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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....

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...

"RECLAIM THE STREETS" IS CALLING FOR PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE IN A DEMONSTRATION ON MAY 31 TO DECLARE THE THREAT TO RENT CONTROL IN THE JUNE ELECTIONS. THIS DEMONSTRATION FLASHES BACK TO THE DEMONSTRATIONS IN THE 60S WHEN PEOPLE BLED AND WERE ARRESTED WHILE ASSERTING THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO FREE SPEECH AND FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY...

Children's Park, downtown San Diego. (Park is between 1st Ave, Front St, Island Ave and Harbor Dr) Across from the Convention Center....

Housing Rights Committee, 427 South Van Ness at 16th, San Francisco...

Mission Street from 16th to 24th Streets, San Francisco...

Monday, May 19, 2008 :A week after the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan province, the Chinese government has declared three days of national mourning, beginning today, for those who lost their lives in the disaster. The mourning period is the longest since the death of Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1997. For three days, all national flags will fly at half-mast and all public recreational activities, including the Olympic torch relay, will be suspended....

Tonight at about 11:10/11:15, a woman on or with a bicycle was hit by a speeding vehicle on Ashby just east of Acton Street. At first I thought it must have been the speeding motorcycle that I had just heard (I heard a brief pause between the motorcycle and the pieces of the bike hitting the ground, though), but some neighbors think it could have been a police car that would have been chasing it. All I know is that the CHP responded within a minute, as if they'd been a block or less away, a...

The California Association of Realtors (CAR) is funding the Proposition 98 campaign to the tune of HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of DOLLARS, in an effort to make an ever larger profit by evicting renters from a building before it has been sold to the highest bidder! The eviction for profit system is real, and the ruthless California Association of Realtors will evict the working class, the elderly, disabled, and our families with children from our communities if a profit can be made!...

The Labor Council of San Francisco has sold out on standards and made a pact with the devil itself. Add to ACORN, Local Union 22, the Plumbers Union Local 38, the BVHP Project Area Committee, and the Citizens Advisory Committee to the Shipyard - and you could not have gathered a bunch of worse culprits - all with a dubious history, less integrity, and totally out of sync with San Franciscans and decent folks that want to do the right thing with Affordable Housing....