homelessness

The Marys report on the formerly empty hotel rooms now housing previously homeless people in San Francisco. The city wants to close the "Shelter in Place"/S.I.P. hotels ASAP, but has promised to permanently house the current tenants at the hotels. Mary Crisis, who works inside one of the hotels, joins us. (The City's preferred term for people inside is "guests" - a weird term, given the extreme surveillance, lack of toilet paper, and no real plan for getting people into housing...at the same time as hundreds of thousands of condos sit empty throughout the Bay Area.)

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On the 19th of November, Free Franklin, supported by Occupy DC, took over the abandoned Franklin Schol and held it all afternoon and into the night before being removed by force. On the 12th of July, those defendants who demanded jury trials were found guilty, but received only minimal sentences of a $50 payment to DC's Victims of Crimes fund, 5 days suspended jail time, and 3 months unsupervised probation. Later on July 12 they held a press conference in front of Franklin School, at which this audio was recorded

Here is the playlist from our June 20 broadcast:

We are still testing antenna locations, the transmitter itself is working well on 90.5 FM, outputting 60-70-W into a 4dB gain antennna.

Here is the playlist from our May 23 broadcast:

The Olympic Resistance Network has called for a convergence to protest the Vancouver Winter Olympics. This video explains some the reasons why these activists have organized the first ever anti-Olympic summit.