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Elderly Renter Fighting Economic Eviction Oaklands Elderly Under Attack By Greedy
Landlords Taking Advantage Of Their Fragility....
Posted: Sun, Aug 25, 2002 6:17pm PDT
Fraud Not Care 
A Quick examiniation of some facts from the NYC experience with Care Not Cash, Proposition N on this fall's ballot....
Posted: Sun, Aug 25, 2002 12:19pm PDT
Vallejo City Council approves LNG safety study "A crowd of about 500 people swarmed into City Hall as the council reconsidered its previous approval of a feasibility study of the Mare Island project. The lone vote to kill the project came from Councilman Gary Cloutier, who received a standing ovation from the audience."...
Posted: Sun, Aug 25, 2002 11:32am PDT
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Summit Hospital in Oakland closed the Pain Clinic, dumping 2ooo patients! These patients are being told to go to Stanford. These are Cronic pain patients. That is too far to travel and too expensive....
Posted: Sat, Aug 24, 2002 10:48pm PDT
More Bush in Stockton (2) (video/x-pn-realvideo 9.8MB) Here is video of the crowds (protestors and those in line to get into the civic center) and chants and signs. 3:07...
Posted: Sat, Aug 24, 2002 6:58pm PDT
New Mission News ed/pub Victor Miller dies suddenly 
Victor Miller, 54, the long-time editor/publisher of the New Mission News monthly newspaper, died suddenly on Wednesday August 24 of a heart seizure. We are all shocked by his sudden death....
Posted: Sat, Aug 24, 2002 5:17pm PDT
Poverty & Homelessness in San Francisco (audio/mpeg 27.2MB) audio documentary on poverty and homelessness in san francisco. background on the issues affected by Proposition N...
Posted: Sat, Aug 24, 2002 12:11pm PDT
Gavin Newsom As "Punishing Parent" Of Homeless People Scott Bravmann is a San Francisco Citizen who helped house a wheelchair bound homeless woman named Carolin Jack who saves stray cats. Scott writes a letter to Gavin Newsom about the Supervisor's use of Prop N to infantalize people without homes....
Posted: Sat, Aug 24, 2002 2:46am PDT
BUSH PROTEST IN STOCKTON ROCKS 
The shrubs presence in Stockton to day met with quite a bit of disturbance the resident thief was made to feel unwelcome by around 1000 protesters that heckled him through out the day two got in to the civic center where he was speaking and disrupted the his mendacious babblings until they where slammed to the floor and dragged out of the building while the zombie crowed in side chanted USA USA !...
Posted: Sat, Aug 24, 2002 12:05am PDT
Bush protested in Stockton (video/x-pn-realvideo 24.0MB) Protestors wished they had pretzels to throw at as feet as "dubya" was whisked here and there in Stockton. Eloquent words were spoken....
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 11:46pm PDT
California State Budget Effects Indian Education (audio/mpeg 974.1KB) Some Indian education centers in California are suffering from layoffs and cannot open their doors to students until the State budget is approved. Jim Brown III, director of the Hinthal Indian Education Center in Lakeport, talks about the US and State governments' legal obligation to provide American Indians with an education, and the economic and emotional consequences of their failure to do so. MP3, 2:04 mins....
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 11:44pm PDT
No On N Protest (video/quicktime 34.5MB) No On N activists are increasing the pressure on the Gavin Newsom "Care Not Cash" proposal which may hurt the poor more then help them....
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 10:10pm PDT
BuSh in Stockton - Air Force 1 w/ "No War in Iraq" sign. 
2 photos from Stockton demo, more later......
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 9:39pm PDT
Medea Benjamin irks Yhe Smirk 
Medea & protesters greet properly W....
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 8:33pm PDT
Medea Tells George Junior: No War in Iraq Peaceniks gave George War Bush a California welcome with protests inside and outside his first campaign stop for his political friends in Stockton on 8/23/02. Medea Benjamin of Global Exchange, protested inside, as the photos below show....
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 6:46pm PDT
Peace Vigil Peace Vigil Sunday September 8th 2002
1pm Help form a Human Chain - San Anselmo Hub along the Miracle Mile to Hwy 101
3 pm Rally in San Rafael Plaza...
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 6:11pm PDT
LNG critics question ballot idea Bechtel and Shell would have almost unlimited funds to persuade people in their favor....
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 4:09pm PDT
Bush disrupted in Stockton watching cnn, one could see a disruption, but the camera never moved from bush...
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 1:53pm PDT
Pelosi in Chinatown 10am Sat - Tell her no more $ for Israel! please come ready to ask her the difficult questions about what must be done to change US policy from support for war to support for justice and peace in the Middle East. ...
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 9:36am PDT
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