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imageSWEET, BUT POISON - A MUST READ
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by Danny Parsons
being poisoned by the Aspartame...
Posted: Wed, May 23, 2007 1:26am PDT
textBerkeley Housing Authority Troubles Get National Attention by Lynda Carson
Berkeley Housing Authority Troubles Become National Breaking Story!...
Posted: Tue, May 22, 2007 6:33pm PDT
textMothers and Firefighters Join Asm. Mark Leno in Calling for Ban on Toxic Fire Retardants by Shannan Velayas
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
textPsychiatric Drug Researcher Bob Whitaker on Free Radio Sunday by Robert Norse
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
calendarRelieving Tension Headaches & Migraines with Acupuncture by Johanna Silver
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
calendarJuicing for Health by Johanna Silver
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
textSupervisor Ross Mirkarimi Supes to Hold Hearing on Public Housing “Emergency Transfers” by Sara Shortt‚ Beyond Chron (reposted)
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
textDetroit-area hospital shake-up fueled by drive for profit by wsws (reposted)
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
textAustralian nursing home deaths reveal chronic under-funding by wsws (reposted)
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
textMass Firings At Berkeley Housing Authority by Lynda Carson
Troubles At The Bekeley Housing Authority Result In The Proposal Of Mass Firings!...
Posted: Tue, May 22, 2007 1:59am PDT
textAnarchist Group Denied Acess to Greensburg, KA by A Friend
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
calendarThe Grateful Life by Caroline Tudor
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
textNEXIUM Raises the Hepatitis C Viral Load by the Hepster
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
textMayor Sends Out Mixed Message Regarding Berkeley Housing Authority by Lynda Carson
Mayor Tom Bates Sends Mixed Message In Regards To Berkeley's Troubled Housing Authority!...
Posted: Sat, May 19, 2007 8:19pm PDT
textRally at City Hall to Proclaim that Elder and Dependent Adult Abuse Will Not Be Tolerated by Anh Lê‚ May, Beyond Chron (repost)
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
textA Low-Income Bus Pass that Most Don't Use by Sarah Sherburn-Zimmer, Beyond Chron (repost)
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
textRe: BeyondChron reprint by Kim
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
calendarGrateful Life Blood Drive at Elephant Pharm in Los Altos by Elephant Pharm
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
imagePortable Toilets, a Dumpster, and 24 Hour Security
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by Mike Rhodes
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
textBerkeley Targets Smoking by Homeless by repost via NORML
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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