June’s Housing Action Team was a bittersweet affair. The team broke bread, strategized our presence in broader coalition spaces, shared updates on upcoming events, and sadly bid farewell to a PODER family fixture and figurehead: Charlie Sciammas. 

El Equipo de

“I saw public banking as a ray of hope – our public money shouldn’t go towards terrorizing families and preventing them from having a home” – Reina Tello, Community Organizer with PODER. Check out the latest podcast in the Stories

November 3, 2020 is election day. We need our community to exercise your right vote to go to the polls or send in your ballot. Your vote is your voice!

For a Voter Guide in English, click here.

For

Leaving a job in the time of COVID can be confusing for many reasons. Questions such as, “Why would you leave now of all times? Do you have a back-up job? Will you be okay?” arise at any mention of

Whether helping our neighbors during an earthquake or opening our homes to them during a wildfire, Californians show up for each other, no matter what we look like, where we come from or where we live. We get through this

It’s Election Day!

Vote!

You can find your polling place by clicking here.

Dear PODER Familia,

As we wind down another year and another decade of powerful grassroots organizing for environmental and economic justice in San Francisco’s Latinx immigrant community, we are grateful for your ongoing support.

Over the past decade, we’ve had

No matter what happens at the Supreme Court, we want to encourage DACAmented recipients to submit their renewal application if their DACA expires before the end of 2020.

Together, we can protect our immigrant community during this time of need.

On November 5, 2019, remember to vote!

Vote “Yes” on Proposition A and “Yes” on Proposition E!

Say “Yes” to Affordable Housing!

To find your place to vote, click here.

Help us to ensure that everyone in northern California knows where to access resources in the event of ICE presence in our communities. 

We want our communities to be informed and prepared!

Learn the hotline numbers of the Bay Area

Reina Tello is the newest member of the PODER team. She is a San Francisco native born to two community organizers in their own right. From an early age Reina learned that people who are united can achieve any goal.

PODER familia,

AB 523 (Reyes) is coming up to a vote in the Assembly. Although it passed the floor with 51-20-9, we heard today that the Bay Area Caucus is not going to support our bill.

We are looking for

Contact your legislators today.

Tell them to vote No on AB 398.

Governor Brown negotiated this bill behind closed doors with Big Oil.

Say No to a bad climate deal and Yes to Climate Justice!

After the outcome of the 2016 November Election, our immigrant communities must remain calm, informed, and prepared more than ever. In the coming year, it will be important to share any new information that can support our communities as well

Name: Amelia Andrade
Born in: Mexico
Current Neighborhood: Mission (Navigation Center- Homeless shelter)
Ages: 62 years old

Why did you make San Francisco your home?

I came from Mexico looking for a better future. I came to the Mission, but

Vote on Tuesday, November 8, 2016!

This November, we have the opportunity to vote for Affordable Housing, Good Government, Funding for Schools and City Services and Less Criminalization.

Get your bilingual San Francisco Rising Voter Guide here.

PODER is

Juan and Maria Aguillón

Born in: El Salvador
Current Neighborhood: On the border of San Francisco and Daly City
Ages: 57 and 67 years old

When and why did you make San Francisco your home?

We arrived to San Francisco

#NoDAPL

San Francisco.  On Thursday, September 7, 2016, a press conference in solidarity with the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux Nations will be held at the Army Corp of Engineers San Francisco office. The group will meet at

Supervisor Eric Mar will honor PODER founder, Leticia Alcantar, at an Earth Day reception at City Hall. The reception, co-sponsored with the Surfrider Foundation and the Sierra Club – Bay/SF Chapter, will take place on April 27, 2016 at City

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) is considering allowing REDD programs into California’s already-flawed cap and trade program. Take action today against international forest offsets and REDD in California by taking one minute to send a letter to the ARB.

In 2016, everyday people are coming together with real grassroots solutions to our City’s housing crisis. Last year, our neighborhood coalitions made up or residents, workers, parents, teachers, youth and elders demanded action from our City leaders. Join us on

A couple weeks back PODER and our partners at San Francisco Rising Alliance were proud to introduce our voter guide for the upcoming November 3rd San Francisco elections. Click to get your copy.

