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2/23 Update on Missing SF Voter Handbooks; Polling Place Lookup
If you still have not received your San Francisco voter handbook, you can look up your polling place at the San Francisco Election Department website, http://www.sfgov.org, then click Polling Place lookup on the right side, or go directly to
http://sunset.ci.sf.ca.us/pollup3.nsf/searchdata?openform...
Posted: Sat, Feb 23, 2002 5:13am PST
Tree-Sit Uprsing in Humboldt!
A new phase of Tree-sit protests have sprung up on PL property to protect massive old growth redwoods. Help is needed right now or these trees will be cut!...
Posted: Sat, Feb 23, 2002 12:48am PST
U.S. drops pledge on nukes
commercial news report - but important.
The Bush administration is no longer standing by a 24-year-old U.S.
pledge not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states, a
senior administration official said yesterday....
Posted: Fri, Feb 22, 2002 10:12pm PST
With help from a friend, Enron fleeces South America
WASHINGTON – A couple of weeks ago, Argentina’s daily newspaper, La Nacion, was looking for an explanation of the country’s economic collapse, with $141 billion in unpayable foreign debt and five governments falling in the space of a week. They turned over a rock and found – you guessed it – Enron....
Posted: Fri, Feb 22, 2002 9:49pm PST
Sept. 11 families say ‘War, not in our names’
NEW YORK – “We do not want the war in Afghanistan or other parts of the world, wherever it might spread, to be conducted in our names or in the names of our lost loved ones,” David Potorti told the press. The Feb. 14 press conference was called to announce the founding of a new peace and justice organization, “Sept. 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows.” Potorti, who lost his brother in the World Trade Center (WTC), spoke on behalf of 17 family members of those killed at the World Trade Center,...
Posted: Fri, Feb 22, 2002 9:47pm PST
Green Party Launches Bill to Ban Fluoridation in Ireland
There is a growing campaign in Ireland to stop water fluoridation. Last fall, the country's most prominent consumer advocacy group (Consumers' Association of Ireland) called for a ban.
Ireland is the most heavily fluoridated country in Europe right now, as 98% of Europe has rejected the practice.
To learn more about fluoride see http://www.fluoridealert.org...
Posted: Fri, Feb 22, 2002 8:38pm PST
life and death, and practical options
Read and consider - We, who honestly care for this world beyond our own selfish nature derived from existence within an oppressive economic structure, a culture in which greed (personal wealth, "private" property) is the highest virtue, must enlighten all that there are alternatives available....
Posted: Fri, Feb 22, 2002 7:44pm PST
Robert Fisk on Daniel peral killing.
Robert Fisk, a 20+ veternan of middle east reporting, often on KPFA an Deomocracy, and who was almost beat to death in Pakistan a couple months ago speaks out on what the Daniel Pearl killing means for journalism....
Posted: Fri, Feb 22, 2002 7:15pm PST
(murderer) Bush, (Sir) Giuliani, nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Bush, Giuliani, nominated for Nobel Peace Prize...
Posted: Fri, Feb 22, 2002 6:17pm PST
GREENS BLAST THE BUSH ENERGY DEPARTMENT'S PLAN TO GUT THE CLEAN AIR ACT
Greens, other environmental activists oppose
the assault on New Source Review requirements for old power plants, and urge EPA chief Whitman to stand up to the polluter lobby inside the Bush Administration...
Posted: Fri, Feb 22, 2002 5:04pm PST
Listen to Recent RadioActive Programs (Progressive Radio Program)
RadioActive is a grassroots environmental and social justice news journal hosted by Amy Browne & Meredith DeFrancesco, and heard weekly on WERU FM 89.9 Blue Hill and 102.9 Bangor, Maine....
Posted: Fri, Feb 22, 2002 4:32pm PST
tonight: community bike ride/food/dance
CRITICAL FUNK returns tonight (friday feb 22nd), as we team up with food not bombs to bring you free food and beats. food not bombs will provide a nourishing, vegetarian meal, and critical funk will get you on your feet dancing!...
Posted: Fri, Feb 22, 2002 3:07pm PST
Know Justice, Know Peace
Anti-war rally at the Sacramento Capitol Building!...
Posted: Fri, Feb 22, 2002 10:45am PST
Let Us Not Talk Falsely Now, The HOur Is Getting Late-The US and Colombia
on the US and Colombia...
Posted: Fri, Feb 22, 2002 5:32am PST
Rudy Giuliani knighted by Queen, saw poor as threatening the quality of life
Rudy Giuliani may be the toast of Britain, but his lap of honour around London last week during which he was knighted by the Queen produced few cheers among the small and ragged army of the homeless and dispossessed that lines up each day outside the Church of the Holy Apostles on Ninth Avenue for a hot meal....
Posted: Fri, Feb 22, 2002 3:54am PST
Jesuit Oath in Action
If only we could live in a world run completely by these guys....
Posted: Thu, Feb 21, 2002 10:07pm PST
Students call for divestment, end of Israeli apartheid
Feb. 18: Students convened at a national conference in Berkeley called on their colleges and universities to divest from Israel all financial holdings until Israel ends its system of occupation and apartheid in Palestine....
Posted: Thu, Feb 21, 2002 9:43pm PST
Cartoon on Bush & Cabinet
The German weekly news magazine, Der Spiegel, has an excellent cover cartoon of George War Bush and his cabinet, depicting them as warriors a la Tarzan. This reminds me of the old Ramparts magazine that depicted Pres. Johnson and his cabinet as birds in an aviary. Enjoy the photo at: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020220/168/14pd8.html...
Posted: Thu, Feb 21, 2002 8:45pm PST