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On June 12th, teaching assistants and other members of UAW Local 2865 held a grade-in at the Baytree Plaza at UC Santa Cruz as part of a statewide action to highlight our demand for better protections against excessive workload. The action was successful and turned out over a thousand TA’s, readers, and tutors across seven UC campuses. The willingness of Local 2865 to take action around important issues is a vital part of negotiations. In the bargaining session that took place June 18th a...

Tuesday, July 10, 2007 : Yesterday, the Board of Supervisors’ Land Use Committee heard emotional testimony about dust and asbestos at the Hunters Point Shipyard, where the Lennar Corporation – under contract with the Redevelopment Agency – has excavated rock to build a massive condo complex. Health Department representatives were on hand to assure that, despite an admitted 3-month gap in monitoring, an excess in asbestos levels and Lennar’s non-compliance with dust abatement, the exposure was...

You may have heard of our new project, "The Renaissance Garden Project" from the media and word of mouth. The Garden Project started when U.C.S.C. students responded to a call for help that Renaissance High School (R.H.S.) students sent out about the lack of nutrition they were receiving at school; students felt unhealthy....

3400 Cesar Chavez St, corner at Mission St. (Old Kelly-Morre site)...

New information on the bankruptcy, negligent deaths, and possible closures of Pleasant Care nursing homes, specifically Santa Cruz Pleasant Care....

Both Diane Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi are as fake as the two inch make up they wear and have no idea what is happening in their own back yard here in San Francisco. Daily, Lennar BVHP is bombarding the community and especially the children with toxic particulates and breaking every law and protocol that mandates the curbing of pollution. Lennar, has with intent adversely impacted thousands and continues to defy logic, and breaks every law, rule and protocol....

Mayor Gavin Newsom started his ploys up at Hunters Point in the projects by fixing some basket ball courts and planting some flowers. Now, if you visit the sites the flowers and dead the basket ball courts not maintained and dirty. Mayor Gavin Newsom - is as fake as the make them - a scum bag that chose to put ethics and morals in the waste basket and choose lies, fake projects , and sell outs to make deals and deceive mostly poor people that cannot defend themselves....

Tuesday, July 3, 2007 : Fabian Nunez’s ascension to Speaker of the California Assembly was seen as a landmark achievement for the state’s Latino-labor alliance, and for progressive interests. But with his three-terms in the Assembly ending in 2008, Nunez has apparently decided to sacrifice his longstanding commitment to progressive principles in order to help passage of a February 2008 ballot initiative that would give him three additional terms....

San Francisco the City that knows how does not have a sitting Epidemiologist. Now, how could that happen with the current increase of AIDS and other such diseases. The bombardment of Asbestos Dust and other toxic dust in and around Parcel A - with the SF Health Department looking the other way. The SF Health Department with a $1 Billion dollar budget and growing is a disgrace to the human race. Some one must take responsibility - but before that Dr. Mitch Katz must go - he must resign....

Monday, July 2, 2007 : When Chris Daly tried to take $37 million out of the Mayor’s Budget, Gavin Newsom reacted as if Daly had attacked his manhood. He brought his entire re-election campaign to the steps of City Hall , accusing the District 6 Supervisor of cutting vital services....