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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
Alameda County hospitals, clinics pass Medicare, Medi-Cal muster after year under microsco Medical center in clear for fed funds
County hospitals, clinics pass Medicare, Medi-Cal muster after a year under the microscope...
Posted: Mon, Mar 28, 2005 11:51pm PST
SF Supes to Consider TIC's Bypassing Condo Conversion Law Supervisors Hearing March 30, 1:00 PM, City Hall (Room 263)
Proposed Legislation Rewards Landlords For Evicting Tenants; Ellis Evictions Will Soar...
Posted: Mon, Mar 28, 2005 12:54pm PST
Fight SF Condo Conversions: free fax action Reject Unlimited Condo Conversions in SF: Go to Local Impact and send a free fax!...
Posted: Sun, Mar 27, 2005 8:55pm PST
Barry Goldwater, Social Security & My Mother Goldwater's stand on Social Security became a turning point in my life....
Posted: Sun, Mar 27, 2005 6:59pm PST
Nonviolent Revolution in the MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM The 35 year old movement for a nonviolent revolution in the mental health system has roots in the Bay Area. Be part of it! You can help plan the next popular summer seminar series for MindFreedom San Francisco Bay Area. Or if you can't attend, get on the list to hear about these: hms5@pacbell.net...
Posted: Sat, Mar 26, 2005 1:37am PST
Protest Bush's Social Security Privatization Plan WHEN: Thursday, March 31, 11:30 am
WHAT: Protest Bush's Social Security Privatization Plan
WHERE Charles Schwab office, 101 Montgomery St. @Sutter
(Montgomery Street BART/MUNI Station)
San Francisco...
Posted: Wed, Mar 23, 2005 9:03pm PST
Current Workers Cannot Count on Retiree Health Benefits New Research From EBRI: Current Workers Cannot Count on Retiree Health Benefits...
Posted: Tue, Mar 22, 2005 11:47am PST
Advance Medical Directives Are Not Just for Seniors The tragic Terri Schiavo case clearly points out the need for all people aged 18 and above to complete a simple advance medical directive to appoint someone to make health care decisions for them if they become ill and cannot make decisions themselves....
Posted: Tue, Mar 22, 2005 11:42am PST
Consumer Advocates Will Not Proceed With Prescription Drug Bulk Discount Initiative Consumer advocates with Election Watchdog announced today that they had received from the California Attorney General the title and summary of their prescription drug reform necessary for circulation of a ballot petition, but have decided they will not proceed to collect signatures for the measure....
Posted: Tue, Mar 22, 2005 11:00am PST
The dysfunctional society: US billionaires on the rise—roads, bridges in decay Two recent reports cast light on the impact of growing social inequality in the US. The first, the annual inventory of the very rich compiled this month by the business magazine Forbes, tracks the wealth of the world’s billionaires, and their increasing numbers in the US. The second is the “report card” issued by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) on the state of the infrastructure in the United States....
Posted: Tue, Mar 22, 2005 7:14am PST
San Francisco Bay Area Housing Crash Continues Under current conditions, a renter would be able to live in a house for 30 years, then buy that house outright with the saved principle payments, and have an extra $277,200 of savings on top of that: ($770 x 12 x 30). The renter comes out way ahead of the owner, and this doesn't even count the huge losses the owner will suffer as housing falls year after year for the next decade or more, just as in Japan....
Posted: Mon, Mar 21, 2005 5:22pm PST
Democrats Anxious to Kill Schiavo "Who can, before God and humanity, pretend with impunity to claim such a right?" L'Osservatore Romano said. "Who — and on the basis of which criteria — can establish to whom the 'privilege' to live should be given?"...
Posted: Mon, Mar 21, 2005 11:09am PST
GOP Agenda Shreds Disabled Housing The GOP Schemes To Steal Resources From The Disabled & Mentally Ill....
Posted: Sat, Mar 19, 2005 5:23am PST
Council on Disability to Make Recommendations on Emergency Planning for People with Disabi The report provides an overview for the Federal Government to build a solid and resilient infrastructure that should enable the government to include the diverse populations of people with disabilities in emergency preparedness, disaster relief, and homeland security programs....
Posted: Fri, Mar 18, 2005 8:56pm PST
Oakland ACORN Alert Members of ACORN’s newest chapter, the Fruitvale Tenants’ Union, just
came off of an exciting drive that achieved several key repairs to
Apartment Buildings throughout January and February....
Posted: Thu, Mar 17, 2005 11:49pm PST
Congress, Court Don't Act in Terri Shiavo Brain Damage Case A brain-damaged Florida woman at the heart of a prolonged and emotional end-of-life case appeared set to have her feeding tube removed on Friday after state and federal lawmakers failed to agree on how to intervene and the U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites) declined to step in....
Posted: Thu, Mar 17, 2005 11:23pm PST
Poverty, Market Fundamentalism and the Media In the 90s as poverty and distress deepened, the media turned away. The media like the World Bank can't understand the causal link between extraordinary affluence and miserable poverty..The media treats poverty as an event not as a process....
Posted: Thu, Mar 17, 2005 7:21am PST
Men's Health Network Expresses Concerns Regarding Drug Importation n the wake of a recent report that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration seized drugs being imported from abroad intended for American citizens, Men' Health Network would like to reiterate its concern regarding drug importation....
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2005 2:49pm PST
3/31: National Day of Action to Protect Our Retirement Across the country, unite to Protect our Retirement and tell Schwab: "Don’t Pick Our Pockets to Line Yours!”
WHEN: Thursday, March 31, 11:30 a.m.
WHAT: National Day of Action for Retirement Security
WHERE: Charles Schwab office
101 Montgomery Street, SF (off Montgomery St. BART)...
Posted: Tue, Mar 15, 2005 12:27am PST
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