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Monday (March 31) at 5pm.
Four-minute QT movie. 60MB....
Posted: Sun, Mar 30, 2008 10:35pm PDT
Lennar spent over $1 million on the Initiative leading to Ballot G. G stands for Greed and Goons. Lennar thinks that it can get land for free - hundreds of acres. It has no money - but will make statements that it can invest $5 billion. Oh yeh! duh! - where can Lennar get that kind of money? From Bear Stearns or the other corporations that are sinking? The SF Business Times has fallen for Lennar's nonsense - but for how long?...
Posted: Sun, Mar 30, 2008 7:37am PDT
On March 27th, a meeting was convened at the Beach Flats Community Garden to preserve the special community space and support it's gardeners. The well-attended meeting was a discussion between various concerned parties, including Santa Cruz City Parks and Recreation Superintendent Carol Scurich, Reyna Ruiz from the Beach Flats Community Center, about a dozen community gardeners, neighbors and other local supporters. Translation between English and Spanish was important, though there were time...
Posted: Sat, Mar 29, 2008 10:09pm PDT
705 Woodrow, Santa Cruz, CA (Garfield Park Library on Westside, meet on lawn, we'll move to another location if bad weather hits)
Completely free!
705 Woodrow, Santa Cruz, CA (La biblioteca del Parque Garfield en el oeste de la ciudad de Santa Cruz, nos vamos a encontrar en el cesped en frente de la biblioteca y podemos cambiar de sitio si nos pegue el mal tiempo)
Completamente gratis!...
Event Date: Sat, Apr 5, 2008 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Mar 29, 2008 5:39pm PDT
This is a 19 minute audio recording of an interview with Bruce Tracy and Al Williams, two homeless men in Fresno, about what life is like on the mean streets of Fresno. The host is Mike Rhodes. The music at the end is by Tracy Chapman. This interview took place on Friday, March 28 on the Street Heat show, which is heard on the 4th Friday of every month on KFCF 88.1 FM....
Posted: Sat, Mar 29, 2008 5:20pm PDT
Locación: Jardín Comunitario de la playa en Santa Cruz, en la calle de Raymond.
Beach Flats Community Garden in Santa Cruz, on Raymond St....
Event Date: Thu, Apr 3, 2008 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Mar 29, 2008 4:00pm PDT
Friday, March 28, 2008 : Earlier this week, the Social Security Board of Trustees released the 65th annual report on the program?s financial status. And on cue, the Bush administration and the Wall Street-knows-best crowd?now joined by Sen. John McCain (who acknowledges " economics is something I've never really understood as well as I should")?used the occasion to push for privatizing Social Security....
Posted: Sat, Mar 29, 2008 2:03pm PDT
Friday, March 28, 2008 : A strike by 4,000 registered nurses at ten Bay Area Sutter facilities will conclude this week, with a major unity rally Sunday at noon at California Pacific Medical Center-Cal Campus featuring elected officials, community leaders, and nurses from across the Bay Area celebrating the success of the walkout, which is due to end Monday at 7 a.m....
Posted: Sat, Mar 29, 2008 1:59pm PDT
200 Washington St., Suite 107
SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060...
Event Date: Sat, Mar 29, 2008 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Mar 29, 2008 1:06pm PDT
Alameda City Hall, City Council Chambers
2263 Santa Clara Avenue
Alameda, CA 94501...
Event Date: Tue, Apr 1, 2008 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Mar 29, 2008 9:47am PDT
The Philippine Peasant Support Network (Pesante)-USA, a Filipino farmers, environmental and human rights advocacy group based in Los Angeles expressed dismay over the US-Arroyo regime’s way of solving the present rice crisis in the former rice producing nation of the Philippines. The Philippine government is going to buy two million metric tons of rice abroad at a cost of $600 or P24,600 per metric ton, that will be P49.2 billion, which is 146 times than the Philippines annual post-harvest bu...
Posted: Fri, Mar 28, 2008 10:20pm PDT
Thursday, March 27, 2008 : There was a time in the not too distant past when the nation's health care system seemed to work pretty well for a lot of people. That was before, says Caroline, a 61-year-old from California, the private insurance companies became the heart?though certainly not the soul?of health care in America. Every time I see an insurance high rise building, I become a little livid knowing that they own those buildings with the blood and deaths of the rest of us....
Posted: Fri, Mar 28, 2008 7:57am PDT
Friday, March 28, 2008 :As former UN Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and the former UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, Jan Egeland spent years working with the world's neediest and in conflict zones including Darfur, Colombia, Gaza, Lebanon, Uganda, the Congo and Iraq. Egeland joins us to talk about his time dealing with world crises, which he documents in a new memoir, "A Billion Lives: An Eyewitness Report from the Frontlines of Humanity."...
Posted: Fri, Mar 28, 2008 7:45am PDT
HOUSTON — About 1,000 medical students and their supporters rallied here at city hall March 14 to demand healthcare for all. The event was organized by the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) as part of its annual convention and supported by the local SEIU and Justice for Janitors movement. The crowd was made up of medical students from around the country and labor union members....
Posted: Fri, Mar 28, 2008 7:41am PDT
Friday, March 28, 2008 : In a poll released yesterday by the Public Policy Institute that interviewed 2,000 likely California voters, Proposition 98 appears headed for defeat. The initiative to abolish rent control is trailing 37-41, which is a fatal place to be two months before an election (when most voters have not tuned in yet.) Proposition 99, which would simply reform eminent domain, is leading by 53-27....
Posted: Fri, Mar 28, 2008 7:39am PDT
It is not humane to provide a shower with out a towel. soup kitchen how about dinning room....
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 7:55pm PDT
2008 has not started out very good for homeless people in Fresno. While there is talk by city officials to make improvements, things have actually gotten worse. This report is a look at some of the things that have happened in the last month that are making life even more difficult for the homeless....
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 7:46pm PDT
Domingo Mendoza is on the front page of the Santa Cruz Sentinel today, planting romero (rosemary). He's been told he shouldn't plant, that after this week, he'll no longer have access to the land he's worked for about fifteen years.
He pointed out a full grown peach tree in blossom yesterday, and mentioned that he planted it.
The Beach Flats Community Garden has had its ups and downs over the years, constantly reminded that the land is leased, rather than owned, that at any point the la...
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 12:04pm PDT
We are told by the CDFA and even the Santa Cruz County Health Dept that the application rate of the Checkmate pesticide sprayed in November 2007 was too low to cause significant health impacts. This article breaks down the details of why that might not be true....
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 11:58am PDT
Proposition F requires that fifty percent of new housing built on Candlestick Point and Hunters Point Shipyard be affordable to San Franciscans at these levels: one sixth of the affordable housing homes at eighty percent of Area Median Income (AMI) or below. One sixth of the affordable housing at sixty percent of AMI or below. One sixth of the affordable housing at thirty percent of AMI or below. Of course the other fifty percent at Market Rate Price....
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 9:49am PDT