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Richmond: Building Healthy Communities Through Food: A Community Workshop EcoVillage Farm Learning Center
21 Laurel Lane, Richmond, CA 94803.
For directions: http://www.ecovillagefarm.org/directions.htm...
Event Date: Sat, Jul 15, 2006 9:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, Jun 23, 2006 4:18pm PDT
Supervisor implicated in Oakland Housing Authority corruption An investigation into corruption at the Oakland Housing Authority continues to shed light on OHA’s East District Office, which is accusing 34 families of wrongdoing and threatening to evict them from their homes at Lockwood Gardens, a Hope Vl project....
Posted: Fri, Jun 23, 2006 6:51am PDT
SF Supervisors, will you nail the Black community to Redevelopment’s cross again? They said it couldn’t be done, but in less than three weeks, more than 7,000 San Franciscans have signed the petition to stop the Redevelopment Agency from grabbing and “repeopling” Bayview Hunters Point. At that rate, we’ll have the needed 30,000 signatures (21,000 plus a cushion) well before the Aug. 21 deadline....
Posted: Fri, Jun 23, 2006 6:50am PDT
Health Care for All Californians Humanist Hall
390 27th Street
midtown Oakland, between Telegraph and Broadway, below Pill Hill
http://www.HumanistHall.net...
Event Date: Sun, Jul 16, 2006 1:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 9:42pm PDT
Fresno Homeless Attacked and Insulted by City Workers 
City of Fresno attacks on the homeless reached a new level today as a multi agency task force used new tactics in destroying their possessions. Photos, video, and story below....
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 1:48pm PDT
Mayor Gavin Newsom to pitch for Summer Olympics with EYE on Bayview The lying Mayor Gavin Newsom is going to pitch for San Francisco and our remote chance to get an opportunity to stage the Summer Olympics in San Francisco. He will get a little over 15 minutes and he will lie to his teeth and say things that are not true most of them White Lies - he does that all the time - so we will see. Do we need the the Summer Olympics in San Francisco? The answer is no. Are we prepared for bigger things like the Big One? The answer is no? Is the Mayor serving the consti...
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 9:32am PDT
Civic Center Hotel Resolution Goes Before Board The Land Use and Economic Development Committee considered a resolution Wednesday that urges the Civic Center Hotel’s owner, the U.A. Local 38 Pension Trust Fund, to seismically retrofit it for earthquake preparedness and bring it up to building code....
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 9:17am PDT
Spare the air means free public transportation Today All day today, Thursday, between 4am + 12 Midnight BART and all the public transportation porviders in the Bay Area are allowing their riders to ride for Free....
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 12:09am PDT
Get the Lead Out Legislation pending in Sacramento to cut the amount of lead children are exposed to in plumbing is facing a tough fight as industry lines up to kill it....
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 4:35pm PDT
Larry Badner SF Planning Administrator demands huge pay raise Dean Macris was brought in to replace Green who had dubious dealings as Director of SF Planning according to Gavin Newsom the lying Mayor of San Francisco. Now Dean Macris has fallen on his face and is planning to give Larry Badner the SF Planning Administrator who talks the talk but cannot walk the walk a huge raise - just in time and a few years before he retires. Good riddance of very bad rubbish but spare us the raise. Larry you must go!...
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 7:42am PDT
Update on Minimum Wage Law and Rent Ordinance The minimum wage implementation and enforcement ordinance on Tuesday’s agenda at the Board of Supervisor’s meeting was pushed back a week. The legislation seeks to enforce the minimum wage law that was passed in San Francisco in 2003. The ordinance would amend current law to require employers to pay an annual fee that would help fund the city in its effort to implement the new minimum wage standard. Although it is set at $8.50, thousands of workers haven’t benefited from the increase because ...
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 6:48am PDT
The Civic Center Hotel Tenants Go to the Board of Supervisors to Save Their Home Wednesday, June 21 @ 1pm at the Land Use Committee, room #263, Civic Center Hotel tenants, housing allies and concerned members of the community will show their support for the resolution to Save the Civic Center Hotel, preserve it as affordable housing and, bring the building up to code. The resolution calls for the U.A. Local 38 Pension Trust Fund to abandon its plans to demolish the hotel and do the necessary maintenance to bring the building into compliance with San Francisco Building and...
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 6:47am PDT
Now or never: Stand and fight for Bayview Hunters Point Thousands of signatures on the petition to save San Francisco’s Black heartland from a Redevelopment Agency land grab are pouring in, but to reach our goal of 30,000 valid signatures of voters registered in San Francisco, many more petitions need to be passing from hand to hand throughout the city....
Posted: Mon, Jun 19, 2006 12:16am PDT
San Francisco Health Officials Hear Concerns on Universal Access SAN FRANCISCO--Community members and faith leaders presented city officials with a set of charges for increasing access to health care, just before the city chooses its path toward “universal access.”...
Posted: Sat, Jun 17, 2006 9:45pm PDT
Senate Health Committee narrowly passes forced treatment extension bill AB 2357 
In a contentious hearing Wednesday, involuntary outpatient commitment extension bill AB 2357 (Karnette and Yee), which would extend the sunset date of AB 1421 ("Laura's Law"), was passed by the State Senate Health Committee with a vote of 5-3. The bill will be heard next in the Senate Appropriations Committee....
Posted: Sat, Jun 17, 2006 1:47am PDT
Investigation Of Oakland Housing Authority Underway Corruption At Oakland's Housing Authority Exposed...
Posted: Fri, Jun 16, 2006 12:31pm PDT
Now or never: Stand and fight for Bayview Hunters Point Ethnic cleansing is a less genteel word for gentrification. Prior mayors of San Francisco have successfully racially cleansed the Fillmore, renamed the Western Addition. They drove out Black people or coopted the opposition by signing treaties, much as did the white man and the American Indian. These mayors passed out script and money. Those that they could not hire, they gave script. This script was as worthless as confederate money....
Posted: Fri, Jun 16, 2006 6:49am PDT
Save The Civic Center Hotel! Support Our Resolution before the Board Our building still doesn't have the City-mandated seismic retrofit for Unreinforced Masonry Buildings. We have a resolution to be heard by the Land Use Committee of the SF Board of Supervisors. Come express your support....
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2006 2:53pm PDT
Crucial vote for drug safety next week! Take Action, send a letter to your rep! Consumers and doctors aren't getting the full story about the safety and effectiveness of pharmaceutical products. Please support this drug safety bill which would require that all health study data, for drugs sold in CA, be made available to the public. Right now we are NOT getting all of the information! People can not make informed decisions without all of the information!...
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2006 12:40pm PDT
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