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Britain: Brown government set for conflict with public sector over pay and cuts Tuesday, January 15, 2008 :Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced his intention to impose three yearly pay awards set below 2 percent that will have a devastating impact on 6 million public-sector workers. His announcement comes after last year’s decision to stagger the independently recommended 2.5 percent public-sector pay rise over two stages, equating to a de facto 1.9 percent “rise.” Brown’s pay plans will represent a further cut, even if present inflation levels continued....
Posted: Tue, Jan 15, 2008 10:05am PST
Drug-Resistant Staph Found Prevalent Among Gay Men Tuesday, January 15, 2008 :(New York City) A drug-resistant bacteria once thought to be contained in a handful of hospitals is now being found primarily among gay men in major cities a new report shows. Researchers examining records from outpatient clinics found that methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, is showing up in large numbers in New York, San Francisco, Boston and Los Angeles....
Posted: Tue, Jan 15, 2008 10:05am PST
Health Care: Which Candidates and Their Campaign Staff Are Covered? Tuesday, January 15, 2008 : Health care is set to be a crucial issue in this year's presidential election. We?ve just launched a new survey to find out about your experiences with the health care system?and we plan to blog some of the stories coming in as part of the survey. (You can vote on stories you think make the most impact here.) Today, NPR?s ?Morning Edition? ran a spot that looks at health care and the presidential election from another angle: Are the candidates and their staff cover...
Posted: Tue, Jan 15, 2008 10:03am PST
USW Sponsors National Day of Action to Protest Toxic Imports Tuesday, January 15, 2008 : This Wednesday, thousands of members of the United Steelworkers (USW) and their families will take part in a National Day of Action on Toxic Trade. In 100 cities across the country, participants will rally to demand that Congress act immediately to protect Americans from the threat posed by the millions of imported lead-laced toys and other unsafe products....
Posted: Tue, Jan 15, 2008 10:03am PST
U.S. Health Care Bill Twice the Cost Other Nations Pay Monday, January 14, 2008 : The annual $2 trillion bill for American health care is twice the combined cost for other developed countries that provide health care for all?countries that, not coincidentally, also have higher rates of unionization. Speaking to a Center for American Progress gathering on the nation's health care crisis, Communications Workers of America (CWA) president Larry Cohen told the group: "We need a collective approach and a collective strategy....
Posted: Tue, Jan 15, 2008 9:44am PST
Sub-prime loans and foreclosures workshops Hundreds of homeowners filled Oakland’s City Hall Saturday to attend a workshop, and to hear what local, state, and federal lawmakers had to say about solutions towards the sub-prime mortgage crisis....
Posted: Mon, Jan 14, 2008 8:09pm PST
BVHP Sell outs Racism, greed, and sell outs in Bayview Hunters point Community...
Posted: Mon, Jan 14, 2008 10:28am PST
Gaza: Witnessing the siege Monday, January 14, 2008 : It is supposed that one can build factual perception by reading the statistics and getting all the hard evidence, but I recently realized that a complete cognitive process relies first and foremost on visuals -- seeing the picture for oneself....
Posted: Mon, Jan 14, 2008 7:15am PST
Bauhaus Launches Social Housing Architecture Award Building for the Poor. 900 million people on earth live underdramatically adverse conditions today. Where are the celebrity architects who are interested in fighting poverty?...
Posted: Mon, Jan 14, 2008 4:40am PST
Hear Elizabeth Glaser, Greg Palast, Harry Belafonte, Chris Hedges Elizabeth Glaser speech to 1992 Democratic National Convention Address delivered 14 July 1992, New York, NY. She criticized the federal government's under-funding of AIDS research and its lack of initiative in tackling the AIDS crisis....
Posted: Sun, Jan 13, 2008 11:43am PST
California’s Nurse-Patient Ratio Law Saves Lives, Reduces Nursing Shortage Sunday, January 13, 2008 : Zenei Cortez, a registered nurse in California and member of the Council of Presidents of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, describes how her union helped in the battle to win safe staffing....
Posted: Sun, Jan 13, 2008 10:51am PST
No to Rightist Ron Paul, Better Strategies for Ending the War 
"I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it." Socialist Anti-war Candidate Eugene Debs (who garnered nearly a million votes while he sat in prison for opposition to U.S. involvement in World War One).
"Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty and the end of welfare and affirmative action" wrote Ron Paul, who voted against t...
Posted: Sun, Jan 13, 2008 3:04am PST
Seven murders so far and San Francisco thinks most everything is well - but is it? Mayor Gavin Newsom has NO clue how to deal with real people - period. Just watch the fake jerks that surround him and listen to this fool. The Health and Safety of San Francisco has NOT been addressed and the Executive Branch of this City and County of San Francisco is fully responsible for the madness that prevails on the streets and is tolerated by all. Time to put Mayor Gavin Newsom on notice - the scumbag must be exposed for all his foolishness and bluff....
Posted: Sun, Jan 13, 2008 2:38am PST
Lennar BVHP LLC should QUIT while the going is good - we want them out of our community. Lennar Corporation is a ROGUE company that has been selling its homes for cheap - many for 40cents on a dollar. Lennar Corporation is in deep trouble - it has laid off thousands of its employees - and here in San Francisco too. Lennar's stock and shares have been reduced to Junk Bond Status - the banks will not do business with them - and all over the world in the financial circles - the word is - stay away from the skunk - Lennar Corporation....
Posted: Sat, Jan 12, 2008 7:46pm PST
11 counties will be sprayed spring '08 11 counties will be sprayed with untested Biochemicals in 2008...
Posted: Sat, Jan 12, 2008 12:21pm PST
Three million infected with winter vomiting virus in U.K. alone, government reports The Telegraph (U.K.) is reporting: Three million people have been afflicted by the winter vomiting bug - with experts fearing that cases could continue to rise dramatically during this month and next....
Posted: Sat, Jan 12, 2008 11:23am PST
Lennar's New Homes Fetch 60% Less as U.S. Market Slump Deepens 
Jan. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Lennar Corp.'s November sale of 11,000 properties in eight states set a price that may mark the bottom for the U.S. housing market: 40 cents on the dollar...
Posted: Sat, Jan 12, 2008 10:39am PST
T(A)G Attacks and Vandalizes Tacoma Condos STOP GENTRIFICATION!
In the city of Tacoma, WA, over the span of several days, members of Tacoma Anti-Gentrification have paint-bombed condos, smashed condo windows and disabled the vehicles of condo dwellers.
Tacoma Anti-Gentrification is a collection of individuals who wish to halt the shameless takeover of our city. Gentrification is an act of war on the part of the government and corporations against the population of the United States....
Posted: Sat, Jan 12, 2008 10:39am PST
ABX1 1: Universal health insurance without health care The “Health Care Security and Cost Reduction Act”, also known as ABX1 1, and described by New York Times reporter Kevin Sack as a “bipartisan blueprint” conceived by Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democratic Assembly speaker Fabian Nunez to bring “near-universal coverage to the country’s most populous state”, will neither provide health care security nor reduce costs of medical care. This article explains why....
Posted: Sat, Jan 12, 2008 2:42am PST
ABX1 1: Universal health insurance without health care Summary: The “Health Care Security and Cost Reduction Act”, also known as ABX1 1, and described by New York Times reporter Kevin Sack as a “bipartisan blueprint” conceived by Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democratic Assembly speaker Fabian Nunez to bring “near-universal coverage to the country’s most populous state”, will neither provide health care security nor reduce costs of medical care. This article explains why....
Posted: Fri, Jan 11, 2008 9:08pm PST
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