Month: June 2016

By Alliance San Diego

Editor: Following last Friday’s anti-Trump demonstrations at the San Diego Convention Center, local police and other law enforcement agencies descended on Barrio Logan in an unnecessary show of militarized force, corralling a community and making over 2 dozen arrests. This is a statement in response by Alliance San Diego. After the statement, we publish an update by Doug Porter from today’s San Diego Free Press.

Community leaders were shocked by the unwarranted show of force that law enforcement used during the peaceful rallies and marches that took place on Friday May 27 in response to the visit of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

Report of May Meeting of Peninsula Community Planning Board

By Tony de Garate

If there’s such a thing as a grocery store achieving rock-star excitement, it may well be happening at 955 Catalina Blvd. — the site of the future Jensen’s supermarket.

Jensen’s, which obtained the lease after the bankruptcy of previous tenant Fresh and Easy and an aborted plan to takeover by CVS Pharmacy, hopes to open sometime in the fall. In the meantime, the Peninsula Community Planning Board wants to speed up the momentum to bring grocery sales back to the site, which has been a supermarket since Food Basket operated there in the 1950s.

On May 19, at its monthly meeting, the board voted 11-0 to send a letter to Mayor Kevin Faulconer to express support and ensure any permit processing required does not fall through the cracks.

In doing so, however, the board struck language from the draft, presented by citizen activist Samantha Stockton, calling for a “fast track” or expedited permitting.

OB Residents to Protest Mills’ Outrageous Rents at Saturday June 4th Rally

By San Diego Tenants United

San Diego is currently facing a massive Housing Crisis: rents have increased 25% over the past decade and are expected to increase by 19% in just the next five (5) years, while wages have actually decreased for many San Diego residents.

A February 2015 KPBS article exposed multiple shortcomings with the current system in San Diego for ensuring basic living standards for tenants, making the case that slumlords are not held accountable in San Diego.

Fortunately, tenants in Ocean Beach are fighting back against one such landlord: Michael Mills.

“In the apartment complex I am in, almost half of the apartments are empty because he [Michael Mills] just keeps raising the rent,” explains one displaced Ocean Beach resident.

By Michael Steinberg / Black Rain Press

Nuclear Shutdown News chronicles the decline and fall of the US nuclear power industry at home and abroad, and highlights the efforts of those who are fighting to create a nuclear free future. Here is our May issue:

California Nuclear Ratepayers Still Struggling For Justice Over San Onofre Shutdown Costs

On May 17, the Orange County Register ran the story, “How much should consumers pay for the San Onofre shutdown?”

As previously reported by Nuclear Shutdown News, in June 2003, the San Onofre nuclear power plant, located in northern San Diego County, permanently shut down, 20 years ahead schedule.
This followed a scandal involving gross mismanagement and duplicity by its majority owner, Southern California Edison.