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Activist appointed to Ethics Commission The Board of Supervisors has appointed liberal activist Eileen Hansen to the Ethics Commission, which is responsible for enforcing the city's government conduct and campaign finance laws....
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 9:21pm PST
Ingrid Newkirk to do book-signing 7pm Feb 17th in SF Ingrid Newkirk (PETA's co-founder and president) will be doing a (free!) book-signing and speaking engagement at San Francisco's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place for Books", which is located at 601 Van Ness Avenue on Friday February 17th at 7 PM....
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 1:51pm PST
Honoring Our Covenant of Compassion with Homeless People 
Religious leaders, Houseless folks and Advocates meet to tell the truth of the racist, classist legislation, Care Not Cash...
Posted: Tue, Feb 8, 2005 1:20pm PST
Counter Recruitment Speak Out in SF 2/22 Please join with peace activists to speak out at the S.F. Board of Education
meeting on Feb. 22nd, 7 p.m, at 555 Franklin St., 2nd floor (near Golden
Gate)....
Posted: Tue, Feb 8, 2005 12:17pm PST
Housing Clinic Marks 25 Years of Improving Tenants’ Lives It was 25 years ago this week that the Tenderloin Housing Clinic opened its all-volunteer office. Nine months later Ronald Reagan was elected President, ushering in over two decades of federal backtracking from greater social and economic fairness. But today, Tenderloin residents, residential hotel tenants citywide, and low-income and working-class tenants across San Francisco enjoy far greater legal protections and better conditions than in 1980, countering the nationwide trend. This is the ...
Posted: Tue, Feb 8, 2005 6:44am PST
Interview with Amy Franceschini and Jonathan Meuser (audio/mpeg 28.0MB) Different Bits interview on ECR with Amy Franceschini of Future Farmers and Jonathan Meuser of the National Renewable Energy Lab....
Posted: Tue, Feb 8, 2005 1:23am PST
A Funny Thing Happened on Jury Duty The first trial was for a man accused of selling crack - second offense -
and carrying a gun....
Posted: Mon, Feb 7, 2005 10:36pm PST
Giant KFC Protest in SF 2/6/05 Video (video/quicktime 2.8MB) short 48 seconds of quicktime video from PETA-led KFC demo...
Posted: Mon, Feb 7, 2005 10:01pm PST
Giant KFC Protest in SF 2/6/05 
Over 100 activists descended upon the KFC at Eddy and Polk in San Francisco Sunday February 5th for what normally would have been the noontime lunch rush. It was enough to cover all four corners of the intersection....
Posted: Sun, Feb 6, 2005 9:37pm PST
Global Exchange Event Listings for this Week SHORT EVENT LISTINGS DIRECTLY BELOW
followed by
FULL EVENT DESCRIPTIONS AT BOTTOM...
Posted: Sun, Feb 6, 2005 6:07pm PST
2/19SF Screening "The Gas Is Not For Sale" A premier screening of "The Gas Is Not For Sale" by the Bolivian labor videography group Tecer Mundo will be screened in a benefit for the Latin American Working Class Film and Video Festival in El Alto, Bolivia this coming October. There will also be presentations on labor media....
Posted: Sun, Feb 6, 2005 8:07am PST
The Bay View’s got your back: Fighting for justice for 13 years this week Editorial by Willie Ratcliff...
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 9:57pm PST
Planning Commission Says Yes to Unique Affordable Housing Project The San Francisco Planning Commission voted 5-0 Thursday night to approve a 56 unit affordable housing project designed to provide apartments for current SRO tenants. The project at 785 Brannan, to be owned by the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, will house tenants whose incomes are too low to qualify under the city’s inclusionary housing law. The Commission hearing revealed much about class and racial attitudes in today’s San Francisco....
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 8:30pm PST
AN OPEN LETTER TO AMFA WORKERS 
The bankruptcy judge has unjustly sided with United Airlines against the Airline Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA) membership and imposed a temporary 10 percent cut in pay and benefits on the mechanics that will extend into May....
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 5:05pm PST
'Stop Suicides, Close Golden Gate Bridge,' Gun Rights Group Suggests The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) today called upon the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to "take an important step for public safety" and close the Golden Gate Bridge, which has been a popular suicide platform for more than 65 years....
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 1:14pm PST
Queer Law Students Want to Kick the Military Off Campus Queer law student groups from UC Berkeley, Golden Gate University, UC Hastings, New College, Santa Clara and the University of San Francisco, terming themselves the Coalition of Queer Law Student Associations (CQLSA), are protesting the military recruitment at the 21st Annual Northern California Public Interest/Public Sector (PI/PS) Legal Careers Day. The event, an all-day career fair for public interest oriented law students hosted by the Public Interest Clearinghouse and nine Northern Calif...
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 12:46pm PST
1971- "Suck cock to beat the draft!" "Homosexuals Against The War" demonstrated on 24 March 1971; and now's your turn to march against neo-fascism,
on 19 March 2005.......
Posted: Fri, Feb 4, 2005 11:13pm PST
2/9, 2/27 Request for Volunteer Drivers and Protesters The day labor program has two upcoming pickets scheduled in order to get
back unpaid wages of three San Francisco Day Laborers....
Posted: Fri, Feb 4, 2005 11:10pm PST
Court Support in San Francisco 2/7 AND 2/15 *Who:* Eddy Lepp (Eddy's Medicinal Gardens)
*What:* Hearing for both his criminal charges and the civil asset
forfeiture suit.
*When:* February 7, 2005 11am
Who:* Stephanie Landa, Kevin Gage and Thomas Kikuchi
*What:* Judge Alsup will hear a motion to Reverse their Plea
*When:* Tuesday February 15, 2005 1:30pm...
Posted: Fri, Feb 4, 2005 11:05pm PST
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