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Community activists, most of them connected with the National Action Network, helped the homeless clean up their encampment today. This clean up, which treated the homeless with dignity and respect, was in sharp contrast with recent attacks on this encampment carried out by the Fresno Police Department....

The Central City SRO (Single Rent Occupancy) Collaborative recently celebrated its fifth year anniversary. Located in the Tenderloin, the organization has been organizing SRO tenants in San Francisco’s central city neighborhoods in order than they can better utilize the affordable housing options available to them. SRO organizers, supporters and tenants celebrated with a jazz band, a display of photographs by tenant rep Mark Ellinger depicting local streetscapes and neighborhoods, and a showi...

The South Bayshore Plan has always included Executive Park as part of its detail plan. A Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) was formed by the developer that first purchased the land by Bayview Hill in the 1970s. SF City Planning has been pussyfooting with the plan and using the District 10 Supervisor and her side-kick aide Greg Assay to cause disunity in the community. Now suddenly the Executive Park developers are mandated to pay for facilties, and other benefits in far away and across the ra...

The Health and Safety of any City comes first but not in the City and County of San Francisco. The Crime and Violence has increased more from internal turmoil and even less from leadership of certain City Departments. Mayor Gavin Newsom continues to play to Spin and Media and has only his fake ego to blame as fake as that hair that he thinks takes him places. We cannot bring the Summer Olympics in 2016 - less call ourselves a Great City with the mess we have on our hands...

a recent w.nile victim tells his story to help shed light on this much-hyped mysterious disease....

Por El Amor A Nuestros Hijos Alto A La Violencia! Marcha y Reunion Contra La Violencia...

Last week workers in San Francisco won a major victory through the passage of Tom Ammiano’s universal health security ordinance. The ordinance, which guaranteed coverage for the uninsured residents of the city, affirmed the mayor and Board of Supervisors’ support for the labor community....

The impact of the heat wave currently grilling California, following on from the energy crisis of 2000-2001 and the collapse of the power grid in the US Northeast in August 2003, demonstrates once again the necessity for the socialization and democratic control of essential services such as electricity supply. As demand for electricity soars across the state, basic infrastructure is already breaking down due to lack of investment, maintenance and development. Entire communities have been depr...

Location: Berkeley Housing Authority Meeting 5:45 pm- 2nd Floor at Berkeley's Old City Hall, at 2134 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way., in Berkeley....

young, homeless musician enters the world of health care and paperwork in an attempt to solve a painful dilemma. David Simms is a writer for Roaddawgz, a multimedia drop-in space for young homeless, traveling writers and artists and a PNS project. Work created by homeless youth is published weekly on www.roaddawgz.org and periodically in zines, magazines and other publications. Contact roaddawgz@pacificnews.org....