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Booty Shakin' Shindig to Benefit the Doohickey Project
Long Haul Infoshop
3124 Shattuck@Woolsey, 2 blocks from ashby BART...
Event Date: Sat, Jul 15, 2006 8:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 10:43am PDT
Serial Evictor Targets District 5
As a building full of families, seniors, and long-time tenants continue to fight for their homes at 1530 McAllister Street, Beyond Chron has discovered that the speculators working to displace these residents are also responsible for a series of evictions throughout District 5. San Francisco realtor Elba Borgen is leading the group responsible for purging five buildings of tenants in recent years, four of which are in District 5. Assisted in these evictions by real estate agents Mike Gallin a...
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 8:16am PDT
8/24-29: Katrina Survivors to Return to New Orleans
On August 29, 2006, the anniversary of the Katrina Disaster,
Survivors will make their demands to return home heard
by the city council of New Orleans and camp
out on city hall...
Posted: Sun, Jul 9, 2006 2:40pm PDT
SENIORS AND DISABLED TAKE ON THE BANKS: Round One: Bank of America (video/quicktime 35.2MB)
The Bank of America is asked to sign a pledge agreeing not to provide mortgages for buildings where senior and disabled tenants have been evicted. In two parts:
*Four-minute QT movie. 35MB.
*Six-minute QT movie. 44MB. (Part 2 is down below.)...
Posted: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 4:25pm PDT
Sexual Responsibility Through Lawsuits?
George Harrison once called it the “sue me, sue you blues.”
He wrote the song after a lawsuit was brought against him for allegedly ripping off the melody of “He’s So Fine” for his early 70s hit, “My Sweet Lord.”...
Posted: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 8:40am PDT
India Could Learn From California Court's HIV Decision
he California Supreme Court has ruled that people who don't reveal their sexual history to their partners can be liable for sexually transmitted diseases. India, which has the highest number of HIV-positive people in the world, should take note. Viji Sundaram is the health editor for New America Media....
Posted: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 8:25am PDT
Sacramento Food Not Bombs
Cesar Chavez Park (10th and I Streets)
Every Sunday 1:30 PM...
Event Date: Sun, Aug 27, 2006 1:30pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 2:28pm PDT
Sacramento Food Not Bombs
Cesar Chavez Park (10th and I Streets)
Every Sunday 1:30 PM...
Event Date: Sun, Aug 20, 2006 1:30pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 2:27pm PDT
Sacramento Food Not Bombs
Cesar Chavez Park (10th and I Streets)
Every Sunday 1:30 PM...
Event Date: Sun, Aug 13, 2006 1:30pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 2:26pm PDT
Sacramento Food Not Bombs
Cesar Chavez Park (10th and I Streets)
Every Sunday 1:30 PM...
Event Date: Sun, Aug 6, 2006 1:30pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 2:24pm PDT
Sacramento Food Not Bombs
Cesar Chavez Park (10th and I Streets)
Every Sunday 1:30 PM...
Event Date: Sun, Jul 30, 2006 1:30pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 2:21pm PDT
Sacramento Food Not Bombs
Sacramento Food Not Bombs
Cesar Chavez Park (10th and I Streets)
Every Sunday 1:30 PM...
Event Date: Sun, Jul 23, 2006 1:30pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 2:20pm PDT
Sacramento Food Not Bombs
Sacramento Food Not Bombs
Cesar Chavez Park (10th and I Streets)
Every Sunday 1:30 PM...
Event Date: Sun, Jul 16, 2006 1:30pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 2:19pm PDT
Sacramento Food Not Bombs
Cesar Chavez Park (10th and I Streets)...
Event Date: Sun, Jul 9, 2006 1:30pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 2:17pm PDT
Oak Park Summer Concert Series with community resources
McClatchy Park (35th Street and 5th Avenue) in Sac....
Event Date: Sat, Jul 22, 2006 1:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 11:24am PDT
FEDS PAVE WAY TO PRIVATIZE OUR HIGHWAYS...
The question is how do you destroy the national sovereignty of the United States, merge it with the rest of the western hemisphere, build the infrastructure system needed to link up the entire landmass, confiscate private property on a wholesale level, spy on everyone's comings and goings, and trick American suckers into paying for their own demise all in one fell swoop ? The answer: TOLL EVERYTHING!
"public-private partnerships."
tolls collected will be automatic, requiring universally...
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 9:19am PDT
Hunters Point: The removal picks up speed
SF Redevelopment Agency watching and waiting while all poor people of color are swept off ‘the Hill’...
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 6:48am PDT
Ten months after Katrina: Gutting New Orleans
Saturday I joined some volunteers and helped gut the home of one of my best friends. Two months after she finished paying off her mortgage, her one-story brick home was engulfed in 7 feet of water. Because she was under-insured and remains worried about a repeat of the floods, my friend, a grandmother, has not yet decided if she is going to rebuild....
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 6:32am PDT
Disability Perspective: Disabled Excluded from 4th of July Celebration
MTA, through both MUNI and DPT, made--and then failed to communicate--traffic control decisions that systematically excluded people with disabilities from taking public transit to the Aquatic Park site for the 4th of July celebrations. This also resulted in a substantial exclusion of people with disabilities from actually getting down to Aquatic Park....
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 6:21am PDT
The modern day ‘never ending story’: post-Katrina long-term recovery
FEMA’s decision to discontinue rental assistance to Katrina survivors last month led to a scramble to locate sufficient resources in the Bay Area. Unfortunately, these efforts have resulted in a dead end search....
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 6:19am PDT