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Medical Marijuana Documentary "Waiting to Inhale" Free Screening in Clovis July 7 The Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno, 2672 E. Alluvial Ave., Clovis, CA 93611...
Event Date: Mon, Jul 7, 2008 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Jun 25, 2008 12:49pm PDT
Companero Don White, PRESENTE! 
Ksamang (Companero) Don White, PRESENTE! Don is an internationalist like Norman Bethune. He was ever present for Filipino-American issues like the anti-Marcos movement and the Oust Estrada campaign and the oust GMA movement. He always drew paralells with the brutal US-Marcos dictatorship and the atrocious El Salvador military dictatorship that existed at the same time....
Posted: Wed, Jun 25, 2008 9:11am PDT
Vallejo City Council hears from San Francisco constituents about the Rogue Lennar Corp. Vallejo City Council heard from the many San Francisco constituents about the Rogue Lennar BVHP LLC and Lennar Urban at the 7 pm Vallejo City Council Meeting. Vallejo City Council members and the Mayor of Vallejo - Osby Davis were impressed by the astute San Francisco speakers - that changed the the way business was done at this particular council meeting. Vallejo resident congratulated the San Francisco speakers - inviting them to come to expose further and deeper - Lennar and it dubious act...
Posted: Wed, Jun 25, 2008 9:02am PDT
US housing figures and other data: A picture of rapidly growing social misery Wednesday, June 25, 2008 :Millions of people in the US, and not merely those with the lowest incomes, are being hammered by a combination of job losses, rising prices for basic items such as food and gasoline, and the drop in the value of their homes....
Posted: Wed, Jun 25, 2008 7:41am PDT
SF Library $115 Lost-book Fee Flyer contact SF board of supes soon to prevent this $115 Lost-book Fee...
Posted: Tue, Jun 24, 2008 11:18pm PDT
California Food & Justice Coalition Fundraising Dinner At Slow Food Nation Marketbar 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA...
Event Date: Sat, Aug 30, 2008 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Jun 24, 2008 10:33am PDT
Iraq social and refugee crisis is worsening Tuesday, June 24, 2008 :According to a report issued last week by the human rights organization Amnesty International, the plight of nearly 5 million Iraqis displaced from their homes since the American invasion of 2003 is worsening in nearly every respect....
Posted: Tue, Jun 24, 2008 8:02am PDT
Stop the Pulverization of the Bevatron Berkeley City Hall
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Berkeley, Ca...
Event Date: Tue, Jun 24, 2008 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jun 23, 2008 9:11am PDT
Social crisis in Detroit3: Collapse of an American city Monday, June 23, 2008 :This is the conclusion of a three-part series. Part 1: The spiraling cost of food was posted June 20; Part 2: The impact of gas prices was posted June 21....
Posted: Mon, Jun 23, 2008 7:38am PDT
The Eastern Neighborhoods Planning Process and the land that once was Ohlone Land. The Eastern Neighborhood Planning Process has taken over 10 years and the residents of San Francisco have fallen prey to the worst type of corruption from the SF Planning Department. The Land Use Committee headed by the most corrupt, inept, ignorant and arrogant person - Sophina Maxwell has further complicated matters. The areas worst affected the Bayview Hunters Point that was handed over lock, stock, and barrel to the SF Redevelopment Agency....
Posted: Sun, Jun 22, 2008 6:11pm PDT
The Rich Get Hungrier The global food problem is not being caused by a falling trend in world production. It is the result of accelerating demand. Amartya Sen teaches economics and philosophy at Harvard and received the Nobel Prize in economics in 1998. His latest book is "Identity and Violence. The Illusion of Destiny."...
Posted: Sun, Jun 22, 2008 4:48pm PDT
Raging Grannies are for Single Payer! (video/quicktime 26.6MB) Bye-bye Health Insurance Companies!
Two-minute QT movie. 27MB....
Posted: Sun, Jun 22, 2008 2:46pm PDT
Fair housing now/ 2008 worst of S.F. awards 
Fair housing now/ 2008 worst of S.F. awards
2008 Worst of S.F. awards celebrating those most responsible for destroying San Francisco neighborhoods…
The worst gentrifiers!
The most prolific displacers!
The greediest landlords!
The most heinous speculators!
http://www.worstofsf.org/
On June 21, local activists in the Castro district united, in an outdoor public awards ceremony to "honor" greedy landlord speculators most responsible for the gentrification and destruction of San Francisco's...
Posted: Sun, Jun 22, 2008 10:23am PDT
Last we heard Lennar failed tried borrowing $25 million - current projects moth balled Last we heard Lennar BVHP LLC went to Sacramento, trying to pull a fast one and failed to borrow $25 million. Earlier, they borrowed money to pay consultants like Eric Jaye to fight the Bayview community and Proposition F. So, we hear and it is in the news - Lennar is declaring bankruptcy left, right, and center. Proposition F wanted to build homes for those making less then $90,000 and focus on fifty percent affordable housing. Continue to build fifty percent Market Rate Housing - with the 7...
Posted: Sun, Jun 22, 2008 7:42am PDT
Bio-Tech Go Home! 
Hours of confrontation, challenging, cursing , singing, marching up and down the sidewalk, frightening the delegates, while the police looked on helplessly; recharged and energized this small contingent (our hope for the future). Soon, the world will tremble........
Posted: Sun, Jun 22, 2008 12:27am PDT
Bill C-51, Codex and the SPP Through the SPP Canada, the U.S., and Mexico are already busy harmonizing food and drug regulations into a North American Union structure. Some have suggested that Bill C-51 would also bring Canadian law into compliance with the Codex Alimentarius Commission....
Posted: Sat, Jun 21, 2008 5:56pm PDT
Sparks Fly in West Fresno Community Meeting (video/x-ms-wmv 55.4MB) Residents in West Fresno are concerned that the city wants to convert the Frank Ball Community Center into a Police Activity League (PAL) facility. A community meeting, which many people were only given hours notice of, erupted into a “lively” dialog as residents confronted city staff....
Posted: Sat, Jun 21, 2008 5:39pm PDT
Santa Cruz closes all public space due to low humidity The park locations cited as being entirely closed include some city parks entirely surrounded by residential and business areas. Santa Cruz has a high population of homeless who are not served by shelters and live in parks and marginal land areas. Shelter space is particularly inadequate during summer, when some winter church shelters close. There have been three major fires near Santa Cruz this year due to dry and windy la nina conditions.
Sentine staff report
Article Launched: 06/21/200...
Posted: Sat, Jun 21, 2008 2:52pm PDT
Army Turning Trash Into Energy TGER is small enough to fit into a CONEX container, but powerful enough to power a standard 60-kilowatt generator. TGER works by turning the solid trash into fuel pellets which are fed into a down-draft gasifier. The gasifier then heats the pellets, and breaks them down into a synthetic gas composed of simple hydrocarbons that resembles low-grade propane. TGER processes the liquid and food waste into a hydrous ethanol which is blended with the syngas to create usable energy....
Posted: Fri, Jun 20, 2008 8:20pm PDT
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