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City Attorney Dennis Herrera made a bold move, so he thought, when he zeroed in on the Oakdale Housing Project and some youth and imposed on them an Injunction. This is blatant discrimination and the parties involved in this crime - will one day pay for their sins. Including in this dubious plan to depopulate Oakdale Housing Project and the surrounding area by some corrupt officers of the San Francisco Police Department. I know Chief, Heather Fong and she knows that I am not one to open my mo...

Monday, August 27, 2007 : If you saw the movie “Sicko,” you know what patient dumping is all about. When a hospital discharges a homeless patient, they will drop them off at a local shelter – or on Skid Row in Los Angeles – without any guarantee that the patient will get the necessary help to make it through the night. Many patients, though deemed fit to leave the hospital, suffer from dementia – so the streets are the last place they should be....

Beginning at 12 noon at the San Jose Municipal Stadium, we will: -Remember the over 1800 who died in Hurricane Katrina -Highlight the struggles of Katrina survivors in our own communities and the nation -Highlight the lack of rebuilding -Promote federal action to create a Gulf Coast Civic Works Project, which would create 100,000 public works jobs for the people of the Gulf Coast to rebuild their own communities....

Becky Johnson sends Vice-Mayor Ryan Coonerty an e-mail accusing him of adopted bigoted policies such as those espoused by a Sentinel hateletter writer. Coonerty promptly responds to Johnson's inquiring letter by banning her and Bernard Klitzner, HUFF activists, from his sister's Bookshop Santa Cruz. Johnson analyzes Coonerty's response....

Wednesday, August 22, 2007 : More than 700 CNA/NNOC members rallied last year in Oakland, Calif., to protest a pending NLRB ruling that re-classified hundreds of thousands of nurses as "supervisors." In one of the largest-ever organizing agreements for registered nurses, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) announced this week a national pact with Tenet Healthcare Corp....

Dr. Quint, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics - Emeritus, University of California - SF and member of the California Physicians Alliance, has been a frequent research visitor to Cuba since 1978. He articulated in a slide show presentation a detailed historical analysis of the evolution of the Cuban system from the revolution in the late 50's until today....

Perhaps bringing perspective on it all and praising the new Humane Ordinance was Homeless Garden Project Board Member, Mark Primack, stating, “Moderation and the hard work of coalition building are true activism, things that Argue and Norse know nothing about.”...

Tuesday, August 21, 2007 : Two weeks ago, Randy Shaw predicted that one lasting impact of this year's budget fight in Sacramento is that it would convince Schwarzenegger to support nixing the supermajority vote requirement to pass the state budget....

This is an updated version of an earlier article about the death of Pamela Kincaid. She died earlier this month under suspicious circumstances. Pam was the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit against the City of Fresno to stop them from taking and immediately destroying homeless peoples property....

A 3 AM raid by 8-10 police officers, with a follow-up by half a dozen an hour and a half later dispersed many of the homeless people sleeping at City Hall. At least four received citations for "illegal sleeping" even though the officers had no legal place for their victims to go--in the teeth of the Los Angeles Jones decision banning nighttime ticketing of sleepers and campers there. Some of those ticketed and some of the activists announced a meeting today 2 PM at the Firefly Cafe at 131 F...