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Bicyclist Killed at Intersection of Bay and Mission
From the People Power website: Another Cyclist Killed at Bay and Mission: Take back Mission Street 5pm April 9th...
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2008 8:34am PDT
New DQU Leadership Emerges To Unite the Eagle and the Condor
Steve Jerome-Wyatt reports on the Planting of the Corn ceremony and formation of an interim board of trustees held at DQU University on Sunday, April 6. "Now, at long last, we pray that all of the darkness and division of the past has been stripped away from the Great Iridescent Dream known as DQ University," he says....
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2008 8:20am PDT
Time for a “Win Win” Outcome in SF’s Bayview District
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 : For over a decade, San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood has faced major internal battles over its future. From the controversial 1997 “stadium-mall” ballot initiative, to the 2006 fight over creating a Redevelopment Area, to the competing housing measures (Props F and G) on this June’s ballot, the city’s last remaining sizable African-American neighborhood is also its most sharply divided....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2008 8:29am PDT
Junta para el Jardin Comunitario de la Playa-Beach Flats Community Garden Meeting
El Jardin Comunitario de la Playa-hacia el final de la calle Raymond
Beach Flats Community Garden-towards the end of Raymond St....
Event Date: Tue, Apr 8, 2008 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2008 10:46pm PDT
Cuba Caravan & Oaxaca Film Event
Office of the Watsonville Brown Berets
408 Main Street
Watsonville, CA 95076...
Event Date: Thu, Apr 10, 2008 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2008 10:27pm PDT
Biodiesel Comes to the SF Bay Railroad
Monday, April 7, 2008 : Last Friday, a 5 man team from California's Air Resources Board arrived at the San Francisco Bay Railroad yard to test a variety of biodiesel blends on locomotive engine number 25, the first train to successfully run on biodiesel in San Francisco. "You are witnessing history people", proclaimed David Gavrich, President & CEO of the SFBR, formerly known as LB Railco....
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2008 7:41am PDT
Moving Because of LBAM Spray - California’s Refugee Problem
Have You Moved Or Are You Planning To Move If CDFA Aerially Sprays in 2008?...
Posted: Sun, Apr 6, 2008 11:18pm PDT
does anyone know if it is all right?
Coming soon to the Bay Area -- These are some of the messages posted on the Santa Cruz Sentinel message board on November 9 2007, the day after the first night of aerial spraying. The very real fear and anger and confusion is raw in these accounts. They are important to read because it's possible that all state and legal efforts will not be able to stop the spray from happening here, so we must be prepared. People were hospitalized. Some of the effects may be long term or permanent, such ...
Posted: Sun, Apr 6, 2008 2:13pm PDT
Urgent Call to Pow Wow at D. Q. University April 6, 2008, 10 AM
Inviting all people to come to celebrate the Season of the Planting of the Corn, TLAKAXIPEUALIZTLI
and to Pow Wow with the community and the students in a Community Meeting to take nominations for the new Board of Trustees, Sunday, April 6, 2008, is the last day to submit names for a seat on the board. We also want to bring to light and inform the community about all the events that have been taking place at D. Q. U., and discuss suggestions and proposals for the best next step forward. We...
Posted: Sun, Apr 6, 2008 12:13am PDT
The Trials Of Jose Morales
Jose Morales, a 78 year old disabled Latino, continued his decade long resistance to eviction from his Mission District home of 40 years Friday in a San Francisco Appeals Court....
Posted: Sat, Apr 5, 2008 10:55pm PDT
Arcata Community Forest Encampment faces eviction (day 1-12)
Summary...
Posted: Sat, Apr 5, 2008 4:13pm PDT
Plan Presented at Second Meeting to Save the Beach Flats Community Garden
The second public meeting to save the Beach Flats Community Garden took place on April 3rd. At the meeting, the gardeners put forward a plan for the garden to be managed by the gardeners. Reyna Ruiz of the Beach Flats Community Center said that the plan was something that she could work with and present to the Santa Cruz City Parks and Recreation as well as the Seaside Company which claims ownership over the land. The gardeners asked Brent, a supportive neighbor of the garden, to accompany Re...
Posted: Fri, Apr 4, 2008 8:06pm PDT
Save Rent Control; Join effort to defeat Prop 98 on Saturday
Save Rent Control...
Posted: Fri, Apr 4, 2008 7:53pm PDT
UCSF, AFSCME action March 3
AFSCME workers rallied in front of the UCSF medical center on March 3rd....
Posted: Fri, Apr 4, 2008 1:18pm PDT
Oaxaca Today: paz sin justicia (4/9)
On Wednesday, April 9th, at the Resource Center for Nonviolence at 7pm, filmmaker Simón Sedillo will lead a bilingual multi-media workshop / presentation that will include scene selections from three films, "El Enemigo Común" (2005), "El Machete" (2007) and "Paz Sin Justicia" (2008), in order to illustrate neoliberal atrocities and community based resistance to them in Oaxaca, Mexico....
Posted: Fri, Apr 4, 2008 12:46pm PDT
Aerial Spray Violates 23 Human Rights
Aerial Spray Program Imposed by CDFA May Violate Human Rights and Incur Liabilities
A detailed outline of 23 international human rights violations...
Posted: Fri, Apr 4, 2008 12:13am PDT
D.Q. Pow Wow and Community Meeting April 6, 2008 10am to 6pm
A REMINDER TO PLEASE ATTEND THE COMMUNITY MEETING AND POW WOW AT DQ AND A COPY OF LETTER SENT TO THE NCAI....
Posted: Thu, Apr 3, 2008 10:01pm PDT
The first San Francisco Public Hearing on the LBAM (light brown apple moth)
CALL TO ACTION: City Hall Public LBAM Hearing
Date/Time: April 7 at 10 AM
San Francisco City Hall, Second Floor
Direction and parking at SF City Hall can be found here -
http://www.sfgov.org/site/cityhall_index.asp?id=5244
Come to the first San Francisco City Public Hearing on the LBAM (light brown apple moth) and California's eradication plan. This is a meeting of the Board of Supervisor's Government Audit and Oversight Committee, which is considering two resolutions (Mirkarimi ...
Posted: Thu, Apr 3, 2008 2:47pm PDT
Save Rent Control & Tenant Protections Update: Get Involved!
Campaign contributions are lagging in the effort to save rent control, tenant protections, and so-called affordable housing! Supporters wanting to save rent control need to get involved now!...
Posted: Wed, Apr 2, 2008 11:54pm PDT
Cleaning, Weeding and Tilling in the Beach Flats
At the March 27th meeting to discuss the Beach Flats Community Garden, Reyna Ruiz of the Beach Flats Community Center passed out flyers encouraging people to "spend the day outside making the neighborhood beautiful" by participating in a Community Clean-Up (Día De Limpieza en La Comunidad) on March 29th. Some people lent a hand or two by picking up trash throughout the neighborhood and other folks gave their time to beautify the Beach Flats Community Garden. Everything was going really well u...
Posted: Tue, Apr 1, 2008 1:50am PDT