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On February 25th, San Francisco street drains backed-up, overflowed and sent three foot high rapids of flooding water, rushing into the Family School, sinking the non-profit agency deeper in despair, immediately shutting the facility down causing 25 families and 32 children to be without available daycare....
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 1:36pm PST
A cry for help for help appeared on a website. The progressive community was being asked to take sides in an internal dispute, but the strange message seemed to conceal more than it told. What was it all about and was it even legitimate?...
Posted: Mon, Mar 8, 2004 12:34pm PST
LET'S FILL UP THE ROOM AND SPREAD THE WORD -----
WE ARE HOLDING JERRY BROWN ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS BEHAVIOR.
On Thursday, March 18th at 6:30 PM, the Ethics Commission will hear the complaint
filed against Mayor Jerry Brown and Council Member Danny Wan by Rashidah Grinage,
obo PUEBLO. We are exceedingly fortunate to represented at the hearing by Bob Bloom,
one of the award-winning team of attorneys in the Judy Bari law suit .
The allegations are that Mayor Brown viol...
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 10:01am PST
Nazi Newsom, the Democratic Party's latest pro-landlord hoodlum sitting illegally in the mayor's office, vetoed legislation that would have stopped the demolition of 377 rent-controlled apartments at Trinity Plaza at 8th and Market, San Francisco....
Posted: Sat, Mar 6, 2004 12:46pm PST
What: Lizz Brown, St. Louis Radio Host to Be Featured at “Taking Back Our Community’s Future: Going From Miseducation to Community Control of Education!” Conference
When: Saturday, March 13th, noon to 6pm
Where: Uhuru House, 7911 Mac Arthur Blvd, Oakland, California
Media Contact: Wendy Snyder, 510-295-7834...
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 10:50am PST
The following press release is from Faye Kennedy, a long time anti war, community and civil rights activist, about the Call to Action Project....
Posted: Thu, Feb 26, 2004 9:33pm PST
We will rally at the Parkview Commons (a REAL workforce housing development that is affordable for San Franciscans earning as little as $45,000 per year). We will then march down Haight Street for some leafleting....
Posted: Tue, Feb 24, 2004 10:42pm PST
Behind the smart growth and affordable housing rhetoric is a well connected political and financial machine generating billions in profits for large-scale developers, investment bankers, and income property owners. Aside from the military budget for the war on terrorism, smart growth and affordable housing development generate the nation’s single largest source of corporate welfare. Money siphoned from the right for the war on terrorism and from the left by smart growth redevelopment are larg...
Posted: Tue, Feb 24, 2004 1:23am PST
Norbert Greinacher is an emeritus professor of practical theology at the University of Tubingen, Germany. His article could help us against market fundamentalism and the religious right where law and gospel are confused and fear replaces trust....
Posted: Mon, Feb 23, 2004 5:15am PST
Less than 2 weeks before March 2 election. Remember to vote no on Prop J....
Posted: Sat, Feb 21, 2004 6:05pm PST
Despite Being Exposed For Setting Up Oakland Renters For Wrongful Evictions, The Council Moved Forward On The Nuisance Eviction Ordinance (NEO)! A Final Passage Vote Takes Place On March 16 At Oakland City Hall, And Everyone Is Urged To Fight Back And Oppose The NEO!...
Posted: Thu, Feb 19, 2004 5:09pm PST
The Fresno Rescue Mission's perspective on the homeless, and the Santa Clara encampment which was recently removed by the local police....
Posted: Wed, Feb 18, 2004 3:26pm PST
How a group of developers, hiding behind worker-friendly rhetoric, is poised to usher in the next wave of San Francisco gentrification....
Posted: Wed, Feb 18, 2004 11:33am PST
Join Oaklanders To Stop The Proposed Nuisance Eviction Program!...
Posted: Sun, Feb 15, 2004 11:36pm PST
Collection of articles about Food Project...
Posted: Sun, Feb 15, 2004 7:21pm PST
On Febuary 17 2004, The Oakland City Council Is Voting On An Ordinance Intended To Grant The City Of Oakland The Power To Evict Individual Renters That May Be Accused Of Being A Nuisance By The City Of Oakland!...
Posted: Fri, Feb 13, 2004 1:10am PST
Join with radikal squatters and other homeless people to organize a space managed by consensus and anarchist principles of self-organization...
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 12:54pm PST
On Saturday, March 6th, the Barrington Collective in Berkeley is hosting an all day event in People's Park called DIY Fest....
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2004 6:59am PST
We the Low Income Community, and People of Color, want to know what is your stand on the Redevelopment Commission giveaway of the Shipyard to the Lennar Corporation?...
Posted: Sun, Feb 8, 2004 10:09am PST