SF Squatter Collective Occupied Multi-Unit Complex

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from indybay (http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/04/15/18677214.php), where you can read more

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Squatter's group Homes Not Jails took over a large long vacant apartment building at the corner of Divisadero and O'Farrell, off Geary, in San Francisco on April 11th. The building is owned by Kaiser Permanente, the HMO empire whose hospitals dominate the medical landscape across California. Kaiser Permanente made more than $40 billion over the past two years. But it let an apartment building in San Francisco sit empty for years after evicting the families who lived there. Homes Not Jails took over the building and opened it up for people to live in. On the front of the building a large banner proclaimed, "Kaiser Thrives, People Die." Supporters chanted, "No More Vacancies, Occupy Everything!" and "Food Not Bombs, Homes Not Jails!" "The fact that anyone is homeless in a city with so many vacancies is a crime," one supporter in front of the building called out. "This is a situation we will resolve." Kaiser called the police to evict the demonstrators, then boarded up the building.

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[A Revolutionary Tool]

*Picks up book called "living sober*
"I bet there was somebody who was trying to get clean living here."
Great analysis Watson.

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the indy bay video (http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/04/14/18677182.php) is way better , but i can't embed that...

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the account (https://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/citizen/anatomy-takeover-health-care-corporation/) of a more sympathetic journalistic, actually the same lady filming in the clips above. pretty silly but still good press.


Recently, a band of housing occupiers and their supporters, from teens to elders, met at the Panhandle tennis courts where SFPD squad cars waited to see where they were going. Matt Crain, Homes Not Jails member and spokesperson for the "occupiers.' explained what their action was about.
“We are gathering here for a brief rally before we march through the Haight into the Western Addition to draw awareness to an apartment complex where the owner keeps the place vacant and wastes a resource as valuable as housing,” Crain said.
He stated that most people don't know while 6,000 to 9,000 San Franciscans suffer homelessness, 30,000 buildings sit empty.
The action's organizers come from the grand tradition of Partisan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partisan_%28military%29) revolutionaries. Like any band of French or Russian Nazi-resistors, they sped off billowing liberation banners -- a swift, tiny platoon commandeering San Francisco streets on their way to take over a vacant building, which turned out to be a Kaiser Permanente Corporation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser_Permanente) holding at the corner of O'Farrell and Divisadero Streets.