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Screeds & scoops
Scooplet: Two members of the Bd. of Supes are about to lose their seats. ... The Mayor plans to appoint them to high office. That will allow The Gav to appoint two new, seemingly more amenable, members to the board, solidifying the mayor's strength and weakening Aaron Peskin's grip on the group....
Posted: Mon, Jul 19, 2004 1:07pm PDT
Sacrament!
Sacrament! is the first play created in collaboration with internationally heralded memoirist, novelist, and publisher Dave Eggers. In much the same way that Eggers and his literary journal McSweeney's attempt to shatter literary constructs, this piece takes off from Eggers' novels You Shall Know Our Velocity and the recently revised version of the book titled Sacrament! 2 hours...
Posted: Mon, Jul 19, 2004 12:00pm PDT
Hundreds of Macy's workers strike
Hundreds of Macy's workers went on a one-day strike on Saturday, marching and chanting "Don't Shop Macy's" in front of all entrances to the two Macy's stores on Union Square....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 12:47pm PDT
Tenants speak up for a fair and balanced Rent Board
"The San Francisco Rent Board has become controlled by landlords – 65 percent of the time the Rent Board rules in favor of landlords, and only 16 percent of the time do they even hear cases brought before them by tenants,” said Ted Gullickson of the San Francisco Tenants Union, citing a Tenants Union study....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:33am PDT
San Francisco families protest Bush’s Section 8 de-funding
San Francisco families protest Bush’s Section 8 de-funding...
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:30am PDT
7/17 UFCW 101 Mass Picketline at SF Macy's
The sleeping giant, labor, is finally waking up, and the unthinkable just happened, a picketline today, July 17, 2004 at San Francisco's Macy's department store, with hundreds of people at all entrances picketing for a union contract....
Posted: Sat, Jul 17, 2004 5:31pm PDT
San Francisco: 1,000 rally for Nader-Camejo (report, audio and video)
Written report, video and audio files. Over 1,000 Greens, Socialists and Indies rally for Nader/Camejo in San Francisco...
Posted: Sat, Jul 17, 2004 2:29pm PDT
This Man is not a Medical Cannabis Patient!
This man is NOT a medical cannabis patient!...
Posted: Thu, Jul 15, 2004 1:11pm PDT
Democrats Peskin & McGoldrick Attack Tenants
Democratic Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Jake McGoldrick refused to support putting on the ballot a Tenant Union proposal to reform the Rent Board appointments so that tenant representatives are 2/3 of the Board, as we are 2/3 of the City's population....
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 8:40pm PDT
Friday Nader Rally Flyer downloadable
Ralph Nader & Peter Camejo at Mission HS Friday...
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 3:26pm PDT
Get Trained for the RNC
Upcoming trainings (Legal Observer, Know Your Rights, NYC Orientation) in the Bay Area, with RNC-specific information, so bring your friends! Check the web site for resource guides, too....
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 11:36am PDT
Frontlines newspaper latest local, US and International articles
Lastest articles on Iraq, Elections, Nader and the Green Party...
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 11:29am PDT
OutFoxed: How Rupert Murdoch Is Destroying American Journalism
A review of Robert Greenwald's new documentary investigating the Fox News Channel....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 8:55pm PDT
San Fran Federal Whistle Blower In Exile Says kcuD
Still in exile for blowing the whistle on federal mobsters within the banking industry. A report in from exile with a word on the election...
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 5:14pm PDT
FESTIVAL NERUDA SF
A week long festival celebrating 100 years of the poet, Pablo Neruda....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 3:41pm PDT
Macy's Workers to Strike This Saturday
WHEN: Saturday July 17th Please come any time to the picket line -- but
especially from 11-1 pm on Saturday during the press conference in Union
Square.
WHERE: Macy's at Union Square, and Macy's at Stonestown. check macys.com for
directions...
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 3:27pm PDT
Bay Area Billboard Activists Turned Down in NYC
Bay Area activists - surprise! - are rejected for an expensive anti-war billboard in New York, prior to the RNC....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 2:13pm PDT
Campaign Rally for Nader/Camejo 2004
Matt Gonzalez, President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, invites you to attend a campaign rally for Nader/Camejo 2004!...
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 12:16pm PDT