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A loving farewell to Iris Canada, 100 years of Black herstory killed by capitalism
...were a flea on a dog. You killed Iris with your photo-op in front of the courthouse while the sheriffs looked on. You killed Iris Canada. You killed Iris from...
The truth about the eviction of Iris Canada
...first expressed in July of 2016, through an attorney of Iris Canada’s niece and caretaker Iris Merriouns, demanding that Mr. Owens sell the property to Mrs. Canada at a “fixed”...
3 days away: Eviction fighter Iris Canada marches toward her 100th birthday
by Tony Robles Iris Canada turns 100 in three days. Iris Canada, eviction fighter who has lived in San Francisco’s Black community on Page Street since the ‘40s. Iris, with...
Eviction killed 100-year-old Iris Canada: Will City approve condo conversion of the building she...
...conversion of the Fillmore District apartment building from which Iris Canada, a 100-year-old African American woman, was evicted last February. Ms. Canada died in the hospital in March, shortly after...
99 seasons: A vigil for eviction fighter Iris Canada
...know what is. Iris Canada, 99-year-old elder, eviction fighter in San Francisco. Iris Canada, who endured a stroke and still fights on. Iris Canada, a Black woman in a Black...
Iris Canada hospitalized: Sheriff’s notice to vacate sends 100-year-old to ICU; eviction of elders...
...pressure on the sheriff, that she is fighting for Iris Canada as she would for the grandmother who raised her. Iris Merriouns, Ms. Canada’s niece, said: “There is no doubt...
Landlord moves all of 100-year-old Iris Canada’s household belongings from her home without notice...
...Canada’s possessions from the home she’s lived in since 1965 without notice and while she was in the hospital. Ms. Canada’s niece, Iris Merriouns, her main caretaker, says that Owens’...
Elder abuse in San Francisco: Owner goes to court to evict 100-year-old Iris Canada
Come to the courthouse at 400 McAllister at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, Aug. 10, to applaud Iris Canada as she arrives and wish her luck by Tommi Avicolli Mecca Iris Canada,...
Seriously? Evicting a 99-year-old? Rally at Tuesday hearing
This is how bad things are getting: Iris Canada could lose her home of more than 60 years, despite a lifetime lease CALL TO ACTION: Rally for Iris Canada, a...
Negotiate, Gov. Brown! How many more prisoners must die?
...Nurse, Practitioner Student; University of Pennsylvania Michaela Beder MD; New York City Nazila Bettache MD CM; Montreal, Canada Iris Biblowitz RN; San Francisco, Calif. Lydia Ould Brahim MSc(a); Nursing Candidate,...
From poverty tows to Palestine: The violence of settler colonial evictions across Mama Earth
...Iris Canada to the new “owner” of her home of over 40 years who evicted her. Iris was a 100-year-old Black elder who died after recording that message, because as...
London Breed is free to be our mayor
...Black people have been swept out of San Francisco. While most at City Hall turned their backs, only Supervisor London Breed joined activists opposing the eviction of 100-year-old Iris Canada...
Cleaning is code for evicting, from Frisco to Winnemucca: The UnHoused Nation speaks
...violent stories of eviction, homelessness and subsequent death of 100-year-old Iris Canada, 79-year-old Lola McKay, Indigenous, houseless Luis Gongora and Luis Temaj – burned alive for sleeping outside – and...
Poverty skolaz take Doctors Without Borders tour, ‘become’ displaced persons from Sudan to Oakland
...this young woman, and she is still trying.” As the tour guide wound down, the stories of 100-year-old evicted elder Iris Canada, who died within two days of being forced...
From deportations to reparations: An emergency call for Ag-Reparations and Farm Sanctuaries across CalifAztlan
...on the lives and homes of working class and poor communities of color in the Bay Area like 100-year-old Black Elder Iris Canada, killed by the abuse of unlawful eviction,...
Response to ‘the real story of Midtown’ from tenants who also live there
...San Francisco. Midtown has also supported many other struggles, such as opposing the evictions of Iris Canada and the Church of St. John Coltrane, also in the Fillmore Western Addition....
‘Poverty Scholarship’: Poor people create their own theory, textbook and solutions to poverty and...
...such as Iris Canada, a 100-year-old Black elder in the Fillmore – locked out of her home while at a senior meal program. Therein lies the situation – voices, experiences,...
Un-arm the paid killers and child molesters: The people call for a national Moratorium...
...Alex Nieto and O’Shaine Evans and so many more, not to mention the eviction of 100-year-old Black elder Iris Canada. “In 1989 CRISIS training went into effect in Memphis. Today...
From eviction to homelessness
...elder Iris Canada, Ron Likkers and Elaine Turner – who all died within days or weeks of being evicted from their longtime San Francisco homes – and presented them to...
Poor people don’t have presidents
...elders like 100-year-old Iris Canada and the police death of Luis Demetrio Gongora Pat, Amilcar Perez Lopez, Mario Woods and Alex Nieto, proudly announced again that he “successfully transferred all...