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SWEET, BUT POISON - A MUST READ
being poisoned by the Aspartame...
Posted: Wed, May 23, 2007 1:26am PDT
Berkeley Housing Authority Troubles Get National Attention
Berkeley Housing Authority Troubles Become National Breaking Story!...
Posted: Tue, May 22, 2007 6:33pm PDT
Mothers and Firefighters Join Asm. Mark Leno in Calling for Ban on Toxic Fire Retardants
Studies Show Toxic Fire Retardants are Passed through Breast Milk to Babies;
Firefighters are Contracting Cancer at Disproportionate Rates...
Posted: Tue, May 22, 2007 4:15pm PDT
Psychiatric Drug Researcher Bob Whitaker on Free Radio Sunday
Former Boston Globe reporter Robert Whitaker, author of Mad in America, will speak by phone on Bathrobespierre's Broadsides, FRSC's late Sunday morning talk show 10 AM - 11:30 AM, May 27th. Whitaker has done recent research on the 24-fold increase in diagnosis of youth "requiring" psychiatric medication and its devastating impact....
Posted: Tue, May 22, 2007 3:30pm PDT
Relieving Tension Headaches & Migraines with Acupuncture
Elephant Pharm
1607 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA 94709...
Event Date: Wed, Jun 13, 2007 10:00am PDT
Posted: Tue, May 22, 2007 10:58am PDT
Juicing for Health
Elephant Pharm
1607 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA 94709...
Event Date: Sat, Jun 23, 2007 11:30am PDT
Posted: Tue, May 22, 2007 10:56am PDT
Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi Supes to Hold Hearing on Public Housing “Emergency Transfers”
Imagine if you and your family were victims of a violent crime but had no way to escape it. Imagine lying awake at night worried about your young children’s safety while they slept. Imagine being scared to continue living in your apartment, but still paying rent for fear of losing the only chance of a roof over your head. Imagine forcing your children to play indoors on the sunniest of days, so that they won’t be dodging bullets in the yard. If your home were this unsafe, would you choose hom...
Posted: Tue, May 22, 2007 8:00am PDT
Detroit-area hospital shake-up fueled by drive for profit
Hospital systems in the Metro Detroit, Michigan, area have recently announced plans to construct two new hospitals in one of the wealthier counties in the United States and the buyout of one of the few remaining hospitals in Detroit proper. This announcement must be read within the context of a market-driven healthcare system that places profits before the jobs, well-being, and very lives of working and poor people in Detroit....
Posted: Tue, May 22, 2007 7:55am PDT
Australian nursing home deaths reveal chronic under-funding
Five elderly residents of a Melbourne nursing home died last month in the space of eight days, while five others were hospitalised following an outbreak of gastroenteritis. The nursing home management and the state and federal governments have responded by attempting to cover up or downplay the tragedy....
Posted: Tue, May 22, 2007 7:54am PDT
Mass Firings At Berkeley Housing Authority
Troubles At The Bekeley Housing Authority Result In The Proposal Of Mass Firings!...
Posted: Tue, May 22, 2007 1:59am PDT
Anarchist Group Denied Acess to Greensburg, KA
On Saturday May 19, five members and volunteers affiliated with Kansas
Mutual Aid, a Lawrence based class struggle anarchist collective, made the
trek back to Greensburg to again help in relief efforts in the tornado
ravaged city. A week earlier, four KMA members had traveled to Greensburg
on a fact finding mission to assess the situation there. What KMA members
found was a militarized, entirely destroyed city where relief efforts were
moving tragically slow....
Posted: Mon, May 21, 2007 12:32pm PDT
The Grateful Life
Saturday, June 2nd, from Noon - 4pm at
The Elephant Pharm, 4470 El Camino Real, Los Altos....
Event Date: Sat, Jun 2, 2007 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, May 21, 2007 12:01pm PDT
NEXIUM Raises the Hepatitis C Viral Load
Many presription drugs will raise the viral load of hepatitis c patients. Doctors are either ignorant or negligent; or both....
Posted: Sun, May 20, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Mayor Sends Out Mixed Message Regarding Berkeley Housing Authority
Mayor Tom Bates Sends Mixed Message In Regards To Berkeley's Troubled Housing Authority!...
Posted: Sat, May 19, 2007 8:19pm PDT
Rally at City Hall to Proclaim that Elder and Dependent Adult Abuse Will Not Be Tolerated
San Francisco - About 100 Seniors gathered on May 15 for a midmorning rally on the steps of San Francisco's City Hall to declare that "Elder and Dependent Adult Abuse Will Not Be Tolerated in San Francisco!" The Seniors carried placard signs in Vietnamese, Chinese, Spanish, Tagalog, Russian, and English. The rally, organized by the Institute on Aging in San Francisco, is the sixth rally held in San Francisco to publicize the issue and problem of elder and dependent adult abuse....
Posted: Sat, May 19, 2007 9:13am PDT
A Low-Income Bus Pass that Most Don't Use
Did you know that MUNI has a low-income Fast Pass? If you didn’t, you are not alone. In 2003, the cost of a monthly Fast Pass for MUNI went up from $35 to $45 and the cost of a single ride went from $1 to $1.25. The next year the single ride went up to $1.50. In response to public outrage, the MTA developed the Lifeline Fast Pass for low-income San Franciscans — a monthly bus pass for $35....
Posted: Sat, May 19, 2007 9:12am PDT
Re: BeyondChron reprint
Regarding the Randy Shaw editorial reprinted on 5/8 from BeyondChron ( "Can San Francisco Make Low-Income Neighborhoods Desirable?" ), I am taking issue with certain of Shaw's remarks ... which can be viewed in full at http://beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=4489#more...
Posted: Fri, May 18, 2007 11:58pm PDT
Grateful Life Blood Drive at Elephant Pharm in Los Altos
Elephant Pharm in Los Altos
4470 El Camino Real
Los Altos, CA
650-472-6800
For more info, please visit www.elephantpharm.com...
Event Date: Sat, Jun 2, 2007 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, May 18, 2007 2:31pm PDT
Portable Toilets, a Dumpster, and 24 Hour Security
The City of Fresno delivered three portable toilets and a dumpster to a homeless encampment on H street today. These services are expected to be a temporary solution to improve the health and sanitation in the encampment. The city plans to purchase property to set up a “free zone” where homeless people can live. The new encampment will have portable toilets, trash bins, and more....
Posted: Thu, May 17, 2007 7:51pm PDT
Berkeley Targets Smoking by Homeless
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The latest in progressive life-style engineering from the capital
of the politically correct, Berekeley. Instead of criminalizing the
homeless per se, the plan is to criminalize their smoking . Even
the most progressive members of the city council, such as Kriss
Worthington, who support the city's lowest-priority marijuana
ordinance and oppose cracking down on the homeless, can't bring
themselve...
Posted: Thu, May 17, 2007 6:06pm PDT