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BERKELEY GREEN MONDAY: "The Food Fighters: the Politics of Food" Anna's Jazz Island
2120 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94704...
Event Date: Mon, Mar 17, 2008 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Feb 25, 2008 12:34pm PST
Competitive Democratic Races Could Defeat Prop 98 Monday, February 25, 2008 : With no presidential primary on the statewide ballot, voter turnout in June is expected to be abysmal. Which means that Proposition 98 – the extreme right-wing measure to abolish rent control, basic tenant protections, environmental regulations and water laws – could actually pass. But with term limits forcing many state legislators out of office, there will also be a number of competitive June primaries – creating the potential to drive up voter turnout in the sta...
Posted: Mon, Feb 25, 2008 7:11am PST
Lennar Corporation has failed on Parcel A in SF and should not mess with Candlestick Point Lennar Corporation has failed on Parcel A and has poisoned our children and Elders with intent in the Bayview Hunters Point in San Francisco. Lennar Corporation has been issued many Notice of Violations (NOVs) but refuses to do the right thing. It has bought off the Regulatory Agencies. Closer to home City Officials and the SF Board of Supervisors have been bought and what is more - intimidated. Again and again this Rogue Company - can do as it pleases because NO one has the guts to monitor a...
Posted: Mon, Feb 25, 2008 6:46am PST
Food prices continue to rise worldwide Sunday, February 24, 2008 :Recent developments in grain markets point to prolonged international supply shortages and price spikes, exposing billions of people to hunger and malnutrition. US commodity exchanges have seen extreme volatility in the past week, with speculation on spring wheat crops driving per-bushel prices to record levels, while high oil prices and severe weather have contributed to rising corn and soybean prices....
Posted: Mon, Feb 25, 2008 6:36am PST
Millions denied access to dentistry in the UK Sunday, February 24, 2008 :According to a recent report published by the Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB), millions of adults in England and Wales are unable to find a publicly funded dentist to treat them and have abandoned regular check-ups. Dentistry, like many areas of the National Health Service (NHS), has been steadily privatised....
Posted: Mon, Feb 25, 2008 6:36am PST
Taxes: We Can’t Afford the Rich! Fireside Room, Unitarian-Universalist Center
1187 Franklin St, between Geary & O’Farrell...
Event Date: Tue, Mar 18, 2008 12:30pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Feb 25, 2008 3:30am PST
Stop the City Health Cuts! Speak out at the Beilenson Hearing! 101 Grove St, 3rd. Fl. Auditorium
(corner of Polk, at Civic Center)...
Event Date: Tue, Mar 4, 2008 3:00pm PST
Posted: Mon, Feb 25, 2008 1:18am PST
Berkeley: Ferment Change! 
2530 Ecology Center
Berkeley, Ca...
Event Date: Sat, Mar 22, 2008 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Feb 24, 2008 8:51pm PST
Public Health and Corporate Greed in the North Bay First Presbyterian Church, 1550 Pacific Ave., Santa Rosa, Ca. 95404...
Event Date: Thu, Mar 6, 2008 7:00pm PST
Posted: Sun, Feb 24, 2008 8:36pm PST
This week’s Bay View: good reading for a sunny rainy day It’s a sunny rainy day in San Francisco, just right for curling up with your computer for some stimulating stories. Without further ado, here’s this week’s offering....
Posted: Sun, Feb 24, 2008 5:59pm PST
3/16 defend rent control ... and more news from
Queers for Rent Control
........
Posted: Sun, Feb 24, 2008 2:50pm PST
Sahaja Yoga program in Fremont, CA , Monday 1oth March, 2008, at 7:00 pm Fremont main library...
Event Date: Mon, Mar 10, 2008 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Feb 23, 2008 6:13pm PST
Fearful adults, frightening children: Generation Armed and Dangerous 
There is a high percentage of black and Native American kids in foster care. Many are there not necessarily because their parents were abusive, but because the case workers are either overworked, or frightened of their clients and their families....
Posted: Sat, Feb 23, 2008 11:28am PST
Why Not Health Care? Friday, February 22, 2008 : Andy, an IUE-CWA Local 201 member, looked at his pension check from General Electric as he sat in my office at the union hall. The local vice president and the president of the retirees association usually respond to benefit questions like this. But they were both on vacation, and I was struggling to catch up and be of some help....
Posted: Sat, Feb 23, 2008 9:57am PST
Yifat Susskind: The ABCs of Death: Bush vs. Africa's Women Friday, February 22, 2008 :President Bush headed home on Thursday from his five-day, five-country tour of Africa. Not since Thanksgiving 2003, when he showed up at the Baghdad Airport with a fake turkey for US troops have we seen such saccharine Presidential photo ops. And most of the media can't get enough. The New York Times describes Bush in Africa as "a little like Santa Claus, a benevolent figure from another land handing out gifts - American foreign aid - and generating smiles wh...
Posted: Sat, Feb 23, 2008 9:50am PST
Sacto. 2nd annual Food not Bombs benefit POSTPONED - do to bad weather predictions 
TOMORROWS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED!
There have been major changes in the weather recently, including a HUMONGOUS fucking storm taking place tomorrow afternoon, at the same time that our OUTDOORS show was going to take place. the forecast has been consistently saying that it would possibly rain Saturday the last couple of days, but we have just been made aware of the major storm that is hitting (similar to the one in January, uprooted trees, heavy rain, etc.), and we just could not let this sh...
Posted: Fri, Feb 22, 2008 4:14pm PST
No Economic Analysis linked to Candlestick Point and City fails to monitor Rogue Lennar Co San Francisco mandates an Economic Analysis linked to any Major Project - but there is NO such Economic Analysis linked to Candlestick Point. The area will be impacted by a proposed major Causeway - from Highway 101 across Yosemite Slough - to Hunters Point along Cargo Way all the way connecting to Third Street. Forty story buildings are contemplated on land prone to liquefaction. Soccer fields on land that once was a Garbage Dump - other land surrounded by Depleted Uranium. No mention of Cum...
Posted: Fri, Feb 22, 2008 9:22am PST
McCain’s Health Care Plan: Higher Taxes, Less Coverage Thursday, February 21, 2008 : In a time of uncertainty and economic risk, people are more and more concerned about whether they?ll be covered in the event of a medical problem. As we've seen from the responses to the AFL-CIO's 2008 Health Care for America Survey, those of you who have secure health care through your jobs know how lucky you are?and those whose employers have cut health care benefits are facing serious challenges....
Posted: Fri, Feb 22, 2008 7:17am PST
Beef that could kill you! Thursday, February 21, 2008 : Parents around the country are trying to find out if any of the meat involved in the biggest beef recall in U.S. history found its way into their children’s school lunches, or still might show up there. More than 140 million pounds of beef was recalled from a California slaughterhouse after video showed crippled and sick animals being forced onto the production lines....
Posted: Fri, Feb 22, 2008 7:16am PST
Canada's Chalk River nuclear crisis: "market planning" produces a fiasco Friday, February 22, 2008 :First published in French February 15. Stephen Harper’s minority Conservative government last month fired Linda Keen, the president of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), the federal regulatory agency responsible for overseeing the country’s nuclear industry. In firing Keen, the Canadian government is pressing forward with a reckless policy of indifference to nuclear safety, having already courted a nuclear and medical disaster which could have a major im...
Posted: Fri, Feb 22, 2008 7:15am PST
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