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Poverty & HousingBoycott called of Golden Gate Restaurant Assoc
POOR Magazine/PoorNewsNetwork (PNN) is calling for a boycott of the following restaurants which support the anti-poor people legislation; Proposition N "Care Not Cash"  boycott-pnn_20.jpg The following is a list of restaurants that are members of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association (GGRA). Please support POOR Magazine in boycotting the following restaurants because they are members of the GGRA, which support Gavin Newsome's Proposition N, which contrary to its claims of "care" will put more poor people on the streets by taking away their rent money, reducing drug treatment services, healthcare and pay folks pennies per hour for their work-fare (the work required by the City to recieve your monthly cash assistance) POOR contacted GGRA several times to inquire about their reason for supporting Prop N, but they did not respond, so we are asking our subscribers and readers to join us in boycotting these restaurants in opposition to this very harmful legislation.
Absinthe Brasserie and Bar
Alfred's Steakhouse
Alioto's Restaurant
All You Knead
Allegro Restaurant
Amante
Amphora Wine Merchant
Andale Taqueria
Anjou
Ansonia Hotel
Aqua
Ar Roi Thai Cuisine
Arlequin To Go
B44
Balboa CafÈ
Baskin Robbins Lakeshore
Bayside Sports Bar & Grill
Betelnut
Big Nate's Barbeque
Bistro 1650
Bix
Bizou
Black Cat
Blackthorn Tavern
Blondies Bar & No Grill
Blowfish - Sushi To Die For
Boulevard
Brazen Head Restaurant
Bruno's
Buena Vista CafÈ
Bus Stop
Butter
Butterfly
Buzz 9
Caesar's Italian Restaurant
CafÈ 44
CafÈ Arguello
CafÈ Bastille
CafÈ Claude
Cafe de la Presse
Cafe Desiree
CafÈ deStijl
CafÈ Dolci
CafÈ Focaccia
CafÈ Lil Bean
CafÈ Mars
Cafe Mozart
CafÈ Niebaum-Coppola
CafÈ Pescatore
CafÈ Rosso
Cafe Venue
Cafe Venue
Cafe Venue
Caffe Espresso
Caffe Museo - in the SF MOMA
Caffe Proust
Caffe Soma
Calzone's Pizza Cucina
Capp's Corner
Carnelian Room
Casa Sanchez
Cassidy's
Castagnola's
Catering With Style
Chancellor Hotel & CafÈ
Charles Nob Hill
Chow
Chowders
Cioppino's on the Wharf
Citizen Cake
Cityscape Bar & Restaurant
Cliff House
Compass Rose
Conard 9th Street CafÈ
Conard Montgomery Street CafÈ
Cozmo's Corner Grill
Crab House at Pier 39
Crustacean San Francisco
Daily Grill
Delaney's
Dewey's
Diamond Corner CafÈ
Divas
Don Ramon's Mexican Restaurant
Durty Nelly's Irish Pub
East Coast West Deli
Eastside West
Edward II Inn and Suites
Enrico's
Farallon
Faz CafÈ at Bechtel
Faz Restaurant
Fiddler's Green
Fifth Floor
Fior d'Italia
Fishermen's Grotto
Fleur de Lys
Florio
Fog City Diner
Food Court, North Beach Deli, Crab Pot
Foreign Cinema
Franciscan Restaurant
Ghirardelli Chocolate Manufactory
Gino & Carlo
Globe
Goat Hill Pizza
Gold Spike Restaurant
Gordon's House of Fine Eats
Grand CafÈ
Harrington's Bar & Grill
Harry Denton's Starlight Room
Hemlock Tavern
Holy Cow Nightclub
House of Prime Rib
Houston's Restaurant
Il Fornaio Cucina Italiana
It's Tops Coffee Shop
Jacks Elixir
Jardiniere
Jelly's A Dance CafÈ
Jester's
Jianna
Johnny Foley's Irish House
Judi's Place
Julius Castle Restaurant
Kate O'Brien's
Kelly's Mission Rock
Kelly's on Trinity
Kiku of Tokyo
Kilowatt
Kokkari Estiatorio
Kuleto's Italian Restaurant
La Folie
La Mediterranee
La Mediterranee
Lapis Restaurant
Lavash Mediterranean Bistro
Le Central Bistro
Le Colonial
Le Zinc
Lefty O'Doul's
Liverpool Lil's
Locanda San Pietro
L'Olivier Restaurant
L'Ottavo Ristorante
Louis Restaurant
MacArthur Park
Market Street Grill
Martin Macks Bar & Restaurant
Masa's
MATRIXFILLMORE
Maya
Mel Hollen's Bar & Fine Dining
Mel's Drive In
Mel's Drive In
Mel's Drive In
Mel's Drive In
Miz Brown's Feed Bag
Modern Catering
MoMo's
Moose's
Mozzarella DiBufala Pizzeria I
Mozzarella DiBufala Pizzeria II
'N Touch Bar
Napa Ranch CafÈ
Napa Ranch CafÈ
Napa Ranch CafÈ
Napa Ranch CafÈ
New Pisa
Nick's Lighthouse
Nob Hill Noshery
Noe Valley Bakery & Bread
North Beach Pizza
North Beach Restaurant
One Market Restaurant
O'Reilly's Irish Pub & Restaurant
Original Joe's
Original U.S. Restaurant
Palio d'Asti
Palio Paninoteca
Palio Paninoteca
Palomino
PAN-O-RAMA BAKING Company
Paragon Restaurant & Bar
Park Chow
Parkside CafÈ
Pasta Pomodoro
Pasta Pomodoro
Pasta Pomodoro
Pasta Pomodoro
Pasta Pomodoro
Pasta Pomodoro
Pasta Pomodoro
Pasta Pomodoro
Pasticci
Pat's CafÈ
Pauline's Pizza Pie
Pazzia Caffe & Trattoria
Perry's
Perry's Downtown
Pier 23 CafÈ
Pizzeria Uno
Pizzeria Uno
PJ's Oyster Bed
Plouf
PlumpJack CafÈ
Pompei's Grotto
Ponzu
Postrio
Prego Ristorante
Puccini & Pinetti
Puerto Alegre Restaurant
Red Herring
Redwood Park
Restaurant Jeanne D'Arc
Rose Pistola
Rose's CafÈ
Rubicon
Ruby Skye
Sam's Grill
San Francisco Brewing Co.
