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Parking Lot Panic Law Up For Review 8:30 AM Thursday July 24th The Parking Lot Panic law makes it illegal to assemble or stand or sit in a public parking lot or garage at all on pain of $100+ fine. The Wednesday Drum Circle in Parking Lot #4 successfully fought this law with direct action disobedience. However, the City is now proposing to eliminate Parking Lot #4. This is also being discussed in the same Downtown Commission meeting at 809 Center St. at City Council chambers across from the main branch of the Public Library....
Posted: Sun, Jul 20, 2008 1:36pm PDT
San Rafael City Council Single-Payer Health Care Presentation San Rafeal City Hall www.cityofsanrafael.org
1400 Fifth Avenue, San Rafael, CA 94901-1943...
Event Date: Mon, Jul 21, 2008 6:15pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Jul 20, 2008 11:00am PDT
85% of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard is landfill - most affected by radiological elements. Over eighty five percent of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard is landfill. Once there were two large hills that the United States Navy demolished. Then they spread the dirt all over the wetlands - creating supposedly land on which to build. With intent - they spread the remains of the Ohlone, The First People of San Francisco - thinking very little of desecration. The two hills were Shellmounds - Sacred Burial Grounds of the Muwekma Ohlone. Today, this desecration will come to haunt - those th...
Posted: Sun, Jul 20, 2008 10:42am PDT
Measure of America report documents social decay of the United States: US ranks 42nd in life expectancy Saturday, July 19, 2008 :A new study released Wednesday, entitled The Measure of America, provides a wealth of data demonstrating the profound and deepening social decay of the United States. Commissioned by the Oxfam charity and several foundations, and published by Columbia University Press, the report documents, using government figures, the dramatic decline of American society relative to other advanced industrialized countries and the mounting social disparities within the US....
Posted: Sat, Jul 19, 2008 4:19pm PDT
Marin Tenants Voice Meet{San Rafael}El Concilio la Voz de los Inquilinos tendran la proxim San Pedro Rd. Ste. 290, San Rafael, CA 94903. Para más información por
favor llame al: (415)451-4350 ext. 306....
Event Date: Sat, Jul 19, 2008 10:00am PDT
Posted: Sat, Jul 19, 2008 9:56am PDT
California Hotel tenants are not alone with eviction fears Like the tenants in the California Hotel, owned by Oakland Community Housing, Inc. (OCHI), the low-income families of Drasnin Manor in Oakland, are also at risk of losing their housing and are very concerned about their future....
Posted: Sat, Jul 19, 2008 4:04am PDT
UC workers rally @ Office of the President 
UC workers rally @Office of the President....
Posted: Fri, Jul 18, 2008 5:50pm PDT
Uncle Sam needs you! Americans live shorter lives than citizens of almost every other developed nation, according to a report from several US charities....
Posted: Fri, Jul 18, 2008 9:00am PDT
DOS AMERICAS: A Night of Immigrant Worker Justice from New Orleans to San Francisco! 
The Women's Building
3543 18th St. btw. Valencia and Guerrero
San Francisco, CA 94110...
Event Date: Wed, Jul 30, 2008 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Jul 17, 2008 10:51pm PDT
"Homeless Court" : Rules for Fools Though the law library in the basement of the County building didn't initially have any info, they graciously got the Judge's Chambers to fax over the following document--which defines the rules for Santa Cruz's "Homeless Court". "Homeless Court" is the skeletonic grinning mask of "compassion" that Santa Cruz County wears over its gruesome pointless life-threatening anti-homeless ordinances (the Sleeping, Sitting, Sparechanging, Blanket, Parking Lot Bans)...
Posted: Thu, Jul 17, 2008 5:28pm PDT
Toxic Construction and Environmental Racism in Hunters Point Shipyard 
Bayview residents and supporters accuse the San Francisco Department of Public Health of turning a blind eye to Lennar Corp's toxic construction in the Hunter's Point Shipyard....
Posted: Thu, Jul 17, 2008 2:43pm PDT
Donna Deiss Update Donna Deiss and others who live in their vehicles continue to face harassment. Those interested in her case should check out the continued arraignment hearing happening Wednesday July 30th in Departments 1 or 2. Police reports detailing the extensive follow-up whitewash investigation to discredit non-police witnesses are now in Deiss's hands. Those who want more background should check out http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/25/18511178.php?show_comments=1#18515273 ....
Posted: Thu, Jul 17, 2008 2:31pm PDT
California Hotel tenants fight against non profit to remain in housing California Hotel tenants fight against one of Oaklands non profit housing organizations to remain in their housing, and over 500 tenants total are at risk of losing their housing due to the mismanagement of the Oakland properties being operated by the Oakland Community Housing, Inc., and John Stewart Company!...
Posted: Thu, Jul 17, 2008 8:01am PDT
Senate Votes To Repeal Ban On Visitors With HIV Thursday, July 17, 2008 :(Washington) The US Senate has approved repeal of a law barring HIV-positive visitors and immigrants from entering the country. The measure was included in legislation reauthorizing PEPFAR, the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief....
Posted: Thu, Jul 17, 2008 7:15am PDT
Burners without Borders Fundraiser and Celebration of our Final Month in Peru You are Invited to Burners without Borders Celebration and Fundraiser!...
Posted: Wed, Jul 16, 2008 9:03pm PDT
George Bush is Vetoed by Congress ending the 10.6% Medicare reimbursement to doctors. Overriding a presidential veto, federal lawmakers late Tuesday protected doctors from a 10.6 percent cut in Medicare reimbursement rates. The move will halt the reimbursement cuts in 2008 and gives doctors a 1.1 percent increase in Medicare reimbursement rates in 2009. The bill also increases bonuses paid to doctors in rural areas. "...
Posted: Wed, Jul 16, 2008 3:22pm PDT
Congress Overrides Bush Veto of Medicare Bill Wednesday, July 16, 2008 : As he has throughout his nearly eight years in the White House, President Bush cast his lot with insurance companies and big corporations when he vetoed a bill today that would strengthen Medicare for the nation's seniors....
Posted: Wed, Jul 16, 2008 8:15am PDT
Chevron Offers Richmond $61 Million to Approve Refinery Expansion Richmond Residents and Bay Area Community say, “Our Health is Not for Sale.” In a last minute effort to lock-in City Council approval for Chevron’s refinery expansion, yesterday Chevron presented the City of Richmond with a $61 million dollar ‘Community Benefit Agreement’ (CBA). The Agreement, submitted to the city council in closed session immediately before the public council hearing, would reportedly include $6.75 million for jobs and education programs, $6 million for community health pr...
Posted: Wed, Jul 16, 2008 6:39am PDT
California Hotel Unlawful Eviction Update On July 14 (Bastille Day), the tenants of the California Hotel and their supporters held a 6pm rally & protest to demonstrate against the unlawful attempts to evict the long-time tenants out of their housing!
CaHon Associates and Oakland Community Housing, Inc., told the tenants (over 70 of them) that they wanted them out of their housing units by July 15 after threatening to shut off the gas, water and electricity at the California Hotel. The tenants refused to comply with the unlawful...
Posted: Tue, Jul 15, 2008 8:29pm PDT
CDFA LBAM Eradication Program reported to be a Fraud  
Glen Chase, a Professor of Systems Management, has released a report identifying the CDFA LBAM eradication program as a fraud. "CDFA claims the moth is an emergency and pretends that they can eradicate it in order to steal $100's of millions from taxpayer emergency funds, set aside for real emergencies."...
Posted: Tue, Jul 15, 2008 2:08pm PDT
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