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ATTN: Save Tassafaronga Village Public Housing Complex! Stop The Privitization Of Oakland's Pubilc Housing Complexes!...
Posted: Sat, Sep 8, 2007 5:20pm PDT
Perata and Migden Join To Stop Leno Bills Friday, September 7, 2007 : "I am disappointed by Mark Leno's challenge of a fellow Democrat with Carole's experience, accomplishments and skill,'' said Perata, who warned that all 25 Senate Democrats "will vigorously defend Sen. Migden. To get her, Mark must come over us.'' Senate Leader Don Perata, March 17, 2007 San Francisco Assemblyman Mark Leno is used to facing opposition from corporate and other special interests opposed to his progressive bills....
Posted: Fri, Sep 7, 2007 7:54am PDT
RNs at Nine Catholic Healthcare West Hospitals Reach Agreement on New Master Pact Wednesday, September 5, 2007 : 3,500 Nurses Fight Healthcare Takeaways, Win Better Patient Safety Protections and Pay10,000 CHW RNs in 25 Facilities Set to Bargain Together in 2009 Some 3,500 registered nurses at nine Southern California and Central Coast facilities in the Catholic Healthcare West chain won sweeping improvements in a major contract settlement, the California Nurses Association announced today....
Posted: Thu, Sep 6, 2007 7:49am PDT
Closing the Pesticide Loophole Originally From New America Media
Monday, September 3, 2007 : While landowners have always been required to take blood samples from employees who work around pesticides in California, a loophole in the law did not require them to send the results to state agencies. A class-action lawsuit in a small all-Mexican community has spurred legislation to close that loophole reports NAM contributor Lizeth Cazares....
Posted: Tue, Sep 4, 2007 7:15am PDT
Media Deserves Blame for Homelessness Tuesday, September 4, 2007 : While the traditional media’s role in promoting the Iraq War has become conventional wisdom, military invasions are not the only place where press coverage sells the public a false story. Consider homelessness. For two decades, the media has offered the public a “framing” of homelessness that focuses on problem individual behavior, rather than on the massive federal funding cuts that saw widespread visible homelessness remerge in 1982 after being nonexistent for o...
Posted: Tue, Sep 4, 2007 6:41am PDT
Bill Sorro – Presente!: Beloved I-Hotel, Labor and Asian American Community Leader Passes On Tuesday, September 4, 2007 : One of San Francisco’s most beloved community leaders Bill Sorro passed away on August 27th. Bill was a fierce activist in many labor, social justice, housing rights, and neighborhood struggles for many decades but is best known as a leader in the struggle to save and rebuild SF’s International Hotel (‘I-Hotel.') He was one of the warmest and most positive people I have ever met, who worked tirelessly nurturing younger activists like me and generations of others i...
Posted: Tue, Sep 4, 2007 6:41am PDT
Samoans living in Public Housing both at Hunters Point and Sunnydale Samoans living in Public Housing in San Francisco, California, both at Hunters Point by Kiska Road, Middle Point and so on and Sunnydale by Visitation have been adversely affected by design by Mayor Gavin Newsom and his cronies. Samoans over the years have contributed a lot to San Francisco and continue to do so today. Some years ago some us formed the All Islanders Gathering As One (AIGA1) to evaluate the adverse impacts and today we are still perplexed by the action of the City and County o...
Posted: Mon, Sep 3, 2007 2:27pm PDT
Newsom Jabs Hope VI, As Oakland Embraces Hope VI Recently San Francisco's Mayor Gavin Newsom took the wealthy on a tour of San Francisco's much needed public housing complexes in an effort to privatize and gentrify them. But, in a moment of brutal honesty Newsom and SFHA Director Gregg Fortner took a jab at HUD and the Hope VI program which ends up costing cities millions in lost housing funds to play the Hope VI demolition game, with no guarentees that a city will receive a Hope VI grant after demolishing their public housing units!...
Posted: Sun, Sep 2, 2007 7:30am PDT
Protest Picket Against Punitive Privilege Resumes at Bookshop Santacruz Sunday 9-2 2 PM Activists will resume their picket of Vice-Mayor Coonerty, hiding in his Bookshop Santa Cruz. Coonerty refuses to explain how and why the city police continue to arrest homeless people for sleeping when such behavior has been outlawed by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Also under investigation: Mayor Reilly's refusal to meet with homeless sleepers and Councilmember (and ACLU Board of Directors member) Rotkin's calling the cops to block a signbearer from going in to the ACLU meeting last ...
Posted: Sat, Sep 1, 2007 6:59pm PDT
Sutter Novato RNs Eighth Sutter Hospital to Vote to Authorize Strike Thursday, August 30, 2007 : No movement in key issues--safe staffing provisions, health plan reductions--at all 10 Northern Ca. HospitalsRegistered nurses at Sutter Novato Community Hospital overwhelmingly voted throughout Monday to authorize their RN negotiating teams to call a strike if an agreement with the giant Sutter Health chain is not reached, the California Nurses Association/ National Nurses Organizing Committee announced today....