Sanraku
Sanraku
Savoia Ristorante
Scala's Bistro
Scoma's Restaurant
Self-Help for the Elderly
Shanghai Kelly's Saloon
Silks at Mandarin Oriental Hotel
Simple Pleasures Cafe
Sitio
South Park Cafe
Specialty's Cafe & Bakery
Specialty's Cafe & Bakery
Specialty's Cafe & Bakery
Specialty's Cafe & Bakery
Specialty's Cafe & Bakery
Specialty's Cafe & Bakery
Specialty's Cafe & Bakery
Specialty's Cafe & Bakery
Spoon
St. Francis CafÈ
Stars Bar and Dining
Station CafÈ
Subway Sandwiches & Salads
Subway Sandwiches & Salads
Subway Sandwiches & Salads
Sushi Chardonnay
Sushi Groove
Sushi Groove South
Swan Oyster Depot
Sweetie's
Tadich Grill
Tad's Steak House
Taqueria Zapata
Tarantino's Restaurant
Taste Catering
Terra Brazilis
Terrace Restaurant
Thanh Long
The Argent Hotel
The Beach Chalet Brewery & Restaurant
The Blue Light
The Cosmopolitan CafÈ
The Endup
The Grove
The Grove
The Magic Flute Garden Ristorante
The Mucky Duck
The Occidental Grill
The Ramp
The Slanted Door
The Stinking Rose
The Waterfront
Tia Margarita
Tommy's Joynt
Tony Roma's
Toraya
Tosca CafÈ
Trattoria Contadina
Treasure Island Job Corp
Upton's Catering
Village Pizzeria
Whizwit
XYZ Restaurant
Yank Sing Restaurant
Yank Sing Restaurant
You See Sushi
Zao Noodle Bar
Zao Noodle Bar
Zao Noodle Bar
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Sunday Sep 8th, 2002 11:46 PM
If you haven't done this already, one idea is to post a form letter that people can easily download and print out that explains why they don't go to that restaurant anymore. Do these restaurants have emails? If so, people could easily send these notes in, or else print them and mail them.
repeat after me
Monday Sep 9th, 2002 12:00 AM
I feel for all the mentally disturbed drug addicts out there, but they choose to walk their own path. Only they can ultimately save themselves. i am not responsible for every stray dog and cat either. If I don't take care of myself then how can I take care of anyone else? Why do liberals always push guilt on everyone else?
wooden nickels
Monday Sep 9th, 2002 5:51 AM
seeing you are interested in people boycotting these particular restaurants for the most part the people on this site are already doing that. most of them don't have two nickels to rub together in the first place.
and call. them
Monday Sep 9th, 2002 1:56 PM
explain why you won't be eating at their establishment anymore. Specialtys(no longer a member of ggra) sent me an email stating that they in now way will support Prop N.
Sorry, I don't repeat after anyone
( monde [at] involution.org )
Monday Sep 9th, 2002 10:36 PM
Not everyone who is mentally disturbed is on drugs, my friend. Some of the most un-together people I have ever known were people who didn't take a thing. But that's beside the point. The point is that Gavin Newsom's homelessness "solution" won't deprive serious addicts from their drugs. It will just force them to take more desperate means of getting their money. People who vote for this will think they're "cleaning up" their city when in reality it will merely marginalize the poor even further as well as making the well-off much more vulnerable to crime. The worst part of it to me is this workfare program, in which people will have to work for pennies just because they had the gall to happen to get to be poor.
You act as though you're being asked to give space in your own home to a homeless person. If you should ever become homeless yourself perhaps you would not have this attitude. Nobody's asking that much from you. And Newsom's proposal isn't going to save you any money. Regarding restaurants: I happily see my favourite Polk Street eating establishment, Sushi Rock, is not on this list. Hooray! Mr
Tuesday Sep 10th, 2002 11:18 AM
Care Not Cash makes sense. Giving money to the homeless so they can spend it on heroin, alcohol, speed, and crack is not the answer. The addicts have destroyed our streets with their foul waste and make SF unsafe for children, and unappealing to visitors.
Newsom's proposal will still provide necessary services while at the same time cutting off the cash for their addictions. In the current state of affairs, only drug dealers and alcohol companies are the winners. Since the homeless are irresponsible or addicts, they cannot be trusted to manage their own finances. By regaining control of resources, the City is taking the first step to end homelessness. The people who are most against this proposal are those who benefit from the homeless bureaucracy political machine. Mr
Tuesday Sep 10th, 2002 11:18 AM
Care Not Cash makes sense. Giving money to the homeless so they can spend it on heroin, alcohol, speed, and crack is not the answer. The addicts have destroyed our streets with their foul waste and make SF unsafe for children, and unappealing to visitors.
