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San Francisco Faces Major Battles in 2006 After 2005 focused on the Governor’s statewide ballot initiatives, San Francisco faces some critical local issues in 2006. Should the city continue to approve luxury condos in exchange for affordable housing and other community benefits, or is this trade-off not worth the resulting gentrification? Will the Mayor and Supes continue balancing the budget by cutting services and raising fees, or instead seek voter approval for new taxes? Debate over these key issues has a citywide focus, but is a...
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2006 9:25am PST
Espanola Jackson to run for Supervisor in District 10 San Francisco has 11 Districts and one of them District 10 needs leadership. Sophina Maxwell the current District 10 Supervisor has been a huge failure. District 10 has over 40% unemployment, Black on Black violence has increased in District 10 and contributed to lack of Safety and Health. Poor folks in Public Housing are treated like second class citizens while Mayor Gavin Newsom goes once in a while to shoot hoops. Poor children and folks are dying and no one in paying any attention....
Posted: Mon, Jan 2, 2006 6:18pm PST
FMA on CKUT: Black Box Voting: Voting Fraud Coming to an Election Near You (audio/mpeg 12.3MB) BlackBoxVoting.org has proven optical scanners used to read paper ballots can be programmed. Canada is about to use them....
Posted: Mon, Jan 2, 2006 2:05pm PST
The President's Apologist: the convoluted logic of Berkeley law Prof. John Yoo ...
Posted: Mon, Jan 2, 2006 12:49pm PST
Nepotism in Alameda County Short article on nepotism and cronyism in Alameda County Government....
Posted: Mon, Jan 2, 2006 12:38pm PST
Kerry's Bravado Just listen to this bravado from Senator John Kerry: "With the pivotal 2006 elections approaching, we won't be blackmailed or denied. We won't stand for Swift Boat-style attacks. We won't be intimidated." --But isn't that essentially what this man told us back in 2004?...
Posted: Fri, Dec 30, 2005 7:29pm PST
US passport renewals $67. Next year $234? RENEW NOW WHILE YOU STILL CAN
Soon passports will require submission of biometric DATA.
RFID chips in passports soon....
Posted: Fri, Dec 30, 2005 3:24pm PST
Arc Ecology and Conflict of Interest in the Bayview Mayor Gavin Newsom better step in and stop this blatant conflict of interest in the Bayview. Again and again outside groups and here we have Arc Ecology wanting to do some little fake outreach by trying to win $283,500 per bid using UNDUE process known to the world as CONFLICT OF INTEREST. You cannot fool all the people all the time....
Posted: Fri, Dec 30, 2005 12:24am PST
Journalist Robert Bryce Discusses the Death of Enron and the Firm's Close Ties to Bush Enron's former chief accountant Richard Causey may now testify against Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling. We look at the fate of President Bush's corporate biggest campaign donor with the author of "Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron."...
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 7:52am PST
A Year End Message From Peter Miguel Camejo 
In a message sent out today, Peter Camejo explains to his supporters why he was proud to help Ralph Nader run for president in 2004, and why he would be grateful for their help to retire debts they incurred....
Posted: Wed, Dec 28, 2005 12:15pm PST
Bush Step Down! Protest Jan. 31st and Feb. 4th! Begin organizing your community to drown out Bush's State of the Union on Tuesday, Jan. 31st! Demonstrations followed by mass protest in Washington, DC on Feb. 4th. www.worldcantwait.org for info on what's going on in your community!...
Posted: Wed, Dec 28, 2005 9:03am PST
California Democratic Party works to prop up Schwarzenegger administration In the aftermath of November’s California Special Election, the Democratic Party is acting as a critical prop for the beleaguered administration of Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Democrats responded to Schwarzenegger’s political debacle in the Special Election, in which all of his favored ballot initiatives were defeated, by calling for a new spirit of bipartisanship. The governor responded by appointing a prominent Democrat as his new chief of staff....
Posted: Wed, Dec 28, 2005 7:36am PST
JANUARY 31 State of the Union Date Set! 1) State of the Union date is set!
2) WCW OpEd in this week's Bay Guardian!
3) Copies of NYTimes ad available
4) DVDs available...
Posted: Tue, Dec 27, 2005 8:09pm PST
Impeachment March on State of the Union Jan 31 
We The People remind Congress that they too took an oath to defend the Constitution, from both enemies foreign and domestic. 1. Call or Fax Congress and let them know, impeachment or else. 2. Organize State of the Union MOSH II protest, gather in DC to put the pressure on Congress the week before the SOTU. 3. Jan 31st, surround the capitol building, project truth videos to the riot cops, remind them that they too took an oath to defend the Constitution....
Posted: Mon, Dec 26, 2005 3:42pm PST
Schwarzenegger name removed from Austrian Stadium In Protest Over Tookie Officials in Arnold Schwarzenegger's Austrian hometown of Graz have removed his name from a football stadium in an ongoing row over the US death penalty....
Posted: Mon, Dec 26, 2005 8:16am PST
Utah's Senile Senator Bennett and his favorite penny stock fraud constituent - Again... ' I said that simply so that if someone does find a body or a bag of heroin in my car, or some variant thereon, I will have been on record that it was going to happen.' - Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne, Senator Bennett's favorite constituent who funded the Swift Boat Captains Against Kerry and,along with his insurance billionaire daddy Jack, donated $1,000,000 !! in a smear campaign against Democratic VP candidate John Edwards....
Posted: Sun, Dec 25, 2005 4:35pm PST
Xmas 9-11am, Matt Gonzalez interviews anti-war Sen Candidates Todd Chretien & Kevin Zeese Matt Gonzalez interviews Todd Chretien and Kevin Zeese KPFA 94.1 fm...
Posted: Sat, Dec 24, 2005 4:20pm PST
49er City - the last frontier and blatant corruption The Southeast Sector is the last frontier in San Francisco. Candlestick Park and the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard is being vied by corrupt developers like Lennar BVHP LLC and the cronies working for Mayor Gavin Newsom - Jesse Blout, Dwayne Jones, Michael Cohen, Marcia Rosen - none of them live in San Francisco. They for sure make their money in San Francisco. Thousands of units will be built on toxic sites mostly landfill and prone to liquefaction....
Posted: Sat, Dec 24, 2005 11:24am PST
Italian Judge Issues Warrants for 22 CIA Operatives in Abduction of Cleric Warrants For U.S. Citizens: Edict allows European nations to arrest 22 purported CIA operatives for alleged abduction of cleric...
Posted: Fri, Dec 23, 2005 2:37pm PST
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