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Executive Park and SF Planning Fiasco
The South Bayshore Plan has always included Executive Park as part of its detail plan. A Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) was formed by the developer that first purchased the land by Bayview Hill in the 1970s. SF City Planning has been pussyfooting with the plan and using the District 10 Supervisor and her side-kick aide Greg Assay to cause disunity in the community. Now suddenly the Executive Park developers are mandated to pay for facilties, and other benefits in far away and across the ra...
Posted: Wed, Aug 2, 2006 7:28am PDT
critically ill AIDS patient evicted for no reason
I am a 58 year old disabled marine pipefitter and caregiver for Shane who is critically ill with AIDS. Despite tremendous effort, many calls and emails we are being evicted tommorrow at 9 AM Dept. 9 at the Santa Cruz County Courthouse. The landlord is evicting us for no reason as state law states a landlord only has to give a 30 day notice without any reason to evict any tenant unless they are in a rent controlled or protected area which Santa Cruz is not. Please come to the trial 9 AM
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Posted: Tue, Aug 1, 2006 3:12pm PDT
Clarion Call to the City and County of San Francisco
The Health and Safety of any City comes first but not in the City and County of San Francisco. The Crime and Violence has increased more from internal turmoil and even less from leadership of certain City Departments. Mayor Gavin Newsom continues to play to Spin and Media and has only his fake ego to blame as fake as that hair that he thinks takes him places. We cannot bring the Summer Olympics in 2016 - less call ourselves a Great City with the mess we have on our hands...
Posted: Tue, Aug 1, 2006 4:01am PDT
March and Rally for Peace in Santa Cruz
In response to recent gun shots and assaults in Santa Cruz, a march and rally took place on July 29th as a way for various communities to unite against violence and call for peace in the streets. Three seperate marches, Live Oak/East Side, Beach Flats and West Side, converged at Louden Nelson Park. White Hawk Aztec Dancers led moms, dads, kids, musicians, students, workers, people living in rehabilitation homes, folklóricos and others through the streets of Santa Cruz. The rally in the park c...
Posted: Tue, Aug 1, 2006 1:27am PDT
w.nile sufferer speaks out
a recent w.nile victim tells his story to help shed light on this much-hyped mysterious disease....
Posted: Mon, Jul 31, 2006 11:31pm PDT
Civic Center Hotel Legislation Delayed
Uncertainty regarding the quality of steel frames in the Civic Center Hotel caused the Land Use Committee Wednesday to continue the resolution until September. Daly’s legislation to preserve the Hotel and keep its tenants living there will be stalled while a structural engineer submits findings to the Department of Building Inspection. The resolution would have the building’s owners seismically retrofit it in order to make it earthquake safe. Over 100 people live at the Civic Center Hotel, in...
Posted: Sat, Jul 29, 2006 9:56am PDT
Marcha y Reunion Contra La Violencia (7/29)
Por El Amor A Nuestros Hijos
Alto A La Violencia!
Marcha y Reunion Contra La Violencia...
Posted: Fri, Jul 28, 2006 1:24pm PDT
March and Rally Against Violence! (7/29) (audio/mpeg 3.6MB)
For The Love Of Our Children
Stop The Violence!
March and Rally Against Violence...
Posted: Fri, Jul 28, 2006 1:17pm PDT
Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired
Last week workers in San Francisco won a major victory through the passage of Tom Ammiano’s universal health security ordinance. The ordinance, which guaranteed coverage for the uninsured residents of the city, affirmed the mayor and Board of Supervisors’ support for the labor community....
Posted: Fri, Jul 28, 2006 6:43am PDT
The Drop-In Center PSA (audio/mpeg 1.7MB)
The HIV Resource Drop-In Center (HIV/DIC) is a satellite location of some of Santa Cruz AIDS Project’s Education and Prevention programs. It is located downtown (412 Front St. - across from the Metro Bus Station) for the convenience of our prevention program participants Audio PSA included in this post....
