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Defend DACA and Beyond – Continuing to Organize and Dream Transformatively

As our immigrant communities reel from the announcement that the Trump regime ended DACA – Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals – we commit even more deeply to organizing.

Longtime Bayview Family Fights off Second Eviction Attempt

(español sigue) When the Pelayo-Valenzuela family first came to San Francisco in 1996 they struggled to find decent and affordable housing. Norma and Faustino lived in expensive yet tiny studios, shared cramped units with other families while having
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Tenants Get Keys To Their Restored Apartment But Not Without Strings

May 2017-Three years after being displaced when a fire roared through their apartment Trinidad Sanchez and her daughter Cindy Salazar and two grandchildren will be getting the keys to their restored apartment in the Bayview on Thursday where they have
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Office Closed/oficina cerrada Dec. 24th – Jan. 3rd

CAUSA JUSTA’S TENANT RIGHTS CLINICS WILL BE CLOSED FROM DECEMBER 24TH – JANUARY 3RD. During that time, no one will be available for walk-ins. If you have an Unlawful Detainer please note that you must respond within five days to
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Victory! How Owner Move-in Reform will Affect SF Tenants

SF Examiner By Cynthia Fong, Housing Rights Committee of SF Owner move-in reform unanimously passed through the Board of Supervisors on July 18. This reform adds enforcement mechanisms to protect tenants from landlords who abuse OMI evictions and never intend
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Tell the Council to Turn the Tide & Fund Anti-Displacement Efforts to Prevent Homelessness

TONIGHT, Monday, June 26, you are invited to take a stand for justice in Oakland in a CALL TO ACTION! The ReFund Coalition is a community-labor coalition which organized to get a just budget approved in Oakland. This fair budget
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Meet Our New Summer Interns…..

KATE ORCHARD I am a student UC Santa Cruz who will be doing a field study at CJJC as part of my major, Community Studies. I organize with the fossil fuel divestment movement and am inspired to fight
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Sup. Farrell Attempts to Block Tenant-Backed OMI Measure

For Immediate Release: June 12, 2017 Housing advocates, tenants, supervisors prepare for a showdown after Supervisor tries to fast-track Apartment Association-backed proposal When: Monday, June 12, 2017 Where: Front steps of SF City Hall – Polk Street side
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Excelsior Tenant Convention

The first-ever Excelsior Tenant Convention took place June 3 with a strong community presence of folks concerned and motivated to exert their rights as renters. The day opened up with inspiring music from musician activist Francisco Herrera who sang about
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Budget for the People on Both Sides of the Bay!

Espanol sigue Come to Oakland City Council – Monday 6/12 5:30 SIGN THE PETITION and join the ReFund Oakland Community-Labor Coalition and fight to: 1. Reinvest in Housing for ALL, 2. Reinvest in Oakland’s Workers, 3. Reinvest in Public Services,
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Witnessing the Power of Renters

Español Tenant rights groups like Causa Justa, the SF Tenants Union, and Housing Rights Committee of SF [//www.hrcsf.org/], PODER, and the Filipino Community Center, have come together to organize tenant conventions around the city as a way to inform renters
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2016 Annual Report

Causa Justa :: Just Cause 2016 Annual Report Download CJJC_AR_2016
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DACA-Eligible Activist Targeted by ICE

Overview of May 18 Border Patrol Operation: On Thursday, May 18, Border Patrol went into Los Angeles area Boyle Heights communities, knocking on doors to try to locate 22-year-old DACA eligible Cal State LA student Claudia Rueda, ultimately arresting and
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Join Our Summer Youth Program!

Education for Liberation Summer is a program for San Francisco Unified School District to youth learn about immigrant and tenant rights, how gentrification and criminalization is impacting your communities, and how to fight to create justice for yourself and your
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Transitions at Causa Justa :: Building on a Leader-Full Organization

It has been said that nothing is certain but change. And we’d like to tell you about some exciting changes. We are sad yet proud to announce the departure of CJJC’s founding Executive Director María Poblet who has served our

Beyond May 1: A Future for Us All

Thank you for joining us on May Day along with hundreds of thousands across the county. Our hearts and spirits, like yours, were lifted to see families, elders, workers, activists, artists, mothers and their babies, teachers with their students, people
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Monster In the Mission Part 2 — It’s Not Over!

Courtesy of Plaza16 Our fight against Maximus/Robert Rosania’s luxury Monster in the Mission is not over! We have learned the project may be coming for a vote before the Planning Commission in the near future. Meanwhile Robert Rosania has hired
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The Future is Ours! 7-Year Anniversary Celebration

You can sponsor Causa Justa :: Just Cause’s 7-Year Anniversary. RSVP here Last Day to Buy Tickets: is August 25. Make sure to buy your ticket! Live music by Candelaria Dance by African Queens Dance Co. Dinner & Drinks
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How Many More?

