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Five Reasons Why California's Healthcare Reform is a Sham Originally From New America Media
Monday, January 21, 2008 : Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposal to provide healthcare for all Californians is being heralded as groundbreaking healthcare reform. But with a $14 billion budget deficit how realistic is it? And should people of color who make up 75 percent of the state’s uninsured be celebrating? Tammy Johnson is Race and Public Policy Program director at the Applied Research Center, a public policy institute advancing racial justice through...
Posted: Mon, Jan 21, 2008 7:37am PST
Pakistan roiled by flour and electricity shortages, food price rises Monday, January 21, 2008 :Pakistan’s US-backed military dictatorship has mobilized more than six thousand paramilitary troops to guard flour mills and distribution points and escort supply-trucks, as it seeks to staunch a flour shortage that has resulted in breadlines and spiraling prices. Rangers and Frontier Constabulary were ordered into action by the newly created Federal Food Committee (FCC) on Sunday, January 13....
Posted: Mon, Jan 21, 2008 7:31am PST
Dr. Martin Luther King and BVHP Corruption BVHP Corruption and Greed....
Posted: Sun, Jan 20, 2008 5:33am PST
AIMCO and SF Local 22 in deep trouble - both corrupt organizations investigated by LE AIMCO and Local 22 the Carpenters Union struck an illegal deal through the evil offices of one Bill Wong. He is now history - the Local 22 found the heat in the kitchen too unbearable and let the jackass go free - by giving him an early retirement. Further - proving to the world that Local 22 is very corrupt. AIMCO has been rehabilitating homes - that are now found leaking, with bad plumbing. Workers fired with no reason and discriminated on a daily basis. One worker was killed, another Forem...
Posted: Sun, Jan 20, 2008 3:53am PST
Another belated disclosure from the pharmaceutical industry. Cholesterol-lowering drug linked to increased risk of heart attack Saturday, January 19, 2008 :Under pressure from media reports, consumer groups and federal investigators, pharmaceutical giant Merck and its partner Schering-Plough released the findings of a long-withheld company-sponsored study of the cholesterol-lowing drug Zetia this week. The study, completed in April 2006, reveals that companies had been falsely marketing the drug as an effective part of heart disease prevention....
Posted: Sat, Jan 19, 2008 12:34pm PST
Possible flu pandemic: US government plans to treat sick people "like potential enemies" Saturday, January 19, 2008 :The Bush administration’s emergency plan for a possible flu pandemic involves essentially police-state methods that have nothing to do with effectively combating the illness. This was the finding of a report released by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) January 14 that criticized the government’s preparations for a pandemic....
Posted: Sat, Jan 19, 2008 12:34pm PST
Pacific Heights Mafia set their eyes on vast lands in the Bayview to rake in millions. It is NOT uncommon for the Mafia in Pacific Heights with ties to Washington DC and Room 200 at City Hall in San Francisco to mess in the affairs of folks all over San Francisco. Anyone notice that big Bow and Arrow by the Wharf closer to the Ferry Building? Well that arrow has landed on the Bayview and the Mafia are ready to pounce on the land and everything within a couple of miles. Joining them is Mayor Gavin Newsom and the other "thugs" who all lack a MORAL COMPASS....
Posted: Sat, Jan 19, 2008 6:44am PST
EBALDC Employee Threatens Poor People's Free Bread Tenants At Effies House Confront A Bully (Non-Profit Organization Employee) Who Takes Their Bread And Steals The Literature & Bumper Stickers Of Food Not Bombs!...
Posted: Fri, Jan 18, 2008 5:59pm PST
Deal Struck at 55 Laguna; Campaign to Save Rent Control Heats Up Friday, January 18, 2008 : The end of rent control – which will happen if a June state proposition passes – could not come at a worse time. San Francisco rents exploded in 2007, and are now expected to rise even further. While developers are almost exclusively building condos, the City will only add 800 rental units in 2008 – at a time when we’re expected to see 10,000 new jobs (mostly in the tech industry.) That’s why a deal brokered by Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi to develop the UC Extension ...
Posted: Fri, Jan 18, 2008 11:14am PST
Save Rent Control Convention on Saturday! Thursday, January 17, 2008 : The statewide rent control repeal measure will be on the June 2008 ballot, and we need to start our campaign to save rent control now! Please come to the citywide Save Rent Control Convention this Saturday, January 19th at 1:00 PM, at Centro del Pueblo, 474 Valencia St. (at 16th St; accessible by BART & MUNI 14 & 49 lines) to help us plan and kick off our campaign here in San Francisco....
Posted: Fri, Jan 18, 2008 11:14am PST
Banks bilk homebuyers, cities say Thursday, January 17, 2008 : Black, Latino families hit hardest BALTIMORE — Mayor Sheila Dixon has filed a lawsuit charging Wells Fargo bank with targeting African American homebuyers for subprime loans. The groundbreaking initiative has thrown a spotlight on discriminatory lending across the nation in violation of federal law. Dixon’s suit, filed Jan. 9, was followed a few days later by a lawsuit filed by the city of Cleveland against 21 banks, including Wells Fargo, charging “reverse redli...
Posted: Thu, Jan 17, 2008 3:27pm PST
Gaza power cuts leave people cold physically, metaphorically Thursday, January 17, 2008 : The Israeli government decided earlier this month to permit the Gaza Strip to import industrial diesel -- in similar quantities to those permitted prior to the fuel import restrictions imposed in October 2007 -- but the impoverished enclave continues to suffer from power cuts....
Posted: Thu, Jan 17, 2008 3:26pm PST
Ending of Corruption and Greed in BVHP Greed and Corruption in BVHP Community...
Posted: Thu, Jan 17, 2008 2:40pm PST
What People Are Saying About Walk For Life West Coast ! 
Anti-Choice people that is......
Posted: Thu, Jan 17, 2008 1:18pm PST
Special Event Showing: The Business Of Being Born 
The Ugly Mug in Soquel Village
4640 Soquel Dr....
Event Date: Sat, Feb 2, 2008 7:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Jan 17, 2008 11:40am PST
Special Event Showing: The Business Of Being Born 
The Ugly Mug in Soquel
4640 Soquel Dr....
Event Date: Sat, Feb 9, 2008 12:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Jan 17, 2008 11:20am PST
Jan 19: Defend Abortion & Rent Control; Sign for Singlepayer; Labor for MLK January 19 is a busy day in San Francisco and we hope everyone can attend as many events as possible. Our march for abortion at 11 a.m., the tenant convention to save rent control at 1 p.m., circulating the single payer healthcare peitition and attending the labor festival this Martin Luther King weekend are all equally important....
Posted: Thu, Jan 17, 2008 7:33am PST
CBC role as 'Conscience of the Congress' vs. victim as "Previous Condition of Servitude" 
The bottom of a global economic global engine is where Black Civic Participation is today given our socio-economic- political conversation at the dawn of the 21st century. The ballot box has become an unattractive method toward paraity for a generation seeing clearly a different reality. Our sista U.S. Rep Kilpatrick remains real and dedicated to a better way forward. A nationwide conscience black electorate is prepared for a new nationwide black civic participation whom help our families...
Posted: Thu, Jan 17, 2008 3:25am PST
Bicycle Award Ceremony 
6:00 pm: Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
7:15 pm: Santa Cruz City Council Chambers...
Event Date: Tue, Jan 22, 2008 6:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Jan 16, 2008 9:12pm PST
Critical Resistance in Santa Cruz Louden Nelson Community Center
301 Center St.
Downtown Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Thu, Jan 17, 2008 7:15pm PST
Posted: Wed, Jan 16, 2008 12:48pm PST
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