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New Yorkers rally for affordable housing
NEW YORK — On Feb. 2 more than 5,000 people took part in a “Housing Here and Now!” rally outside of City Hall. It was the largest show of support for affordable housing the city has seen in decades. Union members and leaders, city residents, religious groups and elected officials came together to demand city leaders enact a five-point program to put an end to New York City’s housing crisis....
Posted: Sun, Feb 13, 2005 12:46pm PST
San Francisco Is Nanny State U.S.A.
Those who favor smaller government will likely be familiar with the term "nanny state." A nanny state is defined as "a government which tries to give too much advice or make too many laws about how people should live, especially about eating, smoking or drinking alcohol." Perhaps not coincidentally, nanny states and blue states tend to go hand in hand....
Posted: Sun, Feb 13, 2005 12:15pm PST
The Message of Mary Jesus
The suicide of Mary Jesus was a prophetic warning, written in blood and death, that rent hikes and evictions destroy the lives of the poor...
Posted: Sat, Feb 12, 2005 12:45am PST
The further hemorrhaging of Detroit—city to shut 34 public schools
Detroit parents, students and teachers reacted with shock and anger to Thursday’s announcement that 34 of the city’s public schools will close their doors this June. More than 10,000 of the district’s 140,000 students will be uprooted and shifted to different schools when the academic year ends and the facilities are shut down....
Posted: Fri, Feb 11, 2005 10:31pm PST
Your Fault? Democrats Begin Their CAVE-IN On Social Security
Every one of you who is registered Democrat or votes Democrat - this is YOUR FAULT!!!!!!! Drop that party now and understand that it only exists to prop up the Republicans, not to offer anything meaningful to the people, who are being enslaved by both of these parties for the interests of the rich....
Posted: Fri, Feb 11, 2005 8:56pm PST
Kirsten Anderberg: Capitalist Termites in the Walls of Social Services
People tend to think of social services, such as welfare grants to single parents and Section 8 rental assistance, as purely humanitarian aid. But the industries of welfare and housing assistance are laced with capitalist profit seekers and even documented corruption, such as the mess that Clarence Thomas had a hand in at HUD before becoming Supreme Court Justice....
Posted: Fri, Feb 11, 2005 11:26am PST
Somalia's Other Crisis Victims Forgotten
On a dusty old radio, Ali Abdallah Mohamed Osman followed the news after giant waves lashed the Somali coastline, sweeping away homes and livelihoods. Within days, truckloads of aid began rolling in to the northeastern fishing village of Hafun, the Somali town hit hardest by the same tsunami...
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 10:03pm PST
Bush budget assailed as ‘war’ on people
WASHINGTON — Outraged protests greeted President George W. Bush’s $2.57 trillion budget proposal, with many calling it a fraudulent, radical plan to starve spending on human needs while lavishing billions on the “greedy.”...
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 9:55pm PST
New Roseville Food Not Bombs
a new chapter of Food Not Bombs started yesterday in Placer County....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 12:04pm PST
No Muni Fare Hike
Press Release re: protest at City Hall 2/11/05 11:00 AM...
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 11:39am PST
The MUNI Disaster: Inequity, How We Got Here, and How to Get Out
Michael Burns began a full-court press yesterday to get his proposed MUNI budget passed, meeting with several members of the Board of Supervisors to request their support. MUNI representative Stuart Sunshine told the Chronicle they’re “looking at a balanced way to share the solution” to their current budget crisis. Yet Burns’ proposal balances the budget squarely on the backs of the working class, raising the yearly cost of a Fast Pass $109 and only upping the yearly cost of a residential par...
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 9:39am PST
BTL:Opponents Prepare to Challenge Bush Budget Cuts and Drive to...
...Privatize Social Security ~ Interview with Roger Hickey, co-director of the Campaign for America's Future, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 5:08am PST
Poor, distraught and desperate: Oregon man threatens suicide on floor of state Senate
As he was escorted handcuffed down the capitol steps, Owens turned to reporters and TV cameras. “I’m disabled!” he screamed. “I need housing! That’s all!”...
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 10:55pm PST
2/11: Seniors, People With Disabilities to Tell Governor Schwarzenegger: 'Have a Heart!'
Hundreds to Deliver Signed Hearts, Photos Representing Those Who Will Suffer From Governor's Proposed Cuts to Home Care...
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 1:12am PST
Medical bills cause more than half of US personal bankruptcies
Debt due to medical bills is the largest single cause of personal bankruptcies in the United States, a newly published study on the Health Affairs web site reported. About half of those filing bankruptcy in 2001 did so because of medical bills resulting from illness or injury. What is most unexpected about the data is that most individuals or couples who went bankrupt were not part of the 45 million uninsured. Nearly 76 percent had health insurance at the start of their illness....
Posted: Tue, Feb 8, 2005 11:56pm PST
US budget slashes social spending to pay for war and repression
The budget released by the Bush administration Monday provides for $2.57 trillion in spending, but two thirds of this falls under programs already mandated by Congress, including Social Security, Medicare, unemployment compensation and the payment of interest on the burgeoning national debt. The main focus of the budget document is so-called discretionary spending, which requires annual appropriations by Congress....
Posted: Tue, Feb 8, 2005 11:55pm PST
Bush’s budget: government by fraud and lies
The most important feature of the new budget released by the Bush administration on Monday is that it is not, in any serious sense of the word, a budget at all. It is a monumental fraud, aimed at concealing fiscal reality and usurping decisions on spending that, under longstanding US constitutional procedures, are reserved to Congress rather than the executive branch....
Posted: Tue, Feb 8, 2005 11:54pm PST
Bush's New $2.5 Trillion Budget Boosts Pentagon Spending, Slashes Domestic Programs
President Bush sent Congress a federal budget yesterday that some say reads like a hit list against almost every social program paid for by US taxpayers. It calls for the elimination of some 150 government programs. One out of every three of the targeted programs concerns education....
Posted: Tue, Feb 8, 2005 11:15pm PST
Housing Clinic Marks 25 Years of Improving Tenants’ Lives
It was 25 years ago this week that the Tenderloin Housing Clinic opened its all-volunteer office. Nine months later Ronald Reagan was elected President, ushering in over two decades of federal backtracking from greater social and economic fairness. But today, Tenderloin residents, residential hotel tenants citywide, and low-income and working-class tenants across San Francisco enjoy far greater legal protections and better conditions than in 1980, countering the nationwide trend. This is the ...
Posted: Tue, Feb 8, 2005 6:44am PST
Back from Iraq - and suddenly out on the streets
NEW YORK – Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts are now showing up in the nation's homeless shelters....
Posted: Tue, Feb 8, 2005 6:39am PST