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FSM: No Cause to Celebrate We live in the Society of the Spectacle, in which representations seem – in fact, are – more “real” than actualities. Such is the case with the 40th Anniversary Commemoration of the Free Speech Movement’s days in the sun of media attention, when a five thousand-strong mob of relatively privileged students (and a few spectacular leaders) defied authorities who attempted to limit their free speech by forbidding their distribution of political pamphlets on campus. As part of the event, we are to...
Posted: Wed, Oct 6, 2004 3:15pm PDT
Where your thanksgiving meal will come from this year The preliminary estimate of the number of turkeys raised in the United States in 2004. That's down 4 percent from 2003....
Posted: Tue, Oct 5, 2004 1:14pm PDT
Reclaim the Parks in Ceres! Join with the DAAA Collective, and it's sub-group of Ceres Food Not Bombs, to make it known that police cannot drive homeless and poor people out of public areas! Two meal feed, and march to demand an end to harassment!...
Posted: Sat, Oct 2, 2004 12:16am PDT
Vancouver: Bus Riders Defeat Fare Increase! In the second victory in less than 12 months, bus riders once again struck a blow for justice at the regional TransLink Board. “Today we beat the unjust fare increase that TransLink planned to impose on bus riders throughout the region” states Kirat Kaur of the Bus Riders Union....
Posted: Fri, Oct 1, 2004 10:41am PDT
HUD Raids Section 8 Tenants- Detailed Report Below Is A Recent Report That Came In Which Offers Some Details About Raids Being Conducted By HUD Against The Section 8 Tenants....
Posted: Thu, Sep 30, 2004 8:53pm PDT
Press Release- Disaster For San Francisco Section 8 Renters HUD's Final Listing Of Bay Area Fair Market Rents Reveal A Disaster Is In The Making For Bay Area Section 8 Renters!...
Posted: Thu, Sep 30, 2004 7:44pm PDT
Social Justice instead of Hartz IV - We Have Alternatives! "Millions of jobs are missing in Germany.. This unsocial policy of redistribution from bottom to the top is pursued by the government and mainstream parties to assure extra profits for the mammoth corporations.. No new jobs will be created.."...
Posted: Sat, Sep 25, 2004 1:08pm PDT
Shanti Commemorates 30 Years of Care and Support Provided to the Bay Area Overview of upcoming event/fundraiser for Shanti, a Bay Area non-profit that has provided care and support for those afflicted with life threatening illnesses for three decades....
Posted: Fri, Sep 24, 2004 12:14pm PDT
Low-Income Renters Of Marin Unite The Section 8 Crisis Has Been Instrumental In Uniting The Low-Income Renters Of Marin Into A Force To Oppose The Bush Administration's Proposals To Gut The Section 8 Program!...
Posted: Fri, Sep 24, 2004 12:08am PDT
Bridging The Gap For Health Care! This is a repost of a newswire we put on the Rogue Valley IMC. Check it out and be sure and look at the video stream, a kool little musical video that is 2:43 long......
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 7:01pm PDT
RIGHTNOW: Tues 9/21 Rally to Save Civic Center Hotel On Tuesday, September 21 at 5 PM, tenants at the Civic Center Hotel will hold a
rally to protest the planned demolition of their building. The rally will be held
at the headquarters of the Plumbers' and Steamfitters' Union Local 38 (1621 Market
St., at 12th), which owns the building through its pension fund....
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 5:00pm PDT
Free Fax: Save the Civic Center Hotel The Plumbers' Union is threatening to demolish the Civic Center Hotel, which provides 156 units of affordable housing in San Francisco. Find out what you can do to save the Civic Center Hotel and protect low-income tenants....
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 1:09pm PDT
action against citibank 9/21 There will be an action against Citibank at its 1526
Webster St. branch in Alameda. Tuesday 9/21/04 at noon...
Posted: Mon, Sep 20, 2004 8:45pm PDT
Invitation to Health Care NOT Warfare Action Nov 3 Right now, over 45 million Americans lack health insurance!
The last four years of the Bush administration have been characterized by a “war on terrorism” involving rampant militarism abroad and a police state at home. JOIN US IN THE STREETS ON NOVEMBER 3RD. We need to take direct action beyond voting, NO MATTER WHO WINS!...
Posted: Mon, Sep 20, 2004 9:36am PDT
High SF Rents Courtesy Tom Ammiano & Democrats Tom Ammiano, the current supervisor for District 9 (Mission & Bernal Heights) deserves to be inducted into a Hall of Shame, along with the rest of his Democratic Party, for the high rents we have in san Francisco due to lack of vacancy control....
Posted: Sun, Sep 19, 2004 7:21pm PDT
San Francisco Housing the Jewel of San Francisco Suppression of Residents How the Haves try to make sure that the Have Nots have nothing. Their goal is nothing from nothing leaves nothing. (That's where the Housing residents are left - with nothing. Or homeless.)...
Posted: Fri, Sep 17, 2004 10:24pm PDT
Free Fax: Julie Lee Must Go Go to www.local-impact.org/ today and send a free fax to demand that Julie Lee resign as president of the San Francisco Housing Authority Commission....
Posted: Tue, Sep 14, 2004 2:33pm PDT
BTL:U.S. Poverty on the Rise, According to Census Bureau Interview with Scott Klinger, co-director of United for a Fair Economy's Responsible Wealth Project, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Sun, Sep 12, 2004 5:33am PDT
FINAL OCAP APPEAL BEFORE WE ARE FORCED TO LAY OFF ORGANIZERS The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty is asking for help....
Posted: Thu, Sep 9, 2004 5:15pm PDT
Confessions of an Anarchist Tech-Stock Speculator The big tech-stock bubble of the 1990s was starting to sag just a little bit in the spring of 2000, when I sat down for lunch with a former coworker named Phil in a diner in midtown Manhattan. After a lot of catching up, we got onto what was still the big topic for all kinds of people who should have known better: the stock market....
Posted: Wed, Sep 8, 2004 10:33pm PDT
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