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Audio:'Sicko' Movie Showing Tempe Az 2-18-08 (audio/mpeg 7.3MB) 42:45 Minute discussion after showing of 'Sicko' movie at Independent Book Store,Changing Hands,in Tempe Arizona.Talk of movie,politics,and more....
Posted: Tue, Feb 19, 2008 12:35pm PST
CHIMES Dinner Fundraiser with Dr. Luther Castillo Harry 
The Grand Ballroom
(across the street from the Sheraton Grand Hotel)
1215 J Street, Sacramento...
Event Date: Thu, Feb 21, 2008 5:30pm PST
Posted: Tue, Feb 19, 2008 11:43am PST
The Mayor’s Mid-Year Budget Cuts: Cruel and Unusual Tuesday, February 19, 2008 : Last June, Mayor Gavin Newsom proposed devastating public health cuts– prompting hundreds to rally at City Hall. Now, without even waiting for another budget season, the Mayor has announced $18 million in “mid-year cuts” to the Health Department – including some programs that the Board of Supervisors saved last July....
Posted: Tue, Feb 19, 2008 8:17am PST
Cities, education funds, transport authorities hit by credit crisis Tuesday, February 19, 2008 :The deepening credit crisis is hitting US cities as well as quasi-governmental state education and transportation authorities, sharply increasing the interest they must pay on their long-term debt and jeopardizing their ability to finance daily operations. Many such entities borrow money on a long-term basis, but at interest rates that are set at regular, often weekly, credit auctions....
Posted: Tue, Feb 19, 2008 8:12am PST
Largest beef recall in US history reveals compromised food supply Tuesday, February 19, 2008 :Nearly three weeks after the release of an undercover video documenting sick cows being sent to slaughter, a major US beef producer has requested the recall of more than 143 million pounds of beef—much of it supplying public schools nationwide over the past two years. The recall, many times larger than any other beef recall in US history, yet again exposes the dangers posed by the weakening of government regulations on corporate operations in general and food produ...
Posted: Tue, Feb 19, 2008 8:09am PST
Some Cloned Beef with those GMO Vegetables? Tuesday, February 19, 2008 : For those who thought that genetically modified corn and soy was the worst thing to hit the American diet since corn syrup, comes news that the FDA last month approved the selling of the meat and milk of the offspring of cloned animals. This despite the shortcomings that are still evident in the cloning process, which sometimes produces sickly and deformed copies of the original animal....
Posted: Tue, Feb 19, 2008 8:08am PST
Ferment Change Benefit For Urban Ag Ferment Change
A benefit for West Oakland Urban Ag Heroes "City Slicker Farms"
@The Ecology Center Berkeley
Saturday March 22nd 2008
7-10 PM...
Posted: Mon, Feb 18, 2008 8:42pm PST
Redwood Curtain Anti-Fa hosts F.N.B. breakfast and Critical Mass March 15th 2008 March 15th 2008, breakfast at Arcata Plaza(10am) Critical mass at 11:30 to Eureka to join up with community members at noon-ish in solidarity against the war, this regime, and to remember the victims of the Iraqi, Afghani conflict, foriegn and domestic....
Posted: Mon, Feb 18, 2008 3:38pm PST
11th Annual Homelessness Marathon Coming Up Wednesday Night Coming live from Nashville this year, the 11th Annual Homelessness Marathon will begin 4 PM PST on Wednesday 2-20 and run to 6 AM on Thursday 2-21. Free Radio Santa Cruz at 101.1 FM and www.freakradio.org will carry the entire uninterrupted stream.
For more info go to http://www.homelessnessmarathon.org/ for commentary, a blog, downloads from past marathons, and more information....
Posted: Mon, Feb 18, 2008 1:20pm PST
In Africa, Bush Touts Record AIDS Relief Under His Administration, But Funding Restrictions Tell a Different Story Monday, February 18, 2008 :The centerpiece of President Bush?s visit to Africa is his HIV/AIDS policy known as PEPFAR or the President?s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Many have criticized the legislation?s emphasis on abstinence and the restrictions it places on programs that incorporate family planning or are directed at sex workers. We speak to David Bryden of Global AIDS Alliance and Laurie Wen, a Rwanda-based Harvard academic researching the impact of US HIV/AIDS policies....
