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Proposition L is for Legalized Lies and Liars - Prop L Press Conference In Front of San Francisco City Hall...
Event Date: Mon, Oct 27, 2008 9:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, Oct 24, 2008 12:40pm PDT
UFCW Local 8....Anti Obama? While doing some surfing of the UFCW website’s some of us came upon a disturbing discovery which led us to do a little more investigating....
Posted: Fri, Oct 24, 2008 11:17am PDT
2 weeks before Election: SF Realtors' Mudslinging Against Rent Control With less than 2 weeks to Election Day, the SF Association of Realtors has jumped into the mudslinging with disgusting multicolor slick hate mailers attacking the 3 candidates for the SF Board of Supervisors endorsed by the SF Tenants Union because they support rent control, the primary litmus test issue in San Francisco, namely Democrats Eric Mar of District 1 (Richmond), David Chiu of District 3 (North Beach-Nob Hill) and John Avalos of District 11 (Excelsior-Mission Terrace-Ingleside)....
Posted: Fri, Oct 24, 2008 6:54am PDT
Angry Seniors Target Schwarzenegger Thursday, October 23, 2008 : Arnold never looks good when he acts like a bully—picking on people less powerful than him. When he famously pledged to “kick nurses’ butts” in 2005, it was a PR disaster for the Terminator. Now, right after the worst budget stalemate in state history, Governor Schwarzenegger slashed over $500 million in programs affecting seniors and people with disabilities....
Posted: Thu, Oct 23, 2008 7:41am PDT
Congressman Farr wants hearing on LBAM reclassification Congressman Sam Farr (D-Carmel) has submitted a petition to the USDA for reclassifying the Light Brown Apple Moth to a minor pest status. He has also stated that he hopes his Agricultural Appropriations Committee will hold hearings with the USDA answering questions about making errors and correcting them. A copy of the petition is available on request....
Posted: Wed, Oct 22, 2008 9:47pm PDT
Eleventh Hour ICE Raids Resolution: Too Little Too Late? 
The ICE program named *Return to Sender* has people asking, “are these human beings they are talking about, or sacks of mail?”
On October 20 immigrant rights activists appealed to the Palo Alto City Council for immediate passage of a resolution urging the US Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) to enforce laws in accordance with Constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and seizures.
Photos: Sharat Lin...
Posted: Wed, Oct 22, 2008 12:40pm PDT
S.F. Mayor Defends Actions in Interview with Spanish Newspaper Originally From New America Media
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 :Recent actions by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom have caught the attention of Spanish-language newspaper El Mensajero, which published an editorial in September arguing that the mayor was alienating immigrants and Latinos in the city.
Among his controversial decisions was Newsom's revision of San Francisco's sanctuary city law to allow the city to turn over undocumented minors convicted of crimes to federal immigration autho...
Posted: Wed, Oct 22, 2008 8:32am PDT
Matt Gonzalez & Jello Biafra on the Election & State of Politics @ UCB 
UC Berkeley - Valley Life Sciences Bldg Room 2060...
Event Date: Fri, Oct 24, 2008 8:30pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Oct 21, 2008 11:00pm PDT
Matt Gonzalez and Jello Biafra at UC Berkeley Friday Oct 24 Matt Gonzalez, vice-presidential running mate of Ralph Nader, is speaking this Friday night in Berkeley, joined by Jello Biafra....
Posted: Tue, Oct 21, 2008 3:49pm PDT
Rigoberta Menchú to Speak at Delta College Oct. 22, 11 a.m. 
Rigoberta Menchú, Nobel Prize winner and courageous advocate for human rights in Guatemala and elsewhere in Las Americas, will speak at Delta College's Tillie Lewis Theater on October 22 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. She is a survivor of the Reagan administration-engineered genocide of the Mayan people in Guatemala.
The genocide occurred under the "scorched earth" policy of the "born again butcher," Jose Efrain Rios Montt. One of the most vicious tyrants in recent Guatemalan history, Rios Montt...
Posted: Tue, Oct 21, 2008 3:10pm PDT
HELP CINDY SHEEHAN RUN THIS AD To see a picture of Pelosi kissing up to Bush, as she prepares to cave in yet again, should help to get the people of San Francisco motivated to vote for her mandatory replacement, Cindy Sheehan. And that is the precise picture you can help run as a full 1/4 page ad in the San Francisco Chronicle this Sunday....
Posted: Tue, Oct 21, 2008 1:03pm PDT
George W. Bush's place in History: SF Voters will Rite Chapter One on Nov. 4th 
YES on Proposition R...
Posted: Tue, Oct 21, 2008 9:37am PDT
Feinstein, Google Should Step Up to Defeat Prop 8 Tuesday, October 21, 2008 : Dianne Feinstein and Google both oppose Proposition 8—California’s constitutional amendment that eliminates marriage rights for same-sex couples. Both issued public statements in opposition, although Feinstein did so under pressure from the LGBT community. Both could have a huge impact on the outcome—Feinstein with her statewide appeal and considerable financial resources, Google with its vast technological reach....
Posted: Tue, Oct 21, 2008 7:36am PDT
Transportation, Land Use & the Environment: Election Forum 2008 (Berkeley Districts 2,5,6) (video/quicktime 54.8MB) Fourteen environmental groups active in Berkeley and the East Bay sponsored an election forum on Transportation, Land Use and the Environment for candidates for Berkeley City Council and Mayor. This is the third (City Council Districts 2, 5 and 6) forum....
Posted: Tue, Oct 21, 2008 4:20am PDT
Transportation, Land Use & the Environment: Election Forum 2008 (Berkeley Districts 3 & 4) (video/quicktime 59.9MB) Fourteen environmental groups active in Berkeley and the East Bay sponsored an election forum on Transportation, Land Use and the Environment for candidates for Berkeley City Council and Mayor. This is the second (City Council Districts 3 and 4) forum....
Posted: Tue, Oct 21, 2008 4:08am PDT
Winning for Workers in California's Battleground Monday, October 20, 2008 : As we enter the home stretch of what just might be the most exciting campaign season in history, working people have never been more energized for change. Voter registration has skyrocketed, volunteers are turning out in droves, and new national leadership is on the horizon....
Posted: Mon, Oct 20, 2008 6:56am PDT
New Recycling Laws will Impact the Homeless "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread."
- Anatole France...
Posted: Sun, Oct 19, 2008 9:41am PDT
Cross-Regional Commemoration of LBAM Spray Anniversary Berkeley BART Station, Shattuck Ave and Center St, Berkeley
Santa Cruz City Hall, 809 Center Street, Santa Cruz
Rafael Square, 1000 - 4th Street, San Rafael...
Event Date: Sat, Oct 25, 2008 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Oct 19, 2008 5:33am PDT
California Republicans in Hot Water for Hate-Based Attacks on Obama 
Republicans in "tolerant" California are engaging in hate-based attacks on Barack Obama as reprehensible as any in the United States....
Posted: Sat, Oct 18, 2008 3:57pm PDT
Proposition 8 Could Pass. It's Time To Organize 
Proposition 8 is an initiative measure on the 2008 California General Election ballot titled Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry. If passed, the proposition would "change the California Constitution to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry in California....
Posted: Sat, Oct 18, 2008 3:43pm PDT
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