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New database on money and politics MAPLight.org launches today! (11/17/2006)....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 11:45pm PDT
URGENT NEWS ADVISORY: LET FORREST HILL DEBATE! 
Protest Forrest's exclusion from SF Debates!
Dr. Forrest Hill has called a press conference for tomorrow (Wednesday October 18, 2006) at 1 pm to protest his exclusion from the San Francisco Chronicle's debate. Dr. Hill has asked that everyone let the media know that it is no longer acceptable to discriminate against third party candidates.
People living in the Bay Area plan to go to KPIX-TV to 855 Battery St. in downtown San Francisco at 1 pm tomorrow, October 18th, to carry signs and...
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:05pm PDT
California Governor in Trouble With Latinos A new poll of California Latinos shows a deep dislike of Governor Schwarzenegger. In this poll of 600 Spanish-dominant likely voters, the governor has higher disapproval ratings than President Bush, and is losing to his opponent Phil Angelides by 64 percent to 21 percent. Spanish-dominant Latino voters make up about 10 percent of the California electorate, with all Latinos now representing about 18 percent of the electorate as a whole....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 5:48pm PDT
KPFA Elections Debate Issue #2 - Program Director or Not What should be the appropriate program management structure for a listener-sponsored public radio station?...
Posted: Mon, Oct 16, 2006 4:45pm PDT
DPA Wins Fight on Medical Marijuana Expenses in California The decision, written on behalf of the California Department of Health and Human Services (DHS), made clear that DHS policy is to permit reimbursement of medical marijuana claims for patients who receive public assistance from that agency....
Posted: Sun, Oct 15, 2006 11:13pm PDT
The old regime's legacy at KPFA The slow motion takeover of KPFA began in 1992 and reached its climax in 1999. During those years, the highjackers recruited assistants, trained proteges and created a culture which permeates the station to this day. It's the background of today's ongoing struggle at KPFA's Local Station Board (LSB)....
Posted: Sun, Oct 15, 2006 6:19am PDT
Bay Area's "Best of Veg 2006" - Vote Now! 
Survey Highlights Great Vegetarian Dining in the San Francisco Bay Area
Bay Area Vegetarians' surveys community to find outstanding vegetarian dining opportunities in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area. Supporters may vote through November 15th for their favorite Bay Area restaurants, and also be eligible to win prizes....
Posted: Sat, Oct 14, 2006 3:10pm PDT
Abortion may be legal in California -- but that doesn't mean you can actually get one. ....The number of abortion providers has been declining nationwide. The Alan Guttmacher Institute, the foremost clearinghouse for abortion information in the country, found that more than half of the US hospitals that provided abortions in 1982 had stopped by 2000. The institute also documented an 11 percent decrease in the number of abortion providers in the United States between 1996 and 2000. In California the decline was even greater: a 19 percent drop during the same period. Today, 41 pe...
Posted: Sat, Oct 14, 2006 10:48am PDT
No On 85: Beyond the Issue of Choice Here in San Francisco, fear about the local success of a ballot measure which attacks a woman’s right to choose is low: San Francisco has long been a haven for pro-choice supporters. However, Proposition 85 has a fundamental flaw which overrides an individual’s position on abortion, and everyone should be talking about it. Proposition 85 only affects those citizens who coincidentally are the only citizens with cannot directly impact the vote’s outcome: those under 18 years of age. The voice o...
Posted: Sat, Oct 14, 2006 10:46am PDT
Attorney General Backs Tenants Against Anti-SLAPP Chicanery In a legal case with significant implications for San Francisco tenants, Attorney General has filed an amicus brief in favor of tenants fighting Ellis Act evictions at Lincoln Place in Los Angeles. The brief addresses a major issue that has been proceeding under the radar screen in San Francisco: landlords attempting to use the state Anti-SLAPP statute to deny tenants the right to contest Ellis Act evictions. The law against “strategic lawsuits against public participation” was designed to pr...
Posted: Sat, Oct 14, 2006 10:43am PDT
ASA CA Weekly Alert 1) ASA Regional Town Halls, Ed Rosenthal Re-indicted, and San Diego Update
9) Thursday, October 19th, San Francisco: HopeNet Planning Commission
Hearing
10) Thursday, October 25th, San Francisco: The Green Cross Appeals Hearing...
Posted: Fri, Oct 13, 2006 8:14pm PDT
Schwarzenegger Caught in Another Lie In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle on Wednesday,
Schwarzenegger lied about breaking his campaign promise to rid
Sacramento of special interests...
Posted: Thu, Oct 12, 2006 8:34pm PDT
Alexander Declares War Against Liberty Quarry Today Stewart Alexander, Candidate for California Lieutenant Governor, is recruiting Californians statewide to stop the plans to open one of the largest open surface mines in the United States. Alexander says this is a war to stop Granite Construction and Liberty Quarry, to save lives, to protect our environment and our future....
Posted: Wed, Oct 11, 2006 7:33pm PDT
New Guide to Domestic Workers' Rights in California Published Online With this online
advocates guide Mujeres Unidas y Activas and the Womens Collective of La
Raza Centro Legal will ensure that more advocates and domestic workers
around the state know and defend their rights....
Posted: Wed, Oct 11, 2006 2:49pm PDT
Should Progressives Support Proposition 88? As California continues to be the 43rd state in the nation in education spending (due to Prop 13 and Arnold Schwarzenegger), some education advocates have placed Proposition 88 on the November ballot to address this problem. Funded by Netflix founder Reed Hastings and venture capitalist John Doerr, the $50 parcel tax would raise $470 million a year to fund the state’s public schools. Locally, Prop 88 has the support of the San Francisco Bay Guardian – whose endorsement carries enormous weight...
Posted: Wed, Oct 11, 2006 6:48am PDT
Peter Camejo: Vote Green and Send a Message 
Peter Camejo:
"This race is over. Phil Angelides cannot overcome the huge lead of the incumbent governor. People will waste their vote if they vote for Phil now. Instead, voters should send a clear message, by voting Green, that they want the rich to pay their fair share of taxes, that they want a clean environment and they want us out of Iraq now."...
Posted: Tue, Oct 10, 2006 7:07am PDT
KPFA will air the Black Panther Party Reunion Interim Manager Lemlem Rijio wrote the editors of the SF Bay View to say that she was open to it all along and that KPFA will offer a live broadcast of this historic event....
Posted: Mon, Oct 9, 2006 9:16pm PDT
Women's Magazine on KPFA today Today, October 9 th at 1pm , The Women’s Magazone on KPFA radio 94.1 FM
will be discussing the recently published book “ The Color of
Violence: The INCITE! Anthology”...
Posted: Mon, Oct 9, 2006 10:56am PDT
Tell Fish and Game: No Lead Ammo in Condor Habitat! The California Fish and Game Commission is meeting this Wednesday, October 11 to review state game hunting regulations, and now is the time to tell it to protect one of the world’s most endangered species. Please help us send a strong message to finally end the use of lead ammunition in the range of the critically endangered California Condor!...
Posted: Mon, Oct 9, 2006 10:05am PDT
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