Newsom's proposal will still provide necessary services while at the same time cutting off the cash for their addictions. In the current state of affairs, only drug dealers and alcohol companies are the winners. Since the homeless are irresponsible or addicts, they cannot be trusted to manage their own finances. By regaining control of resources, the City is taking the first step to end homelessness. The people who are most against this proposal are those who benefit from the homeless bureaucracy political machine. Mr
Tuesday Sep 10th, 2002 11:18 AM
Care Not Cash makes sense. Giving money to the homeless so they can spend it on heroin, alcohol, speed, and crack is not the answer. The addicts have destroyed our streets with their foul waste and make SF unsafe for children, and unappealing to visitors.
Newsom's proposal will still provide necessary services while at the same time cutting off the cash for their addictions. In the current state of affairs, only drug dealers and alcohol companies are the winners. Since the homeless are irresponsible or addicts, they cannot be trusted to manage their own finances. By regaining control of resources, the City is taking the first step to end homelessness. The people who are most against this proposal are those who benefit from the homeless bureaucracy political machine. Mr
Tuesday Sep 10th, 2002 11:18 AM
Care Not Cash makes sense. Giving money to the homeless so they can spend it on heroin, alcohol, speed, and crack is not the answer. The addicts have destroyed our streets with their foul waste and make SF unsafe for children, and unappealing to visitors.
Newsom's proposal will still provide necessary services while at the same time cutting off the cash for their addictions. In the current state of affairs, only drug dealers and alcohol companies are the winners. Since the homeless are irresponsible or addicts, they cannot be trusted to manage their own finances. By regaining control of resources, the City is taking the first step to end homelessness. The people who are most against this proposal are those who benefit from the homeless bureaucracy political machine. Mr
Tuesday Sep 10th, 2002 11:19 AM
Care Not Cash makes sense. Giving money to the homeless so they can spend it on heroin, alcohol, speed, and crack is not the answer. The addicts have destroyed our streets with their foul waste and make SF unsafe for children, and unappealing to visitors.
Newsom's proposal will still provide necessary services while at the same time cutting off the cash for their addictions. In the current state of affairs, only drug dealers and alcohol companies are the winners. Since the homeless are irresponsible or addicts, they cannot be trusted to manage their own finances. By regaining control of resources, the City is taking the first step to end homelessness. The people who are most against this proposal are those who benefit from the homeless bureaucracy political machine. Mr
Tuesday Sep 10th, 2002 11:19 AM
Care Not Cash makes sense. Giving money to the homeless so they can spend it on heroin, alcohol, speed, and crack is not the answer. The addicts have destroyed our streets with their foul waste and make SF unsafe for children, and unappealing to visitors.
Newsom's proposal will still provide necessary services while at the same time cutting off the cash for their addictions. In the current state of affairs, only drug dealers and alcohol companies are the winners. Since the homeless are irresponsible or addicts, they cannot be trusted to manage their own finances. By regaining control of resources, the City is taking the first step to end homelessness. The people who are most against this proposal are those who benefit from the homeless bureaucracy political machine. Mr
Tuesday Sep 10th, 2002 11:20 AM
Care Not Cash makes sense. Giving money to the homeless so they can spend it on heroin, alcohol, speed, and crack is not the answer. The addicts have destroyed our streets with their foul waste and make SF unsafe for children, and unappealing to visitors.
Newsom's proposal will still provide necessary services while at the same time cutting off the cash for their addictions. In the current state of affairs, only drug dealers and alcohol companies are the winners. Since the homeless are irresponsible or addicts, they cannot be trusted to manage their own finances. By regaining control of resources, the City is taking the first step to end homelessness. The people who are most against this proposal are those who benefit from the homeless bureaucracy political machine. Mr
Tuesday Sep 10th, 2002 11:20 AM
Care Not Cash makes sense. Giving money to the homeless so they can spend it on heroin, alcohol, speed, and crack is not the answer. The addicts have destroyed our streets with their foul waste and make SF unsafe for children, and unappealing to visitors.
Newsom's proposal will still provide necessary services while at the same time cutting off the cash for their addictions. In the current state of affairs, only drug dealers and alcohol companies are the winners. Since the homeless are irresponsible or addicts, they cannot be trusted to manage their own finances. By regaining control of resources, the City is taking the first step to end homelessness. The people who are most against this proposal are those who benefit from the homeless bureaucracy political machine. Mr
Tuesday Sep 10th, 2002 11:22 AM
Care Not Cash makes sense. Giving money to the homeless so they can spend it on heroin, alcohol, speed, and crack is not the answer. The addicts have destroyed our streets with their foul waste and make SF unsafe for children, and unappealing to visitors.
Newsom's proposal will still provide necessary services while at the same time cutting off the cash for their addictions. In the current state of affairs, only drug dealers and alcohol companies are the winners. Since the homeless are irresponsible or addicts, they cannot be trusted to manage their own finances. By regaining control of resources, the City is taking the first step to end homelessness. The people who are most against this proposal are those who benefit from the homeless bureaucracy political machine. Mr
Tuesday Sep 10th, 2002 11:23 AM
Care Not Cash makes sense. Giving money to the homeless so they can spend it on heroin, alcohol, speed, and crack is not the answer. The addicts have destroyed our streets with their foul waste and make SF unsafe for children, and unappealing to visitors.
