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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
Major Fires Off of Highway 1 In Aptos-Watsonville Consume Homes At approximately 2:00 p.m. fires started off of Highway 1 between Mar Monte Road and Airport Road. By 6:00 p.m., 1000 acres had already burned and several homes destroyed. It is currently burning out of control and continues to threaten the health and safety of people and animals in the area....
Posted: Fri, Jun 20, 2008 6:34pm PDT
Gentrifiers Scared From Castro by Roving Pack of Drag Queens! 
Eleven drag queens leafletted the Castro to promote their effort to take back San Francisco for poor, working class, middle class, disabled, and elderly queers. They leafletted all the local bars except Badlands. Which was purposely avoided. Talk was that the leafletting caused a substantial litter problem....
Posted: Fri, Jun 20, 2008 5:46pm PDT
2008 Worst of SF Awards 
Castro and Market Street (Harvey Milk Plaza)...
Event Date: Sat, Jun 21, 2008 8:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jun 20, 2008 5:38pm PDT
Rally for Single Payer Health Insurance 
A Wake for the Uninsured...
Posted: Fri, Jun 20, 2008 3:12pm PDT
Large Protest Against Health Insurance Companies in San Francisco 
3,000 Protest the Annual Conference of America's Health Insurance Plans in San Francisco...
Posted: Fri, Jun 20, 2008 2:06pm PDT
AIDS Walk San Francisco 2008 Sharon Meadow, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
Near the intersection of John F. Kennedy and Kezar Drives. Enter from Haight or Stanyan Streets. Nearby landmarks include the carousel, the tennis courts, and the children's playground....
Event Date: Sun, Jul 20, 2008 9:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, Jun 20, 2008 12:08pm PDT
Statewide Grassroots Movement Victorious in Stopping the Spray 
In a conference call with environmental and citizen groups, Secretary A. G. Kawamura confirmed that aerial spraying of pesticides is off the table in all urban areas. He went on to say that this includes all areas that are accessible by road: If there are roads, CDFA considers it an urban area....
Posted: Fri, Jun 20, 2008 10:37am PDT
Dinner and a Movie— Playtime AIA East Bay Chapter Office
1405 Clay Street
Oakland...
Event Date: Wed, Jun 25, 2008 5:30pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jun 20, 2008 9:34am PDT
FASHION STATEMENTS at Health Care Rally 
Protesters in front of Moscone Center expressed their support for Single-Payer Health Care plans with fashion.
Raging Granny nurses poured out big doses of SB840, union members sported bold T-shirts, and feminists spoke with their footwear....
Posted: Fri, Jun 20, 2008 9:33am PDT
Health Care Rally for Single Payer Plan Pt. I 
Outside Moscone West yesterday, performers entertained ahead of speakers for a Single Payer Health Care Plan....
Posted: Fri, Jun 20, 2008 2:22am PDT
APA Presidential Candidate Steven Reisner Condemns Role of Psychologists in Torture Thursday, June 19, 2008 :The Senate investigation confirmed the Pentagon sought the help of military psychologists as early as 2002 to devise so-called aggressive interrogation techniques. Dr. Steven Reisner is a psychoanalyst and a leading critic of the American Psychological Association?s policy governing the role of psychologists in interrogations. He is running for president of the APA and has received more nominating votes than any other candidate. [includes rush transcript]...
Posted: Thu, Jun 19, 2008 10:26pm PDT
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