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Climate Change and Affordable Housing: Time to Make a Strong Connection There’s no question the issue of climate change has reached a tipping point in America. Once relegated to technical journals and PBS documentaries, the national news media now splashes climate change issues across front pages and news broadcasts daily. States and cities throughout the country have begun their own initiatives to combat the problem, and the new Democratic-controlled House and Senate look poised to push the dialogue even further. One strategy in particular - increasing density i...
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 9:13am PDT
Why You Should Avoid Taking Vaccines "Vaccines contain many toxic substances that are needed to prevent the vaccines from becoming infected or to improve the performance of the vaccine. Among these substances are mercury, formaldehyde and aluminum."...
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 9:03am PDT
Housing Activists Take Over Ellised Building More than 150 housing rights activists marched through the Mission District on April 7 to demand better protections for renters in San Francisco and reforms to the Ellis Act. The march ended at a vacant building that other activists had occupied in a non-violent protest....
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 9:19pm PDT
Benefit for Haight Ashbury Medical Clinic w/Will Durst Make-Out Room
3225 22nd St. at Mission
San Francisco, CA 94110...
Event Date: Mon, Apr 23, 2007 8:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 8:02pm PDT
4/10 SF Kaiser Rally HELLthcare at Kaiser Permante Kaiser is denying care to people who should be gettig healthcare so they can die without costing
Kaiser any more money...
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 5:38pm PDT
Homes Not Jails public meeting Coalition on Homelessness
468 Turk (at Larkin)...
Event Date: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 12:49pm PDT
Baker and Pizzeria on the Ropes After Dispute With PG&E After nearly three decades as a baker, Cindy Gershon is not burned out. Her business may be, however, following the smoky failure of the electrical cables that carry the power into her Walnut Creek bakery and an ongoing dispute with PG&E over exactly whose responsibility this is....
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 9:47am PDT
Gavin Newsom's Planning = Willie Brown All Over Again If anyone was under the misapprehension that Gavin Newsom's approach to planning was any different from the corruption of the Willie Brown era, the Mayor's unprecedented appearance before the Planning Commission on April 5th in support of the Market Octavia Better Neighborhoods Plan proves that when push comes to shove, both serve developers on demand....
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 9:46am PDT
Antics and Energy at Homes not Jails Protest (video/quicktime 22.8MB) Saturday's Homes Not Jails action was kept lively and theatrical by a festive crowd....
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 2:22am PDT
Homes Not Jails Building Takeover 
HOUSING ACTIVISTS RALLIED TO SUPPORT HOMES NOT JAILS TAKEOVER OF EMPTY BUILDING...
Posted: Sun, Apr 8, 2007 4:51pm PDT
Oak to Ninth Redux Oak to Ninth Referendum Committee is challenging the Oakland City Attorney's disqualification of the petitions to put the Oak to Ninth Project up for a referendum....
Posted: Sun, Apr 8, 2007 2:39pm PDT
Squatters Evicted from Vacant Home on 23rd and Treat (audio/mpeg 1.5MB) People gathered today in San Francisco's Mission district to support the tennants of a squatted building on 23rd and Treat Street and to protest the Ellis Act. The controversial act, critics charge, allows speculative realtors to evict tenants in order to raise rents....
Posted: Sat, Apr 7, 2007 6:48pm PDT
Audio and Pics from Homes Not Jails Action (audio/mpeg 5.0MB) Pictures and Unedited audio from Homes Not Jails housing reclaimation and rallyApril 7, 2007...
Posted: Sat, Apr 7, 2007 6:20pm PDT
City Repair Project Conversations Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave....
Event Date: Sun, Apr 15, 2007 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Apr 7, 2007 11:08am PDT
Temescal neighbors vs. the developers Oakland developers are tearing down historic buildings that contain affordable housing. In their place they intend to construct condominiums which are NOT affordable to the residents who are being displaced. This sort of thing inevitably seems to "merit" approval from Oakland's Planning Commission....
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 9:02pm PDT
T-Third Line is old 15 Electric Streetcar; Bring Back Geary Electric Streetcar Welcome back to service on April 7, 2007 the old 15 Electric Streetcar which became the 15-Third St bus line on June 23, 1940, now known as the T Third Electric Street carline. Geary Street also had a streetcar until shortly after WW2, and we look forward to its prompt return....
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 7:26pm PDT
Breast Cancer Action E-Alert for California 1. TAKE ACTION: Educate and Advocate for Universal Health Care; Attend the Environmental Health Legislative Education Days; Support Breast Cancer Research in California
2. SAVE THE DATE: BCA Talks on the Politics of Cancer in Poplar and Monterey...
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 4:43pm PDT
Yellowstone Park? No, Farragut Square park "The crime is camping, and here apparently it is a crime to lay on a bench because protecting a statue of David Farragut from everything except the pigeon shit is more important to our national heritage than are the poorest residents of our city who have no rooves over their heads."...
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 8:40am PDT
Through the Cracks and Out in the Cold Coalition on Homelessness Reports High Shelter Turn-Aways...
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 7:43am PDT
Is Sickness a Crime? Arizona Man With TB Locked Up Indefinitely in Solitary Confinement 27 year-old Robert Daniels is being held against his will in a Phoenix hospital ward reserved for sick prisoners. If state officials have their way, he could be there for the rest of his life. Daniels is suffering from a deadly strain of tuberculosis known as XDR-TB. Doctors say he is virtually untreatable. He has been forced to live in a hospital cell in complete isolation....
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 7:17am PDT
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