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Law and Order in NoLa
bay area residents witness community organizing in the face of disaster...
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 11:01pm PDT
Solidarity Not Charity
Grassroots Relief Efforts Fill in the Gaps in New Orleans...
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 10:57pm PDT
New Orleans: The Making of An Urban Catasrophe
Caldwell's analysis of the interconnected factors that led to the disaster in New Orleans...
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 10:53pm PDT
Tipping the Scales: Conservative Appointments Threaten Supreme Court's Balance
New Supreme Court appointments will pose challenges to more than just individual and civil liberties; it will also directly impact key federal issues that eked by on 5-4 rulings, where O’Connor’s vote determined the outcome. The results of some of these key cases are outlined below....
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 5:44pm PDT
Learning Your Cycle
An explanation of the Fertility Awareness Method...
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 5:27pm PDT
Young Workers United Wins $4.5 Million
Rafa Gutierrez and over 180 other Cheesecake Factory restaurant workers know what it’s like to savor the sweet taste of justice. Through organizing their coworkers, taking legal action, and teaming up with community organization Young Workers United (YWU), former and current Cheesecake Factory workers across the state have won a $4.5 million settlement and seen concrete improvements at
their work....
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2005 3:19pm PDT
Creating an American Aristocracy
The “get rich someday” dream is cited by many as the reason Americans are voting against their economic self-interest and lending their political support to the wealthy, who are creating a new American aristocracy....
Posted: Thu, Aug 25, 2005 10:04pm PDT
International Tribunal on Iraq
The final session of the World Tribunal on Iraq took place in Istanbul June 23-27.The WTI was an effort modeled on the International Bertrand Russell War Crimes Tribunal, which investigated the Vietnam War in 1967. The WTI has been holding sessions around the globe for the past two years, gathering testimonies to serve as a record of the Iraq war.
WTI defines itself as a "horizontal network of local groups and individuals worldwide that work together in a non- hierarchical system. The ...
Posted: Thu, Aug 25, 2005 2:27am PDT
STARTING with ORGANICS
There are a slew of reasons to start gardening; the delicious, fresh produce, the beautiful flowers, the pride you feel when your plants grow up big and strong. Gardening connects people to the earth, is known to alleviate depression and consoles city dwellers wishing for a bit of nature....
Posted: Fri, Aug 19, 2005 3:11pm PDT
Calling Out to All Photographers!
Fault Lines, the free newspaper of Indybay.org, wants
your shots of social justice in action for our special
summer issue....
Posted: Tue, Jul 12, 2005 9:48pm PDT
Green Screen Enviro Film Fest: globalization, grizzy maulings and....Al Gore?
As if the films themselves weren’t reason enough to attend this year’s Green Screen Environmental Film Festival, the event offers all kinds of nifty bonuses, including free screenings, “Aromaround” (sizzling pans of garlic in the theatre), and organic concessions. The festival kicks off on Wednesday, June 1 and runs through Sunday, June 5 at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco, with free screenings on four out of the five festival days....
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 8:09pm PDT
Oakland Joins Climate Exchange
On April 22, Earth Day, the city of Oakland announced it was joining the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), a market-driven network of cities and companies working to reduce climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions. Oakland is the first city in California to join the CCX and only the second city in the U.S., after Chicago....
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 5:02pm PDT
real i.d. act: Big Victory for Big Brother
By tacking the ominous Real ID Act to an $82 billion military spending bill, President Bush won the approval of the Congress and signed the act on May 11. Previously, the Real ID Act, which lays the groundwork for the federal government to track and maintain records of all cardholders movements and purchases, was expected to face opposition in the Senate. But since no politicians want to appear unpatriotic by questioning financial support for US troops, the Act has now sailed through Congr...
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 4:30pm PDT
The Turkish-European Wet Dream
On December 17, 2004 Turkey's long-awaited dream took a critical turning point. After 41 years of tease, the European Union winked and offered a date for initiating membership negotiations. This relationship, and the Turkish ambition to join the European Union, dates back to September 1963 when the European Common Market, the pre-cursor to the European Union, and Turkey signed the Ankara Agreement. Since then, Turkey has witnessed three military coups (two proper ones in 1971 and 1980 and a ...
Posted: Sun, Jan 23, 2005 10:19pm PST
"Quality of Life" Enforcement in San Francisco - A History of Failure
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Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 1:10pm PST
Newsom delivers his State of the Homeless address while he de-funds crucial homeless servi
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Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 12:50pm PST