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Raging Grannies for Single Payer Health Care at SICKO 
Interactive Street Theater with members of the Raging Grannies and theater patrons at SICKO....all to promote passage of SB840...that's California-speak for Single Payer Health Care!
Photos: Kim Kinoshita, R. Robertson...
Posted: Sun, Jul 1, 2007 4:04am PDT
Raging Grannies "Play Doctor" at SICKO 
Awesome First Night for SICKO in Mountain View, California with the Raging Grannies acting up for passage of Single Payer Health Care!...
Posted: Sun, Jul 1, 2007 2:58am PDT
An Awesome First Night for "Sicko" 
The photo below shows a member of the California Nurses Association passing out flyers at the opening of SiCKO yesterday in Fresno. About 50 CNA members were on hand to pass out flyers and talk to movie goers about the need for universal health care. The article (also below) is from Michael Moore about how opening day went....
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 7:41pm PDT
Jose Morales, 77 Faces Eviciton After 42 Years in SF Mission Home (audio/mpeg 1.9MB) A SAN FRANCISCO JUDGE ORDERED A TEMPORARY STAY IN THE PROCESS OF EVICTING 77 YEAR OLD MISSION DISTRICT RESIDENT JOSE MORALES TODAY. MORALES HAS LIVED IN HIS APPARTMENT FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS. TENANTS’ RIGHTS ADVOCATES SEE THE EVICITON OF THE . REzZ REPORTS FROM THE SAN FROANCISCO SUPERIOR COURTHOUSE....
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2007 6:34pm PDT
Oakland housing activists demand City Council action Friday, June 29, 2007 : OAKLAND, Calif. — Expressing concerns shared by many California communities, affordable housing activists gathered on the City Hall steps, June 19, to protest long delays by the City Council and a blue-ribbon commission in preparing proposals to increase affordable housing and to protect tenants whose buildings are converted into condos....
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2007 6:31am PDT
"Sicko" Movie for Your Health Care in the Bay Area Now Are you ready for Sicko, the movie that hopefully will finally make possible a national healthcare system paid for with our tax dollars as exists in the rest of the industrialized world? Let's pack the Bay Area theaters for at least a week of 100% attendance to show we want single payer healthcare now!...
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2007 7:39pm PDT
SF Holds Hearing on Controversial Building Plan Wednesday, June 27, 2007 :SAN FRANCISCO -- The City College of San Francisco will hold a community hearing on the controversial building plan in Chinatown, reports the Chinese-language newspaper Ming Pao Daily. The public hearing would be a good opportunity for Chinese-American residents to express their opinions, the Ming Pao Daily reports....
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2007 12:07pm PDT
Updated Version: War on the homeless heats up in Berkeley This updated version has a quote from Berkeley City Councilman Kris Worthington
who reveals more details about WHO is actually behind the lattest attack
on the homeless in Berkeley!...
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2007 11:55am PDT
Trump Does the Deal 
Donald Trump buys major development in west Fresno. Find out why this is news on Indymedia. Read the short story below....
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2007 8:28am PDT
It’s Our Healthcare! 
The It’s Our Healthcare! campaign came to Fresno today. See the story, photos, and video below....
Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2007 10:17pm PDT
Response to a Sentinel editorial and op ed critical of Single Payer I answer the critiques of the Editor and OpEd piece in a recent Sentinel article, with examples from my own experiece and that of others I have worked with....
Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2007 6:56pm PDT
Mayor's Budget Cuts Proposal Hearing and People's Rally 6/21/07 "We can't keep relying on them (San Francisco Board of Supervisors) to come and save or help us. This is OUR money and not theirs! Every year, it seems like these kinds of things just keep happening, over and over. It all comes down to all of us coming together and taking care of ourselves, we can't rely on anyone else to do it!"...
Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2007 3:22pm PDT
Supes Challenge Health Department's No-Bid, Anti-Union Contract Tuesday, June 26, 2007 : Board President Aaron Peskin is challenging a $5.2 million no-bid contract that the San Francisco Department of Health (DPH) is seeking to hand to a non-union, non-organizable entity that it created to manage its supportive housing sites. DPH's action undermines Mayor Newsom's repeated highlighting of the importance of competitive bidding, and contradicts the spirit of the mayor's 2004 order requiring department heads to identify "all possible opportunities" to bid ou...
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 8:24am PDT
Failure of McGoldrick Recall to Qualify Should Give Proponents Pause Tuesday, June 26, 2007 : On June 22nd, business interests who want to recall Supervisor Jake McGoldrick failed to gather enough signatures to put it on the November ballot - falling about 1,000 signatures short. But proponents of this effort, which include the local Republican Party, told the San Francisco Examiner that they will now try for the February 2008 ballot....
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 8:22am PDT
Public Protests Agonizing Health Care Budget Cuts Tuesday, June 26, 2007 : At 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday, June 19th, I arrived halfway through the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Bielenson hearings, state-mandated at any time cuts are proposed for programs serving indigent people....
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 8:21am PDT
New HUD Proposals Are A Threat To All Subsidized Renters New HUD Proposals Threaten Everyone Including Children, In The Nations Subsidized Housing Programs!...
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 3:09pm PDT
NASGA response to Marin County defamation lawsuit Robin Westmiller, president of the National Associaiton to Stop Guardian Abuse responds to Marin County defamation lawsuit...
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 7:05am PDT
Rent is Theft, Housing is a Human Right 
The housing situation in San Francisco is a prime example of the greatest evil of capitalism. Only those who
can afford it get to be housed. Everyone
else lives on the streets. They get trash
talked by neighbors and politicians alike
for the sin of being homeless. They are
arrested or cited with “quality of life” citations....
Posted: Sun, Jun 24, 2007 1:39am PDT
Former Tenant Pickets as Realtors Tries to Sell House Currently, I am picketing the building
I was Ellised* from in 2001 by speculators Michael Gallin and Elba Borgen.
The apartments were sold as TICs* in
2003 and 2004 after the building sat
empty for almost two years. Three of
the four apartments are for sale again as
TICs. The purpose of the picket is to
make sure prospective buyers know the
building’s history. While an Ellis Act
eviction must be recorded on the deed,
many realtors try to hide this information or omit it i...
Posted: Sun, Jun 24, 2007 1:30am PDT
What Do More Condos Mean for the Mission? 
At a time when affordable family
housing is on the political agenda, Seven Hills Properties is pushing a condo
development through the planning
process for 60 new condos and another Walgreen’s Drug Store. The site in
questions is 3400 Cesar Chavez Street
(at Mission), now a empty parking lot
where day laborers wait for work daily....
Posted: Sun, Jun 24, 2007 1:24am PDT
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