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Compassion & Choices: In Thought and Action May 2007 Terminally Ill Californians Call for an End to Violent Deaths...
Posted: Thu, May 17, 2007 4:04pm PDT
REMAINS and REBIRTH: An Evening Around Katrina - May 27, 28 
Join media activist Walidah Imarisha and Orleans-based organizer Suncere Shakur for a screening and presentation on the continuing aftermath of Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, and the rebuilding and rebirthing that is going on from the ground up. Two Bay Area events are planned: 5/27 in San Francisco and 5/28 in Santa Cruz; details and full tour schedule below. Watch a 7 minute version of the film here....
Posted: Thu, May 17, 2007 8:46am PDT
The City of Fresno Votes to Install Portable Toilets for the Homeless 
The Fresno City Council passed a motion today to force the city manager’s office to place portable toilets and trash bins near a downtown homeless encampment....
Posted: Tue, May 15, 2007 8:31pm PDT
Grassroots, Labor demand Single-Payer, Universal Healthcare in CA "Host Howard Vicini discusses the growing grassroots demand for a Single-Payer system of Universal Healthcare in California with Michael Lyon of the San Francisco Gray Panthers."...
Posted: Tue, May 15, 2007 7:53am PDT
Activists and City Leaders Rally for the Next Generation In an October 2005 survey prepared by the Public Research Institute at San Francisco State University, nearly half of the families with preschool aged children interviewed stated their intent to move out of San Francisco within three years. The three major issues of concern were (a) lack of affordable housing, (b) concern over public safety and (c) the state of the public education system....
Posted: Mon, May 14, 2007 6:32am PDT
SF Requires Zoning Changes to Meet Family Needs A high-profile campaign by Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth has made San Francisco’s lack of affordable family housing a front-burner issue. The Board of Supervisors recently allocated between $10-20 million for family housing, and Coleman and other groups are pushing for 3000 affordable family units to be constructed by 2011....
Posted: Mon, May 14, 2007 6:29am PDT
New Board Members For Troubled Berkeley Housing Authority Mayor Tom Bates Appoints New Board Members For The Berkeley Housing Authority. Oddly, 2 Board Members Were Reappointed, After Firing Themselves From The Troubled Agency In Recent Months!...
Posted: Mon, May 14, 2007 4:26am PDT
NICHOLS: More lies from Livermore nuclear weapons lab 
"A group of citizens of the Bay Area are seeking a lawyer to take legal action to stop the open air explosions set off by Livermore Lab in Tracy, California......
Posted: Sat, May 12, 2007 1:19pm PDT
Forced hospice forced for profit hospice Our relative was forced to receive for profit hospice in Monterey County, CA. She did not ask for hospice. We are opposed to forced hospice of the elderly or anyone and opposed to for profit hospice. Hospice should be voluntary and a family decision....
Posted: Fri, May 11, 2007 3:17pm PDT
ATTN:Berkeley Landlords Collect Rent On The Deceased In Berkeley, Landlords Have Been Charging High Rents To The Deceased!...
Posted: Fri, May 11, 2007 3:18am PDT
Public Housing Tenants Need Repairs, Not Promises Mayor Gavin Newsom has made repeated statements this year about his “intense commitment” to improve the city’s public housing. Recognizing that there are serious problems with crime, health and safety, and general living conditions in the over 6,000 units run by the San Francisco Housing Authority, the Mayor has announced numerous steps he intends to take towards addressing the issues....
Posted: Thu, May 10, 2007 7:53am PDT
MUNI 15 Bus should be restored its rights to serve the people - now. Bring Back the MUNI 15 bus to serve the people as it has done all these many years. The T-Third Light rail is a mess with long waits - some for over one hour. The performance is getting worse every single day. What has Mr. Nathaniel Ford and Mayor Gavin Newsom to say about this fiasco?...
Posted: Wed, May 9, 2007 6:11am PDT
Can San Francisco Make Low-Income Neighborhoods Desirable? San Francisco progressives have spent decades in a multi-front battle against gentrification. The struggle to prevent the displacement of low-income working people from the city has led to rent controls and eviction protections, zoning restrictions, highrise limitations, inclusionary housing, and a constant push for truly affordable housing. But stopping gentrification alone does not make low-income neighborhoods desirable, or even livable. In San Francisco, neighborhoods that have defeated g...
Posted: Tue, May 8, 2007 9:32am PDT
Petition to Save the Flea Market in Santa Cruz! 
We, the undersigned, urge the County of Santa Cruz to save the flea market! The market provides vital economic functions (like livelihoods; stimulation of the local economy; attracting out-of-area tourists and shoppers; affordable and unique goods; testing ground for new micro-enterprise; etc.), environmental services (such as re-use of goods, many of which would otherwise find their way to landfills), and social purposes (like buyer-seller interaction, meeting people, adventure shopping and ...
Posted: Mon, May 7, 2007 7:34pm PDT
Court Hearing Today on Bayview Redevelopment Referendum A San Francisco Superior Court Judge could decide as early as today whether San Francisco voters can overturn the creation of a Bayview-Hunters Point Redevelopment Area. City Attorney Dennis Herrera removed the Bayview Redevelopment referendum from the ballot last year on the grounds that the petitions failed to include all of the documents “incorporated by reference” into the Redevelopment Plan. The lawsuit argues that such an interpretation would require the circulation of “phone-book” size...
Posted: Mon, May 7, 2007 7:19am PDT
Two Meals a Week Cut for Santa Cruz Homeless 
Suppose you could only eat one meal a day that had any nutritious value? And then suppose that in a round of budget cuts (that don't affect police, fire, or Parks and Rec Rangers) your meals were cut to FIVE days a week instead? No need to imagine such a scenario. The Homeless Services Center in Santa Cruz has done just that. And more....
Posted: Sat, May 5, 2007 9:00am PDT
West Oakland: 53 liquor stores, 0 grocery stores, detour commuters, & street art activism 
Posters that sarcastically read, "Welcome Thru West Oakland -- Enjoy Our 53 Liquor Stores," appeared along West Grand Avenue shortly after Eastbound 580 and 24 traffic was re-routed through West Oakland this week. While street art in its many forms often stirs controversy, especially amongst those who prefer their surroundings tidy, it is very often the voice of the disenfranchised struggling to make themselves and the concerns of their community be heard. West Oakland is not a tidy bedroom...
Posted: Fri, May 4, 2007 1:56am PDT
Realtors Lie About Don Perata to Defeat Ellis Act Reform As the State Senate plans to vote next week on SB 464 to prevent real estate speculators from abusing the Ellis Act, the San Francisco Association of Realtors recently sent a mass e-mail to its members stressing the need to “aggressively oppose any change” to the Ellis Act whatsoever. The Realtors also claimed in the same e-mail that State Senate President Don Perata had “convened a meeting” with other legislators about SB 464 and was leading a “tag team” with Senator Sheila Kuehl (the bill’s...
Posted: Thu, May 3, 2007 7:50am PDT
Sacramento Personalized Recovery Orientated Services COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR INDIVIDUALS RECOVERING FROM THE DISABLING EFFECTS OF MENTAL ILLNESS...
Posted: Wed, May 2, 2007 9:43pm PDT
Keep Newsom’s Free Muni Discussion Moving As Matt Gonzalez once argued, when it comes to Gavin Newsom, we should fight him when he is wrong and support him when he is right. And finally, Newsom’s talk about free Muni is on the right track....
Posted: Tue, May 1, 2007 7:56am PDT
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