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textStorm Over Redevelopment by Beyond Chron (reposted)
Randy Shaw 18.MAY.05 :: A large crowd overflowed the meeting of the Redevelopment Commission yesterday to protest Agency plans to cut funding to a popular Western Addition social service program and its support for a Starbucks at the former site of the Japantown Bowl. Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi condemned the Agency’s decision to allow Starbucks to circumvent a ban on franchise stores in the area, and at yesterday’s Board of Supervisors meeting requested a hearing on the city’s ability to main...
Posted: Wed, May 18, 2005 8:07am PDT
textBroad Coalition Unites Against Newsom Budget Plan by Beyond Chron (reposted)
Casey Mills 18.MAY.05 :: In a strong display of unity among the progressive community, members of organized labor, social service providers, seniors and a variety of activists gathered on the steps of City Hall yesterday to voice opposition to Mayor Gavin Newsom’s new plan for the City’s budget. Soon after the revelation that San Francisco would be $40 million richer next year due to jump in tax revenue, Newsom announced a plan to use all of this extra money for capital improvements, or in h...
Posted: Wed, May 18, 2005 8:05am PDT
textUpdate On Steve DeCaprio's Case: Sentencing Wednesday Morning At 9am by update
A judge has told Steve he can see a public defender but has also said that Steve will be receiving jail time (for squatting an abandoned building). Steve is currently out on bail....
Posted: Mon, May 16, 2005 12:16pm PDT
imageJohnson & Johnson Beset by RNs: No quarter given to Schwarzenegger allies
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by Bill Carpenter
"Last year, after Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed four bills that would have allowed Californians to buy cheaper prescription drugs from Canada, Johnson and Johnson contributed almost $50,000 to defeat the measure. Now the industry has pledged $10 million to defeat a ballot initiative that would create drug price controls with real teeth. Johnson & Johnson has already donated $1.3 million to the campaign." --California Nurses Association, May 11, 2005...
Posted: Sun, May 15, 2005 7:51am PDT
textDemocrats Ammiano, Ad Nauseum, Oppose Bus Riders; Support Fare Hikes by San Francisco Voter
The "liberal" Democrats, Supervisors Tom Ammiano and Jake McGoldrick demonstrated their reactionary colors with their support of the "newly" found $9.2 million to go toward reducing parking fines & fees and not reducing bus fares. In Ammiano's District 9 in November 2004, the voters could have chosen socialists Steve Zeltzer or Lucrecia Bermudez or Green Party Renee Saucedo, but they chose Democrat Ammiano and they got the Democrat they voted for....
Posted: Fri, May 13, 2005 10:31pm PDT
textNo On HR 1999! Save Section 8! by Lynda Carson
Save Section 8!...
Posted: Fri, May 13, 2005 7:13pm PDT
textStop the Plummer appointment to Alameda Cty Medical Center Board! by via PUSH
Supporters of access to quality health care for the most vulnerable of Alameda County's residents need to protest the plan of the County Board of Supervisors to appoint Sheriff Charles Plummer to the Alameda County Medical Center (ACMC) Board of Trustees....
Posted: Fri, May 13, 2005 12:08am PDT
textProtestors Storm City Hall to Save Health Centers by Beyond Chron (reposted)
An angry group of San Francisco residents affiliated with the community group ACORN rushed the office of the Mayor's Budget Director Ben Rosenfield in order to get agreement on a "NO CUTS, NO CLOSURES" policy for San Francisco's last safety net of health services yesterday. The City Health Department recently proposed cuts of 20% to health centers and the closure of a critical dialysis clinic and a local health clinic....
Posted: Thu, May 12, 2005 10:01am PDT
textSteve DeCaprio found guilty on 3 counts by Mahtin
His sentencing hearing will be on Monday, May 16th at 9:00am, in the same courtroom as his trial (room 105)....
Posted: Wed, May 11, 2005 12:36am PDT
textUpdate on Steve DeCaprio's Case- Monday at 9am, closing statements by Mahtin
Testimony in Steve DeCaprio's trial ended on Friday. On Monday morning at 9:00 sharp, Steve will give his final argument before the jury....
Posted: Sun, May 8, 2005 3:44pm PDT
text5/5 Steve DeCaprio court date by Mahtin
Thursday at about 10:30am. It will be in the same building as yesterday, in room 105: Wiley Manuel Courthouse, 7th + Washington Sts., in Downtown Oakland...
Posted: Wed, May 4, 2005 11:13pm PDT
textCots Not Cash!? by Clive Whistle /PoorNewsNetwork
Homeless folks forgotten by the lies of Care Not Cash Speak truth to power!...
Posted: Wed, May 4, 2005 3:25pm PDT
imageOakland is Not For Sale!
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by Tiny/PoorNewsNetwork
Oakland citizens and leaders refuse and resist rampant gentrification and demand equity and justice!...
Posted: Wed, May 4, 2005 3:14pm PDT
audio"The Forgotten" Rally at City Hall (audio/mpeg 4.1MB) by David Grace
Budget cuts for this year have severely effected the homeless. Interview with Jesus Medellin of the Coalition on Homelessness....
Posted: Tue, May 3, 2005 5:02pm PDT
image“FIGHT INJUSTICE” On the 30th anniversary of the end of the war in Vietnam
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by A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
APRIL 30 SAN FRANCISCO RALLY ANSWERS BUSH’S “WEDGE” PLAN FOR SOCIAL SECURITY “FIGHT INJUSTICE” On the 30th anniversary of the end of the war in Vietnam RAMSEY CLARK, LABOR & COMMUNITY LEADERS SPOKE ON SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 7 P.M. AT MISSION HIGH SCHOOL IN SAN FRANCISCO...
Posted: Mon, May 2, 2005 10:23pm PDT
textNewsom's "Plumbers" to Evict Poor Tenants at Civic Center Hotel by Socialist
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
text2:30pm: A hearing in the Steve DiCaprio Squatters case by court notice
hearing in squat case...
Posted: Mon, May 2, 2005 1:27pm PDT
textTransit Justice Coalition needs your help! by Sarah Norr
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
textMon May 2 1pm SF Board Mtg re: Section 8 Cuts by Bush and Consequences by SF Step up to the plate
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
text5/3 Tuesday Oakland City Council mtg! by West Oakland Train Station Coalition via Ala
6PM Rally and speakers in front of City Hall (14th & Broadway) featured speakers include: Ron Dellums, Bishop Bob Jackson (Acts Full Gospel Church).. 7pm Oakland City Council convenes 7:30pm 16th and Wood Street testimonials begin....
Posted: Sun, May 1, 2005 12:13am PDT
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