Camilo Sol Zamora, Causa Justa Co-Director of Community, Land & Development Our hearts are heavy and they go out to the loved ones of the three tenants who lost their lives as a result of yesterday’s San Pablo Ave apartment
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Tenant Organizing from the Ground Up

California is home to over 16 million renters, 45% of the population, and the majority of us are low-income people of color. A disproportionate number of women with children and people of color are targeted for eviction and displacement every
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Key Hearing on Calle 24 Latino Cultural District

Calle 24 will present its special use district legislation for commercial regulations in the Latino Cultural District to the SF Planning Commission on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017 These regulations have been in the works for nearly two years and will
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On Inauguration Day, Bay Area Communities Resist Trump and Issue Call to Resistance

What: San Francisco “Resist Trump” Protest Inauguration Date: Friday, January 20, 2017 Time and Locations: 9:00AM Justin Herman Plaza, rally and march to various Trump-supporting companies  12:00PM 555 California Street, a Trump-owned building. March ends with cultural events Throughout the
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Usted Tiene Derechos | You Have Rights

Lista de contenido // List of contents Tiene el derecho de permanecer en silencio // You have the right to remain silent ICE viene a su hogar // ICE comes to your home Hay una redada // There is a
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Where to Get Tenant Services Over the Holidays

Español sigue CAUSA JUSTA’S TENANT RIGHTS CLINICS WILL BE CLOSED FROM DECEMBER 24TH – JANUARY 3RD. During that time, no one will be available for walk-ins. HELPFUL REMINDERS 1. A verbal eviction is never valid. A proper notice must be
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Safe & Affordable Housing is a Human Right

We are in mourning and shock, over the loss of so many beautiful creative spirits

Oakland Tenants: Know Your Rights! 2 Trainings in March

Know Your Rights – Evictions Tuesday, March 14, 2017 5:30-7:30PM 3268 San Pablo Ave., Oakland Know Your Rights – Repairs Tuesday, March 28, 2017 5:30-7:30PM 3268 San Pablo Ave., Oakland
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“Displacement” An Art Exhibit for Causa Justa

Art for a Just Cause Hosted by Gerardo Chow Saturday, December 3rd, 2016 7:00PM – 10:00PM Encore Show: 2nd Friday, Dec 9th, 7-9PM Closing reception: December 16th, 2016 7:00PM – 9:00PM Location: Studio 23 //www.studio23gallery.com/ 2309B Encinal Ave.
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Rising Up In The Trump Moment: We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For

The Trump victory is devastating. Devastating for communities of color, immigrants, women, Muslims and queer communities. Devastating for us. Trump has given new voice to deeply rooted white supremacy, gender violence, xenophobia and hatred. Hatred of everything that we are.
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Almost Halloween and Here’s 4 Super Scary Reasons to Vote Against These Measures + SF Rising Voter Guide

SF Anti-Displacement Coalition and the Coalition on Homelessness is having a large action Thursday, Nov. 3 at 6PM, 24th St.& Mission, SF, to bring attention to the four terrible measures in San Francisco which are F, P,
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Stop Eviction of These 2 Mission District Families

Today, September 28, seven tenants which include their four children, two of whom attend Cesar Chavez elementary, and another who attends Lincoln High school, are facing eviction from their Mission district home and we’re asking you, dear supporters, to call

Victory for the Alvarez Family

We are always excited to share our tenant victories with you. Margarita Alvarez came into our offices the week of August 15 to let us know she won her housing case! Here’s the backstory: Margarita came to our offices in
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Two Families in the Excelsior Fight to Remain Sheltered After Landlord Skips Town

Ten tenants who live in a home in San Francisco’s Excelsior district could face life on the streets if they don’t get help soon. Lilliana, and her family which includes three teenage children and a grandchild of 7 mos, live
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Hundreds March on DNC With Daughter of Berta Cáceres

Berta didn’t die—she multiplied PHILADELPHIA–Several hundred grassroots organizers from across the country marched on the Democratic National Convention bearing a masks and a giant puppet of the Honduran Indigenous activist Berta Cáceres. They were joined by Berta’s daughter, Laura
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Grassroots Leaders from across the US and Honduras converge on the conventions

Daughter of Berta Cáceres to join dozens of community leaders on a caravan from Cleveland to Philadelphia Press Contact: Lillian Boctor, (514) 813-4918 From July 19-July 28: (917) 480-9025, lillian@ggjalliance.org Grassroots Leaders from across the US and Honduras con
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Midst of a Storm

Next week, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance launches the It Takes Roots to Change the System People’s Caravan from the RNC to the DNC. Global Justice is taking 45 community leaders and allies from the US and Honduras. Three of
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7/14 Hour of Action-Let’s put on the pressure to Oakland Councilmembers

TODAY- July 14 from 1:30-2:30 – join us in an hour of action directed calls towards Oakland City Council Members asking for their support for Council Member Rebecca Kaplan’s Renter Protection Act of 2016. The ASK: Please vote to place
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San Francisco Considers Tax on Tech Companies to Pay for Boom’s Downside

By Thomas Fuller, New York Times July 4, 2016 SAN FRANCISCO — Maria Poblet, who leads an organization that assists Latino families facing eviction in San Francisco, says she appreciates the philanthropy that the city’s technology companies do in far-flung
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