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An artist is a terrible thing to waste
Legislation is introduced by Mark Leno that could save public arts programs in schools and in the community...
Posted: Fri, Apr 15, 2005 11:46pm PDT
Earth Day Celebration - Cooking Demo and Film
Earth Day Celebration - Cooking Demo and Film Sponsored by the San Francisco Vegetarian Society...
Posted: Fri, Apr 15, 2005 12:20pm PDT
Proposed Tenderloin Housing Clinic Cut Amounts to Attack on Renters, Immigrants
For the past twenty years, renters in San Francisco knew that if they faced wrongful eviction, they could turn to the Tenderloin Housing Clinic (THC) for free legal help. Yet now, Mayor Gavin Newsom wants to launch another salvo at low-income and working class people by cutting in half funding for this aid. Should this proposed cut become a reality, vulnerable tenants throughout San Francisco, including monolingual Spanish speakers, will suffer....
Posted: Fri, Apr 15, 2005 6:49am PDT
In Defense of Animals Bay Area Alert 4-14-05
Upcoming action items for the week of 4-14 through 4-21...
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 7:25pm PDT
Friday AM: AZ Delegation Local Press Conference and Despedida
When: Friday, April 15, 10:30am, Press Conference and
Despedida
447 Valencia St, San Francisco (in front of the
Sunrise Hotel...
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 6:25pm PDT
Subscribe to Fault Lines and Get Two FREE Tix to "Guantánamo" on 4/15 8pm
A Fault Lines Subscription gets you two tickets to see Guantánamo: 'Honor Bound to Defend Freedom' on Friday, that's TOMORROW AT 8PM...
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 5:36pm PDT
Newsroom on Access SF Channel 29
TV news program developed by independent producers. News, interviews, announcements, commentaries, and more, that you won't see anywhere else!...
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 10:23am PDT
Feds Target Bay Area Activists
Federal agents have been swarming over activists in the bay area - following them, detaining them, and most recently raiding two homes. At 6am, Sunday April 10th, members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, FBI, ATF, Secret Service, Coast Guard, and local police raided activist homes with guns drawn....
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 10:18am PDT
Queer Afternoon For Palestine!
Queer Art Meets Palestinian Art – A Queer Afternoon at Made In Palestine. Your friends in the Heads Up Collective would like to encourage you to attend this event, organized by our fellow Justice In Palestine Coalition member organization, QUIT (Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism)....
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 5:31pm PDT
San Francisco Needle Exchange loses funding
The San Francisco Needle Exchange, the only exchange in the Haight-Ashbury which primarily serves young homeless IDU, lost its funding this past week. The SFDPH Aids Office has chosen to stop funding this program, a decision that is extremely socially irresponsible. We are asking for community support in a mass letter writing campaign to the board of supervisors and Aids Office....
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 2:59pm PDT
The Emotional World of Farmed Animals on KQED
This was filmed primarily at Farm Sanctuary and Animal Place in CA. There is no graphic footage. This is a nice way to show people who are unfamiliar with farm animals, that they are just as feeling and emotional as the animals we call pets. Beautifully done, thumbs up!...
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 10:52am PDT
F_ckForForest, Ammiano4queen, People'sPark, Votergate...
...events and newslinks in our SF Bay Gayrea......
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 7:28am PDT
5/12: Screening of "I'm Not Sorry" in SF
"I'm Not Sorry"- A Documentary by Jennifer Baumgartner will be screened on Thursday, May 12th from 7-9pm at 777 Valencia, btw 19th and 20th at the New College of California...
Posted: Tue, Apr 12, 2005 11:11pm PDT
Pepper Spray By Q tip Trial Starts Today; Press Conference Tomorrow
Jury selection will be
Tuesday with opening arguments expected Wednesday April 13 before the
Hon. Susan Illston at the Federal Courthouse (450 Golden Gate Ave.,
San Francisco, courtroom 10, 19th floor). Court schedule is
Mon.-Thurs., 8:30 am -1:30 pm.
A press conference with the eight plaintiffs and their legal team
will be held before court at 8 a.m. on Wednesday April 13...
Posted: Tue, Apr 12, 2005 10:12am PDT
Rockin' the Boat: CA Workers Comp Threatened (audio/mpeg 4.4MB)
Injured workers rallied in San Francisco, April 4, as the state Division of Workers' Compensation, held
the last public hearing on proposed cuts in permanent disability payments for workplace injuries....
Posted: Tue, Apr 12, 2005 10:10am PDT
Photos from Dog March Against UCSF Dog Experiments, April 10th
To protest and draw media attention to UCSF's heartless cruelty, a dog march was held at which over 100 people and dogs were present. (Those who didn't have dogs were welcome, too!)...
Posted: Mon, Apr 11, 2005 8:40pm PDT
pictures from made in palestine
pictures from the art show "made in palestine"...
Posted: Mon, Apr 11, 2005 1:38pm PDT