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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
Converters poorly translate digital TV signal Television won't work next year.
The government-ordered switch to digital television broadcasting next year promises razor-sharp picture and orchestra-like sound -- that is, if the signal actually comes in....
Posted: Tue, May 20, 2008 8:46pm PDT
They Don't Need No Stinking Permits "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...
Posted: Tue, May 20, 2008 12:57pm PDT
Burma: Time for UN Security Council to Act (New York, May 20, 2008) The United Nations Security Council should insist that aid deliveries and humanitarian workers be given unfettered access to Burma, Human Rights Watch said today. The Burmese government has blocked supplies and humanitarian workers from reaching areas devastated by Cyclone Nargis....
Posted: Tue, May 20, 2008 6:41am PDT
Say Goodbye to Biotech! (Counter Convention Party) 
Children's Park, downtown San Diego.
(Park is between 1st Ave, Front St, Island Ave and Harbor Dr)
Across from the Convention Center....
Event Date: Mon, May 19, 2008 1:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, May 19, 2008 10:33pm PDT
No on 98 Phonebanking to Save Rent Control SEIU phonebanks, 350 Rhode Island at 16th, San Francisco. Monday through Thursday through election day, June 3....
Event Date: Tue, May 20, 2008 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, May 19, 2008 9:30pm PDT
No on 98 Phone banking to Save Rent Control Housing Rights Committee, 427 South Van Ness at 16th, San Francisco...
Event Date: Thu, May 22, 2008 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, May 19, 2008 9:24pm PDT
No on 98 Phone Banking to Save Rent Control Tenants Together, 995 Market at 6th, #1202, San Francisco, 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m....
Event Date: Wed, May 21, 2008 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, May 19, 2008 9:20pm PDT
No on 98 Flyer at Carnival Mission Street from 16th to 24th Streets, San Francisco...
Event Date: Sun, May 25, 2008 10:00am PDT
Posted: Mon, May 19, 2008 9:15pm PDT
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