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Audio:Housing For Keys Rally-State Capitol Phoenix Az3-10-08 (audio/mpeg 4.8MB)
28:12 minute Audio of Rally in front of State Capitol Phoenix by Coalition Against Domestic Violence with theme of 'Housing For Keys' lobby to save money from Arizona Housing Trust Fund...
Posted: Mon, Mar 10, 2008 4:15pm PDT
NIH says drug-resistant infections now a ’serious threat’ to global health
Drug-resistant infections are now a “major public health threat” globally, according to Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)....
Posted: Mon, Mar 10, 2008 1:02pm PDT
Attorney General Lets Down 14 Million Tenants: Refuses to Include “Rent Control” in Title of Prop 98
Monday, March 10, 2008 : Today, Proposition 98 will be sent to the printer with a ballot title that omits any reference to the fact that Proposition 98 prohibits rent control in California. Although Attorney General Jerry Brown acknowledges that banning rent control is a key feature of Prop. 98, the AG refuses to put the words “rent control” in the title of the ballot measure, a decision that has prompted outrage among California tenant advocates....
Posted: Mon, Mar 10, 2008 8:05am PDT
Teenage Peer Counselors Attending Annual Meeting of NY Family Planning Advocates
Monday, March 10, 2008 :We speak with two high school students who have traveled from Buffalo to attend the annual meeting of the Family Planning Advocates of New York State. They are both teenage peer counselors. Samantha Vuich is a senior at McKinley High School in Buffalo and Shabar Rouse is a junior at City Honors High School in Buffalo....
Posted: Mon, Mar 10, 2008 8:01am PDT
Reproductive Rights, the Role of Religion and the History of Abortion Activism: A Roundtable Discussion
Monday, March 10, 2008 :We host a roundtable discussion on reproductive rights with Margaret Roberts co-president of Planned Parenthood Mowawk Hudson; Rabbi Dennis Ross, the director of Concerned Clergy for Choice; Rev. Donna Schaper, senior Minister of the Judson Memorial Church and Rev. Tom Davis, author of the book "Sacred Work, Planned Parenthood and Its Clergy Alliances."...
Posted: Mon, Mar 10, 2008 8:01am PDT
NY Bill to Declare Abortion a Fundamental Right for Women is Top Legislative Priority for Gov. Spitzer
Monday, March 10, 2008 :Pro-choice activists are gathering around the country today to mark the National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers. In Albany, New York Governor Elliot Spitzer is addressing the Family Planning Advocates of New York State. Shortly after taking office last year, Spitzer introduced a bill that would declare abortion a fundamental right for women. The bill would also ensure abortion remains legal in New York should the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade....
Posted: Mon, Mar 10, 2008 8:01am PDT
Suicide rate at 25-year high for middle-aged Americans
Monday, March 10, 2008 :The number of middle-aged Americans who committed suicide annually rose by nearly 20 percent between 1999 and 2004, a recent federal analysis of national death data has found. The finding is one more reflection of the social distress that has been deepening throughout the past decade, a period defined by tremendous polarization, indebtedness, and the erosion of working class living standards....
Posted: Mon, Mar 10, 2008 7:57am PDT
Forget Death and Taxes, Now it’s Evictions and Foreclosures
Monday, March 10, 2008 : Homeownership has always been the American Dream. It was the mature and sensible way of putting a roof over your head. No landlord to pay rent to. No lease to tell you what you could or couldn’t do. No restrictions on pets. If little Johnny marked up the living room wall with his magic-marker version of DaVinci’s “Last Supper,” no one was going to take it out of your security deposit....
Posted: Mon, Mar 10, 2008 7:50am PDT
Police report an officer accidentally killed 2 cyclists. No questions answered.
Police in California report that an officer accidentally crossed the median and killed 2 cyclists Sunday March 9, 2008. An initial news report stating the "The group collided with the deputy's car" has been corrected. The news media are not asking reporting if the officer was given a medical/blood test....
Posted: Mon, Mar 10, 2008 7:46am PDT
Mutual Aid for Papas
San Lorenzo Park
grass between the duck pond & the playground...
Event Date: Sun, Apr 27, 2008 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2008 11:03pm PDT
Mutual Aid for Papas
San Lorenzo Park
grass between the duck pond & the playground...
Event Date: Sun, Apr 13, 2008 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2008 11:02pm PDT
Mutual Aid for Papas
San Lorenzo Park
grass between the duck pond & the playground...
Event Date: Sun, Mar 30, 2008 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2008 11:01pm PDT
Mutual Aid for Papas
San Lorenzo Park
grass between the duck pond & the playground...
Event Date: Sun, Mar 16, 2008 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2008 10:54pm PDT
March Against the 5th Anniversary of the Iraq War in City Heights
March starts at Fairmount and University in City Heights at 1 pm after an hour of bannering, Rally is at Teralta Park at 40th and Orange in City Heights from 2-4 pm...
Event Date: Sat, Mar 15, 2008 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2008 10:54pm PDT
Citywide Tenants Convention to Save Rent Control
San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch, Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin St. (near Civic Center BART)...
Event Date: Sat, Mar 15, 2008 1:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2008 10:22pm PDT
Affordable Housing Requirment For the Candlestick Point and Hunters Point Shipyard
AFFORDABLE HOUSING REQUIREMENT FOR THE CANDLESTICK POINT AND HUNTERS POINT SHIPYARD MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT....
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2008 6:55am PDT
Poor Black Leadership pandering to Mayor Gavin Newsom and his cronies in the Bayview
Mayor Gavin Newsom is a jerk and has been pandering to certain Black Leaders who have no back bone and of course less leadership in the Bayview Hunters Point. Add ignorance and the slave mentality that some refuse to shed and is part of their inherent DNA - and you have a recipe for disaster - in the Bayview Hunters Point. Mayor Gavin Newsom is NOT a leader who has the better interest of the community. For sure he lacks Accountability and less Transparency. And the man now aspires to be the G...
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2008 6:17am PDT
A Clear and Present Danger
Letter to the Editorial:
3.7.2008
I highly urge the santa cruz city council and other local governments in monterey and san francisco bay area to direct their local police depts to protect and defend the people from the aerial chemical pesticide spray bombardment that is coming again in june, 2008, to our area....
Posted: Sat, Mar 8, 2008 6:08pm PST
Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the New Deal
Hart Senior Center
915 27th Street
Sacramento, CA 95819
Phone (916) 808-5462...
Event Date: Tue, Mar 11, 2008 1:00pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Mar 8, 2008 3:36pm PST