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Common Ground Collective co-founder Scott Crow has recently come under investigation by th Common Ground Collective co-founder Scott Crow has recently come under investigation by the FBI as well as the ATF. At around 8:00 am on Wednesday, April 5th, two FBI agents, one of whom identified himself as Evan Ray, came knocking on his door in Austin, TX, asking many questions....
Posted: Tue, Apr 18, 2006 8:29am PDT
Dafur Refugee and Top UN Envoy for Prevention of Genocide Discuss Crisis in Sudan We take a look at what the United Nations calls "one of the world's worst humanitarian crises" - Sudan's Western region of Darfur. We speak with Fatima Haroun, a Darfurian refugee, and Juan Mendez, the United Nation's Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide....
Posted: Tue, Apr 18, 2006 8:19am PDT
New York's Katrina: The Hidden and Mounting Toll of AIDS Hurricane Katrina was a natural disaster that covered New Orleans with water and forcefully uncovered that city's social conditions. Glaring examples of the horrible treatment meted out to the poor, mostly African American survivors have been staring us in the face for the past seven months. Daily, we read or hear about another event in the aftermath of the hurricane that tears to shreds the concept that we live in a "free and equal society." That the American Dream is a nightmare f...
Posted: Mon, Apr 17, 2006 6:44am PDT
The Big One and SF City Officials The Big One will come and that fact has been made very clear by many experts. Foremost the United States Geological Survey Agency. I have studied the maps for the last 15 years and what I see from the maps and very recent data makes the situation at hand very serious. As human beings we can take the precaution and wait. We cannot defeat Mother Nature - we saw that with the Tsunami and we saw it with the recent major Earthquakes. The pity is that we have inept City Officials in San Francisco t...
Posted: Sun, Apr 16, 2006 4:23pm PDT
UN Warns Chad Against Expelling Sudanese Refugees KHARTOUM, April16 , 2006 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - The United Nations on Saturday, April15 , warned Chad against kicking out thousands of Sudanese refugees from Darfur amid an escalating crisis between the two countries, saying that such action would violate international humanitarian law....
Posted: Sun, Apr 16, 2006 9:59am PDT
The New Creation of All Things Christ's end was his true beginning. If Christian hope is reduced to the deliverance of the soul in a heaven beyond death, then its life-renewing and world-changing power is lost.. The hope of Jews and Christians is also hope for the nations and hope for the earth and all its inhabitants....
Posted: Sun, Apr 16, 2006 6:44am PDT
An American oligarch: Former Exxon CEO leaves company with massive payout In the world of American corporate CEOs, there are those who make more than a million dollars a year. By the standards of the American ruling elite, such people are doing moderately well. Then there are people like Lee Raymond, former chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil. In comparison to the sums brought home by Raymond, a million dollars is mere pocket change....
Posted: Fri, Apr 14, 2006 11:40pm PDT
Congrats HUFF! The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down LA's sleeping ban! They are going to prevent its enforcement for as long as the homeless population exceeds the shelter beds. Cruel and unusual punishment was the grounds for striking it down. Inform yourself at the web link provided....
Posted: Fri, Apr 14, 2006 11:33pm PDT
San Francisco Public Utilities continues to waste tax payers money making poor choices San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) continues to make very poor choices and will poorer leadership under Susan Leal wastes millions of dollars most of it from the tax payers. Mayor Gavin Newsom continues to back Susan Leal and her cronies that surround her. Susan picks persons who favor life style rather then qualification. How can San Francisco continue to waste millions but more entrust our infrastructure in the hands of any inept and corrupt Susan Leal and her cronies. Our cl...
Posted: Fri, Apr 14, 2006 10:07pm PDT
"Bodies in the Rubble" Stop the Earthquake! We still don't have a retrofit!
Come protest with us @ "Bodies in the Rubble"...
Posted: Fri, Apr 14, 2006 11:30am PDT
The War on the Poor "War on the Poor" from Fault Lines, issue 15...
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 11:14pm PDT
A Guaranteed Minimum Income as a Constitutional Right A guaranteed minimum income could be seen as a constitutional right like the franchise and equal protection before the law. This 1986 essay shows us the human alternative to the dystopia of permanent war. I apologize for the translation errors. Perhaps the Bush team will apolo-gize for their errors of arrogance and overreach, myopia and ethno-centrism, trashing language, the social contract and international law....
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 4:48am PDT
San Francisco Study Confirms Increasing Inequality, Family Exodus San Francisco supervisors got a preview Tuesday of an issue they’ll undoubtedly grapple with for a long time: the city’s economic future....
Posted: Wed, Apr 12, 2006 7:25pm PDT
Redevelopment Agency Giving Millions of Dollars to 49er Stadium Swindle *Assist with the development of a new San Francisco 49ers football stadium and commercial project consistent with Propositions D and F that San Francisco voters approved on June 3, 1997.” This section was added to the Baview Redevelopment Plan as of March 27, 2006. The 49er Stadium Swindle will get all the public money this private profit gambling racket wants, courtesy the local election-frauding Democratic-Republican Parties....
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 6:36am PDT
New Orleans Residents and Evacuees Blast State of Schools, Housing, Jobs at Mayoral Forum The religious organization Jeremiah Group hosted a mayoral forum at the Trinity Episcopal Church in New Orleans on Saturday. At the event, a number of the city's residents and evacuees posed questions and expressed concerns about the direction of the city on issues ranging from schools to housing to jobs....
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2006 7:18am PDT
Historic African-American New Orleans Church Reopened After Weeks Of Protests Historic St. Augustine Parish in New Orleans was reopened and its church re-consecrated Saturday after weeks of protests and a rectory sit -in that lasted 19 days. St. Augustine, founded in 1841 by slaves and free people of color, is one of the nation's oldest black parishes....
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2006 7:17am PDT
ACORN turns up the heat on Money Mart On Friday, members of ACORN, Money Mart customers who have been ripped off, and allies from labor and other community groups protested at Money Mart stores in more than 30 cities across the U.S. and Canada, including in San Francisco where 40 members picketed in front of the Money Mart store at Seventh and Market Street....
Posted: Sat, Apr 8, 2006 10:39am PDT
Searching for weapons of mass destruction: Where is the Bayview blight? On Thursday, March 23, 2006, a brilliant blue day between spring storms, the buildings of Bayview Hunters Point shone white in the sun like the San Francisco neighborhoods I crossed getting there. “The Bayview has the warmest and sunniest weather of all San Francisco,” said Willie Ratcliff, San Francisco Bay View publisher, when he picked me up at Mission Bay for a tour of the neighborhood....
Posted: Sat, Apr 8, 2006 10:33am PDT
UN Appeals for Urgent Aid to Draught-hit E.Africa NAIROBI, April 7, 2006 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – The United Nations appealed Friday, April 7, for hundreds of millions of dollars in urgent aid to rescue million of lives threatened in draught-hit East Africa....
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 8:57pm PDT
Fight Over Doctors Ensues Between Chinese Community and Major Medical Group SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco’s Chinese doctors are being aggressively courted by a major health group, upsetting the small Chinese doctors group in Chinatown that serves a mostly Chinese population....
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 6:25am PDT
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