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VOLUNTEERS FOR QUEZADA - SF Bd of Supervisors (video/quicktime 42.1MB)
On Oct. 1st Eric Quezada and supporters were at San Francisco City Hall rallying for his election to the District 9 seat and giving critical help to The People's Plan (with amendments!). Three-minute QT movie. 42MB....
Posted: Fri, Oct 17, 2008 10:06am PDT
School Board to Consider Emergency Training Program
Friday, October 17, 2008 : With all the controversy around JROTC, you wouldn’t know that the San Francisco School District has—for the past 23 years—run a program that teaches guidance and leadership training, without any sponsorship by the military. Called Peer Resources, the program trains over 1,000 students a year to act as peer counselors, tutors and conflict mediators....
Posted: Fri, Oct 17, 2008 8:01am PDT
Protest Landlords and Realtors who are trying to buy the election. Save Rent Control!
Join us next Thursday in the streets when we picket Realtors and Landlords who are trying to buy the election. Save Rent Control in San Francisco...
Posted: Fri, Oct 17, 2008 12:34am PDT
Protect Teen Girls: Vote No on Prop 4
Thursday, October 16, 2008 : We wish we didn't have to fight the same battles over and over again, but Proposition 4--defeated three years ago as Prop 73 and two years ago as Prop 85--is once again returning to the California state ballot on November 4th, 2008. If a teenager wishes to terminate a pregnancy, Prop 4 would require parental notification issued by the provider, a judiciary bypass obtained by the teen, or a letter written by the teen to the physician detailing parental abuse that i...
Posted: Thu, Oct 16, 2008 7:37am PDT
Vote No on Measure Q
The billion.3 train tax in Sonoma and Marin (SMART), Measure Q, is a veiled attack on the environment and a Trojan horse for expanded development. Allied with the Northwestern Pacific Railroad (NWP) under NCRA (North Coast Railroad Authority), the train plans envision a combination of passenger and freight from southern Marin to Humboldt Bay. Serious environmental consequences of this plan have been subsumed by SMART and NCRA's pseudo environmental benefit message. The SMART train will also ...
Posted: Wed, Oct 15, 2008 5:34pm PDT
Mayor Autry Demonizes ACLU
Fresno Mayor Alan Autry and U.S. District Judge Oliver W. Wanger debated the role of courts in society at today’s Bench, Bar, and the Media event held in the Downtown Club. Autry said “the ACLU has run a reign of terror on American values in this country since 1920.” He said that the ACLU was started by an avowed Agnostic and Socialist who said ‘I’m going to go out and try and take God out of this country and I’m going to go out and make pornographic materials available to everyone, includ...
Posted: Wed, Oct 15, 2008 4:29pm PDT
Pelosi's Sabotage of Cindy Sheehan for Congress Campaign
The Cindy Sheehan for Congress campaign is doing so well that all the opposing incumbent Democrat Nancy Pelosi has is election fraud. Democrat Nancy Pelosi is the millionaire 20-year incumbent of the 8th CD, covering most of San Francisco, who took impeachment of Bush & Cheney off the table and led the charge to give our tax dollars to banks and insurance companies....
Posted: Wed, Oct 15, 2008 8:13am PDT
Open the Undemocratic Debates! Protest
Protest the undemocratic exclusion of Ralph Nader and other third party candidates from the Presidential Debates. The issues we care about and dissenting voices will not be heard in the final presidential debate. Let's get out onto the streets and protest!...
Posted: Tue, Oct 14, 2008 11:02pm PDT
Is Obamamania Putting Gay Marriage at Risk?
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 : “Red Alert” shouts the banner headline in the current Bay Area Reporter, reflecting a recent poll showing California’s Proposition 8 moving from far behind to ahead. Some attribute this shift to the Mormon Church’s massive funding of a Yes on 8 TV advertising blitz, which featured Gavin Newsom cheering gay marriage....
Posted: Tue, Oct 14, 2008 7:28am PDT
Ashley Swearengin and Transparency
Where does Fresno mayoral candidate Ashley Swearengin stand on issues of global importance? If you ask her, she won't tell you....
