Fix the Budget First! Vote NO on FF · GG · HH
BASTA! (Berkeleyans Against Soaring TAxes!) – Who Are We?
Neighborhood organizations and residents from all walks of life, across our beloved City who believe that Berkeley can balance its budget without any new taxes. The City of Berkeley collects 3-4 times as much money per resident than our local cities. Berkeleyans continue to pay the highest city and County taxes in the State.
The Mayor and City Council failed to get our message in November 2004 when residents, with the help of the Berkeley Fire Fighters’ Union, nixed the plan to raise taxes in the form of a usurious parcel tax. This is why BASTA! – Berkeleyans Against Soaring Taxes, has organized a campaign to educate voters, and mobilize once again to freeze our taxes to current levels, and to force the City to cut the fat and manage its budget in a responsible manner.
Some of the Neighborhood Organizations Opposing the November Tax Measures Are:
Berkeley Alliance of Neighborhood Associations – BANA
Berkeley Can Do Better
Berkeley Property Owners Association – BPOA
Black Property Owners Association
Blake and California Neighborhood Association – BCNA
Claremont Elmwood Neighborhood Association – CENA
Council of Neighborhood Associations – CNA
Le Conte Neighborhood Association
Oregon Neighborhood Crime Watch
Stanton Neighborhood Association
The Board of North East Berkeley Association
Tyler King Neighborhood Association
NO on City of Berkeley 2008 Ballot Measures -
Measure FF: Library Bond
Measure GG: Fire Protection and Emergency Response and Preparedness Tax
Measure HH: GANN Limit Override Renewal for Parks, Library, Emergency Medical Services (EMS), and Emergency Medical Services For Severely Disabled Persons
Contact Information
Phone: 510-849-4619
Mailing Address: 1532 Blake Street, Berkeley CA 94703
Email: campaign@berkeleytax.org
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When Martin’s elderly neighbor’s apartment is robbed, he holds a neighborhood crime watch meeting. Soon after, his apartment becomes the next target. Therefore, he devises a plan to catch the burglar.
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An American Crime~ This is a very sad movie about a true story that happened in Indiana in October 1965.
16 year old Sylvia and her younger sister Jenny stayed in the care of Gertrude Beniszewski while their parents worked the carnival..But then Gertrude began abusing Slvia…She was tortured and beaten to death by Gertrude , her son Johnny, and the neighborhood kids.
Three days b4 her death of a brain hemorage and shock, Gertrude and Ricki (a neighborhood boy) carved the words, “I’AM A PROSTITUTE AND PROUD OF IT!” on her stomach with a hot needle.
Gerturde, her daughter Paula and son Johnny, Ricki and Coy all went to jail for the death of Sylvia, even though the other neighborhood kids participated in abusing Sylvia, none of them got punished. Sylvia’s case was the first crime of child abuse brought to light, hopfully preventing further crimes similar to hers…..
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When Martin’s elderly neighbor’s apartment is robbed, he holds a neighborhood crime watch meeting. Soon after, his apartment becomes the next target. Therefore, he devises a plan to catch the burglar.
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When Martin’s elderly neighbor’s apartment is robbed, he holds a neighborhood crime watch meeting. Soon after, his apartment becomes the next target. Therefore, he devises a plan to catch the burglar.
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Download video: http://jane-finch.com/videos/oakdalemovienight.htm
On November 3, 2006 at 7:00, Oakdale Community Centre held a movie night for community residents to participate in a discussion about CBC’s The Fifth Estate documentary “Lost in the Struggle”. Producers Paul Nguyen and Mark Simms, and Jane-Finch.com staff Sabrina Gopaul, Phanath Im and Chris Williams were in attendance to share their thoughts and experiences with fellow community members.
Organized by: The Black Creek Community Health-Centre, CLASP , Jane/Finch Community and Family Centre, Jane Finch Street Involved Youth Issues Coalition, Northwood Neighborhood Services and Parks and Recreation (Oakdale Community Centre).
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The NEIGHBORHOODS Cambridge Ma 11/2005
Middle East Downstairs
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The Neighborhoods & Billy Bragg performing “I Fought the Law” in 1989.
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This is a video featured in The Video Concierge, a hotel television channel informing guests of activities and attractions available to them during their stay. Visit www.TheVideoConcierge.com for more information.
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Coonan and Featherstone
During the late 1970s, Coonan tightened his alliance between the Westies and the Gambino organization, then run by Paul Castellano. Coonan’s main contact was Roy DeMeo, who had brought him word of Spillane’s assassination. With Coonan’s cunning and Featherstone’s reputation, the two men ensured a notoriously vicious stranglehold on the already brutal racketeering circles of Hell’s Kitchen. In 1979 both Coonan and Featherstone were acquitted of the murder of a bartender, Harold Whitehead. Another Westie, Jimmy McElroy, was acquitted of the murder of a Teamster in 1980.
Even as both Westies leaders were imprisoned in 1980 — Coonan on gun possession charges, Featherstone on a federal counterfeiting rap — the gambling, loansharking, and union shakedowns continued on the streets of the West Side. After DeMeo himself was murdered, Coonan’s Gambino family connection became Danny Marino, a capo from Brooklyn. Coonan eventually interacted directly with John Gotti, who took over the Gambino Family after the murder of Castellano in December 1985. From time to time, the Westies worked for the Gambino Family as a contract killer squad.
Bad blood between Coonan and Featherstone, in part due to Featherstone’s distaste for Coonan’s Italian mob connections, eventually led to Featherstone being framed for the murder of Michael Holly, a construction worker and neighborhood bar owner who refused to give the Westies “protection money.” Holly became an enemy of the Westies gang when an off-duty policeman saw John Bokun shoot Michael Holly in Holly’s bar. The policeman shot and killed John Bokun and the Westies blamed Holly for the death. Holly was murdered in broad daylight on West 35th Street in April, 1985 by Westie member, and John’s brother Billy Bokun, while wearing a wig and moustache to impersonate Featherstone, and renting a car identical to the one Featherstone was driving.
Featherstone was convicted in early 1986 and began cooperating with the government in hopes of getting the murder conviction overturned. The information he and his wife Sissy provided, and the recordings they helped make, achieved this aim. In September 1986 the prosecutor who oversaw Featherstone’s conviction in the Holly frame told the presiding judge that post-conviction investigation had revealed Featherstone was innocent of that particular crime. The judge immediately overturned the verdict.
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