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Budget Fight Was About Politics – Not Policy Monday, July 2, 2007 : When Chris Daly tried to take $37 million out of the Mayor’s Budget, Gavin Newsom reacted as if Daly had attacked his manhood. He brought his entire re-election campaign to the steps of City Hall , accusing the District 6 Supervisor of cutting vital services....
Posted: Mon, Jul 2, 2007 7:08am PDT
Gavin Newsom's Legacy Monday, July 2, 2007 : I smiled at published statements from the Mayor's Office that he wants to eliminate bus stops to speed up Muni. What a legacy Gavin Newsom is creating! First he suggested getting rid of public trash cans, now elimination of already underserved bus stops. In my seven decades of living in San Francisco, I can't remember any elected official ever accomplishing less that our current Mayor, running unopposed at this time, and issuing a barrage of press releases announcing mo...
Posted: Mon, Jul 2, 2007 7:08am PDT
Raging Grannies for Single Payer Health Care at SICKO 
Interactive Street Theater with members of the Raging Grannies and theater patrons at SICKO....all to promote passage of SB840...that's California-speak for Single Payer Health Care!
Photos: Kim Kinoshita, R. Robertson...
Posted: Sun, Jul 1, 2007 4:04am PDT
Raging Grannies "Play Doctor" at SICKO 
Awesome First Night for SICKO in Mountain View, California with the Raging Grannies acting up for passage of Single Payer Health Care!...
Posted: Sun, Jul 1, 2007 2:58am PDT
An Awesome First Night for "Sicko" 
The photo below shows a member of the California Nurses Association passing out flyers at the opening of SiCKO yesterday in Fresno. About 50 CNA members were on hand to pass out flyers and talk to movie goers about the need for universal health care. The article (also below) is from Michael Moore about how opening day went....
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 7:41pm PDT
NM HIV/AIDS Patients To Get State Grown Marijuana Saturday, June 30, 2007 :(Santa Fe, New Mexico) New Mexico has a new medical marijuana law with a twist: It requires the state to grow its own. The law, effective Sunday, not only protects medical marijuana users from prosecution - as 11 other states do - but requires New Mexico to oversee a production and distribution system for the drug....
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 6:04pm PDT
Nurses, Doctors, Healthcare Activists to Greet Sicko Audiences With Call for Guaranteed Healthcare Thursday, June 28, 2007 : Broad National Coalition to Enlist Movie Goers to Join Campaign For Medicare for All Style Reform without Insurance Interference Registered nurses, doctors, and healthcare and community activists – part of a broad, national coalition – will be out in force in America's theaters this weekend as Michael Moore’s "SiCKO," a riveting indictment of the healthcare industry, opens across the nation....
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 5:53pm PDT
U.S. Halts Some Chinese Fish and Seafood Friday, June 29, 2007 : The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has put a hold on five different types of farmed fish and seafood. Many of these imports contain traces of potentially harmful drugs used to prevent disease in the fish....
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 8:20am PDT
Australian government takeover of Aboriginal communities: the real content of the "Children are Sacred" report Saturday, June 30, 2007 :Prime Minister John Howard has claimed that the trigger for his announcement last week of a federal military takeover of Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory was the Northern Territory Board of Inquiry’s report into sexual abuse of Aboriginal children, entitled "Little Children are Sacred"....
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 7:51am PDT
Quigley: How to Destroy an African-American City – Lessons From Katrina Saturday, June 30, 2007 : Step One. Delay....
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 7:50am PDT
Jose Morales, 77 Faces Eviciton After 42 Years in SF Mission Home (audio/mpeg 1.9MB) A SAN FRANCISCO JUDGE ORDERED A TEMPORARY STAY IN THE PROCESS OF EVICTING 77 YEAR OLD MISSION DISTRICT RESIDENT JOSE MORALES TODAY. MORALES HAS LIVED IN HIS APPARTMENT FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS. TENANTS’ RIGHTS ADVOCATES SEE THE EVICITON OF THE . REzZ REPORTS FROM THE SAN FROANCISCO SUPERIOR COURTHOUSE....
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2007 6:34pm PDT
Sweep Away the Sleeping Ban: Sign Up Sunday in front of Coonerty's Bookshop 1520 Pacific Ave. in front of the Bookshop Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Sun, Jul 1, 2007 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2007 6:31pm PDT
Nearly Two Years After Katrina, Gulf Coast Residents Fighting Environmental Neglect, Privatization Friday, June 29, 2007 :
Twenty two months after Hurricane Katrina devastated the gulf region of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, residents are still fighting to save their communities. We speak with Monique Harden, co-director of the New Orleans-based Advocates for Environmental Human Rights, and organizer of a caravan of Katrina activists to the U.S. Social Forum this week....
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2007 8:01am PDT
Oakland housing activists demand City Council action Friday, June 29, 2007 : OAKLAND, Calif. — Expressing concerns shared by many California communities, affordable housing activists gathered on the City Hall steps, June 19, to protest long delays by the City Council and a blue-ribbon commission in preparing proposals to increase affordable housing and to protect tenants whose buildings are converted into condos....
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2007 6:31am PDT
Raging Grannies PLAY DOCTOR at SICKO showing Century 16 Theater on Shoreline Blvd. in Mountain View
Right off 101...
Event Date: Fri, Jun 29, 2007 6:30pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2007 2:58am PDT
"Sicko" Movie for Your Health Care in the Bay Area Now Are you ready for Sicko, the movie that hopefully will finally make possible a national healthcare system paid for with our tax dollars as exists in the rest of the industrialized world? Let's pack the Bay Area theaters for at least a week of 100% attendance to show we want single payer healthcare now!...
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2007 7:39pm PDT
Health Care Yes! Insurance Companies No! Humanist Hall, 390 27th St., Oakland...
Event Date: Sun, Jul 15, 2007 4:30pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2007 2:40pm PDT
Compassion & Choices: In Thought and Action June 2007 (lots going on)...
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2007 1:14pm PDT
SF Holds Hearing on Controversial Building Plan Wednesday, June 27, 2007 :SAN FRANCISCO -- The City College of San Francisco will hold a community hearing on the controversial building plan in Chinatown, reports the Chinese-language newspaper Ming Pao Daily. The public hearing would be a good opportunity for Chinese-American residents to express their opinions, the Ming Pao Daily reports....
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2007 12:07pm PDT
Updated Version: War on the homeless heats up in Berkeley This updated version has a quote from Berkeley City Councilman Kris Worthington
who reveals more details about WHO is actually behind the lattest attack
on the homeless in Berkeley!...
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2007 11:55am PDT
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