CPA In The News
Friday, January 27, 2012
How San Francisco Organizers Rewrote the Rules to Save Minimum Wage
by David Zlutnick
Colorlines
January 27, 2012
http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/01/minimum_wage_video.html
On Jan. 1, 2012, San Francisco’s minimum wage became the first in the nation to pass the $10 mark. The lowest-wage workers will now earn $10.24 an hour, up from the previous rate of $9.92 last year. The city’s minimum wage is tied to and adjusted for inflation, or specifically the Consumer Price Index for the San Francisco Bay Area. For most of the country the minimum wage is not at all tied to inflation, and therefore has lost value in real terms.
But San...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Triad of Business, Cops & Politicians Attack Occupy
Carl Finamore
CounterPunch
December 27, 2011
http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/12/27/triad-of-business-cops-politicians-attack-occupy/print
A political campaign by San Francisco’s well-heeled “property owners” was launched to influence police and politicians to aggressively demobilize Occupy SF and to dismantle their encampments. And, there are documents to prove it.
Things did not start out this way.
When the Occupy movement first took root on Saturday, September 17, 2011 in New York’s famously renamed Liberty Square, it took the country and the whole world by surprise.
None more shocked than the now notoriously renamed one per cent. They were embarrassed by the spotlight on...
Thursday, December 22, 2011
New Minimum Wage Cuts Both Ways: San Francisco Rate of $10.24 Gives Some Workers a Lift, but Adds to Businesses' Costs; Customers Could End Up Paying
By VAUHINI VARA And IAN SHERR
Wall Street Journal
December 22, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204879004577108881374970636.html
San Francisco on Jan. 1 will become the first big city in the U.S. with a minimum wage topping $10 an hour. That's deepening tensions between business owners worried about rising overhead and workers struggling to make ends meet in this costly town.
Among the businesspeople concerned about the change is Steve Sarver, owner of the San Francisco Soup Co., a restaurant chain with 12 of its 18 locations in the city. He says many of his more than...
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Transit Incentives Can’t Make Up for Parking Glut at Cathedral Hill CPMC
Aaron Bialick
Streetsblog SF
December 22, 2011
http://sf.streetsblog.org/2011/12/22/transit-incentives-cant-make-up-for-parking-glut-at-cathedral-hill-cpmc/
Nearly 10,000 additional cars [PDF] are predicted to travel every day to the gigantic Cathedral Hill California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) at Van Ness and Geary after it opens in 2016. While the city is negotiating how much the institution will pay to help mitigate the impacts those cars will have on Muni and pedestrian and bicycle safety, some advocates argue that won’t make up for a fundamental flaw: The medical center will include too much parking.
The 555-bed hospital and medical...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
The right way to rebuild CPMC: Presenting the community benefits agreement
Steve Woo, Emily Lee, Gordon Mar
SF Bay Guardian Op-Ed
December 20, 2011
http://www.sfbg.com/2011/12/20/right-way-rebuild-cpmc
OPINION As 2011 comes to an end, San Francisco witnesses yet another year with community stakeholders and city officials mired in conflict over Sutter Health's plans to rebuild its massive CPMC hospital system. In what has proven over the years to be an intensely complicated, politicized, and polarizing issue, one important point has been left out of the public dialogue — this conflict is entirely resolvable.
Very few parties have stated outright opposition to Sutter's CPMC project. In fact, the unifying demand of a city-wide...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Board of Supervisors, Community Activists Hear Update on CPMC Negotiations
Jonathan Nathan
BeyondChron
December 14, 2011
http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=9764#more
Just a few days after the release of a study finding that California Pacific Medical Center remains highly profitable and capable of a greater share of charity health care in the City than it claims, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors heard an update from City officials on the status of the long-ongoing negotiations between CPMC and the City and County of San Francisco.
Before the hearing, which started late due to an overcrowded Board agenda , activists and representatives of community interests expressed trepidation, but also cautious...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Lack of charity: Report says CPMC is extracting huge profits from San Francisco but doing little charity care
Steven T. Jones and Nena Farrell
SF Bay Guardian
December 13, 2011
http://www.sfbg.com/2011/12/13/lack-charity?page=0,0
Activists and city officials are challenging California Pacific Medical Center — which a new study shows provides far less charity care than other San Francisco hospitals — to do more for all city residents if it wants approval for the massive new high-end hospital and housing project it is seeking to build on Cathedral Hill.
That $2.2 billion project, which the city will consider sometime next year, would also rebuild or modify four other CPMC hospitals in town, including St. Luke's Hospital, which serves...
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Social Justice Groups Engage Occupy MovementAmbika KandasamyNew America Media, News ReportNovember 10, 2011http://newamericamedia.org/2011/11/social-justice-groups-engage-occupy-movement.phpSocial justice organizations in the Bay Area are joining forces with the Occupy movements in Oakland and San Francisco.Local nonprofits that have been advocating for the eradication of economic inequities in various sectors of society for years are finding that the Occupy movements are presenting a unique opening to engage in dialogue across socioeconomic lines on the widespread wealth disparity in the country.“Organizations like ours that have been doing base-building work and community organizing work have a lot in common with those protestors,” said...
Monday, October 31, 2011
In Chinatown, Chinese-American Activists Explain Occupy San FranciscoKatrina SchwartzKQED NewsOctober 31, 2011http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2011/10/31/in-chinatown-chinese-american-activists-explain-occupy-san-francisco/Amid children running around, men playing majong, and the general hubbub of Sunday at Portsmouth Square, in the heart of San Francisco's Chinatown, the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA)] staged a skit and speaker's program intended to explain why the Chinese-American community should view themselves as part of the 99 percent cited by the Occupy Wall Street movement.In attendance were Supervisors John Avalos and Eric Mar, both of whom said they were there because their districts are strongly linked to Chinatown -- Avalos...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Why Chinese Americans are also the 99 percent
Sing Tao NewspaperOctober 26, 2011
Supervisor Eric MarAlex T. Tom, Executive Director of the Chinese Progressive Association
http://singtaousa.com/102611/sq01.php
Many immigrants, including Chinese immigrants, came to this country to pursue the “American Dream”--they believed in a land of opportunity with good jobs, a better education for their children, and a place where hard work was rewarded. However, many have found that the American Dream is far beyond reach. Immigrants seeking opportunity instead found racism, exploitation, and a system that often cares only about the rich and powerful. Often, they work long hours at 2 or 3 jobs, experiencing wage theft or work injuries, and they still...
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Occupy Wall Street Protesters Shut Down Wells Fargo Over Foreclosure Crisis
By Christopher Cook
Fog City Journal
October 13, 2011
http://www.fogcityjournal.com/wordpress/3095/occupy-wall-street-protesters-shut-down-wells-fargo-over-foreclosure-crisis/
Storming through San Francisco’s Financial District in the early dawn Wednesday, hundreds of protesters demanding corporate accountability for the home foreclosure crisis, temporarily shut down Wells Fargo Bank headquarters at 420 Montgomery St., leading to 11 arrests amid the nationwide momentum of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement.
While suit-clad Wells Fargo employees watched on – most refusing to talk to reporters, some disparaging the protest, a couple whispering their...
Thursday, October 13, 2011
APEX Express interviews CPA Member, Ah Lan, on why she supports the Occupy SF and Occupy Wall Street Movement. Check it out here. (Listen at 16:
APEX Express - October 13, 2011 at 7:00pm
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