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Skid Row Charity to pass 15,000 $1 bills on Christmas
LOS ANGELES, CA, (NAMC) - Here is some good holiday news that may put scrooges in good spirits. In Los Angeles, California the Skid Row Charity Fund headed by Father Maurice Chase will be giving out $15,000 in dollar bills to the poor and homeless that reside on LA's Skid Row....
Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2005 6:14pm PST
acts of treason of the rnc right
crooked lies and crooked politics...
Posted: Sat, Dec 17, 2005 10:53am PST
New Orleans Residents Face Eviction From Homes as Rents Skyrocket
Three months after fighting for their lives in the days after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, many survivors are now fighting to keep their homes in the city of New Orleans. We speak with attorney Ishmael Muhammad and a N.O. resident being evicted about the rising costs of rent and the legal challenges facing evacuees....
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2005 7:21am PST
Workers in New Orleans Denied Pay, Proper Housing and Threatened with Deportation
In the clean-up efforts following the devastation of hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, many undocumented workers and homeless people were recruited to the area to work under large companies contracted by the federal government. We speak with Newsday reporter Tina Susman, who has investigated the case of a group of homeless men, and Bill Chandler, about subcontractors and workers' complaints....
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2005 7:20am PST
Important Hearing on Voter-Owned Elections Monday
The Ethics Commission will hear a proposal Monday that advocates hope will be a major step towards leveling the playing field in mayoral elections. Dubbed ‘voter-owned elections,’ the legislation would promise more public funding to candidates who demonstrated a large base of supporters. In exchange, the candidate would them voluntarily cap the amount of money they could obtain from private fundraising. With San Franciscans seeing wealthier candidates outspending their opponents by margins as...
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2005 6:57am PST
Katrina’s Aftermath: The Catastrophe Continues
Katrina was not a natural disaster; it was and still is a social disaster....
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 9:28pm PST
Land Use Committee Approves Proposals to Slow 'Bad' Evictions
The Board of Supervisors Land Use Committee approved two proposals yesterday aimed at decreasing the number of ‘bad’ evictions – evictions that displace seniors, disabled and low-income people - in San Francisco. The first proposal would force those trying to sell buildings where bad evictions occur to notify potential buyers earlier in the home-buying process. The second would inject more city oversight and public input into the condo conversion process by forcing the Planning Commission to ...
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 8:41am PST
Ellis Act Evictor Squares Off With DBI Chief Lee on Wednesday
The appeal of DBI Director Amy Lee’s home renovation permits by notorious eviction attorney Andrew Zacks and his client, the mysterious “Citizens for the Equal Treatment in the Permit Process,” will be heard Wednesday at the Board of Appeals. Since filing the appeal Zacks has steadfastly refused to identify any members of the previously- unheard of group, leading many to conclude that the appeal simply sought to further harass Amy Lee. Documents obtained by Beyond Chron reveal that two of Zac...
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 7:02am PST
Three months after the Katrina disaster: New Orleans left for dead
An editorial last Sunday in the New York Times, headlined “Death of an American City,” begins, “We are about to lose New Orleans.” It goes on to state that “the moment is upon us when a major American city will die, leaving nothing but a few shells for tourists to visit like a museum.”...
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 6:48am PST
Selling off the Social State
Attitudes are the only disability. If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. "Social solidarity with the sick is eroding.. The solidarian security from risks is the prerequisite for personal responsibility..The social security systems in Germany are not organized for this but are overly coupled to paid work."...
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 10:24am PST
How Many Are Missing and Dead After Katrina? Three Months After the Hurricane ...
Questions still remain over how many people died after Hurricane Katrina as well as the whereabouts of all of the evacuees. The official death toll stands at about 1,300 but thousands of people are still reported missing. One newspaper reported the whereabouts of 6,600 people reported missing have not been determined. We speak with New Orleans evacuee Leah Hodges, who is still missing her brother, and Tina Susman, a Newsday reports the number of missing include over 1,300 children....
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2005 7:20am PST
Role of Race and Class in Government's Response to Hurricane Katrina
Three months after Hurricane Katrina ripped through the southern coast of the United States, decimating communities in Mississippi and Louisiana, we play excerpts of an explosive congressional hearing focusing on race and the government's response to the disaster....
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2005 7:12am PST
New Orleans Now: Bay Area volunteers share shocking stories
The flicker of the changing images held the packed warehouse community co-op audience spellbound. At least 70 people, mostly white social justice activists, turned out to watch the New Orleans update from the Common Ground Collective’s Video Committee. The new video is a compendium of footage and images from at least seven Bay Area volunteers who took part in the organization’s rebuilding New Orleans campaign....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 5:46pm PST
Rules Committee Backs Minimum Wage Ordinance
San Francisco’s minimum wage ordinance is positioned to grow teeth after the Rules Committee recommended legislation that would authorize the Office of Labor Standards Enforcement to impose it. As the law currently exists, the OSLE, which is created within the Department of Administrative Services, is authorized to enforce only the prevailing wage ordinance. The proposed legislation, however, would enable OLSE to enforce the minimum wage, minimum compensation, and health care accountability o...
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 5:28pm PST
Katrina Survivors Set Course for People’s Assembly in New Orleans
Tamika Middleton, of Critical Resistance South, was unfazed by tense exchanges between Republican congressmen and survivors of Hurricane Katrina during a Dec. 6 special hearing in Washington, D.C. Trouble brewed when survivors stated flat out that what happened was genocide, aimed at killing poor Black people. The red-faced GOP leaders wanted kinder, gentler language and explanations for government failures, deaths and the unclear road ahead....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 7:28am PST
SophistiCity bedbugs, Project Homeless Connect, political events
"Here come Bed Bug, to So-phisti-City,
jes a-lookin for a home... "...
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 12:41am PST
African Women Confront Bush's AIDS Policy
Death, Politics and the Condom
By YIFAT SUSSKIND...
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2005 6:45am PST
Bush uses World AIDS Day to push Christian right agenda
For President George W. Bush, World AIDS Day was another occasion to pander to the Christian fundamentalist right wing that makes up the political base of his administration....
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 10:13pm PST
Chronicle Censors Religious Leaders’ Questioning of Newsom Homeless Policy
For the past three years, the San Francisco Chronicle’s “Shame of the City” series has sought to chronicle the city’s battle to reduce homelessness. The paper has written dozens of stories on Care not Cash, Project Connect, and other strategies, and has been overwhelmingly supported of Mayor Newsom’s response to homelessness. But when several prominent religious leaders held a City Hall press conference last Thursday to criticize a dramatic increase in criminal citations for camping under New...
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 7:37am PST