Newsom's proposal will still provide necessary services while at the same time cutting off the cash for their addictions. In the current state of affairs, only drug dealers and alcohol companies are the winners. Since the homeless are irresponsible or addicts, they cannot be trusted to manage their own finances. By regaining control of resources, the City is taking the first step to end homelessness. The people who are most against this proposal are those who benefit from the homeless bureaucracy political machine. Mr
Tuesday Sep 10th, 2002 11:23 AM
Care Not Cash makes sense. Giving money to the homeless so they can spend it on heroin, alcohol, speed, and crack is not the answer. The addicts have destroyed our streets with their foul waste and make SF unsafe for children, and unappealing to visitors.
Newsom's proposal will still provide necessary services while at the same time cutting off the cash for their addictions. In the current state of affairs, only drug dealers and alcohol companies are the winners. Since the homeless are irresponsible or addicts, they cannot be trusted to manage their own finances. By regaining control of resources, the City is taking the first step to end homelessness. The people who are most against this proposal are those who benefit from the homeless bureaucracy political machine. Mr. Brent Callahan
Tuesday Sep 10th, 2002 12:11 PM
It doesn't matter how many times you post this, it doesn't make it true. You know full well that counterfeit care does not provide any services at all, it only addresses taking GA away from folks who could use this cash grant for help with getting back on their feet. Also, are you saying that all homeless are addicts?
This is untrue and you know it is. Addiction is one of the problems that needs to be addressed, but cnc doesn't even do this. nice try though liberal hypocrites
Tuesday Sep 10th, 2002 4:38 PM
http://allafrica.com/stories/200209040276.html
Bulldung Awards for Summit Hypocrites OPINION September 3, 2002 Posted to the web September 4, 2002 Jim Peron Johannesburg The contrast couldn't be more extreme. Carrying his placard the man in front of me was clearly one of the poorest of the poor. His shoes were not only threadbare, they were tattered, merely rags barely being held together. He shuffled down the streets of affluent Sandton just outside the chic conference centre and the five star hotels where the UN's World Summit on Sustainable Development was being held. Protesters at such events are expected. Every year affluent Europeans and American who are full-time 'radicals' fly off to demonstrate on behalf of the world's poor. But the poor themselves rarely participate in these elite demonstrations. This time it was different. Far more different than first meets the eye. You had to read the signs these poor people were carrying to understand how much their message contrasted with that of affluent protesters from the Northern Hemisphere. If you stepped in front of the man with slivers of leather attached to his feet you'd see his sign said: "Trade Not Aid." The marchers in this protest were mainly poor, virtually all black, and mostly women. They were street traders and farmers. Without fail everyone had a sticker saying :"Freedom to Trade." Farmers from India marched side by side with Zulu women wearing T-shirts saying: "Biotechnology for Africa." On the sideline the press and Summit delegates stood aghast. What do you say to poor people with signs reading: "Stop Eco-Imperialism" or "Save the Planet from Sustainable Development" or "Free Trade IS Fair Trade". The Green Left wants to paint globalisation as rich versus the poor but the rich are supposed to be in favour of free trade and the poor opposed to it. But here the situation was precisely the opposite. The anti-globalisation protesters were those who could afford to fly in on international flights and stay at expensive hotels that local street traders could never afford to visit. The farmers from India were demanding the right to grow genetically modified crops. Other speakers at the rally demanded the end of subsidies for agriculture in developed countries while English group Oxfam called for more subsidies for their first-world farmers. One rally speaker was Barun Mitra of the Liberty Institute of New Delhi, India. He announced that they wanted to give a well-deserved award to various Green and anti-globalisation groups that he said were perpetuating poverty in the Third World. He announced that he wanted to grant the "Bullshit Award for Perpetuating Poverty" to the high priestess of the environmental movement - Ms Vandana Shiva. Among the others nominated in this very close contest were Greenpeace, Third World Network, SAFeAge and other such groups. The mere mention of Greenpeace brought loud and derisive remarks from the marchers. There was general agreement among the marchers that increased productivity, through trade and technology, not only helps in reducing poverty, but also helps in improving the quality of environmental resources. Clearly, increased consumption reflects economic and environmental well-being. Surely this must have been the environmentalists' worst nightmare. Real poor people marching in the streets and demanding development while opposing the eco-agenda of the Green Left. These were people who had real concerns. They need development. They need economic prosperity. As one of the street traders told me: "I've got children to feed. I don't want to be a criminal." Her words brought an immediate chorus of agreement from several other woman standing with her. Meanwhile that day another Green group released another report demanding less free trade, less development, and less prosperity. They specifically said that it would be wrong to economically develop poor nations. Instead we should impoverish wealthy nations so everyone is equal. They called for 'wealth alleviation'. One of the authors of that report is Green guru Anita Roddick who once gushed the sentiment, "how quickly you could fall in love with the economics of less." The economics of less wouldn't mean much to Roddick. She's a multimillionaire. But the people in the streets of Sandton couldn't survive on the 'economics of less.' Less to feed their children means the children starve. Unlike the well-funded anti-globalisation elite these people couldn't afford to fly around the world for conferences. They crammed into small mini-vans just to get to the Summit while UN delegates rode by in chauffeur-driven limousines with police escorts. The street traders couldn't afford a press attaché to contact the media on their behalf. Their media outreach was a loudspeaker attached to the roof of a dilapidated old truck that had to pushed through the streets. These weren't the poverty pimps from the North: that band of elite Westerners who are paid to lobby full-time on behalf of what they think the poor need. These people were the poor themselves and they were demanding something that baffles the Left. It is called freedom. Author: Jim Peron is a freelance researcher and writer. This article may be republished without prior consent but with acknowledgement. The patrons, council and members of the Free Market Foundation do not necessarily agree with the views expressed in the article. © 2002 Moneyweb. All rights reserved. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com). Not much diff
Tuesday Sep 10th, 2002 5:20 PM
This isn't much diff than people at Hunters Point wanting big box stores because they were promised 'jobs' - a lot of times people are literally not informed about what the consequences will be and haven't thought it out, in part because they are desparate - (i.e., in this case they'd get min wage jobs and virtually no benefits while small businesses in the area get crushed) - so everyone can live by a mall of box stores - that's everyone's dream, isn't it? Isn't it everyone's dream to work at BLOCKbuster? I'd trash any neighborhood to have the honor to work at WALmart!
