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Sister's Home Burned in Wild Fire!!!
My Sister and her family lost everything in the mountain wild fire yesterday.
Let me know if you can help....
Posted: Fri, May 23, 2008 2:06pm PDT
SF Debate and INFORUM: Prop 98 vs Prop 99
Commonwealth Club
595 Market, 2nd Floor
SF, CA 94105
directly outside Montgomery BART...
Event Date: Tue, May 27, 2008 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, May 23, 2008 1:48pm PDT
Does anyone know of a food coop in santa cruz?
Does anyone know of a food coop?...
Posted: Fri, May 23, 2008 9:49am PDT
No Aerial Spraying Resolution at the SF Board of Education Meeting
Irving G. Breyer Board Meeting Room
555 Franklin St, 1st Floor (McAllister & Fulton)
San Francisco...
Event Date: Tue, May 27, 2008 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, May 23, 2008 9:24am PDT
Chinese leaders respond to anger over shoddy buildings and lack of help
Friday, May 23, 2008 :Eleven days after the deadly earthquake hit Sichuan province on May 12, the Chinese government is turning from rescue to relief and reconstruction. Yesterday it revised the number of dead and missing to 80,000. The confirmed death toll is 51,151 and another 300,000 people have been injured. As the official three-day period of national mourning ended, the biggest issue confronting Beijing is how to cope with some 5 million homeless people and to rebuild the many flattened...
Posted: Fri, May 23, 2008 7:42am PDT
Sydney hospital nurses impose work bans: not enough beds for the mentally ill
Friday, May 23, 2008 :Nurses at Prince of Wales hospital in Sydney imposed work bans for the second time in two weeks on May 15 protesting the lack of adequate treatment for psychiatric patients in both the emergency department and the hospitals mental health unit....
Posted: Fri, May 23, 2008 7:39am PDT
BIG LABOR SELLS OUT
May 22, 2008
Fog City Journal
Lennar Deal Stinks...
Posted: Fri, May 23, 2008 5:33am PDT
Heres what you can do to help defeat Prop 98! Please Help Out!
The following is from the nameless prick who sniped at me for posting the information that Prop 98 is losing in the polls, and for thanking all of those for continuing to contribute their efforts to help defeat Prop 98. Unfortunately, that same individual who lacked the moral compass to post their name, was not even bright enough to post the following information to where it actually might be helpful to the public at large. I for one will be glad when this campaign comes to an end and Prop 98...
Posted: Thu, May 22, 2008 7:01pm PDT
Boycott Monterey Bay Aquarium If They Won’t Boycott LBAM Spray
Thinking of taking the kids to Monterey Bay Aquarium this year for a family vacation? If you’re considering doing this because you love sea life and want to share the wonders of it with your children, don’t give your money or support to the Monterey Bay Aquarium....
Posted: Thu, May 22, 2008 6:21pm PDT
STRIKE Results for 20,000 UC Workers Press Conference on Friday
The central issue has been that wages have fallen dramatically behind other hospitals and California's community colleges where workers are paid an average of 25% higher for the same work....
Posted: Thu, May 22, 2008 11:46am PDT
Ride Of Silence Bicycle Ride Tempe Az 5-21-08
To HONOR those who have been injured or killed
To RAISE AWARENESS that we are here
To ask that we all SHARE THE ROAD
THE RIDE OF SILENCE? WILL NOT BE QUIET
On May 21, 2008, at 7:00 PM, the Ride of Silence? will begin in North America and roll across the globe. Cyclists will take to the roads in a silent procession to honor cyclists who have been killed or injured while cycling on public roadways. Although cyclists have a legal right to share the road with motorists, the motoring public...
Posted: Thu, May 22, 2008 10:48am PDT
Fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains: Breaking News
800 acres have already burned in the mountains--Summit Road is closed at Mt. Madonna unless you're headed away from the fire which is spreading south as of 8 AM....
Posted: Thu, May 22, 2008 8:08am PDT
China Lights A Path For Burma
From a Wednesday, May 21, 2008 entry on Informed Comment Global Affairs, a group blog run by Juan Cole, Manan Ahmed, Farideh Farhi, and Barnett R. Rubin...
Posted: Thu, May 22, 2008 6:49am PDT
Prop 98 Continues To Lose In The Polls
The Polls Again Are Showing That The Voters Are Rejecting Prop 98 and Supporting Prop 99!...
Posted: Thu, May 22, 2008 6:24am PDT
Press Release: Tenants Speakout Against Realtors For Supporting Prop 98
On the News Wire... Bay Area Tenants Are Speaking Out Against The Mistreatment Of Renters By Bay Area Realtors & Their Support Of Prop 98! The California Association Of Realtors Have Contributed Around $632,000 To The Prop 98 Campaign In An Effort To Take Away Tenant Protections! Realtors Make A Bigger Profit If They Evict The Tenants In A Building Before It Has Been Sold!...
Posted: Wed, May 21, 2008 8:13pm PDT
Progressive Politicos Preach to the Choir on the Back Steps of the Church With the Golden
Several “progressive” politicians, including San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin spoke to group of people who obviously already agreed with the premise that rent control was endangered by Proposition 98 and, “Proposition 99 is fine”....
Posted: Wed, May 21, 2008 5:33pm PDT
San Francisco Tenants Rally Against Prop 98, Then Vote Against It
Hundreds of San Francisco tenants rallied against Prop 98 today at City Hall, then went inside to vote against it. Proposition 98 is on the June 3 election ballot. It would outlaw rent control statewide, and strip away other tenant protections as well....
Posted: Wed, May 21, 2008 4:11pm PDT
Rising death toll, popular anger in China quake
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 :Official casualty figures in the May 12 earthquake disaster in southwestern Chinas Sichuan province continue to rise, amid continuing concerns about possible aftershocks, flash flooding and sanitary conditions. Reports have also begun to emerge of organized protests against shoddy construction, especially by parents whose children were killed in the numerous school collapses caused by the earthquake....
Posted: Wed, May 21, 2008 7:31am PDT
Senate committee passes pro-business housing bill amidst foreclosure crisis
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 :A key US Senate committee passed bipartisan-supported legislation Tuesday that will provide meager relief to homeowners while allowing banks and mortgage companies to receive government backing for some failing loans....
Posted: Wed, May 21, 2008 7:31am PDT
Protest Herth Realty: Stop Gentrification of the Castro!
In recent years, we have seen the Castro emptied of gays, the Mission of Latinos, and the Bayview of African Americans. The neighborhoods are being emptied by real estate speculation and greed. The newcomers are primarily affluent, white and straight. The minorities who have shaped these communities cannot compete with the new-comers for apartments and homes.
Stop Herth! is a tenants’ rights organization devoted to ending the gentrification of the Castro neighborhood. The focus of Stop Herth...
Posted: Tue, May 20, 2008 9:03pm PDT