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textPlan To Spray Toxic Biological Chemicals Over San Francisco Announced by Rami Nagel
People of the world, the US Government is planning to poison more than two million people, in California, using an untested biological "pesticide" this summer. The chemical to be sprayed is classified by the EPA as a "pesticide" and the plan is to douse cities with this chemical designed to stick on everything for 90 days or longer....
Posted: Wed, Mar 12, 2008 1:07pm PDT
textAB 1828 - an added benefit for poll workers by John Crockford
AB 1828 was introduced in the California Assembly on January 22, 2008....
Posted: Wed, Mar 12, 2008 7:28am PDT
textBriana Waters' Detention Hearing this Weds. / Full update by repost
This is an update for those who have been following the trial of Briana Waters, a wonderful mother and violin teacher from the Bay area who to this day maintains her innocence of these charges she was just convicted of. We are going to continue doing our best to support her in the ongoing legal battle for justice....
Posted: Tue, Mar 11, 2008 2:08am PDT
imageCCOF Modifies Stance on Light Brown Apple Moth Treatment Program
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by via CCOF.org
CCOF, one of the oldest and largest organic certification organizations in North America, announced a modified stance on the aerial spraying treatment program for the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM). CCOF's new policy position revokes support of aerial application of the organically approved pheromones in lieu of diversified ground integrated pest management approaches. The new position statement approved by CCOF's Board of Directors is as follows:...
Posted: Mon, Mar 10, 2008 6:33pm PDT
documentFriends of Flora and Fauna
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by via friendsflorafauna.org
Friends of Flora and Fauna is a non-profit organization which has established a Legal Defense Fund for students and other young people who are protesting UCSC expansion and have been targeted in a recent lawsuit by the UC Regents. Board members are Professor Bettina Aptheker (UCSC, Feminist Studies), Attorney Deborah Malkin, Professor Paul Ortiz (UCSC, Community Studies), Treasurer Mathilde Rand and Professor Zack Schlesinger (UCSC, Physics). The letter below was written in response to the...
Posted: Mon, Mar 10, 2008 4:36pm PDT
textJudge rules that University violated First Amendment Rights by LRDP-Resistance Media
Judge Paul Burdick ruled Monday that the University's lawsuit was an attack on the first amendment rights of at least two tree sit supporters. A motion to strike tree sit Media Support person Jennifer Charles and tree sit supporter Oliver Schmid from the lawsuit was granted....
Posted: Mon, Mar 10, 2008 2:36pm PDT
text"Unruly Party" Ordinance coming up for amendment Tuesday evening at City Council by Robert Norse
Council member Rotkin's "Unruly Assemblies" ordinance, the "Party at Your Peril" law, comes up for modification on March 11th at the evening city council meeting. Coonerty and Rotkin are moving to liberalize the ordinance with four changes. The real question, of course, is whether there should be such an ordinance at all and what kind of suffering it has inflicted. Police stats, as usual, are not included in the police report and may not be forthcoming at all (as was the case in the Parkin...
Posted: Mon, Mar 10, 2008 12:20pm PDT
textAttorney General Lets Down 14 Million Tenants: Refuses to Include “Rent Control” in Title of Prop 98 by Tenants Together via Beyond Chron
Monday, March 10, 2008 : Today, Proposition 98 will be sent to the printer with a ballot title that omits any reference to the fact that Proposition 98 prohibits rent control in California. Although Attorney General Jerry Brown acknowledges that banning rent control is a key feature of Prop. 98, the AG refuses to put the words “rent control” in the title of the ballot measure, a decision that has prompted outrage among California tenant advocates....
Posted: Mon, Mar 10, 2008 8:05am PDT
textSupervisors Run for DCCC; Progressive Slate Formed by Paul Hogarth via Beyond Chron
Monday, March 10, 2008 : Heads are still buzzing as to why three San Francisco Supervisors, one School Board member and five November candidates for Supervisor all filed papers on Friday – to run for the Democratic County Central Committee (DCCC). Criticized by some as a heavy-handed tactic, Supervisors Chris Daly and Aaron Peskin said that it’s about raising the profile of an obscure political body – and making the Democratic Party more relevant, more vocal and more progressive....
Posted: Mon, Mar 10, 2008 7:50am PDT
textClinton’s Three-Pronged Strategy to Steal the Nomination by Randy Shaw via Beyond Chron
Monday, March 10, 2008 : Hillary Clinton is pursuing a three-pronged strategy to win the Democratic presidential nomination despite finishing second in the elected delegate count. Her goals are to change the rules by adding new contests, reinterpret the rules by spinning the primacy of popular vote wins in “big states,” and to turn Barack Obama into the George McGovern of his time....