Posted: Fri, Aug 31, 2007 6:52am PDT
Fremont-Rideout One-Day RN Strike Friday - Hospital hires costly replacements, tells RNs not to return to work until Tuesday 11:00 am rally at Fremont Medical Center, picket lines at four locations:
RN Picket Lines:
6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Friday Aug. 31
* Fremont Medical Center
970 Plumas Street, Yuba City, CA 95991
* Rideout Memorial Hospital
726 4th Street, Marysville, CA 95901
6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Friday Aug. 31
* Fremont Rideout Cancer Center
618 5th Street, Marysville, CA 95901
* Feather River Surgery Center
370 Del Norte #101,Yuba City, CA 9599...
Event Date: Fri, Aug 31, 2007 11:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, Aug 31, 2007 6:47am PDT
Judge Keeps Prop H on the Ballot Friday, August 31, 2007 : Yesterday’s court hearing on Proposition H reminded me why voters are so cynical of our judicial system. In recent years, judges at the San Francisco Superior Court disqualified two citizen-led ballot measures – the Anti-Demolition Ordinance and the Bayview Referendum – on dubious technical grounds. But with Prop H, Judge Peter Busch upheld Don Fisher’s Downtown Parking Initiative despite false statements of fact in the petition language, and actual declarations by c...
Posted: Fri, Aug 31, 2007 6:45am PDT
Toxic Babies, Photographs by Alex Darocy 
Photographs from Alex Darocy's new series 'Toxic Babies' will be at Caffe Pergolesi in the Blue Room for September. 'Toxic Babies' is about the recurring theme of convenience in American child rearing....
Posted: Fri, Aug 31, 2007 3:31am PDT
Coastal Access Denied to Motorhomes and Trailers in Santa Cruz Ranger John Wallace, six police officers and four squad cars showed up Wednesday August 29, 2007 at noon at a public parking lot designated as LOT A on West Cliff Drive, north of the Lighthouse and Steamer Lane to harass and ticket a 60 year old woman and her companion, critically ill with AIDS. New signs were posted during the night denying motorhomes and trailers access to the parking lot during day hours. He cited municipal code 13.04.010MC given by the ranger states "Limitations on publ...
Posted: Thu, Aug 30, 2007 5:26pm PDT
Lennar BVHP LLC the nearby Public Housing Projects and Mayor Gavin Newsom The Federal Government should be very cautious of the plans - Mayor Gavin Newsom has for Federal Property and more for poor people that he does not bother to included in any discussion. Mayor Gavin Newsom has failed to garner Hope VI funds, linked to Public Housing - thinks he can bring some PUNK rick folks and tell them all of Bayview Hunters Point consists of very poor people. And that is not so. Again, he has made a FOOL of himself....
Posted: Thu, Aug 30, 2007 6:37am PDT
SF Mayors Miss New York City’s Main Lesson Wednesday, August 29, 2007 : After traveling to New York City earlier this year, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom began promoting a local version of the “Community Court” he had observed in Brooklyn. Newsom’s attempt to apply NYC programs to SF is part of a long tradition. In the 1980’s, San Francisco underwent a high-rise development boom known as “Manhattanization.” In the 1990’s, Mayor Frank Jordan sought to replicate Rudy Giuliani’s criminalization of homelessness through his “Matrix” pro...
Posted: Wed, Aug 29, 2007 8:34am PDT
Fremont-Rideout to Lock out RNs, One-day strike is set for August 31 - RNs Condemn Role of U.S. Nursing Corporation Tuesday, August 28, 2007 : Registered nurses at Fremont-Rideout Health Group today sharply criticized the decision of hospital officials to use professional strikebreakers and threats to lock out the RNs for several days following a one-day strike Friday – at a cost of far more than it would take to settle the current contract dispute....
Posted: Tue, Aug 28, 2007 4:43pm PDT
Tonight! Screening "Giuliani Time" to benefit POOR Magazine Come to El Rio Tonight 8pm to see the new chilling documentary "Giuliani Time" and support the work of POOR Magazine!...
Posted: Tue, Aug 28, 2007 4:40pm PDT
Lennar BVHP LLC and the spiraling homes sales bites Lennar Corporation in the butt Lennar Corporation has sent a message about distrust in the Real Estate business here in San Francisco and Nation wide. This message combined with the spiraling homes sales have forced many to think hard when it comes to buying any real estate. It is for this reason - I subjectively favor smaller developers - that give quality attention to customers and a follow up that is homely and condusive to long lasting relationships. With Lennar Corporation all you hear is horror stories....
Posted: Tue, Aug 28, 2007 7:44am PDT
Schwarzenegger Twists the Knife and Pours Salt in the Wound Tuesday, August 28, 2007 : As if the state budget process wasn’t brutal enough, Arnold Schwarzenegger used the “blue pencil” last week to make even further cuts in social programs – to the tune of $700 million. After the legislature went along with cuts in public transportation and drug treatment, Arnold took another $55 million out of mental health treatment for the homeless – effectively castrating state law....
Posted: Tue, Aug 28, 2007 7:26am PDT
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