Housing Activists Take Over Ellised BuildingJay Jonah Cashbyline‚ Apr. 09‚ 2007More than 150 housing rights activists marched through the Mission District on April 7 to demand better protections for renters in San Francisco and reforms to the Ellis Act. The march ended at a vacant building that other activists had occupied in a non-violent protest. The crowd was festive at the noon rally at the 24th Street BART station plaza. Strumming a guitar, activist Tommi Avicolli-Mecca of the Housing Rights Committee led the crowd in singing a bilingual version of “We Shall Not be Moved” and a song which included the lines “Yuppie Yuppie stole my pad. Yuppie Yuppie bad, bad, bad." |