Posted: Mon, Oct 13, 2008 9:36pm PDT
Fresno Police Intimidate Democratic Party Volunteers
Something as simple as simply having a brochure for a mayoral candidate on the table at the Democratic Party booth at the Fresno District Fair can be a challenge in Fresno. Last Friday, two Fresno Police Department officers intimidated volunteers into removing brochures for Henry T. Perea, who is a Democrat running for mayor. Democratic Party volunteer Jay Hubbell, pictured below, is seen putting the brochures back on the table yesterday (Sunday)....
Posted: Mon, Oct 13, 2008 8:07pm PDT
Voting Recommendations
The grid below represents voting recommendations from a variety of progressive and conservative groups on statewide ballot initiatives and local races in the Fresno area. The goal is to give readers the opportunity to see which groups are supporting each candidate and proposition, which will help them decide how to vote - based on your core values. For example, if the ACLU, organized labor, the Green Party, and Planned Parenthood support a proposition (while the Republican Party recommends ...
Posted: Mon, Oct 13, 2008 9:26am PDT
Transportation, Land Use and the Environment: Election Forum 2008 (Berkeley, Mayor) (video/quicktime 31.2MB)
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 first (Mayoral) forum....
Posted: Mon, Oct 13, 2008 1:42am PDT
SF Youth Commission hears about Prop 6 - the public votes against Proposition 6.
The SF Youth Commission were given a presentation on Prop 6 - by a City Official with another City Attorney present making a statement that the presentation would be neutral - and that the SF Youth Commission could not take sides. After the drab Prop. 6 Presentation - most of the those that spoke during Public Comment - spoke against Proposition 6. The presentation was held at the SF Main Library and attend by some few concerned youth and adults....
Posted: Sat, Oct 11, 2008 5:27am PDT
District 3 Race Most Expensive—But Soft Money Will Flourish in D1 and D11
Thursday, October 9, 2008 : Candidates for the SF Board of Supervisors filed their statements last week—and there’s no doubt which race is the most expensive (at least in direct contributions.) The top four candidates in District 3 raised over $275,000 this quarter—compared with $106,000 for District 11, $67,500 for District 1 and $55,000 for District 9....
Posted: Fri, Oct 10, 2008 7:39am PDT
Don’t Forget the School Board Election
Thursday, October 9, 2008 : In the midst of what may be one of the most important presidential elections in recent memory, it can be hard to pay attention to much else. That may be why the crowd was thin this past Tuesday at a panel discussion of candidates for the Board of Education (BOE) of the San Francisco Unified School District (SFSUD)....
Posted: Fri, Oct 10, 2008 7:38am PDT
Labor, Community Protest Palin Fundraiser in Burlingame
Several hundred protestors greeted Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin when she visited the San Francisco Bay Area to raise funds for the sagging McCain-Palin campaign Sunday, October 5 in Burlingame.
+ More photos from rally......
Posted: Thu, Oct 9, 2008 4:00pm PDT
New California Law Leads to Increased Underground Actions
For Immediate Release
October 9, 2008...
Posted: Wed, Oct 8, 2008 10:54pm PDT
Prop V a Soft-Money Conduit to Attack Progressives
Wednesday, October 8, 2008 : If you wonder why a non-binding resolution on the ballot is generating so much attention, look at the recent campaign finance reports. With unlimited contributions to ballot measure campaigns (mandated by the courts), Proposition V has become an end-run to influence races for the Board of Supervisors....
Posted: Wed, Oct 8, 2008 7:18am PDT
No on Proposition 6
Wednesday, October 8, 2008 : Rarely are California’s voters presented with such a poignant example of the corrupt nature of the state’s political system than that of Proposition 6, an initiative that will appear on the November 2008 ballot. Cynically dubbed the “Safe Neighborhoods Act” by its sponsors Republican Senator George Runner, indicted billionaire Henry Nicholas, and a small circle of Sacramento lobbyists, the initiative is a special-interest raid on the state treasury....
Posted: Wed, Oct 8, 2008 7:14am PDT