Posted: Thu, Jul 27, 2006 12:34pm PDT
Power grid fails in face of California heat wave
The impact of the heat wave currently grilling California, following on from the energy crisis of 2000-2001 and the collapse of the power grid in the US Northeast in August 2003, demonstrates once again the necessity for the socialization and democratic control of essential services such as electricity supply. As demand for electricity soars across the state, basic infrastructure is already breaking down due to lack of investment, maintenance and development. Entire communities have been depr...
Posted: Wed, Jul 26, 2006 6:50am PDT
Resolution Aims to Stop Enforcement of Ellis Act Evictions
The Board of Supervisors will consider today another way to end the steady stream of Ellis Act evictions sweeping San Francisco in recent months. The resolution urges the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department, the agency in charge of physically removing evicted tenants who refuse to leave their homes, to stop helping landlords extract those tenants evicted by the Ellis Act. Taking a cue from recent legislation passed by the Board forbidding city employees from helping INS investigate the immigra...
Posted: Tue, Jul 25, 2006 6:34am PDT
ATTN- Save Berkeley Housing Authority Event- BHA Meeting
Location: Berkeley Housing Authority Meeting 5:45 pm- 2nd Floor at Berkeley's Old City Hall, at 2134 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way., in Berkeley....
Event Date: Tue, Jul 25, 2006 5:45pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jul 24, 2006 3:58pm PDT
July 25, Save Berkeley Housing Authority Event!
Save Berkeley Housing Authority!...
Posted: Mon, Jul 24, 2006 3:00pm PDT
Live From the Front -- When Toothache Trumps Reason
young, homeless musician enters the world of health care and paperwork in an attempt to solve a painful dilemma. David Simms is a writer for Roaddawgz, a multimedia drop-in space for young homeless, traveling writers and artists and a PNS project. Work created by homeless youth is published weekly on www.roaddawgz.org and periodically in zines, magazines and other publications. Contact roaddawgz@pacificnews.org....
Posted: Fri, Jul 21, 2006 9:02pm PDT
Anti-Immigrant Protest this weekend
Some out-of-town "anti-alien" group is trying to organize a rally this weekend in Santa Cruz. Check the website, check out the rhetoric. Come out to meet & greet, Saturday at noon at the town clock....
Posted: Fri, Jul 21, 2006 8:22am PDT
Transit service reduction in marin county and social justice
Transit service reduction in marin county and social justice...
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 8:23pm PDT
Land Use Committee Settles on Inclusionary Housing Amendments
At Wednesday’s Land Use and Economic Development meeting, everything seemed to be going Supervisor Chris Daly’s way. Supervisor Daly and co-sponsor Sophie Maxwell have waited seven long months for their efforts to come to fruition. Through the Inclusionary Affordable Housing Program, they have fought to bring a lagging San Francisco up to speed with the other cities and counties of Northern California. Currently, when any developer builds a set of apartment buildings, 12% of the units of the ...
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 8:31am PDT
Bayview Community Input Missing from 49ers Stadium, Olympics Plans
Backers of the recently approved Bayview-Hunters Point Redevelopment Plan insisted that it merely fulfilled a decade-long community planning process. The Plan would allegedly ensure that community input, not outside forces, would shape the neighborhood’s future. But within weeks of the Plan’s approval, Mayor Newsom announced plans to build thousands of apartments in Bayview to house athletes attending the 2016 Olympics, the 49ers declared an intention to build a new stadium and to join with t...
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 8:30am PDT
Health Security Ordinance Passed Unanimously
“They said it couldn’t be done,” commented Board President Aaron Peskin in regard to San Francisco’s push for universal health care. But at last, after seventeen separate hearings scrutinizing and re-scrutinizing every stipulate of Tom Ammiano’s Health Security Ordinance, the measure was passed unanimously at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting. Even before the final vote, one could sense Ammiano’s confidence in the headway the legislation had made as he spoke before the board....
Posted: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 7:07am PDT