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US Steps up Pressure on Khartoum Over Darfur WASHINGTON, April29 , 2006 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – As a Darfur peace deal hangs in the balance over rebel objections, public pressure is growing on the Bush administration to take action against the Sudanese government under claims of "genocide" being committed in the troubled region....
Posted: Sat, Apr 29, 2006 9:50am PDT
Darfur food rations cut in half The UN is cutting in half its daily rations in Sudan's Darfur region due to a severe funding shortfall....
Posted: Fri, Apr 28, 2006 7:40am PDT
Skyline Realty Sued for Unfair Business Practices Attorneys filed suit yesterday on behalf of more than 20 tenants of buildings owned by Skyline Realty, suing the company for consistently employing shocking, thug-like tactics to empty their units of long-term tenants. The lawsuit alleges these tactics constitute unfair business practices, and seeks both compensation for the affected tenants and a court injunction putting an end to their illegal efforts. The suit represents the latest in a series of attacks on Skyline Realty - also known as C...
Posted: Fri, Apr 28, 2006 7:04am PDT
Radical Plan to Kill or Realign Federal Programs The threat is real. Without you or your representatives' say, federal programs and even whole agencies could be killed or restructured to the point of making their work impossible. We should be expecting this now. Remember Grover Norquist plan to minimize federal programs to the extent that the neocons could "drown them in a bathtub?"...
Posted: Thu, Apr 27, 2006 5:15pm PDT
Board Committee Votes 3-0 to Protect Tenants The Board of Supervisors Land Use and Economic Development Committee unanimously forwarded legislation yesterday that would provide significant new protections for tenants against evictions. Sponsored by Supervisor Aaron Peskin, the proposal would prohibit any buildings where multiple no-fault evictions or the eviction of a senior, disabled or catastrophically ill person occurred from ever entering the city’s lottery for condo conversion. The approval occurred following a spirited rally on th...
Posted: Thu, Apr 27, 2006 8:42am PDT
Top Nanotech Conference on replacement of life by 2020, 13 May Stanford Uni Top Nanotechnology Conference discussing replacement of life by 2020, 13 May, Stanford University.
Day long propaganda open to the public, with Dr Drexler plus other top thinkers & workers on nanotechnology, advocating the advance of nanotechnology whatever the consequences, even though this means the takeover & possible total destruction of all life on earth, "because it is out technological destiny".
The technocrats think this is progress, but the people say," Nanodeath is...
Posted: Wed, Apr 26, 2006 9:50pm PDT
UN Sounds Alarm Over Malnutrition in Darfur GENEVA, April 26, 2006 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – The ongoing fighting in Sudan's troubled Darfur region is causing a rising malnutrition among the population, particularly women and children, and is hampering humanitarian aid, the UN warned on Wednesday, April 26....
Posted: Wed, Apr 26, 2006 7:46pm PDT
Predatory Lenders Target New Asian Immigrants Seattle - When Sophorn Sim bought her first home in 1993, she never imagined that the American dream could turn into a nightmare....
Posted: Wed, Apr 26, 2006 7:09pm PDT
Jane Jacobs, Planning Hero and Critic of Redevelopment, dies at 89 Jane Jacobs, legendary author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, died yesterday at the age of 89. As the San Francisco Board of Supervisors holds a hearing today on transforming Bayview-Hunter’s Point into a Redevelopment Area, it is worth considering what Jacobs wrote about the redevelopment process back on May 22, 1957:...
Posted: Wed, Apr 26, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Housing in SF 
The Board of Supervisors are trying again to make housing in SF more stable....
Posted: Wed, Apr 26, 2006 1:50pm PDT
Eat intelligently, avoid malnutrition. JoAnn Guest
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Posted: Wed, Apr 26, 2006 8:56am PDT
Tenants Ramp Up Battle Against Notorious Landlord Housing advocates and tenants will kick off their campaign to reform what many consider to be the worst landlord in San Francisco this weekend. Their target: Skyline Realty, also known as CitiApartments, which has become known both for housing code violations and intimidating long-time tenants into vacating their homes. Picketers will be lining up around Skyline’s Church Street office at noon this Saturday, asking that the company brass sign an agreement to stop their abusive practices. In ad...
Posted: Wed, Apr 26, 2006 7:23am PDT
Mass Evictions From Oakland's Public Housing Fraud & Scandal At Oakland's Housing Authority!...
Posted: Wed, Apr 26, 2006 1:22am PDT
A socialist response to the massive rise in fuel prices The staggering increase in gasoline prices is taking an enormous toll on working families in the US, whose paychecks are already being eaten up by a host of other rising costs, from health care, to education, to housing and food. In the last two weeks alone, prices at the gas pump have risen nearly 25 cents—to an average of $2.91 per gallon—with prices exceeding $3.10 in California, New York and other states....
Posted: Tue, Apr 25, 2006 10:00pm PDT
Fifteen Minute Parking Lot "Panic" Law At Council Today (4/25) Everyone's invited to a 2:30 PM protest today (4-25) at City Hall (809 Center St.) against the Fifteen Minute Trespass law. The second and final reading will happen at the afternoon session of City Council at 3 PM (the item to reach the agenda probably sometime between 3:30 and 5 PM). Public comment can also be made, after the fact, at 7 PM during Oral Communications....
Posted: Tue, Apr 25, 2006 8:47am PDT
Televising the Revolution Film Benefit for St. Peters Housing Committee Come check out this cartoon about gentrification and raise money for an incredible tenants and immigrant rights organization. This Tuesday 8pm at El Rio!...
Posted: Mon, Apr 24, 2006 6:11pm PDT
World Bank accused of lying over funding to fight malaria The world's largest foreign aid organisation is accused today of deception and medical malpractice that has contributed to the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of thousands of children from malaria....
Posted: Mon, Apr 24, 2006 5:28pm PDT
Nagin, Landrieu Face Run-Off. Tens of Thousands of Displaced Residents Barred from Voting New Orleans held its first election after the Hurricane Katrina disaster on Saturday. Mayor Ray Nagin and Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu won the two top spots and will face each other in a run-off in May. Tens of thousands of displaced residents were no allowed to vote. We speak with Ted Shaw of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund....
Posted: Mon, Apr 24, 2006 7:34am PDT
Human trafficking is 'slavery that shames world' Almost every country in the world is affected by the scourge of human trafficking, a UN report will reveal today....
Posted: Mon, Apr 24, 2006 7:32am PDT
Elderly and Disabled Abuse at the Hand of Mercy Housing! Mercy Housing has been sued by former tenants for the abuse of the elderly and disabled. I have tried for over 4 years to get them to stop Michael Williams, Lorna Walsh, and Igor from abusing us and they refuse to look at or listen to the proof I have. Every building in SF that Mercy operates has had at least one complaint against them to the Human Rights Commission and they still will not do anything about it nor will the HRC! I was told by Ed Ilumin that Mercy had too much Political clou...
Posted: Sun, Apr 23, 2006 6:45pm PDT
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