Posted: Mon, Mar 10, 2008 7:49am PDT
textMigden Sues FFPC Charging Campaign Finance Law Unconstitutional by Randy Shaw via Beyond Chron
Thursday, March 6, 2008 : In response to polls showing her trailing in her re-election campaign, State Senator Carole Migden filed suit on Tuesday to invalidate a voter-approved campaign finance law that she previously had supported. Although Migden voted in favor of placing Prop 34 on California’s 2000 ballot, she now claims the measure she backed unconstitutionally prevents her from spending $647,000 in the Senate race....
Posted: Thu, Mar 6, 2008 7:55am PST
text Message to the Governor—Hands Off School Funding! by Lisa Schiff via Beyond Chron
Thursday, March 6, 2008 : Schools cannot be used to bridge the budget gap. Not now, not ever. What ought to be an obvious truth is apparently too subtle for Governor Schwarzenegger to grasp. Despite the defeat of his past efforts to raid school funds, it seems that public education supporters should never have let up on this one simple message—and to make sure we can’t stop at the Governor’s mansion....
Posted: Thu, Mar 6, 2008 7:54am PST
textState Supreme Court Appears Split On Gay Marriage by Ben Malley via Beyond Chron
Wednesday, March 5, 2008 : The California Supreme Court heard nearly four hours of arguments yesterday on whether the state’s laws preventing same-sex marriage are unconstitutional. Much of the argument centered on the difference between marriage and domestic partnerships, which California passed in 2003 as AB 205. Associate Justice Ming Chin asked Deputy SF City Attorney Therese Stewart if she believed that the state’s domestic partnership offered a “substantial improvement” over previous la...
Posted: Wed, Mar 5, 2008 8:01am PST
textSF Mayor Set to Kill Affordable Housing by Tommi Avicolli-Mecca via Beyond Chron
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 : San Francisco sure is schizophrenic about affordable housing. On the one hand, everyone in the city wants it; on the other hand, no one wants it if it interferes with the profits of developers....
Posted: Tue, Mar 4, 2008 6:56am PST
calendarRNC Welcoming Committee
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by Kate
Zami! 807 Laurel Street...
Event Date: Fri, Mar 7, 2008 6:00pm PST
Posted: Mon, Mar 3, 2008 9:09pm PST
textProp. 98 Backers Stand to Rake in the Dough by Tommi Avicolli-Mecca via Beyond Chron
Monday, March 3, 2008 : There was never any doubt in my mind that California’s Prop 98 would make huge chunks of money for some people. The initiative purports to be about eminent domain reform, but it also eliminates rent control throughout the state. Proponents can wax poetic about protecting small homeowners against government’s seizure of their property, but at the end of the day there’s big bucks to be made by raising rents and tossing people out of their homes....
Posted: Mon, Mar 3, 2008 7:06am PST
textNew Binder Poll: Nation and Leno in Tight Race by Randy Shaw via Beyond Chron
Monday, March 3, 2008 : A poll taken last week by David Binder found State Senate District 3 a two-way contest between challengers Joe Nation and Mark Leno, with incumbent Carole Migden trailing badly. Binder, San Francisco’s leading pollster who has been busy in recent months surveying for Barack Obama, found that Nation led Leno 27-24% on the initial ask, with Migden trailing at 17%....
Posted: Mon, Mar 3, 2008 7:05am PST
textHear Richard Becker talk in Sacramento, CA on Feb. 20th by S. Lerman
Richard Becker writes and speaks nationally and internationally on U.S. foreign and domestic policy; he is co-founder of the ANSWER Coalition. Richard Becker is the Western Region Co-Director of the International Action Center. Becker is co-author of the book, NATO in the Balkans. He has written many articles and commentaries on Middle East affairs, and has been interviewed by numerous national and international media, among them the McNeil-Lehrer News Hour, CNN, BBC, Pacific National News...
Posted: Sat, Mar 1, 2008 2:16pm PST
text3/16 40th P&F Anniversary Forum & Video:Lessons of the Anti-War Movement by SF Peace and Freedom Party
On March 16th, 2008 Peace and Freedom Party will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the founding of the party. In addition to speakers the video "Sir, No Sir" will also be shown...
Posted: Sat, Mar 1, 2008 12:21pm PST
textTime to Review Muni's Overhaul Plan by Heather World via Beyond Chron
Friday, February 29, 2008 : The MTA gave its Citizens’ Advisory Committee a look at the proposed changes to the city’s public transportation Wednesday night, some of which are fairly drastic and sure to raise controversy. Fear not! You have a season of public meetings ahead of you to put in your complaints or compliments. There are, essentially, four proposals to examine....
Posted: Sat, Mar 1, 2008 10:34am PST
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