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text Supervisors, Treasurer Call for Moratorium on Check-Cashing Services by Casey Mills via Beyond Chron (Reposted)
Supervisor Tom Ammiano and Treasurer Jose Cisneros stood together on the steps of City Hall yesterday to jointly announce the introduction of a moratorium on check-cashing and payday lending businesses. Both Ammiano and Cisneros used the event to detail the predatory, harmful practices these businesses engage in, drawing special attention to their disproportionate impact on low-income communities. Check-cashing services often provide loans on people’s paychecks at as much as a 900 percent ann...
Posted: Thu, Oct 20, 2005 8:08am PDT
textSpecial Call-In Day - Urgent Budget Cuts Update by Lynda Carson
Call 1-800-828-0498 and urge your senators to reject any budget reconciliation that includes cuts to Medicaid....
Posted: Thu, Oct 20, 2005 7:00am PDT
textUrgent Call for Relief: Guatemala by repost
All over southern Mexico and Central American thousands have lost loved ones, homes and crops from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Stan. These communities may never recover....
Posted: Wed, Oct 19, 2005 3:46pm PDT
textMike Davis on The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu by Democracy Now (reposted)
We spend the hour with Mike Davis author of the new book, "The Monster At Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu." Davis says, "2005 is the year in which avian flu, now has acquired a critical mass amongst birds that it won't be eradicated and it's unclear whether it can be contained. Most likely, avian flu will fly to every corner of the world. It will probably reach Alaska and Northern Canada, for instance, in the near future. Avian flu - the threat of pandemic avian flu - ...
Posted: Wed, Oct 19, 2005 7:11am PDT
textBig Victory for Homeless at Surplus Property Committee by Randy Shaw via Beyond Chron
In a major victory for homeless persons and their advocates, the city’s Surplus Property Advisory Committee voted unanimously Monday night to solicit letters of interest for the developing of 150 Otis Street for permanent homeless housing. The Committee’s vote represented a strong rejection of the Mayor’s Office of Housing’s recommendation that the beautiful nine-story property instead be sold to the highest bidder. Every public speaker opposed the proposed sale, and the Committee gave clear ...
Posted: Wed, Oct 19, 2005 7:08am PDT
textPoor People's March Attracts a Tireless, Passionate Crowd by Beyond Chron (reposted)
A diverse crowd of workers and their supporters gathered yesterday in the Mission for the Poor People's March, an event organized to draw attention to many issues surrounding today's poor as well as to encourage people to vote in the upcoming November election. Organized by the Living Wage Coalition, the event attracted many different groups, including the LGBT community, the Latino community, and the Women's Collective....
Posted: Mon, Oct 17, 2005 6:30am PDT
textWHO believes earthquake disaster worse than December's tsunami by reposted
Leading international agencies believe the devastation caused by the earthquake that struck Pakistan last Saturday is still being underestimated....
Posted: Fri, Oct 14, 2005 7:56pm PDT
textMichael Eric Dyson "Some of Us are In First Class, But The Plane Is In Trouble" by Democracy Now (reposted)
We play an address by professor and preacher Michael Eric Dyson speaking at the first annual Unvarnished Truth Awards in Washington D.C. Dyson says, "If you're in the plane, being in first class ain't going to stop you from going down with the rest of us. When there is turbulence, there is turbulence everywhere. Everybody be shaking. If that plane goes down, you might die first in first class. Yes, some of us are in first class, but the plane is in trouble."...
Posted: Fri, Oct 14, 2005 7:13am PDT
textSocial inequality reaches new heights in California by wsws (reposted)
The California Budget Project recently released the results of its latest investigation, “Making Ends Meet, How Much Does it Cost to Raise a Family in California?” CBP is an independent fiscal and policy think tank, founded in 1994. It produces analysis and public education with the stated goal of “improving public policies affecting the economic and social well-being of low- and middle-income Californians.”...
Posted: Thu, Oct 13, 2005 10:53pm PDT
textWhite House, Congress press plans for major cuts in social programs by wsws (reposted)
Using the cost of Hurricane Katrina reconstruction as a pretext, Congressional Republicans, backed by the Bush administration, continue to push for sharp cuts in social programs....
Posted: Thu, Oct 13, 2005 10:52pm PDT
textDaly Moves Forward with Affordable Housing Plan by Randy Shaw via Beyond Chron
One week after Supervisor Jake McGoldrick proposed an economically regressive inclusionary housing reform, Supervisor Chris Daly has offered a more fruitful plan. While McGoldrick sought to amend the city’s weak inclusionary housing law by reducing the size of buildings covered from ten to five, Daly has more logically moved to raise the number of affordable units required for all market-rate projects. We will soon learn whether the Board makes the big developers pay their fare share, or inst...
Posted: Thu, Oct 13, 2005 3:34pm PDT
textJudge Rules Against City in "Musical Rooms" Case by Casey Mills via Beyond Chron (Reposted)
In a controversial decision that could increase homelessness in San Francisco, the Superior Court recently ruled that the City cannot stop hotel owners from requiring tenants to check in and out every 28 days. In Mosser vs. City of San Francisco, the City Attorney’s office sought to prevent landlord Neveo Mosser from practicing ‘musical rooms.’ The practice forces tenants out of their units before they’ve lived in them 28 days - the amount of time legally required to establish tenant’s rights...
Posted: Thu, Oct 13, 2005 3:27pm PDT
textWho Will Take Out the Garbage: A Report from New Orleans by Starhawk
Still, roofs are off, houses are molding away from the inside, and the streets are piled with garbage that, six weeks after the hurricane, has not been picked up....
Posted: Thu, Oct 13, 2005 12:57pm PDT
textHomeless Still Frustrated by Scott Sowle
Homeless people throughout the nation are still frustrated about how Katrina evacuees were able to get services...
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 4:53pm PDT
textTax panel seeks cap on break for homeowners by Christopher Swann
The president's panel on tax reform is pushing for a cap on the mortgage interest tax deduction, long considered one of the country's untouchable tax breaks....
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 2:15pm PDT
textNew Orleans--Some sunshine after the floods by Starhawk
Racism is like the black mold eating away at the long-submerged houses....
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 11:45am PDT
textLegislation in Pipeline to Increase Condo Conversion Oversight by Casey Mills via Beyond Chron (Reposted)
Supervisor Chris Daly has introduced legislation that would reduce evictions for the purpose of condo conversions by increasing city oversight of the application process. Currently, the Planning Commission only holds hearings on conversion applications for buildings with 5 or 6 units. The upcoming legislation, however, would force hearings to be held on 2, 3 and 4-unit buildings as well. During these hearings, the Commission would have to prove the application passes the standard of Subdivisi...
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 7:16am PDT
textPakistan Will Never Forget This Horror: Things are Bad and Getting Worse by Counterpunch (repost)
October 11, 2005 -- Tariq Ali in Lahore...
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 7:03am PDT
textNew Orleans: Leaving the Poor Behind Again! by Bill Quigley (reposted)
They are doing it again! My wife and I spent five days and four nights in a hospital in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We saw people floating dead in the water. We watched people die waiting for evacuation to places with food, water, and electricity. We were rescued by boat and waited for an open pickup truck to take us and dozens of others on a rainy drive to the underpass where thousands of others waited for a bus ride to who knows where. You saw the people left behind. The poor, the ...
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 6:55am PDT
textSolidarity Not Charity by Hunter Jackson
Grassroots Relief Efforts Fill in the Gaps in New Orleans...
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 10:57pm PDT
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