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SEIU-UHW Battle Intensifies Friday, December 12, 2008 : The nearly year long battle between SEIU and its California-based affiliate, the United HealthCare Workers (UHW), intensified yesterday as ballots were counted in an election that UHW chief Sal Roselli described in a December 11 conference call as a “sham.” Though only “advisory,” the election could result in UHW losing nearly half its membership....
Posted: Fri, Dec 12, 2008 7:26am PST
Help out the People's Bailout event in Modesto! Help us organize the people's bailout event in Modesto CA!...
Posted: Thu, Dec 11, 2008 5:03pm PST
Berkeley Council Approves Bike Station 
Monday night, Dec. 8, the Berkeley City Council voted to approve the contract for an expanded, street level Bike Station with many more services and features than the existing station to the cheers of a packed council chamber. This is the culmination of over ten years of work by local advocates....
Posted: Wed, Dec 10, 2008 11:11am PST
We All Failed Gary Webb Since Gary Webb’s suicide four years ago, I have written annual retrospectives about the late journalist’s important contribution to the historical record -- he forced devastating admissions from the CIA about drug trafficking by the Nicaraguan contra rebels under the protection of the Reagan administration in the 1980s....
Posted: Wed, Dec 10, 2008 7:56am PST
Marching and Speaking Out to Save the Beach Flats Community Center and Gardens 
The Beach Flats Community Center (BFCC) is the neighborhood resource center in the heart of the Beach Flats community. For the last 15 years the BFCC has provided programming that is flexible and continually responsive to emerging community needs....
Posted: Tue, Dec 9, 2008 11:24pm PST
Mayor Gavin Newsom signs a supposedly $2 Billion dollar with Lennar and Development. Lennar has no money and will not build a single home at Hunters Point and Candlestick Point. Much like Mare Island. Lennar - promised to build 10,000 homes on Mare Island and today Mare Island is on the auction block. Mayor Gavin Newsom is in bed with Lennar and it is just a matter of time - when his dubious ploys will be exposed. The Mayor can sign what he deems right - but the fact of the matter is Lennar is a Rogue Company and can never be trusted....
Posted: Tue, Dec 9, 2008 9:40am PST
Human Rights on the Street--Santa Cruz style Though they could offer no legal place for the homeless sleepers to stay, police showed up three times and ticketed four people with $97 citations early Sunday morning in front of Borders. Chalked messages by a local sympathizer memorialized the spot with such old favorites as "End the Sleeping Ban" "Sleep Deprivation is Torture" and "Human Rights Violations in Santa Cruz". The four homeless travelers said they were planning to leave town the next day, but were happy to support the right...
Posted: Mon, Dec 8, 2008 7:14pm PST
Mayor Gavin Newsom stop messing with Margaret Brodkin and keep Dwayne Jones - away. Margaret Brodkin may be head strong - but all for one good cause - to do all it takes to save and help our children. It would be wise for Mayor Gavin Newsom - to stay away from a Department that is doing all it can to save our children. It may not be perfect - but it does attend to the majority of our children's concerns. If the Mayor has any faint hope that he can fire or remove Margaret Brodkin - he will be in for a very rude awakening....
Posted: Mon, Dec 8, 2008 9:35am PST
Chronicle gets $5.5 Million damage award story against Richard Thomas wrong It May Take Up To Two Years For The Former Tenants Of Slumlord Richard Thomas To Receive A $5.5 Million Jury Award In Punitive Damages, And A November 7th Chronicle Article Has It Wrong By Stating That Attorney Laura Stevens Will Ask Alameda County Superior Court Judge Steven Brick To Award The $5.5 Million In Punitive Damages To Housing Agencies, Rather Than The Former Tenants! Oakland Attorney Laura Stevens Wants The Former Tenants Of Richard Thomas To Contact Her!...
Posted: Sun, Dec 7, 2008 1:15pm PST
Possible closing of Beach Flats Community Garden & Community Center 
Police services are the largest single expenditure of the city alone and account for more than 25% of the budget. But come a budget crisis, the first thing that is on the block is the community center in the only primarily Spanish-speaking part of town....
