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Activists ask ACLU to help end sleeping ban 
On August 26, 2007, a number of Santa Cruz homeless activists made an appeal to the ACLU during a fundraising event held at the small public aquarium next to the UC Long Marine center. They would like for them to contribute to the legal fight to end the ban on outdoor sleeping and camping, using the same process behind the Jones decision precedent in the Los Angeles courts, which held that a local city cannot ban sleeping on public property if adequate shelters for indigent people are not ava...
Posted: Sun, Aug 26, 2007 4:47pm PDT
Vice-Mayor Bans Activists from Bookshop Santa Cruz Becky Johnson sends Vice-Mayor Ryan Coonerty an e-mail accusing him of adopted bigoted policies such as those espoused by a Sentinel hateletter writer. Coonerty promptly responds to Johnson's inquiring letter by banning her and Bernard Klitzner, HUFF activists, from his sister's Bookshop Santa Cruz. Johnson analyzes Coonerty's response....
Posted: Sun, Aug 26, 2007 12:53pm PDT
Development/Enviro.>What is right for Marin?{MPJC’s Event Series}Frank Egger/Bob Silvestri 9 Ross Valley Dr. (On the Miracle mile between San Rafael and San Anselmo)...
Event Date: Mon, Aug 27, 2007 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Aug 26, 2007 12:41pm PDT
Over 5,000 Poor Are Dumped From Housing Authoritiy Waiting Lists The troubles at Berkeley's Housing Authority have reached a point that no one in the agency seems qualifed enough to maintain their current waiting lists, and their solution is to dump everyone from their lists and force everyone to sign up all over again....
Posted: Sat, Aug 25, 2007 12:23pm PDT
Flooding displaces thousands in US Midwest Saturday, August 25, 2007 :Severe storms and flooding throughout the central US Plains and Midwest have displaced thousands of people and left hundreds of thousands without power. At least 26 deaths have been attributed to two storm systems that moved through the area in the past week. Emergencies were declared in five states in the upper Midwest and Plains states....
Posted: Sat, Aug 25, 2007 11:06am PDT
NOW Foundation Releases New Report on Emergency Contraception August 24, 2007 : Today we mark the one year anniversary of the Food and Drug Administration's decision to allow over-the-counter sale of emergency contraception (EC) to women ages 18 and over with the release of a report entitled: "Limited Success: One Year of Access to Emergency Contraception" (PDF)....
Posted: Sat, Aug 25, 2007 11:05am PDT
Lennar and rip off cases - one of many One of many rip off cases....
Posted: Sat, Aug 25, 2007 9:58am PDT
Celebrate Unmarried & Single Americans Week! Femina Potens Art Gallery, 2199 Market Street...
Event Date: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Aug 24, 2007 10:41am PDT
"What This Rule Change Amounts To Is A Declaration Of War Against the Appalachian People": Opponents of Mountaintop Removal Friday, August 24, 2007 :
The Bush administration is poised to issue regulations today that would legalize and expand the controversial coal mining practice known as mountain top removal. The technique involves blasting off the tops of mountains and dumping the rubble into valleys and streams. We speak with Appalaichan activist Vernon Halton of Coal River Mountain Watch....
Posted: Fri, Aug 24, 2007 7:33am PDT
Utah mine to be sealed, entombing missing miners Friday, August 24, 2007 :The Washington Post reported Thursday that mine owner Bob Murray had decided to end production at the Crandall Canyon Mine in central Utah where six coal miners were trapped in an August 6 cave-in and to seal the mine. Murray had previously said mining would resume after sealing the area where the miners were trapped....
Posted: Fri, Aug 24, 2007 7:31am PDT
Hurricane Dean inflicts devastating blow to Caribbean agriculture, infrastructure Friday, August 24, 2007 :Hurricane Dean swept through the Caribbean and into Mexico this week, killing at least 25 and causing extensive damage to homes and infrastructure. In addition to Mexico, the countries of Belize, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Dominica, St. Lucia, and other islands of the Lesser Antilles, were impacted by flooding and winds up to 256 kilometers per hour....