Don't try to paint the liberal left as elitist and wrong for the poor. The right wing isn't the answer, and neither are poor people's opinons - when they are in desparate predicaments - the only ones that count. No on idiotic N is bov astroturd?
Tuesday Sep 10th, 2002 9:22 PM
"Don't try to paint the liberal left as elitist and wrong for the poor. The right wing isn't the answer, and neither are poor people's opinons - when they are in desparate predicaments - the only ones that count."
Neither are poor people's opinions the ones that count, you said. What an incredibly elitist remark. YOU know what's best for someone who is hungry? All you are is an armchair asshole. Just another useless liberal. is bov astroturd?
Tuesday Sep 10th, 2002 9:22 PM
"Don't try to paint the liberal left as elitist and wrong for the poor. The right wing isn't the answer, and neither are poor people's opinons - when they are in desparate predicaments - the only ones that count."
Neither are poor people's opinions the ones that count, you said. What an incredibly elitist remark. YOU know what's best for someone who is hungry? All you are is an armchair asshole. Just another useless liberal. armchair asshole
Tuesday Sep 10th, 2002 10:52 PM
why is it trolls define themselves so well every time they try to slag others? Is this some kind of aphasia?
byrdshit
Tuesday Sep 10th, 2002 11:00 PM
Are you yet ANOTHER asshole who knows what's best for someone starving? Are you stupid enough to call someone a troll for simply pointing out the mind bogling elitists liberals? It's easy to call someone a troll on a full stomach, isn't it, you idiot.
byrdshit
Tuesday Sep 10th, 2002 11:02 PM
Are you yet ANOTHER asshole who knows what's best for someone starving? Are you stupid enough to call someone a troll for simply pointing out the mind bogling elitists liberals? It's easy to call someone a troll on a full stomach, isn't it, you idiot.
The other thing about trolls
Tuesday Sep 10th, 2002 11:31 PM
They can't figure out how many times to press the button.
counting
Wednesday Sep 11th, 2002 1:12 AM
You're slamming your anti-American friends around here as well, bov.
And as for "grefft", what is that? The sound when your buddy bov pulls out? ......
Wednesday Sep 11th, 2002 2:32 AM
I wonder how big of a nerd you have to be before you troll IMC all day claiming liberals are really right wingers and the moon is made of blue cheese?
liberal hypocrites
Wednesday Sep 11th, 2002 4:06 AM
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0902/jkelly090502.asp
Resurrecting the "Happy Darky" http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | They've got rhythm. They've got watermelon. They've got quaint folk customs. So what need have they for jobs, for education, for civil rights? So went the "Happy Darky" myth, prevalent among well-off whites in the segregated South of half a century or so ago. The "Happy Darky" myth is being resurrected in more pernicious form by environmentalists. The introduction of electricity is "destroying" the cultures of the world's poor, said Gar Smith, who edits "The Edge," the online magazine of the San Francisco-based Earth Island Institute. With the introduction of electricity, African villagers spend too much time watching television and listening to the radio, Smith said. George Monbiot, a columnist for the trendy leftist British newspaper the Guardian, said poor people are happier people: "In southern Ethiopia, the poorest half of the poorest nation on earth, the streets and fields crackle with laughter," Monbiot wrote. "In homes constructed from packing cases and palm leaves, people engage more freely, smile more often, express more affection than we do." At a taping of a PBS special on the Earth Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, a female panelist decried "the pernicious introduction of the flush toilet." The World Health Organization estimates that famine in southern Africa will take the lives 300,000 people in the next six months. But delegates and journalists in Johannesburg applauded the dictators of Zambia and Zimbabwe for refusing to let their starving people eat genetically modified American corn. About 17,000 tons of corn donated by the U.S. Agency for International Development is sitting in storage in Zambia. Greenpeace and Friends of Earth have been lobbying the governments in Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique not to accept the corn. Americans eat this corn every day. But environmentalists describe it as "toxic." The starving people it was sent to feed have a different opinion: "About all Josephine Namangolwa has in her hungry, weary body is anger, and in an instant it all comes surging out," wrote New York Times correspondent Henri Cauvin Aug. 31. "It has been days since she had a nourishing meal to feed her eight children." "'We are dying here,' she shouts as aid workers arrive in her village of Chipapa to check on their warehouse and the nearly 500 tons of cornmeal inside...She and the rest of the 2.4 million facing starvation in Zambia will be eating any of this food, or any of the thousands of tons of additional food being shipped from the U.S.," Cauvin wrote. "Please give us the food," pled an elderly blind man in the village of Shimbala, quoted in a Los Angeles Times dispatch Aug. 28. "We don't care if it's poisonous because we are dying anyway." There were no empty bellies at the Earth Summit. Dennis Morgan, head chef of the five star Michelango Hotel in the posh Johannesburg suburb of Sandton told the London Sun he had ordered 5,000 oysters, a half ton of lobster and other shellfish, two tons of steak and chicken breasts, and buckets of caviar and foie gras, and gallons of champagne and cognac for the environmentalists to eat and drink. Southern Africa is drought stricken. But each of the