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‘Gardens at Harrison’ Project Could Bring Housing for Low-Income Families A proposed development in the South of Market could present an opportunity to bring the neighborhood much-needed low-income family housing, according to community activists and Supervisor Chris Daly. The project’s developers currently hope to rezone their site so they can increase the height of their buildings 40 feet, which would add around 300 more units of housing. The most recent attempt at such a massive rezoning in SOMA, the 299-unit 4th and Freelon project, passed only after the develo...
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 7:35am PST
Second disaster looming for millions of Kashmir earthquake victims Two months after the October 8 earthquake that devastated Kashmir and the northern areas of Pakistan, the number killed continues to rise. Pakistani officials put the death toll at more than 87,000, but independent estimates suggest the figure could be well over 100,000. In Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir, another 1,350 people were killed by the quake....
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 7:22am PST
NEW ORLEANS REPORT BACK TODAY at 4pm Fresh from New Orleans -insights, analysis, stories, pics, and video. Please come to the first reportback from New Orleans from volunteers who caravaned from the Bay Area to work with Common Ground Collective over Thanksgiving Week....
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 12:58pm PST
Support Grassroots Bioremediation in New Orleans The Alliance for Community Trainers -- a new 501c3 organization
facilitated by Starhawk, one of the founders of Reclaim the Commons in
2004 -- will help support efforts to clean up New Orleans using the
natural methods of bioremediation: using bacteria, plants and fungi to
break down toxins and restore the health of the soil...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 12:21pm PST
Quality of Life Citations Costly and Unjust 02.DEC.05:
At a press conference yesterday morning in City Hall's South Light Court, religious leaders spoke out against contradictory aspects of San Francisco's treatment of homeless people. Their goal - to raise awareness about those city policies which they feel are unjust and lacking in compassion, including the dramatic spike in citations against sleeping outdoors since Mayor Gavin Newsom took office....
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 8:59am PST
Angry hurricane evacuees sue feds A few short months after the nation’s greatest natural disaster, Hurricane Katrina, followed by Hurricane Rita, the news media are reporting that donor-weary Americans are moving on with their lives and preparing for the holidays.
That reality flew in the face of members of the Hurricane Evacuee Council-Bay Area, who experienced disinterest and insensitivity from about 60 percent of the spectators who rushed past them to get to the tree lighting ceremony in Ghirardelli Square on Friday....
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 8:58am PST
‘People of color are already the majority; we just need to take charge!’ “People of color are already the majority in California; we just need to take charge,” said Steve Phillips, former San Francisco school board member and executive director of PowerPac.org. Phillips’ well-informed voice joined a panel of legislators and policy makers at last week’s Racial Policy Summit held in Oakland....
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 8:55am PST
Liquor Store Attacks Go Deeper than Booze Mom-and-pop liquor stores have long been a target for blacks angry at the economic disempowerment of their communities. Earl Ofari Hutchinson is a contributing editor at Pacific News Service and the author of "The Crisis in Black and Black."...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 8:53am PST
Hip-Hop Predicted Liquor Store Trashings Long Ago Hip hop musicians have long addressed -- and frequently profited from -- liquor sales in impoverished black neighborhoods. PNS contributor Adisa Banjoko is a lecturer and author of the upcoming book "Lyrical Swords Vol. 2: Westside Rebellion." For more information visit http://www.lyricalswords.com....
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 8:51am PST
BTL:Poor New Orleans Residents Struggle to Have Their Say on... ...City's Reconstruction ~ Interview with Steve Bradberry, lead New Orleans organizer with ACORN, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 6:16am PST
Profit-driven Medicare drug plan stirs confusion and anger Registration for Medicare new prescription drug plan opened November 15, provoking widespread anger and confusion among its potential beneficiaries. The drug benefit, also known as Medicare Part D, is a government-subsidized, privatized insurance program that covers a portion of prescription drug costs....
Posted: Sat, Dec 3, 2005 9:05am PST
CDC: AIDS the Leading Cause of Death Among African American Women Aged 25-44 According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 68% of women who contract AIDS are black. The CDC also reported AIDS was a leading cause of death among black women ages 25 to 44. We speak with the National Coalition of One Hundred Black Women....
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 7:09am PST
World AIDS Day: A Look at the Fight Against the Global Pandemic The 18th annual World AIDS Day was observed yesterday around the theme "Stop AIDS, Keep the Promise." The World Health Organization estimates that 3.1 million people worldwide will die of AIDS this year including 500,000 children and a recent UN AIDS report showed that the number of people living with HIV has topped 40 million for the first time. We speak with the Center for Health and Gender Equity....
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 7:08am PST
Human Rights Watch Calls for Increased Support, Protections for Global AIDS Activists ...
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 6:39am PST
Battle rages vs. budget cuts 300,000 each month to lose food stamps under GOP scrooge plan...
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 5:39pm PST
Eviction Moratorium Stalls Rush of Evictions in New Orleans As we pull up to the apartment complex in a neighborhood East of New Orleans, all Diane's belongs are being thrown from her second story window. A worker in a forklift hauls her belongings to the street, dumping Diane's lifelong belongings on the curb. This is a common sight in New Orleans where evictions are increasing and what little rights tenants have are being ignored....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 3:08pm PST
HIV/Aids invades Africa's last uninfected outpost in Sudan HIV/Aids has penetrated southern Sudan, the last untouched pocket of Africa, threatening an isolated and uninformed people with disaster, health experts warned yesterday, the eve of World Aids Day....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 3:06pm PST
Smoke Signals: Rebellion of the Periphery The young French of North African descent are outraged over a policy of transforming labor markets into slave markets that began in the EU.. Being a slave has already become a privilege.. The United States of Amnesia, the empire of shame, should promote social human rights and human dignity....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 5:46am PST
50,000 Katrina evacuees without permanent housing More than 50,000 people are still living in hotel rooms three months since the devastating consequences of Hurricane Katrina displaced as many as one million people. The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is currently funding hotel stays for the evacuees who have not been able to find housing. After the next round of deadlines, FEMA will no longer pay the hotel bills....
Posted: Wed, Nov 30, 2005 6:32am PST
FEMA/RED CROSS GOP SAY NO MONEY TO TRANSIENT EVACUEES OF RITA/KATRINA I want to stress that i am not a left wing person. I am a Conservative Republican.
So one cannot dismiss this as anti gop propoganda. Is aw the horrible job fema/red cross has done and how homeless, travelers, transients are basically being told to die by the Red Cross and FEMA...
Posted: Tue, Nov 29, 2005 3:06pm PST
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