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African Women Confront Bush's AIDS Policy Death, Politics and the Condom
By YIFAT SUSSKIND...
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2005 6:45am PST
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Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2005 10:57pm PST
Bush uses World AIDS Day to push Christian right agenda For President George W. Bush, World AIDS Day was another occasion to pander to the Christian fundamentalist right wing that makes up the political base of his administration....
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 10:13pm PST
Basin St. Blues: Iberville Housing Rights March, Dec3'05, New Orleans LA 
A band of housing rights advocates gathered at the Iberville Projects on Basin St. Saturday morning to march in support of New Orleans residents right to return home after the hurricanes, especially residents of Housing Authority of New Orleans public housing....
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 12:28pm PST
Chronicle Censors Religious Leaders’ Questioning of Newsom Homeless Policy For the past three years, the San Francisco Chronicle’s “Shame of the City” series has sought to chronicle the city’s battle to reduce homelessness. The paper has written dozens of stories on Care not Cash, Project Connect, and other strategies, and has been overwhelmingly supported of Mayor Newsom’s response to homelessness. But when several prominent religious leaders held a City Hall press conference last Thursday to criticize a dramatic increase in criminal citations for camping under New...
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 7:37am PST
Criminalizing homeless is dumb idea The National Coalition for the Homeless did an excellent study of ordinances which are commonly used against homeless people in public places. These laws inclu...
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 9:23am PST
‘Gardens at Harrison’ Project Could Bring Housing for Low-Income Families A proposed development in the South of Market could present an opportunity to bring the neighborhood much-needed low-income family housing, according to community activists and Supervisor Chris Daly. The project’s developers currently hope to rezone their site so they can increase the height of their buildings 40 feet, which would add around 300 more units of housing. The most recent attempt at such a massive rezoning in SOMA, the 299-unit 4th and Freelon project, passed only after the develo...
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 7:35am PST
Seems Sensible "While debate surrounding the project currently centers on the loss of views from the freeway"
Really?
Don't look too closely at this area now--...
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 1:32pm PST
Second disaster looming for millions of Kashmir earthquake victims Two months after the October 8 earthquake that devastated Kashmir and the northern areas of Pakistan, the number killed continues to rise. Pakistani officials put the death toll at more than 87,000, but independent estimates suggest the figure could be well over 100,000. In Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir, another 1,350 people were killed by the quake....
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 7:22am PST
NEW ORLEANS REPORT BACK TODAY at 4pm Fresh from New Orleans -insights, analysis, stories, pics, and video. Please come to the first reportback from New Orleans from volunteers who caravaned from the Bay Area to work with Common Ground Collective over Thanksgiving Week....
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 12:58pm PST
Support Grassroots Bioremediation in New Orleans The Alliance for Community Trainers -- a new 501c3 organization
facilitated by Starhawk, one of the founders of Reclaim the Commons in
2004 -- will help support efforts to clean up New Orleans using the
natural methods of bioremediation: using bacteria, plants and fungi to
break down toxins and restore the health of the soil...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 12:21pm PST
This is a duplicate This was posted about 5 min earlier at the following url:
http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/12/1787616.php
so this version is getting hidden...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 9:28am PST
Quality of Life Citations Costly and Unjust 02.DEC.05:
At a press conference yesterday morning in City Hall's South Light Court, religious leaders spoke out against contradictory aspects of San Francisco's treatment of homeless people. Their goal - to raise awareness about those city policies which they feel are unjust and lacking in compassion, including the dramatic spike in citations against sleeping outdoors since Mayor Gavin Newsom took office....
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 8:59am PST
Angry hurricane evacuees sue feds A few short months after the nation’s greatest natural disaster, Hurricane Katrina, followed by Hurricane Rita, the news media are reporting that donor-weary Americans are moving on with their lives and preparing for the holidays.
That reality flew in the face of members of the Hurricane Evacuee Council-Bay Area, who experienced disinterest and insensitivity from about 60 percent of the spectators who rushed past them to get to the tree lighting ceremony in Ghirardelli Square on Friday....
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 8:58am PST
What about Lakeview residents? As a native New Orleanian born and raised in the Garden District on St. Charles Ave, I recently lost "EVERYTHING" my husband and I worked hard for and...
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 4:16pm PST
‘People of color are already the majority; we just need to take charge!’ “People of color are already the majority in California; we just need to take charge,” said Steve Phillips, former San Francisco school board member and executive director of PowerPac.org. Phillips’ well-informed voice joined a panel of legislators and policy makers at last week’s Racial Policy Summit held in Oakland....
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 8:55am PST
Class struggle prevails; We don't need Condi Rice The class struggle is primary; it is time for the workingclass to tatke state power and put an end to the private profit system that is the problem. Lackeys of...
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 5:11am PST
Liquor Store Attacks Go Deeper than Booze Mom-and-pop liquor stores have long been a target for blacks angry at the economic disempowerment of their communities. Earl Ofari Hutchinson is a contributing editor at Pacific News Service and the author of "The Crisis in Black and Black."...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 8:53am PST
Who was arested? Who do the cops "say" did this repugnant action?...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 3:13pm PST
A racist is a racist is a racist >In some surveys, a majority of blacks agreed that racial profiling was not a bad thing as long as those profiled were Arabs or Asians, and not blacks.
Well,...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 4:07pm PST
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