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The Plumbers Union of San Francisco, friends of anti-tenant "mayor" Newsom, is doing its best to attack the workingclass with their proposed eviction of tenants in 156 low cost units at the Civic Center Hotel owned by this gang of landlord thugs....
Posted: Mon, May 2, 2005 7:16pm PDT
The Transit Justice Coalition needs your help! We're a coalition of over 30 San Francisco community groups working to stop MUNI from raising fares and cutting services, and we're going into high gear in the next month. Come out to brainstorm strategies and plan creative actions to defend affordable public transit and stop this back-door tax on low-income people....
Posted: Mon, May 2, 2005 11:10am PDT
Get ready for San Francisco's 6th Annual Cannabis Day at Civic Center Plaza!
Saturday May 7, 2005
12noon-6pm...
Posted: Sun, May 1, 2005 10:05pm PDT
Thurs 5/5
Rally, press conference, candlelight vigil, march to city hall
5pm, starting at Jefferson Square Park at Laguna and Eddy St. in SF...
Posted: Sun, May 1, 2005 10:00pm PDT
What's happening right now is that the feds have lowered the payment standard so that for example, with a $1600 one-bedroom, HUD will only pay $1300 for it now. The tenant HAS TO MAKE UP THE $300 DIFFERENCE. Every tenant with a voucher in SF (over 7,300 vouchers!) will get a rent increase this year, anywhere from about $100-400/mo. People on Section 8 canNOT afford these increases. If landlords do not agree to lower the rent down to the new standard or the tenant does not find another place t...
Posted: Sun, May 1, 2005 8:57pm PDT
"Old-time anti-war square dance" raises over $1,000 for Navy war resister Pablo Paredes and Iraq Veterans Against the War....
Posted: Sun, May 1, 2005 11:56am PDT
WHERE: Outside Badlands
WHEN: TODAY, Saturday, April 30, 9 PM
WHY: Stand up against racism!...
Posted: Sat, Apr 30, 2005 9:28pm PDT
... flow together at Femina Potens; confrontation at Clovis; art happening at Islais Creek... + news of Speedos, CA anti-queer amendment, daring 2 age, steroids 4 girls, more......
Posted: Sat, Apr 30, 2005 8:20pm PDT
pictures from the Really Really Free Market...
Posted: Sat, Apr 30, 2005 5:39pm PDT
"Truth and Lies of the Biscuit Fire"- Indymedia Film Premiere- with recent action footage from the ongoing direct action campaign in So. Oregon and speakers from the front lines.
Saturday, April 30th, 8pm. Station 40- 3030b 16th St at Mission. Upstairs.
Contact Laurel@o2collective.org 541-301-8963...
Posted: Sat, Apr 30, 2005 12:05pm PDT
Transit advocates took the Muni fare fight to riders this morning, as twenty or so members of the Coalition for Transit Justice held a protest at the corner of 16th and Mission Streets this morning against planned Muni fare hikes and service cuts and to rally rider support for future actions at City Hall....
Posted: Sat, Apr 30, 2005 11:03am PDT
"Enough is Enough !"
DATE: Sat. 4/30/2005
TIME: 7:00 PM
Duration: 2 Hours
San Francisco
SF Bayview Opera House 4705 3rd st
between Oakdale and Newcomb)...
Posted: Fri, Apr 29, 2005 10:44pm PDT
"Truth and Lies of the Biscuit Fire"- Indymedia Film Premiere- with recent action footage and speakers from the front lines.
Saturday, April 30th, 8pm. Station 40- 3030b 16th St at Mission. Upstairs....
Posted: Fri, Apr 29, 2005 12:02pm PDT
Jury votes no pepper spray on non-violent protestors....
Posted: Thu, Apr 28, 2005 7:11pm PDT
Unanimous verdict finds police used excessive force against peaceful activists protesting logging of ancient redwoods....
Posted: Thu, Apr 28, 2005 6:24pm PDT
May Day, May Day, May Day!!! . In an age where even the Democrats are pulling out all the stops to create new MTV-like "fadical" broadcast networks, truly independent media is still struggling to keep the attention focused on the real issues. Come join SLTV for a night of some truly grassroots community media!!...
Posted: Thu, Apr 28, 2005 1:34pm PDT
Anti-war progressives at San Francisco State University held a press conference Wednesday in support of three students and two anti-war organizations being targeted for disciplinary action by the school’s judiciary affairs department....
Posted: Thu, Apr 28, 2005 10:19am PDT
Zizek told the audience why he was a philosopher. He does not want to explain and account for the unaccountable, and instead wants to "render strange something we accept as given." Seeing things in a new way to "help us get a small shift of perspective to see the unexpected, implicit consequences" of thought and actions. "We do not know where we truly are," he stated, adding "we do not know what is really going on. We are in a radical crisis," he conclu...
Posted: Wed, Apr 27, 2005 10:21pm PDT
Delivering another big punch before Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger releases the May Revise of his proposed California budget, CSU students and faculty members and supporters from other schools and other teachers' unions rallied outside his offices in San Francisco and Fresno and his restaurant in Santa Monica today.
And even more demonstrated outside a steel plant in Fontana where Schwarzenegger was speaking.
“The governor’s proposed budget doesn’t even begin to address the true needs...
Posted: Wed, Apr 27, 2005 7:48pm PDT