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Governor responds to seismic safety concerns at Cabrillo
Though still waiting on a response from Cabrillo Community College, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger acknowledged a former students' concerns regarding seismic safety of older campus buildings. The governor commended Peter Finegan, former editor of the Cabrillo student newspaper, The Voice, for expressing his informed opinions and insight that clearly outline severe structural problems at specific buildings in the event of a large earthquake. Finegan reiterates that this problem is not unique...
Posted: Wed, Feb 6, 2008 7:27am PST
Affordable Initiative continues to make WAVES at SF City Hall - Mayor Gavin Newsom - MUM.
Mayor Gavin Newsom now wants to develop the Potrero Public Housing units. And there are plans still for Candlestick Point with vague promises. Well, Mayor Gavin Newsom has never, ever kept one single promise and delivered it on Housing for the Poor. Anyway, you look at the record of Mayor Gavin Newsom - his administration has LIED when it comes to affordable housing for those that mostly need them. Thousands of hard working families have left San Francisco - because Mayor Gavin Newsom talks t...
Posted: Wed, Feb 6, 2008 6:48am PST
Snapshot of FY 2009 Bush Budget Cutting Proposals
The Latest Bush Budget Cutting Proposals Are Brutal! Below Is A Fast Peak At Some Of The Budget Cutting Proposals That Will Affect Us All Locally & Nationally!...
Posted: Tue, Feb 5, 2008 1:37pm PST
Katrina Housing Grant Looted
Originally From New America Media
Tuesday, February 5, 2008 :HUD recently approved a $600 million grant in congressional funds to expand the port in Gulfport, Miss. while tens of thousands of Katrina victims still live in FEMA trailer homes. NAM contributing writer Michael Datcher says that the government is failing at its job to help the poor....
Posted: Tue, Feb 5, 2008 7:05am PST
Egypt: Stop Criminalizing HIV
(New York, February 5, 2008) – A series of arrests in Cairo sparked by one man’s admission to police that he was HIV-positive endangers public health as well as human rights, Human Rights Watch said today....
Posted: Tue, Feb 5, 2008 6:56am PST
San Franciscans win on AFFORDABLE HOUSING led by NEW Bayview Hunters Point leaders.
The Initiative: Affordable Housing Requirements for the Candlestick Point and Hunters Point Shipyard - will be placed on the June, 2008 Ballot. Decent women and men from all over San Francisco collected over 11,818 signatures - in a record 10 days and made history. The Nation is watching - and San Franciscans will deliver - once again, and lead the Nation - in wiping out corrupt forces and Big Developers - like Lennar Corporation....
Posted: Tue, Feb 5, 2008 3:32am PST
Grassroots Spiritual Movement gets over 11,818 signatures and 50% Affordable Housing.
The people have won and with 11,818 signatures they are firmly in the cockpit and ready to confront Big Developers and especially ROGUE developers - like Lennar Corporation. I can see the Black Sellouts, Sophie Maxwell, Aurelious Walker, the Tabernacle Group, the Blue and Pink Pimp Pastors - shiver and tremble - because now they have been exposed for their greed. The community now knows on whose side these vermin have been on. The time has come to put them on notice and remove a host of corru...
Posted: Mon, Feb 4, 2008 10:14pm PST
Sacto. Police shut down Food Not Bombs/Eric Mcdavid Benefit!
LOOKING FOR ANOTHER VENUE, WE WONT BE SILENCED!...
Posted: Mon, Feb 4, 2008 7:47pm PST
SF NIMBYs versus para-medics?
[ Lowerpolkneighbors.org sponsors
open meeting at First Congregational Church,
1323 Polk St, near Bush,
on Election Tuesday, 5 Feb. 2008,
to discuss Fire Station 3. ]
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Posted: Mon, Feb 4, 2008 10:41am PST
AIDS and genital cutting
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Posted: Mon, Feb 4, 2008 10:12am PST
10,000 signatures plus in a record 10 days will silence LENNAR and the MAFIA forever!
