with the House Speaker. “It is part of the democratic process,” said Newsom. “I think it’s healthy. I’ve always said that healthy controversy is the hallmark of healthy change.” To excuse the sometime violent protesters who have shown up to torpedo health care discussions across the country as “healthy” debate will not endear the Mayor to California Democrats in his run for Gvoernor. But it was Newsom’s comparison of the “teabag protesters” with his own San Francisco experience that was particularly telling. Click here to read the rest....

From The Ground to the Sky: A Neighborhood Vision Rises From the Concrete

Team up with us for an inspirational day of art and movement activities with neighborhood residents, local artists, health promotoras and community organizers. Neighborhood families will be engaged in community affirming exercises that capture the possibilities of developing a  holistically planned community site with environmentally friendly affordable housing, public park, education and job center at this Public Utilities Commission-owned parking lot.

Community art activities will culminate in neighborhood families positioning a colorful mural depicting their vision on the chain link fence surrounding the parking lot.

Saturday, August 15, 11am-2pm
Parking Lot on 17th & Shotwell, Mission District