Posted: Mon, Feb 18, 2008 11:42am PST
Needs outstrip military health services for returning US veterans Monday, February 18, 2008 :While President Bush’s 2009 fiscal year budget calls for nearly $94 billion in Veterans Affairs (VA) spending, indications of massive inadequacies in medical and mental health care programs for veterans continue to emerge. Hundreds of thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans contending with urgent health needs are forced to wait months for care, in many cases compounding medical and domestic problems, with no end to the war in sight....
Posted: Mon, Feb 18, 2008 11:39am PST
Clinical trial of microbicide targeted at HIV infection flops, scientists say Researchers say that the first anti-microbial gel targeted at HIV infection has proven ineffective in clinical trials....
Posted: Mon, Feb 18, 2008 8:03am PST
Lennar greatest liability stems from acres of of undeveloped land and Land Banking ploys. Lennar Corporation is out to challenge a growing grassroots Spiritual Movement in San Francisco and in this venture it will fail - miserably. Lennar's thousands of homes all over this Nation after years and months of "moth balling" have been sold - forty cents on a dollar and worse at a loss. For all practical reasons - no one in their Right Mind - should be dealing with Lennar Corporation - a Rogue Company - that has slowly poisoned our children and our Elders....
Posted: Sun, Feb 17, 2008 11:29pm PST
In the Bayview Hunters Point no one is paying attention to Pertinent Planning Documents. In most of the Districts around San Francisco and we have Eleven - most of the Community Based Organizations are fully aware of the Housing Element, the Transportation Document, the past and current Planning Documents and many focused groups at ground zero meet to address the issues within their District. In the Bayview some Blacks have been bought to do the dirty work and divide the community - and some scumbags like Saul Bloom who has just moved and lives in the Bayview continue to rape the...
Posted: Sun, Feb 17, 2008 4:55pm PST
No Box, No TV in 2009 Originally From New America Media
Sunday, February 17, 2008 : A year from today, a dramatic change is coming to your television. If you’re a cable or satellite subscriber, your television will barely notice the change, except perhaps to deliver a better, clearer picture. But if your television uses rabbit ears or rooftop antennas to pick up over-the-air- broadcast, chances are it simply won’t work. No picture, period....
Posted: Sun, Feb 17, 2008 10:20am PST
Africans unite in calling for immediate moratorium on switch from food to fuel Saturday, February 16, 2008 : Scientists and NGOs across Africa are calling for a moratorium on new biofuels projects as millions of acres of prime agricultural land in sub-Saharan Africa are switched from food to fuel....
Posted: Sat, Feb 16, 2008 12:03pm PST
Day Laborers Offered Money for Sex Originally From New America Media
Saturday, February 16, 2008 : The first in a weekend series on HIV in the Latino community profiles HIV education among day laborers. Latinos only make up about 15 percent of the U.S. population, but they account for 18 percent of new HIV cases in the United States....
Posted: Sat, Feb 16, 2008 11:57am PST
"GIVE LOVE GIVE LIFE" with John Trudell 
Intertribal Friendship House
523 International Blvd.
Oakland, Calif. 94606...
Event Date: Sun, Feb 24, 2008 7:00pm PST
Posted: Fri, Feb 15, 2008 10:59pm PST
Planet Organic acquires New Leaf; market still expected in HMB Citing the need for more capital, New Leaf Markets of Santa Cruz announced Friday a strategic merger with Canadian grocery, Planet Organic. The company promised to press on with its plans for a Half Moon Bay outlet....
Posted: Fri, Feb 15, 2008 4:21pm PST
Local Meetings on Upcoming Illegal Spraying of Bay Area with Synthetic Hormones Four lawsuits already filed in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties, but the spraying is still planned. Only you can stop it . . ....
Posted: Fri, Feb 15, 2008 1:27pm PST
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