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Coalition Fights Back Against Mayor’s Budget Cuts Wednesday, February 20, 2008 : Left literally out in the cold (and the rain), hundreds of San Francisco residents – including health care and service workers, as well as those who use the vital city services that would disappear – gathered on the steps of City Hall to fight Mayor Gavin Newsom’s proposed cuts to the Health Department....
Posted: Wed, Feb 20, 2008 7:12am PST
Plan C Disinvites David Chiu to Candidates’ Forum Wednesday, February 20, 2008 : Tonight, the political group Plan C will host a forum with local candidates for Supervisor – but only those who pass its litmus test. David Chiu, who is running for Supervisor in District 3, was initially invited – but later disinvited. According to Chiu, Plan C did not approve of his endorsements by progressive Supervisors Tom Ammiano, Ross Mirkarimi and Chris Daly....
Posted: Wed, Feb 20, 2008 7:12am PST
Bay Area CDFA "Scoping" Meetings Soliciting Public Comment on Aerial Spraying The CDFA will be holding "scoping" meetings to hear public comments regarding their Environmental Impact Review (EIR) process. Please be aware that the spraying is not dependent on completion of such a review, because they have declared a "State of Emergency", which gives them the right to overrule other regulations, such as local pesticide ordinances, private property laws, and health, safety, and environmental protection....
Posted: Tue, Feb 19, 2008 8:19pm PST
PINK-SLIP CHENEY! (video/quicktime 63.9MB) Powell & Market. February 18, 2008. Four-minute QT movie. 64MB....
Posted: Tue, Feb 19, 2008 4:45pm PST
Slave Revolt Radio: Voting on the Edge of Insanity (audio/mpeg 27.6MB) The Presidential Electoral Process is a Imperial Procedure. Voting for one Imperial Administrator or Another (Democrat or Republican) is Ones Active Engagement, Complicity, and Alignment with the Elites Global Dollar$ & Chain$ Resource Wars Against Humanity....
Posted: Tue, Feb 19, 2008 10:22am PST
A Presidents Day to Remember: Photos from San Francisco 
In a country in turmoil because of its involvement in a war built on lies and its government running roughshod over the rights laid down by the U.S. Constitution-- San Franciscans showed yesterday that that theirs is "The City that Knows How" to celebrate the third Monday in February: By calling on Congress to Impeach!...
Posted: Tue, Feb 19, 2008 8:24am PST
The Mayor’s Mid-Year Budget Cuts: Cruel and Unusual Tuesday, February 19, 2008 : Last June, Mayor Gavin Newsom proposed devastating public health cuts– prompting hundreds to rally at City Hall. Now, without even waiting for another budget season, the Mayor has announced $18 million in “mid-year cuts” to the Health Department – including some programs that the Board of Supervisors saved last July....
Posted: Tue, Feb 19, 2008 8:17am PST
Leno and Sanchez Spurred by Recent Gains Tuesday, February 19, 2008 : While attention was focused on the Obama-Clinton race, the campaigns of Mark Leno and Mark Sanchez advanced last week in their respective races for State Senate and District 9 Supervisor. Leno secured the unexpected endorsement of Mayor Gavin Newsom, while his campaign was also encouraged by Joe Nation’s entry into the race and reports that incumbent Carole Migden is having trouble raising money....
Posted: Tue, Feb 19, 2008 8:17am PST
Court sides with super rich over first amendment Injuction in California Northern District Court bans website dedicated to human rights/rule of law....
Posted: Mon, Feb 18, 2008 9:42pm PST
California judge deletes Wikileaks indie journalism site stephen soldz
Mon Feb 18, 2008 at 06:20:15 AM PST
One of the most important web sites in recent months has been Wikileaks.org. Wikileaks has upset the Chinese government enough that they are attempting to censor it, as is the Thai military junta. Wikileaks is now under attack from a censorship effort by a California court....
