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Urgent Action Needed. On Tuesday, April 19, safe cosmetics legislation (AB 908)
Hello! On Tuesday, April 19, safe cosmetics legislation (AB 908) in Sacramento will be up for its first and most difficult vote (which will be in the Assembly Health Committee)....
Posted: Tue, Apr 19, 2005 10:25am PDT
Disability Group Calls for Immediate Changes in Emergency Planning for People with Disabil
National Council on Disability Calls for Immediate Changes in Emergency Planning for People with Disabilities...
Posted: Sun, Apr 17, 2005 10:40am PDT
10 Reasons Why a Basic Income is Necessary Today
A basic income could heal our fragmented society caught in work fanaticism and work fetishism.. A basic income could change social attitudes and goals and give real meaning to the human rights to life and participation....
Posted: Sat, Apr 16, 2005 5:57pm PDT
Proposed Tenderloin Housing Clinic Cut Amounts to Attack on Renters, Immigrants
For the past twenty years, renters in San Francisco knew that if they faced wrongful eviction, they could turn to the Tenderloin Housing Clinic (THC) for free legal help. Yet now, Mayor Gavin Newsom wants to launch another salvo at low-income and working class people by cutting in half funding for this aid. Should this proposed cut become a reality, vulnerable tenants throughout San Francisco, including monolingual Spanish speakers, will suffer....
Posted: Fri, Apr 15, 2005 6:49am PDT
FIGHTING FOR PUBLIC TRANSIT IN CHICAGO
CHICAGO, April 13, 2005...
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 1:50am PDT
SF builder sexually mocks Mayor
Local SF conservative Joe O'Donoghue hassles Mayor Gavin Newsom for siding with queers....
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 10:22pm PDT
‘Don’t pick our pockets to line your own’: Nationwide Social Security actions hit Schwab i
CHICAGO — “Privatizing Social Security may be good business for Charles Schwab, but it’s a bad deal for working Americans,” Chicago Federation of Labor President Dennis Gannon told the multiracial and multigenerational crowd of 300 that overflowed the sidewalk in front of the giant investment firm’s office here. “The stock market is a gamble,” Gannon continued, “I’ve got a mother who is 83, a daughter who is 22 and I’m 52. Privatization puts us all in jeopardy.”...
Posted: Tue, Apr 12, 2005 2:50pm PDT
Stealing Our Low-Income Housing
HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson Is Making It Impossible For The Nation's Housing Authorities To Offer Public Housing!...
Posted: Mon, Apr 11, 2005 8:02pm PDT
4/10 7:30 a.m. Sunday Helicopters Terrorize Downtown SF
At 7:30 a.m., Sunday morning, April 10, 2005, loud, noisy helicopters hovered illegally low over the Union Square-Tenderloin-Nob Hill workingclass apartment area for about an hour, disturbing the peace and threatening lives. This must be stopped now....
Posted: Sun, Apr 10, 2005 9:09am PDT
Action Alert: Support Parking Fees and Fines to Fund Muni; Survey Reminder
As you probably know, the Municipal Transportation Agency Board
recently passed the MTA's 2006 budget that closed an approximately $55
million budget gap with a combination of fare increases, parking fees
and fines, and service cuts....
Posted: Wed, Apr 6, 2005 9:18pm PDT
Newsom/Alioto-Pier Condo-Conversion Plan Defeated
Tenants achieved a major victory today as the Board of Supervisors voted down legislation that would have allowed hundreds of owners of “tenancies in commons” (TIC’s) to convert their homes into condominiums. Despite massive mobilization amongst TIC owners and real estate speculators in support of the plan, the Newsom-backed legislation couldn’t overcome concerns that it could spark a new wave of evictions across the City....
Posted: Wed, Apr 6, 2005 5:49pm PDT
Newsom Slashes Funding for Ellis Act Eviction Defense
As Mayor Newsom pushes legislation to increase condo conversions and Ellis Act evictions, his Administration is also moving to deny legal representation to low-income tenants facing speculator evictions under Ellis. The Mayor’s Office has proposed a 40% cut in CDBG funding for the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, the legal organization providing nearly all of the free legal representation in San Francisco for those facing Ellis evictions. The Mayor appears to be retaliating against the Clinic’s vig...
Posted: Mon, Apr 4, 2005 10:45am PDT
Protest $40 million bonds, taxes for Shipyard homebuilding
Community press conference 3pm Tuesday, April 5, on City Hall steps...
Posted: Sun, Apr 3, 2005 10:08pm PDT
Rwanda People with Disabilities KPFA 94.1 FM Sunday 6:30PM
Sunday
April 3 at 6:30 PM on 94.1 FM or on the internet at
http://www.kpfa.org....
Posted: Sun, Apr 3, 2005 1:15pm PDT
Hijacking the Christian Faith
When a non-binding agreement was reached to help the more than one billion people who live on less than a dollar a day, Bush didn't sign it. It must have sounded like a bad deal for corporations, and we all know God is more interested in big business than in poor people....
Posted: Sun, Apr 3, 2005 7:24am PDT
4/5 SF Bd of Supes Votes on Anti-Rent Control Condo Conversion
On April 5, 2005 at 10 a.m. (note early start), the Board of Supervisors will vote on an anti-rent control condominium conversion measure, Item 10 on the agenda, proposed by 3 good Democrats, Michela Alioto-Pier, Bevan Dufty and Sean Elsbernd. We need your phone calls & Emails opposing this now....
Posted: Sat, Apr 2, 2005 3:35am PST
America's Homeless Experiencing Longest Period of Recession
America's Homeless...
Posted: Sat, Apr 2, 2005 2:04am PST
Price indexing and Social Security A time bomb
Private accounts have been the center of controversy in the Social Security debate, but the hidden time bomb is Bush’s proposal to change the way retirees’ starting benefits are determined. “Price indexing” is really a cumulative benefit reduction plan which would spell the death of Social Security....
Posted: Fri, Apr 1, 2005 9:17am PST
Tenants Clash with Homeowners Over New Condo Conversion Legislation
group of tenant advocates rallied on the steps of City Hall yesterday to oppose new legislation that would allow hundreds of owners of “tenancies in commons” (TIC’s) to convert their homes into condominiums....
Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2005 9:17am PST
3/31 in Fresno:
Press Conference Advisory: Local Leaders Support Affordable Health Care
Press Conference Advisory: Local Leaders Support Affordable Health Care for All Patients...
Posted: Wed, Mar 30, 2005 9:07pm PST