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The "Pro-Life Alliance of Gays And Lesbians" (PLAGAL) will march at Queer Pride Pro-Life Queer group to march at the Queer Pride 2006....
Posted: Fri, Apr 14, 2006 3:46pm PDT
The War on the Poor "War on the Poor" from Fault Lines, issue 15...
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 11:14pm PDT
War on the Poor 
"War on the Poor" article from Fault Lines issue 15...
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 10:10pm PDT
Bayview Hunters Point the Last Frontier and San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (SFRA). The Bayview Hunters Point is the last frontier. In this area over 4000 small industries strive. This is the only area that has large areas condusive to mix industrial uses. It is also the area that has the most Open Space. In this area are two power plants, the concrete, aggregate, and sand operations, the Darling Tallow Plant and the Raw Sewage Treatment Plant. This area has millions of vehicles spewing diesel and has the largest amount of home owners the majority of them minorities. The are...
Posted: Sun, Apr 9, 2006 8:50am PDT
Local KRON and KPIX-CBS TV News Is Bought and You Are Sold Down the River Looking at the Free Press's list of the stations running corporate press releases as news (http://www.prwatch.org/map/TV_Stations), they include one SF station, the CBS affiliate. But it seems there's a lot more of this (and at least one more flavor) than even they realize. Here was the headline in Wednesday's SF Chronicle: "Cash-strapped KRON is letting advertisers buy into news broadcasts. The boss says it's just a sign of the times."
Curiously, one of the quotes in the story...
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 11:03am PDT
Book reading by "Nation" writer Eyal Press, April 25th at 6:30 Eyal Press, writer for "The Nation" has written a book about the anti-choice reign of terror against abortion providers.
Come to Valencia Street Books April 25th to hear his story and to commemorate those doctors who died for our rights and lives....
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 1:36pm PDT
Will SF Unitarian-Universalists elect queer pastor? To the San Francisco Bay Times:...
Posted: Sun, Apr 2, 2006 10:12pm PDT
O'Reilly & Fox on Battlecry "Culture War"...
Repost: News Hounds: We watch FOX so you don't have to.
O'Reilly's Dream Scenario: Culture Clash In San Francisco
Reported by Deborah - March 29, 2006...
Posted: Fri, Mar 31, 2006 12:25pm PST
WCW on FOX's "O'Reilly Factor" The backdrop: In SF this past weekend 25,000 youth gathered for a Christian revival meeting called by Battle Cry to "show America in a very visible way that there are young people that love God and want to build the future of our country on biblical values." World Can’t Wait—Drive Out the Bush Regime called a counter-rally to Battle Cry’s gathering at SF City Hall steps on Friday. They were joined by other groups as well as the SF Board of Supervisors, who had just passed a resolut...
Posted: Fri, Mar 31, 2006 7:44am PST
SF events 3.30 Beware Of Sneaky Sugar Alcohols
http://www.commonvoice.com/article.asp?colid=4489...
Posted: Thu, Mar 30, 2006 3:54pm PST
London-style driving tolls coming to downtown San Francisco The London program that caught the attention of Supervisor Jake McGoldrick, a frequent visitor to the United Kingdom, has reduced downtown traffic congestion by about 30 percent and vehicle emissions by about 12 percent, said Jamie O'Hara, spokesman for Transport for London, the city's transportation agency. It's also put about £200 million, or about $350 million, into government coffers since it was implemented, O'Hara added....
Posted: Tue, Mar 28, 2006 6:39pm PST
Ron Luce's Battlecry and Teen Mania: Like the WWF, Only With God Inside the “raddest,” weirdest, fastest-growing teen-Christian movement in America
By Benoit Denizet-Lewis...
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 7:18pm PST
San Francisco Fails to Mobilize for Immigrant Rights All across America, labor unions, religious groups, immigrant rights activists, and Latino families are mobilizing against Republican legislation that would turn undocumented immigrants and those that assist them into criminals. Over 20,000 people took to the streets in Phoenix, 30,000 brought business to a halt in Milwaukee, 50,000 rallied in Denver, thousands protested in Atlanta and over 100,000 took to the streets in Chicago. In Los Angeles, SEIU, the Catholic Church, Korean and Latino im...
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 7:07am PST
Ron Luce and "God's instruction book" for Intolerance From Chronicle report on Battlecry:
Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, who told counterprotesters at City Hall on Friday that while such fundamentalists may be small in number, "they're loud, they're obnoxious, they're disgusting, and they should get out of San Francisco."
Gay marriage "is another sign of the end of times," said Sherilyn David, referring to the apocalypse that some fundamentalist Christians believe is foretold in Scripture. The 22-year-old San Jos...
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2006 11:02pm PST
m23-24 rioting queens, Baghdad blogger, more... ..... Q things 2 do.......
Posted: Thu, Mar 23, 2006 8:03am PST
Dell'Arte presents "SHADOW OF GIANTS" inspired by true story of North Coast tree-sitters 
Shadow of Giants is about the struggle over one redwood tree. It is a struggle with international ramifications, a struggle that involves tree-sitters, ghosts and mythology. An athletic ensemble of five actors portrays the ongoing conflict between environmentalists desperately fighting to preserve the last of the ancient forests, and the big timber companies who own them. It’s a story of a divided community, greed, hope, and power, told through dynamic physical theatre...
Posted: Tue, Mar 21, 2006 5:10pm PST
3/29: Reproductive Rights Movie Night in SF 
Wednesday March 29, 7PM
Roxie Cinema
3117 16th Street (at Valencia Street) San Francisco...
Posted: Mon, Mar 20, 2006 11:52pm PST
New College CESA Events List, 3/23 - 3/29 New College of California - Center for Education & Social Action - Events, 3/23 - 3/29
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Mar 23 - Voices of Dissent - Screening and discussion with filmmaker Karil Daniels
Mar 27 - Venezuela from Below - Screening and panel discussion
Mar 29 - Reproductive Rights Movie Night! - at the Roxie Cinema
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Posted: Mon, Mar 20, 2006 11:40pm PST