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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....

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...

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...

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!...

Where does Fresno mayoral candidate Ashley Swearengin stand on issues of global importance? If you ask her, she won't tell you....

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 ...

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....

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)....

For Immediate Release October 9, 2008...

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....