Posted: Fri, Aug 24, 2007 7:31am PDT
On 2nd anniversary of Katrina Gulf Coast needs a "New Deal" Friday, August 24, 2007 : Eyewitness account NEW ORLEANS — Two years after his wife was swept away by Hurricane Katrina, Calvin Bernard still comes to sweep the slab and water the flowers where their house once stood in this city’s Lower 9th Ward. It is his way of keeping alive the hope that he can rebuild his life and his community....
Posted: Fri, Aug 24, 2007 7:30am PDT
Conservatives angry at Venezuela's subsidy of poor British Up to a million people on income support will be eligible for half fares on London's buses under Ken Livingstone's oil deal with Hugo Chávez, Venezuela's president.
Single parents, carers, the long-term sick and disabled people will benefit from the plan, first mooted during Mr Chávez's visit to the UK last year, paying 50p for a single journey if they use an Oystercard....
Posted: Thu, Aug 23, 2007 10:51am PDT
Behind Mbeki's sacking of South Africa's deputy health minister Thursday, August 23, 2007 :The sacking by President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa of his deputy health minister, Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, has produced outrage amongst AIDS activists in South Africa and consternation among political commentators internationally. The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), the main organisation that has fought for AIDS drug treatment in South Africa, said, “This is a dreadful error of judgement that will harm public health care and especially the response to the HIV e...
Posted: Thu, Aug 23, 2007 10:37am PDT
California Nurses Win Historic Organizing Pact, Ratify Contract Wednesday, August 22, 2007 : More than 700 CNA/NNOC members rallied last year in Oakland, Calif., to protest a pending NLRB ruling that re-classified hundreds of thousands of nurses as "supervisors." In one of the largest-ever organizing agreements for registered nurses, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) announced this week a national pact with Tenet Healthcare Corp....
Posted: Thu, Aug 23, 2007 10:31am PDT
Striking Back Against Sentinel/SCPD Smears and "Progressive" Silence on the Sleeping Ban A Public Records Act request to the SCPD on its City Hall activities during the "Respect the Constitution" Sleep-Out at City Hall last week and a Visit to the Sunday American Civil Liberties Union fundraiser in search of local civil liberties are coming up....
Posted: Thu, Aug 23, 2007 9:22am PDT
Richard Quint, M.D. provides indepth analysis of Cuba's healthcare system (audio/mpeg 15.9MB) Dr. Quint, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics - Emeritus, University of California - SF and member of the California Physicians Alliance, has been a frequent research visitor to Cuba since 1978. He articulated in a slide show presentation a detailed historical analysis of the evolution of the Cuban system from the revolution in the late 50's until today....
Posted: Wed, Aug 22, 2007 9:56pm PDT
Cuban Vs US Healthcare - Attorney Bill Martinez discusses Michael Moore (audio/mpeg 5.5MB) Bill Martinez, an attorney specializing in US - Cuba exchanges, discusses Michael Moore's trip to Cuba for filming for "SICKO". Martinez arranged the trip and accompanied Moore as an attorney and patient. He discusses his Cuban health care experience along with the legal issues involved....
Posted: Wed, Aug 22, 2007 9:25pm PDT
Foreclosures soar, layoffs mount in US mortgage industry crisis Wednesday, August 22, 2007 :The US housing market showed further signs of deterioration on Tuesday with the release of a report showing a sharp 9 percent increase in foreclosure filings from June to July. World financial markets have been rocked in recent weeks by a credit crisis with origins in the US home mortgage market. The report came a day after Capital One Financial Corp, a major US bank, announced it was shutting down a mortgage branch of the company, laying off 1,900 employees....
Posted: Wed, Aug 22, 2007 7:35am PDT
Workers, students speak out against closure of Los Angeles hospital Wednesday, August 22, 2007 :After more than three years of controversy and downsizing, the closure of Martin Luther King Jr.—Harbor Hospital is a blow to the health care needs of hundreds of thousands of residents in South Central Los Angeles, Watts, Compton and other communities of the working poor of Los Angeles. Following an unfavorable report by the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (USCMMS), the administrators of Martin Luther King Jr....
Posted: Wed, Aug 22, 2007 7:33am PDT
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