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Major Fires Off of Highway 1 In Aptos-Watsonville Consume Homes At approximately 2:00 p.m. fires started off of Highway 1 between Mar Monte Road and Airport Road. By 6:00 p.m., 1000 acres had already burned and several homes destroyed. It is currently burning out of control and continues to threaten the health and safety of people and animals in the area....
Posted: Fri, Jun 20, 2008 6:34pm PDT
Gentrifiers Scared From Castro by Roving Pack of Drag Queens! 
Eleven drag queens leafletted the Castro to promote their effort to take back San Francisco for poor, working class, middle class, disabled, and elderly queers. They leafletted all the local bars except Badlands. Which was purposely avoided. Talk was that the leafletting caused a substantial litter problem....
Posted: Fri, Jun 20, 2008 5:46pm PDT
2008 Worst of SF Awards 
Castro and Market Street (Harvey Milk Plaza)...
Event Date: Sat, Jun 21, 2008 8:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jun 20, 2008 5:38pm PDT
Rally for Single Payer Health Insurance 
A Wake for the Uninsured...
Posted: Fri, Jun 20, 2008 3:12pm PDT
Large Protest Against Health Insurance Companies in San Francisco 
3,000 Protest the Annual Conference of America's Health Insurance Plans in San Francisco...
Posted: Fri, Jun 20, 2008 2:06pm PDT
AIDS Walk San Francisco 2008 Sharon Meadow, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
Near the intersection of John F. Kennedy and Kezar Drives. Enter from Haight or Stanyan Streets. Nearby landmarks include the carousel, the tennis courts, and the children's playground....
Event Date: Sun, Jul 20, 2008 9:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, Jun 20, 2008 12:08pm PDT
Statewide Grassroots Movement Victorious in Stopping the Spray 
In a conference call with environmental and citizen groups, Secretary A. G. Kawamura confirmed that aerial spraying of pesticides is off the table in all urban areas. He went on to say that this includes all areas that are accessible by road: If there are roads, CDFA considers it an urban area....
Posted: Fri, Jun 20, 2008 10:37am PDT
FASHION STATEMENTS at Health Care Rally 
Protesters in front of Moscone Center expressed their support for Single-Payer Health Care plans with fashion.
Raging Granny nurses poured out big doses of SB840, union members sported bold T-shirts, and feminists spoke with their footwear....
Posted: Fri, Jun 20, 2008 9:33am PDT
Health Care Rally for Single Payer Plan Pt. I 
Outside Moscone West yesterday, performers entertained ahead of speakers for a Single Payer Health Care Plan....
Posted: Fri, Jun 20, 2008 2:22am PDT
Aerial Pesticide Spraying Over Cities Stopped 
State stops aerial pesticide spraying over cities. Victory for thousands of Northern California City residents!...
Posted: Thu, Jun 19, 2008 3:52pm PDT
Heavy on the Sticks and Short on the Carrots 
The City of Fresno plans to force homeless residents to move but provides them with nowhere to go. There is something lacking in the City and County’s CARROT AND STICK approach to dealing with the homeless in this community....
Posted: Thu, Jun 19, 2008 12:54pm PDT
High Price For Integrity DJ Vodicka blew the whistle on California's Department of Corrections and 'The Green Wall". Not a new , news article, a New Interview...
Posted: Thu, Jun 19, 2008 8:10am PDT
Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and P.O.C.C.& CISPES present: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
7-10pm @ Station 40
3030B 16th St. (@ Mission St.)
San Francisco, CA
$5-20 suggested donation.
no one turned away for lack of funds....
Event Date: Wed, Jun 18, 2008 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jun 16, 2008 2:14pm PDT
Join Nurses in Protest Against Profit-Hungry Insurance Industry Members of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) are fighting back against insurance companies that care more about profits than people....
Posted: Sat, Jun 14, 2008 10:16am PDT
Fighting for equal food access in Oakland 
Pueblo, along with Cycles of Change, is working to get fresh produce to low-income seniors in under-served areas of Oakland....
Posted: Thu, Jun 12, 2008 3:46pm PDT
SF Vegan Activist Being Held at ICE Detention Center in Need of Support 
A local activist who has been involved with SF FNB and Homes not Jails, among many other things, was arrested in Seattle in late May on a petty charge and was taken to the Northwest Detention Center, a notorious privatized ICE facility owned by the GEO Group, after an ICE raid of the jail he was in.
He needs letters of support, friends, calls for vegan meals [he is on a hunger strike], and legal aid locally [Tacoma.]...
Posted: Thu, Jun 12, 2008 1:09pm PDT
Rally at Berkeley City Council to prevent Bevatron structure pulverization 
This past Tuesday, June 10, Berkeley residents & activists gathered against UC Berkeley's plan to pulverize the Bevatron structure, which would spread nuclear dust onto the doorsteps of thousands....
Posted: Thu, Jun 12, 2008 12:17pm PDT
More Medicare cuts to doctors in Santa Cruz County! 10% Medicare cuts to doctors in Santa Cruz in July and how you might help prevent it....
Posted: Thu, Jun 12, 2008 9:25am PDT
Autry’s Day in Court A report of what happened in court today....
Posted: Tue, Jun 10, 2008 3:55pm PDT
Felton Prevails in Six-Year Fight to Acquire Water System from Cal-Am and RWE 
"This is great victory for the the citizens of Felton and should inspire other communities to challenge private water utilities that are extorting huge, unjustified rate increases," said Jim Mosher, who heads up Felton FLOW's legal committee....
Posted: Mon, Jun 9, 2008 9:38pm PDT
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