Court April 27 for 99 Year-Old San Francisco Woman Fighting Eviction

SAN FRANCISCO - April 26, 2016 - PRLog -- Posted Courtesy of Wright Enterprises for  Varner PR Agency

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WHAT'S NEXT FOR 99-year-old IRIS CANADA?

Court convenes Wednesday, April 27, 9:30am, 5^th Floor, 400 McAllister Street - SF

Wednesday, April 27, 9:30am, Iris Canada's matter will come before a ruling judge in Superior Court, 400 McAllister Street, Room #502 to determine if she will be allowed to stay in her home of 60 years at 670 Page Street, Unit #1. If the judge imposes lawyer's fees the fight will continue to demand that those fees be dropped by Peter Owens and the court.

WHAT DOES IRIS CANADA WANT? She wants the law to be upheld; she wants her legal rights within the Life Estate she possesses to remain intact; she wants all pending eviction matters to be permanently dismissed; further, she wants any and all attorney fees and other financial burdens brought on as a result of this matter to be revoked.  IRIS CANADA wants to live the rest of her life in her home of 60 years in peace and without harassment.  Her life speaks volumes--

My name is Iris Canada.  I will be 100 years old upon my next birthday in July 2016.  I was born in 1916, the same year the Nineteenth Amendment gave American women the right to vote and become a part of the Constitution.

When I was 13 years old, the U.S. stock market crashed.

When I was 21 years old, the Japanese occupied China and murdered tens of thousands in the Rape of Nanking.

At 25 years of age, I cried with my country when Pearl Harbor was bombed and, I celebrated with my country when the war ended four years later.

I was 38 years old when Brown v. Board of Education ended segregation in American schools.

At the age of 53, I felt old, having endured six of the worst years our country had ever seen as its leaders were murdered: Fred Hampton, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr.,  Malcolm X, President John Kennedy and Medgar Evers were assassinated from 1963-1969.

I lived through Watergate, the oil crisis of the 1970s, the Iran Contra scandal, the taking of American hostages and the murder of Harvey Milk when I was 62.

When I was 74 years old and had been collecting Social Security for almost 10 years, we [Americans] were fighting the Gulf War.

I am very proud that I lived long enough to vote for and help elect our first African American President when I was 92. I also voted for President Obama's re-election.

I have lived and continue to live a fruitful and full life.  I am entitled to all the protections the law allows for tenants and the elderly in the City of San Francisco.  I have paid my taxes, worked to improve the health of families and neighborhoods locally--I have paid my dues.  I am entitled to the quiet use and enjoyment of my living space according to all the protections of the State of California and United States Constitution--from harassment and disenfranchisement due to the greed of property prospectors, landlords and tenants involved in the egregious pursuit to take over all viable space for the highly privileged. I have been under siege, harassed continually by my own neighbors, attacked in my own home, and fooled [duped] when I was well into my eighties--into signing documents that did not benefit me--by people who falsely claim they have my best interest at heart.

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