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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
San Franciscans Should Be Told Truth About Violence When are we going to tell the people of San Francisco neighborhoods the real truth - that City Hall has no answers to the run away crime in San Francisco. I wrote two months ago about the fear we are experiencing in our various neighborhoods, only to have a spin from City Hall that crime was down and cameras posted on light polls will do the job of lowering the crime rate in our various impoverished neighborhoods. Well good citizens - the crime rate is spreading throughout the city - from bur...
Posted: Tue, Nov 29, 2005 1:17pm PST
Liquor Store Glut Last year, CBS 5 Investigates reported on how the federal government is actually helping more liquor stores to open or stay open through loans from The Small Businesses Administration. As a result of our investigation, Miley formed a task force to look at the problem, and changing that SBA policy is at the top of his list....
Posted: Tue, Nov 29, 2005 10:44am PST
Vandalized liquor store gutted by suspicious fire A West Oakland liquor store targeted last week by vandals went up in flames early Monday in a deliberately set fire, authorities said....
Posted: Mon, Nov 28, 2005 11:28pm PST
The Last Testament Of Mary Jesus The Anniversary Of The Death Of Mary Jesus Occurs On December 10, 2005. People Are Invited To The Tribune Tower On December 10, In Memory Of Her Passing....
Posted: Mon, Nov 28, 2005 7:40am PST
Alcohol smashed in Oakland, California Two alochol stores smashed in Oakland, California...
Posted: Fri, Nov 25, 2005 9:15am PST
eat Local Organic food and abate global starvation How the environment and eating (Local Organic Food) is linked to Gandhi's ideology for transforming the world. Many links....
Posted: Thu, Nov 24, 2005 11:07pm PST
Hurricane evacuees to protest at tree-lighting ceremony Onlookers at the 41st Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony set for Friday, Nov. 25, at the “dazzling winter wonderland” erected at Ghirardelli Square will see much more than a lit-up Christmas Tree. Sponsored by California Bank & Trust and Safeway, the event promises festive treats, entertainment and gift cards from Safeway to “bring the holidays home to families who were relocated to San Francisco form the devastated Gulf Coast,” according to the bank’s press release....
Posted: Thu, Nov 24, 2005 9:15pm PST
Train in vain?: A critical analysis of our effort to foment a "social strike" on SF's MUNI The following is the beginning of a work-in-progress. 'Train in Vain' analyzes the recent attempt by a number of us to foment an Italian-style "self-reduction" campaign against the Sept. 1st MUNI fare hike, service cuts and intensified exploitation of MUNI operators....
Posted: Mon, Nov 21, 2005 11:27am PST
BTL:France's Street Violence Ascribed to Decades of State Inattention to... ...High Unemployment and Poverty Among Immigrants ~ Interview with Paul Silverstein, associate professor of anthropology at Reed College, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Sun, Nov 20, 2005 11:07am PST
US House of Representatives approves $50 billion in social cuts In the early hours of Friday morning, the House of Representatives passed a budget reconciliation bill that includes cuts of nearly $50 billion over five years, primarily in social programs for the poor. At the same time, Congress is considering extending tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy in the amount of $60 billion-$70 billion over the same period....
Posted: Sat, Nov 19, 2005 9:35am PST
BART to add night service! Getting around the Bay Area on public transit after midnight, when BART stops running, is about to get a lot easier for late-night revelers and folks who work off-hours....
Posted: Sat, Nov 19, 2005 8:58am PST
More Than 1,000 Katrina Children Still Missing In the chaos of the evacuation of New Orleans and other storm-ravaged areas of the Gulf Coast, several thousand children were reported missing. Two and half months after the hurricane hit, nearly 1,300 are still on missing-children lists....
Posted: Thu, Nov 17, 2005 2:52pm PST
Ellis Victims Disrupt Eviction Lawyers’ Luncheon High above the homes of their victims, eviction lawyers dined yesterday in the posh Carnelian room, located on 52nd floor of the Bankers Club with sweeping views of the City. The luncheon was part of the Bar Association of San Francisco’s seminar on legal developments regarding the Ellis Act. The guests of honor were eviction profiteers Andrew Zacks and Andy Sirken. About the time entrees were served, recent Ellis Act evictee Jose Morales spoke up, and suddenly this event got interesting....
Posted: Thu, Nov 17, 2005 8:14am PST
FEMA to Stop Paying for Evacuees' Hotels WASHINGTON -- FEMA is stepping up the pressure on some 53,000 families left homeless by hurricanes to leave government-paid hotel rooms and find long-term housing....
Posted: Wed, Nov 16, 2005 11:25pm PST
Airborne mould poses serious health threat in New Orleans People who have returned to the devastated city of New Orleans are facing fresh problems from high levels of airborne mould, which experts say pose a serious health threat....
Posted: Wed, Nov 16, 2005 10:43pm PST
FEMA to evict tens of thousands of Katrina victims The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced Tuesday that it would stop paying for housing for most of the nearly 60,000 families left homeless by Hurricane Katrina who are staying in government-paid hotel and motel rooms. The cutoff will be effective December 1....
Posted: Wed, Nov 16, 2005 10:29pm PST
The War At Home: New Orleans, Public Housing, and the “Chilean Option” Grass roots activists in New Orleans and Gulf Coast argue that the Bush-led regime, with support from the Democrats, are using hurricane Katrina to deepen and expand the racist and anti-working class neoliberal offensive of privatization, austerity, and attacks on civil liberties. In short, the U.S. government is coupling its’ Salvador option abroad with a “Chilean option” at home....
Posted: Sun, Nov 13, 2005 6:57pm PST
Free Show at Peoples Park Today to Restore Free Box After UC Vandalism MANNEQUIN, THE VILLAGE YIDDIOTS, I YEARN FOR MAIDEN, AND HARBINGER are scheduled to play a free show at Peoples Park in Berkeley today, Saturday (11/12), from 12-4:30PM. This is an effort to draw a large crowd to restore the historic Free Box after repeated UC Berkeley cop vandalism. The show may also be an unpermitted event since the UC has said that a free show can only be 60 decibels loud....
Posted: Sat, Nov 12, 2005 9:59am PST
Dead Woman In Street, Saint Ram Bone Watches Today I arrived after a woman was hit on Geary near the Presidio. Then some one in a new Lexus almost hit me in the crosswalk. So much love in America. As a veteran with disabilities, I encourage you to respect the locals in the crosswalks. The government abuses us enough with international assistance. Free Music and videos at Mobile Audit Club...
Posted: Fri, Nov 11, 2005 4:06pm PST
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