UPDATED: March 1, 4:30pm.
San Francisco’s Saint John Will I Am Coltrane African Orthodox Church planned to protest their impending eviction Tuesday, but thanks to some good news received just hours before, they are going to be celebrating instead.
The church received a notice last week from the San Francisco’s Sheriff’s Department that it must remove all of its possessions from its space in the West Bay Community Center by the morning of March 2. After fighting for weeks, the church appeared to have little recourse.
But just minutes before 2pm, the Coltrane Church tweeted from its account that “The People’s Power Prevails!”