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Earth Day Lite- inSanity Cruz! Editorial
The City sponsored Earth-Day Celebrations were pretty lame.
In a parking lot!
BUT, there's some great celebrations coming up- in our Central Park....
Posted: Sat, May 3, 2008 7:08am PDT
The last frontier given to "thugs" - property managers who prey on the poor all over SF.
Find out why one Property Manager has control of all the rental units at the Presidio of San Francisco. All of the rental units at Treasure Island. Is messing with hundreds of units in the Tenderloin - mostly Single Residential Occupancy (SROs). Is in the Bayview Hunters Point, all over the Western Addition. Why is this City giving "thug" Property Managers who meet with the Mayor's Office of Housing and make special deals - to wipe out residents who live in Public Housing and make r...
Posted: Sat, May 3, 2008 2:15am PDT
santa cruz guerilla gardening projects
the title is somewhat self expanatory, there are projects underway and others that could happen. imagine vacant lots growing beautiful, useful flowers and other plants. its just a sows throw away! looking to connect with likeminded individuals....
Posted: Sat, May 3, 2008 2:09am PDT
Homeless Improve Their Lot
A new homeless encampment is being built in downtown Fresno that includes a sense of community and homes that are built to last. A Fresno Police Department representative says that evictions may begin soon....
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2008 4:13pm PDT
Candidates Speak Out for SB 840 & HR 676 ("single payer" healthcare)
2868 Mission Street, Mission Cultural Center @ 25th Stret (one block from 24th Street BART)...
Event Date: Sat, May 3, 2008 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2008 10:44am PDT
Agricultural corporations boast huge profits in midst of food crisis
Friday, May 2, 2008 :As inflation and shortages expose billions to hunger worldwide, agricultural giant Archer-Daniels-Midland Company revealed a 42 percent leap in quarterly profits. The announcement follows similarly skyrocketing earnings reports from half a dozen other agribusinesses and suppliers, as well as from major oil companies BP, Shell, and Exxon....
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2008 7:43am PDT
Lennar takes CALPERS down and into a mess that will affect the pensions of thousands.
Anything LENNAR touch stinks to high heaven. Now, the world knows that CALPERS the institution that invests BILLIONS made a pact with the DEVIL and has lost millions on its $2.6 billion investment on Land Banking. In deep peril the PENSIONS of millions of hard working Californians and the mistakes of those - including Willie L. Brown Jr. involved with CALPERS and their deals with Lennar and other such dubious entities. Lennar is a Rogue Company and nothing good comes from it - ever. Lick your...
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2008 6:55am PDT
May Day Protests in Arcata
A report on May Day protests in Arcata....
Posted: Thu, May 1, 2008 4:39pm PDT
Radical Love Workshop
Long Haul Infoshop
3124 Shattuck Ave. (2 blocks from Ashby BART)
Berkeley, CA...
Event Date: Sun, Jun 8, 2008 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, May 1, 2008 4:21pm PDT
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