Posted: Mon, Feb 18, 2008 7:45am PST
Not Revising History on Tom Lantos Tom Lantos is being lauded as a great "humanitarian". The facts tell a different story when
it comes to Palestinians....
Posted: Sat, Feb 16, 2008 8:15am PST
Local Meetings on Upcoming Illegal Spraying of Bay Area with Synthetic Hormones Four lawsuits already filed in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties, but the spraying is still planned. Only you can stop it . . ....
Posted: Fri, Feb 15, 2008 1:27pm PST
Oakland's mayor politicks as people are killed Dellums is a failure as Oakland's mayor and needs to be recalled. Instead of doing his job, he's campaigning for the despicable Hillary Clinton. He has no solutions to the crime and violence in the city. De la Fuente and Perata are just as incompetent. The police are incompetent, if not complicit in fomenting violence....
Posted: Fri, Feb 15, 2008 8:42am PST
CDFA News Release on LBAM On Feb 13, 2008, at 3:27 PM, sunita chethik wrote:
Clyde MacDonald from John Laird's office just forwarded me todays new CDFA press release about their spray plans for California. The same old rant made official now. I have inquired at Laird's office and the CDFA regarding when they will do ground treatments in Santa Cruz. Although the CDFA will not give out information, Laird's staff has been very helpful in getting that information to us. The report from Laird's staff is that ground tre...
Posted: Thu, Feb 14, 2008 2:37pm PST
Accountability Now! 
This latest message comes from Cindy Sheehan's blog. Are there any Democrats who might step up to the plate? Maybe someone angry at the way Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel were treated by their own party?...
Posted: Thu, Feb 14, 2008 10:19am PST
No More Mr. Nice Guy! 
Brad Newsham, the cab driver who made international headlines by organizing impeach demonstations in the San Francisco Bay Area describes his frustrations with government leaders he expected more from. As always-- he has multiple plans of action.... read on:...
Posted: Thu, Feb 14, 2008 9:50am PST
Text Of Berkeley City Council's New Resolution 1) Accept Councilmemembers Olds’ and Capitelli’s recommendation to publicly differentiate between the City’s documented opposition to the unjust and illegal war in Iraq and our respect and support for those serving in the armed forces, and
2) Accept the following statement submitted by Mayor Bates, and Councilmembers Anderson, Maio and Moore:
Given the confusion about the Council’s action on January 29, 2008, a strong statement of the Berkeley City Council’s position regarding...
Posted: Wed, Feb 13, 2008 7:43pm PST
Susan Leal is fired by Mayor Newsom and SFPUC Commissioners now have to pay the price. Bevan Dufty is a joke and his statements linked to the re-appointment of Ryan Brooks and Richard Sklar are a disgrace to anything decent and meaningful. This is Black History Month and one of the best Black Commissioners Ryan Brooks was let go because of dirty politics. Richard Sklar survived because the scum bag Supervisors that voted against Richard Sklar - saw the many supporters - present in Room 250. Anyway - one looks at this fiasco - it stinks of the worst type of San Francisco - poli...
Posted: Wed, Feb 13, 2008 8:49am PST
Press Conference to Protest Calderon's Visit to Sacramento on Feb. 13, 11:30 a.m. A coalition of human rights and labor groups will hold a press conference to protest the visit of right wing Mexican president Felipe Calderon on Wednesday, February 13 at 11:30 a.m. in front of the Sheraton Grand Hotel, 1230 J Street, in Sacramento....
Posted: Tue, Feb 12, 2008 5:29pm PST
Newsom “Discovers” that the Personal is Political Tuesday, February 12, 2008 : “It’s all personal. That’s all it is.” --Mayor Newsom, referring to a Harvey Rose report on city departments paying for mayoral staff. With San Franciscans preoccupied by the Obama-Clinton race, the widening battle between San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and the Board of Supervisors has struggled for attention....
Posted: Tue, Feb 12, 2008 7:40am PST
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