environmentalists was using, on average, 53 gallons of water a day. The 45,000 delegates also generated hundreds of tons of trash. Environmentalists think other people must sacrifice to protect the environment. But not, of course, the environmentalists themselves. The "Happy Darkies" who environmentalists think can do without electricity, flush toilets and food are not happy with the fate Greenpeace and other environmental organizations would consign them to. Seven organizations representing small farmers in Africa, India and the Philippines presented to Greenpeace and to two other environmental organizations at the Johannesburg summit a "trophy" consisting of a piece of wood upon which two heaps of dried cow dung had been mounted. They called it the "Bulls...t Trophy." Barun Mitra, who presented the trophy, called the environmentalists parasites who "prey on the blood of the poor." "They are not interested in famine or poverty," he said. "This lot is concerned only about their own interests." From the New York Times August 30, 2002 Between Famine and Politics, Zambians Starve By HENRI E. CAUVIN USAKA, Zambia, Aug. 29 — About all Josephine Namangolwa has left in her hungry, weary body is anger, and in an instant it all comes surging out. It has been days since she had a nourishing meal to feed her eight children, victims, like millions of other Zambians, of the deepening food shortage that is sweeping southern Africa. Yet before her eyes stand sacks and sacks of untouched — and for now untouchable — cornmeal, which has been the foundation of the Zambian diet for generations and is currently at the center of a scientific and diplomatic debate over genetically modified food. It is an argument that means nothing and everything to Ms. Namangolwa. "We are dying here," she shouts as aid workers arrive in her village of Chipapa to check on their warehouse and the nearly 500 metric tons of cornmeal stored inside, all of it from the United States and some of it almost certainly from genetically engineered crops. "We want to eat." For now, however, she and the rest of the hungry in Zambia will not be eating any of the food from Chipapa, or any of the thousands of tons of additional food being shipped to the region from the United States. President Levy Mwanawasa has banned the distribution of food produced with genetically modified organisms, or G.M.O.'s, laying down a hard line in a debate that has gripped the region for weeks. The president, along with close advisers and sympathetic scientists, has expressed a number of concerns about G.M.O.'s. Health is one; trade relations with the European Union and the United States is another. Genetically engineered corn is shipped in two forms, as unmilled kernels and as cornmeal. Zambian officials worry that the kernels might be used as seed, producing genetically modified corn that would cross-pollinate with nonmodified varieties. This would jeopardize Zambian exports to the European Union, which requires all genetically modified products to be so labeled. A number of people following the debate say that it has at some level turned into an undeclared trade dispute between the European Union with its powerful environmental activists and the United States and its influential biotechnology industry. With millions of lives in the balance, neither side wants it to look that way, and both have gone to great lengths to keep the trade issue out of the public debate. In a statement today, the European Union mission here all but encouraged Zambia to accept the modified corn, saying that milling would allay its concerns about exports from the country. But even if the incoming corn were milled into cornmeal, eliminating the risk to the Zambian agriculture industry, the government remained concerned about the suitability of the food for human consumption. "I have been told it is not safe," the minister of agriculture, Mundia Sikatana, said in an interview. Asked if he believes such foods are poisonous, Mr. Sikatana said the studies he had read had led him to that conclusion. "What else would you call an allergy caused by a substance? That substance that the person reacts to is poisonous." All of the talk of toxins and trade has confused many local people, while frustrating the United Nations World Food Program and angering Washington, which is supplying about three-quarters of the food for the W.F.P.'s operations in the region. The W.F.P., which is feeding just over a million Zambians now, expects to be feeding about 2.5 million by the end of the year. At the moment, the agency says it has only about 7,000 metric tons of food, or some two weeks worth, approved and available for distribution. About 14,000 tons already in the country, some already milled, some still whole grain, have been frozen by the president's edict. Far larger shipments on the way face the same fate unless Mr. Mwanawasa changes his mind. In an indication of the matter's urgency, Andrew S. Natsios, the head of the United States Agency for International Development, met with Mr. Mwanawasa this week to urge him to accept the corn and to offer Zambia assistance in assuring that the food is indeed safe. In an effort to ease Zambia's doubts about the safety of the foods, the agency has offered to fly Zambian scientists to the United States to meet with government and academic researchers. Mr. Natsios maintained that Mr. Mwanawasa was open to the offer and the possibility that it might yield a solution. "I think he wants more information," Mr. Natsios said. "There's no commitment to change, but I don't think this story is at an end." Mr. Sikatana said the government has made its decision and can meet the country's needs without American aid. Efforts to bring hundreds of thousands of tons of corn from elsewhere are underway, and Mr. Sikatana said no Zambian will