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New database on money and politics MAPLight.org launches today! (11/17/2006)....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 11:45pm PDT
Just Released! Fall 2006 Justice Policy Journal: CJCJ's Premiere Online Academic Journal. Check out the new issue of the Justice Policy Journal, CJCJ’s Premiere Online Academic Journal....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 8:39pm PDT
Proposition 89 Ad Spreads Virally In California, where initiative campaigns regularly cost tens of millions of dollars, supporters of this year's public financing initiative are coupling innovative media with emerging technologies to empower grassroots activism in a half a billion dollar campaign spending environment....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:23pm PDT
URGENT NEWS ADVISORY: LET FORREST HILL DEBATE! 
Protest Forrest's exclusion from SF Debates!
Dr. Forrest Hill has called a press conference for tomorrow (Wednesday October 18, 2006) at 1 pm to protest his exclusion from the San Francisco Chronicle's debate. Dr. Hill has asked that everyone let the media know that it is no longer acceptable to discriminate against third party candidates.
People living in the Bay Area plan to go to KPIX-TV to 855 Battery St. in downtown San Francisco at 1 pm tomorrow, October 18th, to carry signs and...
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:05pm PDT
California Governor in Trouble With Latinos A new poll of California Latinos shows a deep dislike of Governor Schwarzenegger. In this poll of 600 Spanish-dominant likely voters, the governor has higher disapproval ratings than President Bush, and is losing to his opponent Phil Angelides by 64 percent to 21 percent. Spanish-dominant Latino voters make up about 10 percent of the California electorate, with all Latinos now representing about 18 percent of the electorate as a whole....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 5:48pm PDT
KPFA Elections Debate Issue #2 - Program Director or Not What should be the appropriate program management structure for a listener-sponsored public radio station?...
Posted: Mon, Oct 16, 2006 4:45pm PDT
Angelides is no actor, and Arnold's no moderate Phil Angelides has a tough row to hoe at the moment. He is just not as telegenic and physically appealing as our current movie star governor and -- in an age when television is the primary medium by which the majority of voters get to know political candidates on the state and national level -- he is clearly at something of a disadvantage....
Posted: Mon, Oct 16, 2006 2:56pm PDT
DPA Wins Fight on Medical Marijuana Expenses in California The decision, written on behalf of the California Department of Health and Human Services (DHS), made clear that DHS policy is to permit reimbursement of medical marijuana claims for patients who receive public assistance from that agency....
Posted: Sun, Oct 15, 2006 11:13pm PDT
The old regime's legacy at KPFA The slow motion takeover of KPFA began in 1992 and reached its climax in 1999. During those years, the highjackers recruited assistants, trained proteges and created a culture which permeates the station to this day. It's the background of today's ongoing struggle at KPFA's Local Station Board (LSB)....
Posted: Sun, Oct 15, 2006 6:19am PDT
Bay Area's "Best of Veg 2006" - Vote Now! 
Survey Highlights Great Vegetarian Dining in the San Francisco Bay Area
Bay Area Vegetarians' surveys community to find outstanding vegetarian dining opportunities in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area. Supporters may vote through November 15th for their favorite Bay Area restaurants, and also be eligible to win prizes....
Posted: Sat, Oct 14, 2006 3:10pm PDT
Abortion may be legal in California -- but that doesn't mean you can actually get one. ....The number of abortion providers has been declining nationwide. The Alan Guttmacher Institute, the foremost clearinghouse for abortion information in the country, found that more than half of the US hospitals that provided abortions in 1982 had stopped by 2000. The institute also documented an 11 percent decrease in the number of abortion providers in the United States between 1996 and 2000. In California the decline was even greater: a 19 percent drop during the same period. Today, 41 pe...
Posted: Sat, Oct 14, 2006 10:48am PDT
No On 85: Beyond the Issue of Choice Here in San Francisco, fear about the local success of a ballot measure which attacks a woman’s right to choose is low: San Francisco has long been a haven for pro-choice supporters. However, Proposition 85 has a fundamental flaw which overrides an individual’s position on abortion, and everyone should be talking about it. Proposition 85 only affects those citizens who coincidentally are the only citizens with cannot directly impact the vote’s outcome: those under 18 years of age. The voice o...
Posted: Sat, Oct 14, 2006 10:46am PDT
Attorney General Backs Tenants Against Anti-SLAPP Chicanery In a legal case with significant implications for San Francisco tenants, Attorney General has filed an amicus brief in favor of tenants fighting Ellis Act evictions at Lincoln Place in Los Angeles. The brief addresses a major issue that has been proceeding under the radar screen in San Francisco: landlords attempting to use the state Anti-SLAPP statute to deny tenants the right to contest Ellis Act evictions. The law against “strategic lawsuits against public participation” was designed to pr...
Posted: Sat, Oct 14, 2006 10:43am PDT
Alay kay Obispo Alberto Ramento, alagad ng kapayapaan at Obispo ng mga Anak-Pawis, Alay kay Obispo Alberto Ramento ng IFI martir ng bayan at Obispo ng mga Anak-Pawis sa paghahatid sa kanyang huling hantungan
-- Arturo P. Garcia , Oktubre 12, 2006...
Posted: Sat, Oct 14, 2006 9:14am PDT
KPFA Elections Debate Issue#1 - Workers' Rights KPFA Local Station Board Election issue...
Posted: Sat, Oct 14, 2006 8:54am PDT
California Democratic Party Lines Up Behind pro-Bush anti-Labor Schwarzenegger SAN FRANCISCO - Former Assembly speaker and San Francisco mayor Willie Brown on Friday predicted that fellow Democrat Phil Angelides will lose his campaign for governor.
Brown's forecast came during a fundraising breakfast for his public policy institute, which drew many of the state's top elected officials, including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
With a nod to the Republican governor, who was seated in the audience, Brown told several hundred well-connected listeners that Schwarzenegger ...
Posted: Fri, Oct 13, 2006 11:26pm PDT
ASA CA Weekly Alert 1) ASA Regional Town Halls, Ed Rosenthal Re-indicted, and San Diego Update
9) Thursday, October 19th, San Francisco: HopeNet Planning Commission
Hearing
10) Thursday, October 25th, San Francisco: The Green Cross Appeals Hearing...
Posted: Fri, Oct 13, 2006 8:14pm PDT
Sprouts: Protests in Oaxaca and California (audio/mpeg 26.5MB) Most major state and municipal government offices in the capital have been blockaded by public school teachers and members of the so-called Popular Assemebly of the People of Oaxaca -or APPO as it's known in Spanish, reports Shannon Young from Oaxaca....
Posted: Fri, Oct 13, 2006 7:38pm PDT
Photograph of LAPD Officer John Smith (North Hollywood division) now posted online! ......LAPD Officer John Smith has appeared in several news articles regarding medical marijuana dispensaries in the North Hollywood area and his efforts to close them down....
Posted: Fri, Oct 13, 2006 11:35am PDT
Life SHOULD be an experiment ....
An examined life IS inherently experimental.
An unexamined life teaches nothing.
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Please reprint, republish, repost this LTE.
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Posted: Fri, Oct 13, 2006 9:04am PDT
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