Posted: Fri, Dec 5, 2008 9:46pm PST
Threatened with a ticket, I continued playing at the drum circle. Sgt. Harms threatened to write a 15 minute parking lot ticket to me
for playing a drum. I told him the law is unconstitutional and selectively enforced, ... but go ahead.
He drove away leaving me to play for 30 minutes more.
"RESIST!"...
Posted: Fri, Dec 5, 2008 2:10pm PST
State Senator Mark Leno on California Health Reform in 2009 California State Senator Mark Leno will talk about the prospect for California health care reform in 2009 at the Annual Potluck Healthcare meeting of the SF grassroots single payer advocacy group, "Single Payer Now", on Sunday, 12/14/08, 3 pm, at St. Mary's Cathedral....
Posted: Fri, Dec 5, 2008 9:52am PST
Santa Cruz mulls decision to permanently close museums, pool, and community center On Tuesday, December 9th 2008, Santa Cruz City council will decide the fates of the Beach Flats Community Center, Harvey West Pool, Museum of Natural History and Surfing Museum. In light of the current fiscal crisis the city faces, closures of these facilities and reduction in the employee workforce are possibilities on the table for discussion at the council meeting....
Posted: Thu, Dec 4, 2008 11:55pm PST
Schwarzenegger vetoes the Renters' Rebate! (video/quicktime 56.4MB) Governor Schwarzenegger used his line-item veto power to eliminate $150 million in tax rebates to low-income elderly and disabled renters. This was the governor's single biggest line-item veto in the budget, eliminating all funding for renters under the Senior Citizens Renters Tax Assistance program.
The program, in effect for decades, made senior and disabled renters who earn less than $44,096 eligible for up to $347.50 as a tax rebate. Last year, 467,000 tenant households received paymen...
Posted: Thu, Dec 4, 2008 2:53pm PST
Light-rail in SF and the sad state of affairs - first Third Street and now Central Sub-way We spent over $700 million on the Third Street Light Rail for a third class system that does not deliver. It starts by 4th and King and ends in the middle of no where at Visitation Valley. No one questions why? Why did this Light Rail not connect to a hub by Mission Street? Now, we have the proposal to waste millions on the Central Sub-way and with NO precise plan that makes spending this money in this economic times - not only viable but economical....
Posted: Wed, Dec 3, 2008 4:33pm PST
Police Car Baby-sits a non-existant Farmer's Market Drum Circle Police install and remove steel fence posts and temp fencing every week and now a police car with two officers
sit in the parking lot for several hours... why? To selectively enforce an unconstitutional law....
Posted: Wed, Dec 3, 2008 1:52pm PST
City of San Francisco Infrastructure be prepared for earthquake or depression...
Posted: Tue, Dec 2, 2008 12:28pm PST
Hosing the Homeless Monday, December 1, 2008 : At 4:00 a.m., the silent street waits. A row of swathed bodies slumbers along the Tenderloin Health Center wall at Leavenworth and Golden Gate. Brilliant lights stab the darkness. A siren screams. A police car hurtles just ahead of a Department of Public Works “flusher truck.” Seconds later, orange-vested men approach, shouting groggy sleepers off the street....
Posted: Mon, Dec 1, 2008 8:29pm PST
Sonoma County Activist Gathering Activists and Community Organizations in Sonoma County are coming together this Sunday to network, hear about the various projects/campaigns/actions being organized in our region, and discuss possible ideas for collaboration among the many social justice groups here. This meeting will bring together groups that deal with, among other issues, immigrants' rights, police brutality, feminism and womyns rights, labor, anti-war, sustainable development, arts and culture....
Posted: Mon, Dec 1, 2008 2:43pm PST
Tenants rally for renters rebate The governor of California vetos a rebate low-income seniors and disabled renters receive each year. The extra money they use to live on is about the same Arnold Schwarzwnegger pays for a box of his favorite cigars....
Posted: Sun, Nov 30, 2008 10:14am PST
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