starve. With each passing day, however, the fates of millions of hungry people around Zambia grow more dire. Loveness Malupande, who lives not far from Chipapa, in the village of Kabweza, with an extended family of about 24, said her family had sold off all but two of the 20 cattle they had, all to buy stopgap supplies of food, which have since run out. For now, the family is left to scavenge. "We go out in the bush and look for wild roots," she says. One of her relatives, Cliff Malambo, 27, said he had heard about the food at the warehouse in Chipapa. "They have said that the food is not good for us, but we don't know," he said. "They don't explain." Many Zambians question the government's statements and wonder why friends who received the American corn before the ban went into effect have not died. Others applaud the government's vigilance. Almost all of them are somewhat befuddled. "People ask me if it's safe," Steven Grabiner, who runs the Riverside Development Agency, a church-affiliated charity, said. "I say, `Yes, I think it is. If you make me a bowl I'll eat it."' Foods produced from crops engineered to be more resistant to worms, for example, are now widely consumed in the United States less than a decade after such products first entered the market. By many accounts, they have made American agriculture more productive, but they have also brought controversy. A number of scientists and consumer advocates argue the effects of genetic engineering on both the environment and consumers have not been adequately examined. Yet, years of extensive testing have not turned up any findings that would suggest such foods are not safe for humans, Marc Cohen, an analyst at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, said. While genetically engineered food has almost certainly found its way into Zambia for several years, through international aid or through imports from South Africa, which produces genetically modified crops, the scale was always small and never attracted attention. But the volume of food being brought in for the relief operation is huge, aimed at feeding 13 million people across six countries, and red flags went up. Mozambique and Zimbabwe at first joined Zambia in resisting the geneticaly modified corn, particularly out of concerns over cross-pollination. Ultimately, Mozambique and Zimbabwe decided to mill the corn before bringing it into the country, eliminating the potential threat to their agricultural sectors. Zambia so far has balked at milling in part because of the cost, which at $25 a ton is not an inconsequential expense for one of the poorest countries in the world. Critics of the government say that officials were late drafting a comprehensive policy on genetic engineering and were nowbuying time to try to form one. "We should be confining our debate in this hour of emergency to corn," said John W. K. Clayton, president of the Zambia National Farmers' Union. "We don't have the luxury of time to launch into broadranging debate on this issue." "This is the work of the politicians," Ms. Namangolwa said as she looked in on the stockpile of corn. "This meal is O.K. They are not helping us. They are killing us." heeheehee
Wednesday Sep 11th, 2002 4:41 AM
everyone scroll up and look at the troll getting nailed and now posting some stupid repost freeper lies to hide his shame!
NOT so interesting pics
Wednesday Sep 11th, 2002 5:19 AM
 hunger.jpg We can all agree hooper is laughing his ass off, right?
While the poor of the world starve,
Wednesday Sep 11th, 2002 1:08 PM
Americans grow lawn grass and pay farmers not to grow food.
you know what else they do?
Wednesday Sep 11th, 2002 1:14 PM
They rake in big bucks and start corporations and bomb restaurants and go to conferences on hunger and ride past the starving to eat caviar.
yeah
Wednesday Sep 11th, 2002 2:26 PM
like the FTAA meetings. All the more reason to protest globalization! Don't forget to start organizing solidarity protests to coincide with FTAA meetings in Ecuador this Halloween. Tell it like it is Truthteller. Down with American capitalism!
No, down with globalizing
Wednesday Sep 11th, 2002 5:48 PM
 econazi4optimized.gif There's nothing wrong with capitalism, if you keep it clean. But liberals are no better. Any group that will let people starver to promote its agenda is no better. The liberals don't have the answer, and the UN goddam dont.
Trollgeek
Wednesday Sep 11th, 2002 7:08 PM
 doggie.jpga84489.jpg grrrrrrrrr .... ruff! ruff ruff ruff! ...... grrrrrrr ........ leftists are uhm uh uhm right wing Nazis! yeah that's it! ..... grrrrrr .... arf arf! don't call me TrollNerd! arrrrr ..... rufff! ruff, ruff, ruff!!!!!
klan mutt
Wednesday Sep 11th, 2002 9:30 PM
grrr.... die nigger die.... ruff ruff.... Greenpeace is right....fucking die....yip yip yip....skinheads are g-ds....arf arf arf...who cares about starving nigger babies...yip yip...liberals know whats best....grrrrrrr....I'll tell you when it's okay to survive.....GRRRRR....Heil Hitler....ruff ruff
Excuse me. Got to lick my own vomit now, like a good liberal should.... the troll is losing its mind
Wednesday Sep 11th, 2002 9:34 PM
If you are unable to form cogent thoughts upon which to base a follow up, why do you even bother? poor little pooper
Wednesday Sep 11th, 2002 9:50 PM
You're looking bad, little high school boy-nessie. You've got a long way to go before you can outwit anyone. If you haven't heard, allow me to be the first to break the news-youre a liberal, which means you're nothing. You have nothing to contribute to the welfare of this planet. Nothing but a racist Nazi who thinks he knows what's best for evryone else. All you are is pure Evil. Just like Hitler.
Globalization and its Discontents
Wednesday Sep 11th, 2002 10:07 PM
Hey, attempt to read the book title above, by Joseph Stiglitz.
