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SF Weekend Voting at City Hall for No on 98/Yes on F
Early Voting on Absentee Ballots at San Francisco City Hall, Registrar of Voters, Van Ness and McAllister, Basement on Van Ness Side...
Event Date: Sun, Jun 1, 2008 10:00am PDT
Posted: Sat, May 17, 2008 5:52am PDT
SF Weekend Voting at City Hall for No on 98/Yes on F
Early Voting on Absentee Ballots at San Francisco City Hall, Registrar of Voters, Van Ness and McAllister, Basement on Van Ness Side...
Event Date: Sat, May 31, 2008 10:00am PDT
Posted: Sat, May 17, 2008 5:49am PDT
SF Weekend Voting at City Hall for No on 98/Yes on F
Early Voting on Absentee Ballots at San Francisco City Hall, Registrar of Voters, Van Ness and McAllister, Basement on Van Ness Side...
Event Date: Sun, May 25, 2008 10:00am PDT
Posted: Sat, May 17, 2008 5:46am PDT
SF Weekend Voting at City Hall for No on 98/Yes on F
Early Voting on Absentee Ballots at San Francisco City Hall, Registrar of Voters, Van Ness and McAllister, Basement on Van Ness Side...
Event Date: Sat, May 24, 2008 10:00am PDT
Posted: Sat, May 17, 2008 5:41am PDT
Proposition G bribes innocent constituents to vote for something they do not comprehend.
Proposition G has wasted millions trying to bribe innocent constituents who are bluffed to VOTE for a slate that lies about facts and blessed by pansy endorsers. Scott Wiener,Diane Feinstein, Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, Bevan Dufty, Jose Cisneros, and Phil Ting. Last I heard NONE of them are connected with the Bayview Hunters Point. None - what so ever. None of them would think in Kosher to mess with the Pacific Height Mafia....
Posted: Sat, May 17, 2008 5:35am PDT
No on 98 Campaign in SF to Save Rent Control
Meet at 11 a.m. at Washington Square Park at Union and Columbus to distribute No on 98 literature to save rent control in North Beach/Chinatown....
Event Date: Sat, May 17, 2008 11:00am PDT
Posted: Sat, May 17, 2008 5:32am PDT
The Other USA - San Jose (audio/mpeg 3.6MB)
An interview with 4 members of Amanecer in San Jose. They talk about tech jobs and the service sector, history of police brutality, poor being pushed out of the city, referendum to abolish rent control, cop watch and De Bug, the flea market, left in San Jose, the furious 5, formation of Amanecer, work in social movements...
Posted: Sat, May 17, 2008 1:35am PDT
Fire In Golden Gate Park
A brush fire charred a low lying grassy area in Golden Gate Park near the Polo Field this afternoon. A number of trees caught fire as well. Initially firefighters were hampered by lack of water, until they drew it from nearby Metson Lake....
Posted: Fri, May 16, 2008 8:26pm PDT
Santa Cruz guerilla gardeners establish new garden site
looking to garden?...
Posted: Fri, May 16, 2008 6:22pm PDT
Annie Leonard and "The Story of Stuff"
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Hall
1924 Cedar @ Bonita, Berkeley...
Event Date: Sun, May 18, 2008 10:30am PDT
Posted: Fri, May 16, 2008 3:24pm PDT
Stop the Spray in Monterey - benefit Concert & Silent Auction
Golden State Theatre, 417 Alvarado St. Monterey...
Event Date: Sun, May 25, 2008 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, May 16, 2008 3:07pm PDT
BEYOND TOXIC - by Alicia Sangiuliano
BEYOND TOXIC - Alicia Sangiuliano...
Posted: Fri, May 16, 2008 7:57am PDT
Protest the Health Insurance Companies' Convention in SF!
Moscone Center West
4th St at Howard, SF...
Event Date: Thu, Jun 19, 2008 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, May 16, 2008 7:36am PDT
Bikers in Santa Cruz Take the Lane for Safety and Awareness
On May 13th, 2008, a huge mob of cyclists rolled peacefully through the streets of Santa Cruz after a 6pm convergence at the Clock Tower. Bikers spanned city blocks in the right lane of Mission Street to raise awareness about California Vehicle Code Section 21202, cyclists may use the full right lane when the lane "is too narrow for a bicycle to safely ride to the side of a motor vehicle." Many people wore yellow shirts with a figure of a bike and the words "MAY USE FULL LANE cvc 21202" as th...
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2008 11:56pm PDT
“Honoring our Covenant of Compassion During SF’s Current Budget Crisis”
SF City Hall
(South Light Court)...
Event Date: Thu, Jun 5, 2008 10:30am PDT
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2008 11:06am PDT
DEBUNKING MOTH MYTHS - UC Scientists Speak Out (video/x-flv 35.6MB)
According to two UC scientists, not only can the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM) not be 'eradicated' by the forced aerial pesticide spraying of the San Francisco Bay Area planned for this summer by a state agency, but it poses no real threat to agriculture in the first place....
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2008 12:53am PDT
LBAM Takes San Francisco (video/x-flv 6.9MB)
Starring: headRush (Rosa Esperanza Gonzáles, Xago Juárez and Simón Hanukai)
Written/directed/edited by: Patrick Wilkinson
Special thanks to: La Peña Cultural Center, Destiny Arts Center, and Centro Legal de la Raza...
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2008 12:08am PDT
CASS releases economic impact report on LBAM pesticide spray program.
On May 5th, 2008, Foster Gamble and the Economic Action Team of the 'California Alliance to Stop the Spray' released a forty page report on the negative economic impact to the state of California if the CDFA wet dream to spray millions of California residents with a micronized chemical soup goes forward. Despite numerous press releases, the corporate media remains silent on the grave implications to the State’s economy and continues to parrot CDFA disinformation and propaganda....
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2008 10:53pm PDT
East Timor: Rice rations for internal refugees cut off
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 :Tens of thousands of East Timorese refugees, known as internally displaced persons, are threatened with starvation as international relief agencies cease provision of food aid to camps in the nations capital, Dili. Last month the World Food Program (WFP), a UN agency, cut off its regular rice rations to the refugee centres....
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2008 10:14pm PDT
"Chango" Recognized with "Marciano Cruz Day" on May 12 in Santa Cruz
Marciano Cruz was born in Oaxaca, Mexico. For over 20 years, Marciano, also known as Chango, has been working to improve the lives of people in the greater Santa Cruz community. He is currently a staff member at the Resource Center for Nonviolence (RCNV). On May 11th, Marciano received the “Most Caring Coach Award” by USA Weekend, a magazine with distribution in 600 newspapers to 23 million households each week. He is being honored for his work as founder, chief organizer and president of La ...
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2008 9:59pm PDT