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New Orleans: Leaving the Poor Behind Again! They are doing it again! My wife and I spent five days and four nights in a hospital in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We saw people floating dead in the water. We watched people die waiting for evacuation to places with food, water, and electricity. We were rescued by boat and waited for an open pickup truck to take us and dozens of others on a rainy drive to the underpass where thousands of others waited for a bus ride to who knows where. You saw the people left behind. The poor, the ...
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 6:55am PDT
Solidarity Not Charity Grassroots Relief Efforts Fill in the Gaps in New Orleans...
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 10:57pm PDT
Measure EE/Just Cause Evictions Protection Hearing Delayed The October 12 Hearing for Measure EE has been delayed until October 26th at 2pm....
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 3:45pm PDT
Anger grows over quake response The Indian prime minister, Manmohan Singh, today pledged another £63m in earthquake relief funds as anger grew over the pace of the response to the south Asia disaster....
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 7:51am PDT
10/16: Poor People's March and Low-Wage Workers Community Congress At 11:30 a.m. on October 16, the Poor People's March will assemble at 16th Street and Mission Street in San Francisco....
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 10:59pm PDT
Devastating quake kills 20,000 in Pakistan and India A major earthquake on Saturday morning measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale has devastated cities, towns and villages across northern Pakistan. The official death toll in Pakistan reached 19,369 yesterday with over 42,000 people injured, but casualties are expected to climb further as rescue workers reach outlying areas. Hundreds more were killed in Indian-controlled Kashmir. The worst affected in both countries were the poor who lived in cheap housing built of mud brick and wood....
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 7:31am PDT
"The People are Boiling with Rage" Hurricane Katrina had blown the problems in GW Bush's face that he wanted to be rid of with churches and caritas: class, race and poverty. On the view of many Bush critics, the chaotic emergency relief was also a consequence of a policy of state dismantling and deregulation....
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 6:19am PDT
Pakistan quake toll hits 30,000 The estimated toll of the South Asian earthquake on Saturday has hit 30,000, Pakistan-administered Kashmir's works and communication minister says....
Posted: Sun, Oct 9, 2005 1:02am PDT
hurricane stan Dear folks-
Hurricane Stan has completely devastated southern mexico and Central America. The gross similarities between Stan and Katrina are obvious: poor people experiencing the tragic effects and government incompetence only endangering the people more.
I have many friends missing and in danger there. To my people out there: You're in my thoughts and prayers! I couldn't find much information in English, so I investigated the Mexican daily La Jornada to get the low down. I wrote this ...
Posted: Sat, Oct 8, 2005 7:23pm PDT
Will President Bush Help Homeless? Ending homelessness was a priority of President Bush. Is the Bush administration still willing to help?...
Posted: Sat, Oct 8, 2005 2:44pm PDT
URGENT Relief Needed for Native American Communities of LA CALL FOR URGENT RELIEF ACTION
Hurricane Relief Needed in Native American Communities of Southern Louisiana...
Posted: Sat, Oct 8, 2005 11:12am PDT
Restrictive bankruptcy bill to remain in place for Hurricane Katrina victims The Bush administration made clear this week that it will not revoke or delay a law that will make it harder for tens of thousands of working-class Americans to file for bankruptcy. With the support of the White House, Republican congressmen rejected calls from consumer groups and some Democrats to place a moratorium on the bill’s provisions for victims of Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Sat, Oct 8, 2005 10:19am PDT
Save Measure EE! Save Just Cause Eviction Protections! ---LANDLORDS SUE OAKLAND IN A BID TO END EVICTION PROTECTIONS---
A Hearing on the Merrits of Just Cause Eviction Protections known as Measure EE, takes place in Oakland on Wednesday October 12, 2005....
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2005 8:14pm PDT
Tenant Activists Picket Prominent Evictor Anyone involved in tenant's rights probably knows the evils of the Ellis Act, a state law used by property owners to evict tenants and convert buildings into condos. But few likely know the man behind almost every Ellis Act in San Francisco: real estate attorney Andrew Zacks. The Tenants' Union headed up a protest in front of Zack's downtown office yesterday, calling attention to his recent move from a representative for evictors to an evictor himself. Zacks just bought an 8-unit building sol...
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2005 7:12am PDT
Black Caucus demands jobs, housing, health care for storm survivors Put people before cronies...
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2005 7:01am PDT
ShelterFinder Volunteers Needed Call for help with shelter data in Northern California and other tasks...
Posted: Thu, Oct 6, 2005 5:17pm PDT
Viva New Mexico! Aspasrtame Finally Imperiled! The Nation's eyes are on New Mexico. State Statutes on poisonous substances and adulteration can preempt federal. new Mexico set a precedent for the world to follow. Hearing to ban aspartame in July....
Posted: Wed, Oct 5, 2005 11:16pm PDT
Heads Up presents "Kanye Was Right!" dance party Kanye Was Right!
A benefit for the People's Hurricane Relief Fund
With Dj's Waltdigz & Ron 9pm-2am
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14TH @ El Rio...
Posted: Wed, Oct 5, 2005 11:21am PDT
New Orleans: Prisoners Abandoned to Floodwaters “Of all the nightmares during Hurricane Katrina, this must be one of the worst,” said Corinne Carey, researcher from Human Rights Watch. “Prisoners were abandoned in their cells without food or water for days as floodwaters rose toward the ceiling.”...
Posted: Wed, Oct 5, 2005 8:24am PDT
DBI Refers Plumbers Union's Civic Center Hotel for City Attorney Prosecution This week the Department of Building Inspection sent the earthquake retrofit violation for the Civic Center Hotel to the City Attorney, who will begin to litigate on behalf of the city. DBI had a director’s hearing April 26th citing the Plumbers’ Union, which owns the Civic Center, for a lack of compliance with the earthquake retrofit. In this hearing the Plumbers’ Union announced their plans to demolish the Civic Center’s 156 residential hotel units, all considered affordable housing, instea...
Posted: Wed, Oct 5, 2005 6:48am PDT
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