Albany Landfill

Albany Let It Be
The park includes the Plateau, Beach, Neck, and Bulb, a "natural wonder" with both native and exotic plants that have grown out of the land fill that was closed here in 1984. The park is an adventure for young children, people with dogs, and men and women of all ages. Many disabled people accept the challenge to see all that this fantasy park offers. To make changes to this area would be to destroy a phenomenon that could only have grown out of the unique nature of a closed land fill. There are old chunks of concrete and rebar mixed with contemporary expressions of art. There are paths that go every which way, and it takes a long while of exploring before most people can easily find their way around. There is evidence, such as Mark's castle, of all the years that squatters occupied this land. Don't let this landmark be manicured and sanitized. Put the playing fields in the neighborhoods where we really need them, protect the nesting grounds, and the art, and leave the rest alone
www.albanyletitbe.org

Off-Leash Art, Off-Leash Dogs,
and the Battle for the Soul of the Albany Landfill
This book will capture in words and pictures the rude beauty of this improbable ecosystem and the extraordinary public art that it nourishes. It will chronicle the artists, hobos, vagabonds, dog walkers, bird watchers, cops, bureaucrats, and outlaws who have struggled over the future of this piece of land.
This book will not avoid the controversy that swirls around the landfill. It will be frankly partisan, a contribution to the battle to keep the space as a successful experiment in self-regulating bio-cultural diversity.

Mad Mark
Mark has a website now, which attempts to explain his Global Resolve Theory.
The Fairy Castle 2000, located in the Albany Landfill, is a monument to this theory,
and a gift to all people of California. The Castle was built by Mark, on his own,
he worked mostly at night, and it took several years to complete.
As the longest resident of the landfill he plays an important roll in Bums' Paradise.
If you've wondered about the castle, check out: www.GlobalResolve.org


iPoet
Lots of photos, maps and poetry from when the encampment still existed.

Homeless
Dignity Village is a mobile tent city in Portland, Oregon. It is home for people who might otherwise inhabit doorways and sidewalks, Dignity provides a peaceful community, a clean environment, a center, and safety.

Homeless Action Center has been providing legal services to homeless and low-income residents of Alameda County since 1990. HAC's primary service is Supplemental Security Income (SSI) advocacy for mentally disabled members of our community who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. HAC also provides free legal advice and referral at off-site legal clinics open to low-income or homeless individuals.
Link to: http://HomelessActionCenter.org

Coalition on Homelessness Empowers the homeless to advocate for themselves.

Homeless Peoples Network

Poor Magazine: POOR provides vocational training, creative arts and literacy education, new and multi-media access to very low and no income adults and children in the Bay Area, with the goal of deconstructing the margins of class and race oppression.

Activisim
Bay Area Progressive Directory: A complete guide to Bay Area organizations

Long Haul Infoshop: A radical library and community space in Berkeley, CA.

Berkeley Copwatch: A radical group that educates people on their rights, ho w to observe the police, and works to hold the police accountable to the people they "protect and serve"

Industrial Workers of the World There are still laws on the book in the U.S. specifically created to stop this radical labor union."An injury to one is an injury to all!"

Working for Change News from Working Assets, a progressive long-distance telephone provider

Media
Laughing Squid: Underground Art & Culture from San Francisco & Beyond,
Laughing Squid officially turns 9 November 2004.

Free Radio Berkeley : Broadcasting Workshop Schedule - Founded on April 11, 1993 as a Free Speech voice challenging the regulatory structure and power of the FCC, Free Radio Berkeley has been enga ged in an ongoing legal battle with the goverment. Until it was silenc ed by a court injunction in June, 1998, FRB was broadcasting 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 104.1 FM with 50 watts of power broadcasting to Berkeley and Oakland - Its successor, on the air since the KPFA protests in Berkeley in the summer of 1999, is Berkeley Liberation Radio.

Film Arts Foundation: A non-profit in the media arts field, providing comprehensive training, equipment, information, consultations, and exhibition opportunities to independent filmmakers.

Berkeley Community Media: Berkeley Public Access Television working to build an electronic free speech forum to encourage democratic involvement and build community.

San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center is a non-commercial, democratic collective of bay area independent media makers and media outlets, and serves as the local organizing unit of the global Indymedia network.

Video Activist Network: An informal association of activists and politically c onscious artists using video to support social, economic and environmental justice campaigns.

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