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Public Library Advocate Peter Warfield Says "No" to Excessive Fees and Fines 
San Francisco
July 13, 2008
Following is an interview with Peter Warfield, San Francisco's very own "Library Guy"-- a man whose heroic main-mission in life is to advocate for eternally free, accessible, and responsible public libraries.
The interview was conducted yesterday morning on the steps outside San Francisco's Main Public Library where Warfield and supporters of his Library User's Association had gathered to pass out leaflets and collect petition signatures to help convince Cit...
Posted: Sun, Jul 13, 2008 7:22am PDT
Germany: The campaign for euthanasia Saturday, July 12, 2008 :At the end of June, former Hamburg justice senator Roger Kusch assisted in the suicide of 79-year-old pensioner Bettina S., who lived in the city of Würzburg....
Posted: Sat, Jul 12, 2008 10:54am PDT
U.S.Healthcare Needs Radical Surgery: What Will Cure Our Sick Medical System? New Valencia Hall, 625 Larkin Street,Suite 202, San Francisco...
Event Date: Sun, Jul 20, 2008 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 11, 2008 7:11pm PDT
U.S.Healthcare Needs Radical Surgery: What Will Cure Our Sick Medical System? Freedom Socialist Party Meeting and Movie Screening!...
Posted: Fri, Jul 11, 2008 7:02pm PDT
Judge Grants TRO To California Hotel Tenants To Stop Shutoff Of Utilities Alameda County Superior Court Judge Rausch Grants Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) To California Hotel Tenants, And Orders Oakland Community Housing, Inc. (landlord), To Keep The Gas, Electricity and Water Services Turned On At The California Hotel!
The California Hotel Tenants Plan To Protest Their Unlawful Evictions On July 14 (6pm). See more details below......
Posted: Fri, Jul 11, 2008 6:38pm PDT
Reaching Out To Our Veterans and Their Families Hear Dr. Judith Broder, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, shared her experiences working with returning veterans and their families. Zohreh Whitaker, whose son recently returned from Iraq, shared her experiences of the effect of war on her own and other families....
Posted: Fri, Jul 11, 2008 5:38pm PDT
You can buy Lennar's Stock for just $4 and then dance in the ongoing dog and pony show! You may not believe it - but it is true, Lennar Corporation - is drowning in its own cesspool. The recent bad news coming from other folks that cheated innocent people have made most everyone one in the housing business - look like pathetic, losers. Fanny Mae and others are being baled out - not so much because some one cares about these scum bags - but for much the same reason with what happened with Bear and Sterns. But, back to Lennar Corporation - it is a mess but they still say they can ...
Posted: Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:22pm PDT
Facing Poverty At UC (video/mp4 55.6MB) a film by
K. A. Christensen
&
Regan Brashear
(UCSC Alumna)...
Posted: Fri, Jul 11, 2008 10:53am PDT
Early Bird Drawing for $17,000 in prizes - $1 M Home Raffle Benefits Homeless in Silicon Valley Music in the Park
Plaza de Cesar Chavez (Market Street between San Fernando and San Carlos streets)
San Jose, CA 95125
http://www.sjdowntown.com/eve_eve_mus.html...
Event Date: Thu, Jul 31, 2008 5:30pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 11, 2008 7:23am PDT
food not bombs needs volunteers and resources, please help. food not bombs needs supplies and volunteers....
Posted: Thu, Jul 10, 2008 5:47pm PDT
12 hot dates, 1 fun night - a benefit for Breast Cancer Action (BCA): http://bca12.com/ Event: 12 hot dates, 1 fun night -
a benefit for Breast Cancer Action (BCA)
Date: Thursday, September 25, 2008
Time: 5-9pm
silent auction from 5:30-7:15pm
date auction begins promptly at 7:30pm
$20-40 sliding scale donation at the door
100% of the money raised goes to BCA!
Location:
El Rio 3158 Mission St @ Cesar Chavez
San Francisco, CA 94110
BCA Mission Statement: Breast Cancer Action carries the voices of people affected by breast cancer to inspire and compel the changes...
Posted: Wed, Jul 9, 2008 7:12pm PDT
Rent Strike meeting GOLDEN GATE PARK at JFK and 6th ave....
Event Date: Sun, Jul 13, 2008 4:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Jul 9, 2008 10:40am PDT
U.S. Navy holds pubic meeting on Parcel B - residents object to total capping of Shipyard. The United States Navy held its Public Meeting linked to Parcel B and afforded the Public at Large to comment on Parcel B and its many Preferred Alternatives. The U.S. Navy is trying to fast track the capping of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard and is being pressured by folks like Senator Diane Feinstein and other such dubious machinations. In the year 2000 - San Franciscan passed Proposition P. The Precautionary Principle is law in San Francisco and must be applied to Parcel B. Parcel B is v...
Posted: Wed, Jul 9, 2008 8:13am PDT
As Global Food Crisis Tops G8 Summit Agenda, World Leaders Enjoy Lavish 18-Course Banquet Wednesday, July 9, 2008 :Shortly after saying they were "deeply concerned" about soaring global food prices and supply shortages, world leaders attending the G8 summit in Hokkaido sat down to an 18-course gastronomic extravaganza, courtesy of the Japanese government. We take a look at the global food crisis, food independence and real democracy with bestselling author, Frances Moore Lappé....
Posted: Wed, Jul 9, 2008 7:13am PDT
The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession Wednesday, July 9, 2008 :We speak with Montreal-based writer Adam Leith Gollner about his new book, "The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession." Gollner traveled around the world in search of what he calls the forgotten histories of fruit, whether its the bananas readily available in American supermarkets or fruit deemed too dangerous for FDA approval....
Posted: Wed, Jul 9, 2008 7:13am PDT
Biotech Medicine Zine 
Support Biotech Medicina! and we'll all end up as Zombies......
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2008 9:58pm PDT
Help Caravan to Cuba: call Border Patrol, Office of Foreign Assets Control Calls needed to Border Patrol and Office of Foreign Assets Control to demand release of computers seized at border.
Computers were donated to be given to schools and medical clinics in Cuba....
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2008 9:41am PDT
Protest to Stop Illegal Evictions at California Hotel California Hotel
3501 San Pablo Avenue, in Oakland
(Near 35st & San Pablo)...
Event Date: Mon, Jul 14, 2008 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2008 8:52am PDT
July 14, 6:pm Protest to Stop Illegal Evictions at California Hotel Join the tenants of the California Hotel and their supporters for a protest and rally to stop the unlawful eviction of 75 tenants by the non profit housing organization Oakland Community Housing, Inc....
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2008 8:36am PDT
Oakland non profit (OCHI) sued for $2.5 million over mass eviction scheme An Oakland non profit housing organization (OCHI) was sued as recently as July 3, 2008 for $2.5 million in damages, including an injunction that was filed in Alameda County Superior Court an effort to stop the unlawful eviction of 75 tenants at the California Hotel!...
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2008 7:41am PDT
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