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Call In Days to Stop the Budget Cuts
Use the toll free numbers to reach your Representatives 1-800-818-6641 or 1-800-828-0498
No tax cuts for the rich!
Tell your Representatives that all Hou9sing Programs must be fully funded and that you oppose budget cuts to SSI, Foster Care, Food Stamps, Medicare, Children's Programs...
Posted: Tue, Nov 1, 2005 3:12pm PST
Communities of color unite behind Prop. 79, say no to drug companies’ big money campaign
Organizations and lawmakers representing communities of color urged California voters today to approve Proposition 79 – the enforceable prescription drug discount measure sponsored by consumer, senior and health groups. The advocates emphasized that drug companies cannot buy their communities’ votes and that low and moderate income people of color stand to benefit greatly from Prop. 79....
Posted: Tue, Nov 1, 2005 7:28am PST
Why are our children still getting sicker and sicker?
It is no secret that Bayview Hunters Point has not only the highest childhood asthma rates in the city, but, it seems now, the highest in the state. So it stands to reason that we would have the highest hospitalization rate for our children, which is double the citywide average....
Posted: Tue, Nov 1, 2005 7:27am PST
CUCKOO ECONOMICS (Abridged Ed.)
By deliberately confusing assets that can be *produced*
with assets that can only be *acquired*, modern economics
laid the ideological foundation for unemployment, poverty,
inequality, and the looming global depression....
Posted: Tue, Nov 1, 2005 3:35am PST
Thousands Face Eviction in New Orleans
The scheme to flush the remaining poor out of New Orleans and grab their land is quickly moving into a new phase with a lockout of public housing tenants....
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 7:47pm PST
Bay Area Caravan to New Orleans: Volunteer Meeting
COMMON GROUND COLLECTIVE in New Orleans has called a National Caravan to help rebuild/repair/clean-up the 9th Ward over the week of Thanksgiving, November 20-27. Several Bay Area residents who have volunteered at Common Ground are helping to organize the Bay Area Caravan....
Posted: Sun, Oct 30, 2005 10:21pm PST
Tell Congress to Stop War on Hurricane Victims
Now, we need your help to stop the war on drugs from becoming a war on
hurricane victims....
Posted: Sun, Oct 30, 2005 10:10pm PST
Food Not Bombs Sacramento Needs Your Help!
Help Food Not Bombs in Sacramento feed and organize the community!...
Posted: Sun, Oct 30, 2005 7:21pm PST
Violence-Ridden Communities Demand City Plan to End Killings
Residents of some of San Francisco's poorest and most neglected neighborhoods gathered at City Hall yesterday to demand a comprehensive plan to end the violence plaguing their communities. A spate of killings swept across Bayview-Hunters Point, Western Addition, and Visitation Valley in recent months - killings community members argue could have been prevented with more city involvement. Participants in yesterday's event presented a list of simple, easy to implement requests to city officials...
Posted: Sat, Oct 29, 2005 9:01am PDT
Live Salsa Concert to benefit Homeless Families in SF
What: Live Salsa concert to benefit homeless families and immigrants living in San Francisco
Who: Anthony Blea y su Charanga, Manny and the Cruzettes and DJ Walt Digz Vela, DJ Carlitto Brigante and more.
Where: Somarts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan St., SF
When: Saturday, December 10, 2005 7pm-2am
Suggested Donation: $25.00...
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 1:21pm PDT
Contra Costa Homeless Told To Leave (SL Streets)
This past week saw law enforcement in Contra Costa County California evict the homeless from their camps....
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 10:05am PDT
NOV.5 REVIVE! A Conscious Dance Party Benefit for New Orleans Grassroots Relief!!
We need your help to get the word out.......
Please forward to everyone you know!!!!
International Capoeira Angola Foundation - Oakland Presents:
REVIVE! REVEL with a CAUSE!
For the survivors of Hurricane Katrina...
A dance party benefit for New Orleans based
Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children....
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 9:29am PDT
Disability Perspective: Supe. Adapts Southern Civil Rights Strategy On Disabled Access
An amazing political evolution surfaced at the Oct. 19th Land Use Committee, when the agenda veered away from a simple item on elevator safety and elevator access. It was supposed to make the Planning Code conform to the Building Code, to the state of California code, and to federal laws. Suddenly, it became a monologue on whether there should be complete disabled access, whether there are enough disabled people to risk hurting the scenic views of the socially and politically influential, and...
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 6:48am PDT
Newsom Advocates ‘Housing-First’ Policy for Homeless Families
Facing dwindling state and federal funding to combat family homelessness, Mayor Gavin Newsom announced at yesterday’s State of the City address he plans to institute a ‘housing-first’ policy to bring San Francisco’s families in off the streets. Administration insiders say this policy will take the form of a city-funded rent subsidy program. While the details have not yet been finalized, it appears likely the program will provide subsidies of up to $500 per month to enable families in shelters...
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 6:46am PDT
America’s crippling health care system claims another victim
It’s a scenario that could happen to any one of us.
No, not Hurricane Katrina, but the aftermath of simply driving down a quiet rural road — minding the speed limit and minding one’s own business. Suddenly, out of nowhere, an oncoming car crosses the double yellow line and veers into your lane. Disaster strikes....
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 6:36am PDT
Public outcry blocks GOP budget cuts
Massive public pressure forced the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives to abruptly delay action last week on major slashes in human services programs. The slashes, contained in a budget amendment, would have increased mandatory cuts from $35 billion to $50 billion in health care, Medicaid, energy assistance, food stamps, student loans and child care, while maintaining $70 billion in tax cuts for the rich....
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 6:30am PDT
Power outages, gas lines, hunger fuel Floridians’ anger after Hurricane Wilma
Four days after Hurricane Wilma hit South Florida, close to 4 million people remain without power and the phone system is largely inoperable. The statewide death toll climbed to 10 on Thursday, and more than 2,900 people remained housed in 25 shelters spread over 11 counties....
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2005 9:57pm PDT
Pakistan: Rich nations are accused of giving 'nothing'
The United Nations almost doubled its appeal for donations for victims of the Pakistan earthquake as some rich nations were accused of contributing nothing to help the survivors....
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2005 2:05pm PDT
Hearing Brings Out Measure EE Supporters
The Rental Housing Association of Alameda County Is Attempting To Kill Eviction Protections In The City of Oakland....
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2005 4:22am PDT