Have you ever heard of colonialism? oh, I guess you think your command of the simplified supply-demand concept on page 10 of your high school economics textbook outweighs any opinion of the ex-head of the world bank. Do you think that during all of history, people in the poor countries in African, Asia, Central America have just been sitting around doing nothing and the concept of 'free trade' was just discovered a couple years ago and it needs to be tried for the first time? Please read a book. Most of Africa came out from under direct colonialism of the british during the 60s, and most were not under communist systems during the time since then, and 'free' trade has been given a chance for quite some time. Because 'free' trade as it has been occurring is not free at all, none of these countries have had per capita income increase at all. Exactly the same is true for central america and asia. Hey boss, do you want to try to tell us why Mexico keeps getting poorer and more desperate, even though they're so close to the US and have a lot of resources and NAFTA has been in place for a decade? The exceptions to the trend are places like Singapore and S. Korea that did *not* do what the IMF tried to order them to do and they protected key industries and negotiated trade deals that were fair for them. IMF/WTO negotiated 'free trade' is extremely slanted. The free trade you seem to be referring to seems to be this adolescent or uneducated notion of someone in high school who is exploring the differences between the two most major pure economic systems - capitalism and communism. No successful country uses one of these pure systems that are imperialist almost by definition. Care Not Cash
Friday Sep 13th, 2002 12:00 PM
As these restaurants are advocating care not cash, stop into any of them for some free food: no cash needed.
Hungry and Homeless in SF? Care Not Cash: Dine and Dash! Care not Cash Boycot
Wednesday Mar 17th, 2004 2:56 PM
What makes you think that just because a restaurant is part of this association the people working there are supporting this Care not Cash propsition? I think it only proofs how short sighted you people are sometimes.
Boycotting these places will only hurt the people that work there. And most people that work in restuarants are one paycheck or less away from being homeless them selves. Beleive me I worked in restaurants for years. I also have been homeless and on the streets. i was homeless for more than a year, thanks to excessive alcohol and drug use. I can tell you right now, if I was given cash it would have gone straight to drugs and alcohol, and I might still be out there or dead. Giving ddicts and alcoholics cash is only destructive and does nothing to help them. And neither does boycotting restaurants that may not even agree with al off the ballots and proposition the association supports. Most restaurants on your lists are small mom and pop places that have only joined to association only to save money on things like heath care for their employees or other services that are cheaper when applying as a group. And have not a clue as to what the association does or does not support politically. Mr.
( fleissigflieger [at] bluemail.ch )
Monday Jan 31st, 2005 3:21 PM
It just goes to show, like "Mr." who feels that he has to post his entry overand over again. This reflects the narrow or closed mindedness of those aligned with the Corporate Autocratic mentality of having to REPEAT themselves. Repetition is one sign of an attempt to brainwash the public at large with the diatribe of malicious slanderous rhetoric aimed at the most hated on Planet Earth...the poor.
During the nineteen thirties and early forties, there was a political party in Germany called the 'Nationalsozialist Deutscherarbeiter Partei (NSDAP) headed by none other than the infamous Adolf Hitler. His main criteria were the Jewish population, among others such as the Gypsies, the handicapped, homosexuals, dissidents, and all other so-called 'non-Aryan' folk. Steps had been taken to rid Germany of all these so-called 'Untermensch', or 'enartige leute'. Firstly, came the restricted Ghettos, then the actual deportations, to the extermination camps such as Auswitz and Börkennau (just to cite a couple). Now, fast forward to the present. With the Bush administration, and his cute little crappy lap mutt, by the neme of Tony Blair, and otherof the socalled-G-7, or G-8, there is another subtle and insidious indoctrination that has been going on, as to vilify not the Jewish population, nor the gays, nor the Romany, nor thse afflicted with physical or mental chalenges, not even POLITICAL disidents, BUT THE POOR AND DESTITUTE OF THE WORLD! It is these most of these arseholes with money that have this maniacal psycholocal need, as to use the American expression, 'trash' those of our fellow species as placing labels upon them of the magnitude of discrediting their self worth as being for naught. It is the callous disregard for the poor, as like their buddy, A. Hitler, they would just steam in glee atthe prospect of gassing all the poor on this planet out of existence! These dispicable arseholes or shitheads have nothing better to do with their money, as they MUST be suffering a great deal of bordom, as to fight for the demise of those less fortunate themselves. Some of these arseholes call them Christians. May I remind these Christian nuts who might be reading this commentary, that their unsung hero, the Master Jesus, Himself, had lived a life of renunciation and POVERTY!? Need I remind these grain of rice siyed brains that He also spoke out for the POOR during His time? I am not a Christian, myself, as I belong to a NON religious, or seculara world wide recognised and respected esoteric fraternal organisation (open to both genders) pf the Initiatic Tradition, that encourages FREE THINKING and is opposed to all forms of religious fanaticism and dogmatic indoctrination. However, as far as these filthy rstinking wealthy arseholes are concerned, theres MUST be indeed a RELIGION that these numbskulls belong to that whos dogma is the destruction of all the poor on this finite planet. I certainly would never catch myself ascribing to that religion at all! Sabn Francisco USED to be a 'progressive' city, one that had actually welcomed the down and out. Not today! Oh no, not in these times! Just the opposite has taken place, as San Francisco has become THE most expensive city in North America (second most expensive in the world only to Tokyo, the most expensive) it is these filthy stinking rich speculators that have invaded this city, and turned it (or are bloody well trying to( turn the City and County of San Francisci itself into just another 'gated community'! |