Voter guides come in handy, but winning

Among the environmental justice bills signed into law by Governor Brown in the 2015 session included priority bills by the California Environmental Justice Alliance.

These include:

• AB 693 by Assemblymember Susan Eggman will bring local solar power to low-income communities

Marilyn Duran joined PODER at the age of 14.  As a member of the Common Roots Youth Organizer Program, Marilyn learned about the environmental injustices low-income communities of color face and displacement crisis that has afflicted the Mission.  Her own

Building People
Power in District 11

Coming Saturday, September 26th

10:00 am to 1:30 pm

4760 Mission Street, SF

Neighbors Coming Together
to Create Community Solutions

• Immigrant Rights
• Worker Power
• Affordable Housing
• Youth Power

Food, Childcare,
and Translation Provided

For

Wrapping up the Bicis del Pueblo Summer series this Saturday, August 29, 2015. Join us at the San Francisco Community School, 125 Excelsior Avenue from noon to 4:00 pm.

Come through and lend a hand wrenching on bikes

An urbanIDEA forum on Gordon Chin’s Building Community, Chinatown Style

Thursday August 6th, 2015 6:00-8:00pm
Bayanihan Community Center
1010 Mission Street, San Francisco

Featuring:
Gordon Chin, founder, Chinatown CDC
NTanya Lee, independent movement activist
Oscar Grande, PODER

The San Francisco Immigrant Legal and Education Network (“SFILEN”) joins communities throughout San Francisco in mourning the loss of Kathryn Steinle. We are devastated to see yet another victim of gun violence in this country. As a network of 13

Call or email Senator Mark Leno today!

PODER, and our partners with the California Environmental Justice Alliance, are working to pass AB 1062 (Bonta) through the Senate Environmental Quality Committee.

AB 1062 will create a dedicated source of funding

Join us on July 16, 2015, 10:00 am at Balboa Park BART Station Plaza to learn how community residents are leading people-powered planning efforts to achieve equitable development and affordable housing in District 11.

From March through May of this

June 18, 2015

San Francisco City Hall

1 Dr. Carlton B Goodlet Pl., San Francisco, CA 94102

Planning Commission, Room 400

Say no to the demolition of 50,000 sq ft of light industrial and artists’ space in the Mission District!

We took the Mission to City Hall again on June 2nd. Now let’s strategize on how to take the movement for the soul of the neighborhood forward!

Monday, June 8, 2015, 6:00 – 8:00 pm

Redstone Building, 2940 Capp Street

AB 1062 & AB 1071 pass Assembly with majority votes today! A step forward to securing more resources for Environmental Justice communities!

The vote count was unanimous as AB 1062 passed with a 63-1 vote and AB 1071 with a

On June 2nd, join the rally on the steps of San Francisco’s City Hall and Speak-out at the Board of Supervisors meeting.

Support the Luxury Housing Moratorium in the Mission District. The temporary moratorium is meant to allow time to

All the PODERos@s are excited about the California Environmental Justice Alliances‘ 2015 Congreso. The Congreso is a two day gathering of community leaders from across California working collectively to win new statewide policies that will transform communities into

On May 8, 2015, la Misión made its voice heard at City Hall. To get a flavor of the powerful action, watch the video by [people.power.media]. Stop the Evictions! Truly Affordable Housing for All Now! Mayor Lee, can’t you

On Cinco de Mayo, 2015, Supervisor David Campos announced his proposed legislation for a temporary moratorium on market rate housing in the Mission District. This is a much needed step to confront the displacement crisis in the neighborhood. Stop the

The City is moving forward with plans to re-develop the Balboa Reservoir, a large, publicly owned site next to City College. Public land belongs to the everyday youth, families, and elders that make up our neighborhoods. To date, the city

Hot off the presses! The California Environmental Justice Alliance has announced our Spring 2015 Environmental Justice Legislative Agenda. Three of the priority bills will increase investments in environmental justice communities throughout California. Read the legislative agenda here.