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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
State Plans Bay Area Pesticide Spraying over cities at night The state agriculture department plans to use airplanes at night this summer to spray a farm pesticide over urban San Francisco, Marin County and the East Bay, intending to eradicate a potentially destructive moth.
Hundreds of people whose homes and yards were sprayed in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties from September to December have filed reports that said the pesticide seems to have caused coughing, wheezing, muscle aches and headaches, among other symptoms. One Monterey family reported t...
Posted: Fri, Feb 15, 2008 10:02am PST
McCain to seniors, vets: tough luck Friday, February 15, 2008 : One more unemployment check to a worker without a job might keep him or her in an apartment or a house. A $400 rebate check to a senior citizen or a disabled veteran might mean a meal tonight instead of nothing to eat. But to Sen. John McCain, Republican candidate for president, they are “legislative pork barrels” that he cannot be bothered with....
Posted: Fri, Feb 15, 2008 7:07am PST
French housing report exposes government inaction Friday, February 15, 2008 :The housing crisis in France was again under the spotlight February 1 when the Abbé Pierre charity foundation issued its annual report. It noted that 3 million people are either living on the streets (100,000 of this total) or are very badly housed. Another 6 million people are described as living in “unfit” accommodation—either too small or unsanitary....
Posted: Fri, Feb 15, 2008 7:07am PST
The Bayview Jobs, Parks, and Housing Initiative - full of LIES and adversely impacts, poor The Bayview Jobs, Parks, and Housing Initiative is full of LIES and adversely impacts NO INCOME and LOW INCOME constituents in San Francisco but more near Candlestick Point. Kofi Bonner and the cronies that back this FAKE initiative have no business coming into our community - and rearranging the furniture in our living rooms. We have a NEW SHERIFF in town - and this time around Black Sellouts - get NO passes. If fact they are all put on notice. We have named them before and we will name them...
Posted: Fri, Feb 15, 2008 7:06am PST
Egypt: Spreading Crackdown on HIV Endangers Public Health (Cairo, February 15, 2008) – Cairo police arrested four more men suspected of having HIV, signaling a wider crackdown that endangers public health and violates basic human rights, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today in a joint statement. In their misguided attempt to apply Egypt’s unjust law on homosexual conduct, authorities are carrying on a crackdown against people living with HIV/AIDS....
Posted: Fri, Feb 15, 2008 7:03am PST
Workers die in "mushroom clouds" Friday, February 15, 2008 : Bush’s OSHA looks the other way For the second time in two months, America has witnessed a catastrophic industrial explosion involving multiple fatalities. On Dec. 19, 2007, the small T2 Laboratories in Jacksonville, Fla., detonated in a towering mushroom cloud, killing four workers. Last week, the Imperial Sugar plant outside of Savannah, Ga., was ripped by a huge explosion and fire....
Posted: Fri, Feb 15, 2008 7:03am PST
Tenderloin Takes Post Office Fight to City Hall Thursday, February 14, 2008 : Today, Supervisor Chris Daly will consider a resolution to call on the U.S. Postal Service to take action. Specifically, Tenderloin community organizations want him to approve a resolution demanding the USPS convert its post office at the corner of Hyde and Golden Gate into a full-service station. For years, the corner of Hyde and Golden Gate (the site of a minimum-service post office) has been an uninhibited trafficking point for drugs – not to mention a congreg...
Posted: Fri, Feb 15, 2008 6:51am PST
Congress Clemens Probers Wrestle Irony – Irony Wins by KO Friday, February 15, 2008 : If Jake “The Snake” Roberts, Ron “Doom” Simmons, and Scott “Razor Ramon” Hall managed to follow the coverage of Wednesday’s sensational House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing – in which baseball’s Roger Clemens denied that he ever used anabolic steroids or human growth hormone – those three worthies would have had to do so from the rec room of an Atlanta-area rehab facility where they are attempting to kick drug addictions....
Posted: Fri, Feb 15, 2008 6:49am PST
Arizona Nurses Rally at Capitol for Patient Safety-Phoenix Az 2-14-08 Photos and Audio 
Arizona Nurses Rally at Capitol for Patient Safety--Thursday
“Heart Teams” of Nurses to Explain to Legislators and Public
the Urgent Need for HB 2041, The Arizona Patient Protection Act
Bill Guarantees Safe RN-to-Patient Staffing Ratios, Protects Nurse Whistle-blowers
Registered nurses from throughout Arizona will hold a major rally this Thursday, February 14 in a bid to improve the state’s healthcare by passing a key patient safety bill. Held at State Capitol Phoenix Arizona. Audio of...
Posted: Thu, Feb 14, 2008 6:25pm PST
Audio:Arizona Nurses Rally at Capitol for Patient Safety 2-14-08 (audio/mpeg 5.3MB) 30:46 minute Audio of Rally in front of State Capitol Phoenix Az by Nurses for better patient safety.A large # of the Protesters are from Neveda and California,including a IndyBay.Org Journalist.:-) Photos later...
Posted: Thu, Feb 14, 2008 3:19pm PST
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