God has helped the grassroots movement and decent women and men to step up and fight for what is right. In a record 10 days we collected over 10,000 signatures. We needed but 7,200 signatures. San Francisco - you all witnessed the hundreds of folks that braved the rains and stood their ground. It was a pleasure to witness - so many bring in their signatures and be very proud to be part of the history making. Lennar is history and with this ROGUE company - those that chose to be joined at the ...
Posted: Mon, Feb 4, 2008 6:46am PST
23 Theses on the Unconditional Basic Income
Without vision the people perish. Basic unconditional income like community centers could restore public spirit and interdependence. The anti-social or capital offensive leaves people mere consumers or cogs in the machine and represses our gifts, talents, desires and health....
Posted: Mon, Feb 4, 2008 4:55am PST
There are unruly forces defeated by grassroots movement and Black sellouts exposed
There are many unruly forces mostly Black sellouts exposed for working with the Pacific Heights Mafia and Lennar - the rogue Developer who will be DEFEATED very soon. We want Lennar out of San Francisco, the Bay Area and California. Now, many may NOT believe in God - but in two weeks - we have more then acquired the signatures and will place the Affordable Housing Initiative - demanding fifty percent Affordable Housing - on the June Ballot. Eat your hearts out - POLITICAL pundits that though...
Posted: Sun, Feb 3, 2008 12:51am PST
$74.5 Million Earmarked To Aerial Spray Parts of San Francisco Bay Area
People of the the San Francisco Bay Area. Large parts of the Bay Area are scheduled for a large scale spraying of chemicals. In the article is a link to the spray map. We need to take action now to stop this!...
Posted: Sat, Feb 2, 2008 11:53pm PST
2-day bilingual Teaching Parenting the Positive Discipline Way
280 Main St Porter Building room #6
Watsonville...
Event Date: Fri, Feb 29, 2008 12:00pm PST
Posted: Sat, Feb 2, 2008 11:06pm PST
Strengthening the Roots: Food, Justice, & Fair Trade Convergence
UC Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Fri, Feb 15, 2008 5:00pm PST
Posted: Sat, Feb 2, 2008 10:16pm PST
Failing California’s Communities: How the University of California’s Low Wages Affect Surrounding Cities and Neighborhoods
A new report by the Center for Labor and Community Research and the Partnership for Working Families shows how the University of California’s low wages affect surrounding cities and neighborhoods....
Posted: Sat, Feb 2, 2008 5:31pm PST
O’Reilly Hides from Homeless Veterans
Saturday, February 2, 2008 : Bill O'Reilly, the bombastic, belligerent bully of Fox News, apparently doesn't have the backbone to meet with a group of folks he claimed really don't exist?homeless veterans. Last week, we told you about O'Reilly's delusional claims that homeless veterans don't exist, even though Bush administration figures show that on any given night, there are about 200,000 former service men and women who are homeless....
Posted: Sat, Feb 2, 2008 10:17am PST
Collect Signatures - Fifty Percent Affordable Housing
Grace Tabernacle Community Church - 1121 Oakdale Avenue. We will gather - then armed with petitions fans out all over and collect signatures. Affordable Housing and Fifty Percent of Affordable Housing at Candlestick Point. We can do it and we will do it. Be part of history making and show the Pacific Heights Mafia - what people power is all about....
Event Date: Sat, Feb 2, 2008 10:00am PST
Posted: Sat, Feb 2, 2008 6:33am PST
Questions Raised About Safety Of Unprotected Sex
Thursday, January 31, 2008 :(Geneva) Swiss AIDS experts said Thursday that some people with HIV who meet strict conditions and are under treatment can safely have unprotected sex with non-infected partners. The proposal astonished AIDS researchers in Europe and North America who have long argued that safe sex with a condom is the single most effective way of preventing the spread of the disease - apart from abstinence....
Posted: Fri, Feb 1, 2008 8:03am PST