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Radical Love Workshop
One Taste Urban Retreat Center
1074 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA 94103...
Event Date: Tue, May 27, 2008 8:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, May 1, 2008 4:18pm PDT
Stop the new Hway 1 bridge!
Article in today's metro discusses city plans for new bridge....
Posted: Thu, May 1, 2008 9:54am PDT
Rally To Stop Polluting Power Plants In SF! Mon, May 5, 9-10am, SF City Hall Polk St Steps
Though nearly every major environmental and social justice group has voiced strong opposition to the building of new fossil fuel power plants in San Francisco, next Monday, May 5th, our Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) will outrageously seek permission to build a polluting natural gas power plant in San Francisco within the next year. Worse still, if approved, this plant will be built in our most environmentally damaged and vulnerable neighborhood, the Bayview Hunters Point. Meanwhile, new...
Posted: Thu, May 1, 2008 9:49am PDT
Back From Haiti, Rev. Jesse Jackson Calls for Emergency Food Aid to a Starving Nation Devastated by Longtime U.S.-Led Interfe
Thursday, May 1, 2008 :Reverend Jesse Jackson has just returned from Haiti, where the World Food Program is warning of a "major crisis" if international donors fail to help feed Haiti's poor. Prices of rice, beans and cooking oil, have doubled in the past few months. The soaring food prices have had a devastating effect -- two-thirds of Haitians live on less than a dollar a day and 47 percent are undernourished. We speak to Rev. Jackson about the U.S. responsibility to feed a nation long targ...
Posted: Thu, May 1, 2008 8:10am PDT
3rd New Dharma Intensive Retreat & Historic Zen Lay Ordination Ceremony
Pema Osel Ling Retreat Center
Santa Cruz Mountains, Santa Cruz
CARPOOLS leaving from Berkeley, CA...
Event Date: Sat, May 24, 2008 9:00am PDT
Posted: Thu, May 1, 2008 7:16am PDT
Learn About the Spray! SF TOWN HALL MTG - Thurs. May 8th, 7pm
Country Fair Building (Hall of Flowers) in Golden Gate Park
9th Avenue and Lincoln Way - at the Strybing Arboretum/SF Botanical Gardens
1199 9th Avenue at Lincoln Way...
Event Date: Thu, May 8, 2008 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Apr 30, 2008 7:12pm PDT
Volunteer to Defeat Measure G in SF!
We'll be meeting on the corner of Castro and Market...
Event Date: Sat, May 3, 2008 11:00am PDT
Posted: Wed, Apr 30, 2008 4:22pm PDT
Aspartame Press Conference, Hawaii State Capitol, May 1, 11:00 to Noon, Bill Deagle, M.D.
Aspartame press conference will tell how a deadly addictive excitoneurotoxic carcinogenic drug that virtually interacts with all drugs and vaccines is masquerading as an additive. Once listed with the pentagon in an inventory of prospective biochemical warfare weapons submitted to Congress it has caused epidemics of diabetes, obesity, sudden death, birth defects and MS. FDA revoked the petition for approval and Don Rumsfeld got it marketed with help from President Reagan....
Posted: Wed, Apr 30, 2008 11:53am PDT
All Out to May Day 2008 March for Immigrant Worker Rights!
On May Day 2008, National Immigrant Solidarity Network is calling for a multi-ethnic, decentralized, multi-topic and multi-tactic national day of mobilization to support immigrant workers rights....
Posted: Wed, Apr 30, 2008 11:10am PDT
Rising Health Care Costs: the tsunami that never ends
The giant wave soon will engulf us all.
People just can't afford the rising costs of health care!...
Posted: Wed, Apr 30, 2008 3:53am PDT
Save Our City Rally
Polk Street steps of City Hall....
Event Date: Wed, May 21, 2008 11:30am PDT
Posted: Tue, Apr 29, 2008 8:18pm PDT
SPRING FORWARD Art Auction
InterContinental San Francisco
888 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
http://www.intercontinentalsanfrancisco.com/...
Event Date: Thu, May 8, 2008 6:00am PDT
Posted: Tue, Apr 29, 2008 4:39pm PDT
Freedom Man - All Charges against dropped against Jason Paschal
Jason Paschal, an African-American tarot card reader, has successfully ended a 9-month battle to beat charges against him--after he called the Santa Cruz police last summer to complain that a patron of O'Neill's Sports Shop on Pacific Avenue called him a "nigger" and spat on him....
Posted: Tue, Apr 29, 2008 2:19pm PDT
Food distribution halted, cooking gas running out in Gaza
JERUSALEM/GAZA, 28 April (IRIN) - The UN has stopped distributing food in the Gaza Strip as its main agencies have run out of fuel for vehicles. To make matters worse, many bakeries in the enclave were closed on 28 April as they had run out of gas....
Posted: Tue, Apr 29, 2008 7:33am PDT
ACLU Lawsuit Against Michigan Department of Corrections Resumes Today
Monday, April 28, 2008 : gKALAMAZOO, MI - The American Civil Liberties Union is arguing today in a Michigan federal court that Michigan Department of Corrections officials must provide necessary mental health care services to newly-admitted and other prisoners....
Posted: Mon, Apr 28, 2008 7:11pm PDT
The Ride of Silence (5/21)
Join cyclists worldwide in a silent slow-paced ride (max. 12 mph/20 kph) in honor of those who have been injured or killed while cycling on public roadways.
Who: cyclists especially, but also runners, and others who legally share the road
May 21, 2008, 7pm
• to mourn those cyclists already killed by motorists
• to raise awareness (among motorists, police, and city officials) of cyclists on the road
• to have motorists know we only want to share the road we ride on
• to show th...
Posted: Mon, Apr 28, 2008 6:24pm PDT
The Ride Of Silence
Meet at Sprockets Bike shop 1420 Mission st, Santa Cruz at 6:30 ride will begin promptly at 7PM...
Event Date: Wed, May 21, 2008 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Apr 28, 2008 6:13pm PDT
Medical marijuana patients face transplant hurdles
But Garon's been refused a spot on the transplant list, largely because he
has used marijuana, even though it was legally approved for medical reasons....
Posted: Mon, Apr 28, 2008 11:34am PDT
Flag pins don''t cover hypocrisy
Saturday, April 26, 2008 : A disturbing study released last week by the RAND Corporation says about 300,000 service members and veterans nearly one in five of the 1.6 million U.S. troops who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan acknowledge experiencing major depression or post-traumatic stress disorder. The study also says some 320,000 troops have returned with signs of traumatic brain injury, or TBI, which may be hard to recognize or to distinguish from psychological injury....
Posted: Sun, Apr 27, 2008 10:34am PDT
Egypt: Struggling to stay ahead
Will Egypt be able to survive world food shortages? Mona El-Fiqi tries to find an answer...
Posted: Sun, Apr 27, 2008 10:19am PDT