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Vigils press lawmakers to override Bush veto Friday, October 12, 2007 : Children’s advocates stood vigil outside Republican lawmakers’ district offices across the nation Oct. 4 to demand that they override President Bush’s veto of a $35 billion increase in the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The bill would fully fund the 6.6 million children now served by SCHIP and protect an additional 4 million youngsters who are not protected by health insurance....
Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 7:59am PDT
Ground Zero fire, deaths, spur questions Friday, October 12, 2007 : NEW YORK — Six years after the 9/11 attack, the fog of profiteering, corruption and secrecy continues to whirl around the demolition and reconstruction of the World Trade Center site. The latest deaths in the ongoing tragedy were those of two firefighters killed fighting a fire in the adjacent Deutsche Bank building in August this year....
Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 7:58am PDT
Filipino Nurses in San Francisco Join Strike Originally From New America Media
Friday, October 12, 2007 : SAN FRANCISCO -- Filipino nurses were part of the biggest nurses' strike in California in nearly a decade, reports Philippine News. More than 5,000 registered nurses went on strike on Oct. 10 and 11 in fifteen mostly San Francisco Bay Area hospitals operated by the Sutter Health Corporation....
Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 7:38am PDT
A-films: Nahr al-Bared refugees’ joyless Ramadan Friday, October 12, 2007 :The anarchist video collective “a-films” presents a 20-minute film entitled “Tragedy Without Borders,” produced by refugees from the destroyed Nahr al-Bared Refugee Camp during a video-workshop held in Baddawi Refugee Camp near Trablous (Tripoli), northern Lebanon. For two weeks, a-films has trained a group of refugees in filmmaking....
Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 7:30am PDT
Cyclist killed by cement truck: Portland 
Oct 11, 2007
A cyclist was killed around 1:30 pm today in downtown Portland.
According to Portland Police Bureau Lieutenant Mark Kruger, the cyclist collided with a cement mixing truck at the corner of W Burnside and 14th...
Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 7:14am PDT
Coyote Valley Task Force Meeting (10/15) 
A Public Hearing is being held by the politicians at San Jose City Hall on MONDAY, OCTOBER 15. The Save Coyote Valley Coalition will hold a rally AT 5:00PM to voice our concern over paving over the last remaining open space in the County of Santa Clara, and then we will attend a public hearing starting a 5:30 in the room Wing 118-120.
Concerns over this massive development project are ENVIRONMENTAL and INDIGENOUS RIGHTS issues.
WE WILL HOLD A RALLY IN FRONT OF CITY HALL FROM 5PM-5:30PM...
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2007 10:29am PDT
Nurses Strike at Alta Bates Hospital Thursday, October 11, 2007 : Hundreds of registered nurses at a local hospital staged a walkout yesterday morning to demand higher nurse-to-patient ratios and better health benefits and pension plans....
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2007 7:48am PDT
Arnold’s Veto ‘Dashes Hopes’ of California Health Care Reform Despite calling for health care reform, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) is expected today to veto a bill, AB 8, that would extend affordable coverage to the vast majority of uninsured Californians....
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2007 7:47am PDT
Boardroom Conflicts of Interest Raise Health Care Costs Thursday, October 11, 2007 : Patrick O'Meara, corporate finance specialist in the AFL-CIO Office of Investment, describes how conflicts of interest in the boardroom affect our pocketbooks when it comes to health care.With health care costs soaring, we would expect that a company would do everything it can to find less-expensive ways to provide good health care benefits to its workers and their families....
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2007 7:46am PDT
Massive RN Strike at Northern California Hospitals In Strong Stand for Safe Patient Care Thursday, October 11, 2007 : In an overwhelming demonstration of their call for action to improve patient care standards, thousands of nurses joined a walkout at 15 Northern California hospitals that began this morning, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee reported today. Nurses walked picket lines and gathered for big rallies at hospitals across the region, in many cases joined by state and local legislators, and other labor organizations....
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2007 7:24am PDT
San Francisco: Fed-Up With Homelessness? It's About Time! Thursday, October 11, 2007 : So the people of this city have finally had enough of the homeless problem. Good, it's about time, and let me say to all of you … "Welcome To the Club." Because you can rest assured that every homeless advocate in this city is just as tired as you, and all of us are delighted that you finally came on board, even if you are about twenty years too late....
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2007 7:22am PDT
Supes Revisit Psychiatric Cuts at S.F. General Thursday, October 11, 2007 : When Mayor Newsom proposed drastic health cuts to the City budget this year, the Board of Supervisors restored the vast majority – except one. Despite a flurry of last-minute amendments before the final deadline, the Board could not save 14 psychiatric emergency beds at S.F. General Hospital – which will now be replaced with a diversion unit for voluntary patients run....
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2007 7:21am PDT
Support Urged For California Healthcare Security Plan A California constitutional ballot initiative is being proposed that would allow people in
California to vote on a single payer plan for the November 4, 2008 ballot. Please support the
initiative, endorse and get your union or organization to endorse....
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2007 6:55am PDT
Los Angeles to Permit Sleeping on Sidewalks LOS ANGELES, Oct. 10 — City officials agreed Wednesday not to enforce an ordinance used to bolster police sweeps of homeless people sleeping on sidewalks until 1,250 units of low-cost housing are built....
Posted: Wed, Oct 10, 2007 9:39pm PDT
JUDGE ISSUES 10day NO LBAM spray order! "Due to the issuance of a temporary restraining order in Monterey County, the Light Brown Apple Moth pheromone application on the Monterey Peninsula is suspended until further notice."...
Posted: Wed, Oct 10, 2007 7:14pm PDT
Central Valley Radical Mental Health (CVRMH) Discussion Circle Central Valley Radical Mental Health (CVRMH) is a discussion circle that invites anyone from the communities to come and discuss issues with mental health from a more direct approach with questioning & challenging conventional mental health practices.
Come join us!
Note: This will be our 2nd discussion...
Posted: Wed, Oct 10, 2007 6:28pm PDT
Light Brown Apple Moth Summary This is a summary of facts known about the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM or LBA moth)....
Posted: Wed, Oct 10, 2007 1:34pm PDT
Organic Farmers (CCOF) Approves LBAM Spray California Certified Organic Farmers approves of biochemical pesticide aerial spraying. (CCOF) Sells Out!...
Posted: Wed, Oct 10, 2007 12:17pm PDT
Doors closing on Iraqi displaced Wednesday, October 10, 2007 : A growing number of Iraqi provinces are turning away refugees from other parts of Iraq, the UN says....
Posted: Wed, Oct 10, 2007 6:54am PDT
Gentrification, Redevelopment, and the Future of San Francisco Unitarian Center, 1187 Franklin St (btwn Geary & O’Farrell), Fireside Room...
Event Date: Tue, Oct 16, 2007 1:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Oct 10, 2007 6:44am PDT
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