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Canada's Chalk River nuclear crisis: "market planning" produces a fiasco
Friday, February 22, 2008 :First published in French February 15. Stephen Harper’s minority Conservative government last month fired Linda Keen, the president of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), the federal regulatory agency responsible for overseeing the country’s nuclear industry. In firing Keen, the Canadian government is pressing forward with a reckless policy of indifference to nuclear safety, having already courted a nuclear and medical disaster which could have a major im...
Posted: Fri, Feb 22, 2008 7:15am PST
Save Rent Control/Fight CitiApartments: Two Events
558 Capp St. @ 21st St., SF (near Mission)...
Event Date: Sat, Feb 23, 2008 10:00am PST
Posted: Thu, Feb 21, 2008 12:33pm PST
Save Rent Control Update & Upcoming Tenant Events
As we fight to save rent control, we can’t forget that what we really need to do is strengthen and expand rent control. See here for details on a bunch of stuff happening in the next four days on both fronts....
Posted: Thu, Feb 21, 2008 12:27pm PST
Bhopal survivors march on New Delhi
Thursday, February 21, 2008 : Victims of 1984 disaster call for an independent commission to meet their needs....
Posted: Thu, Feb 21, 2008 8:03am PST
Risk of cholera multiplied by sewage collapse in Baghdad
Thursday, February 21, 2008 :With the northern summer approaching, fears have been voiced that the dysfunctional state of the Iraqi sewerage system will cause a major outbreak of cholera or other water-borne diseases in Iraq’s desperately poor working class districts. Cholera is an acute intestinal infection that causes severe diarrhoea, vomiting and dehydration and can lead to death if untreated....
Posted: Thu, Feb 21, 2008 7:53am PST
School Beat: The 10 Dumbest Things About the National School Lunch Program
The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) has provided meals to students since 1946, and currently serves over 30 million children. It is overseen by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). If you thought the recent news about possibly tainted beef in school cafeterias indicated some problems with the NSLP and its overseer, the USDA, you’d be right....
Posted: Thu, Feb 21, 2008 7:48am PST
Chinatown Subway Palm-Greasing Nightmare
SF Democrat "mayor" Newsom's palm-greasing Chinatown subway of 1.7 miles not connected to Market Street, with only 3 stops, disrupting the crucial Union Square shopping area during construction, is about to go the federal level, where his aunt, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, will demand the current (soon to be overrun, of course) $1.4 billion, while we need more buses, affordable housing, public healthcare and the like....
Posted: Thu, Feb 21, 2008 5:00am PST
San Leandro: "Who's Afraid of the Light Brown Apple Moth?"
Zocalo Coffeehouse
645 Bancroft Ave @ Dutton, San Leandro...
Event Date: Sun, Feb 24, 2008 1:30pm PST
Posted: Wed, Feb 20, 2008 7:13pm PST
CDFA "Scoping" Meeting in Oakland on Aerial Spraying for LBAM
Ellis M Harris State Building Auditorium
1515 Clay St.
Oakland, CA 94612...
Event Date: Tue, Feb 26, 2008 6:30pm PST
Posted: Wed, Feb 20, 2008 7:10pm PST
CDFA "Scoping" Meeting in SF on Aerial Spraying for LBAM
San Francisco County Fair Building Auditorium in Golden Gate Park...
Event Date: Mon, Feb 25, 2008 6:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Feb 20, 2008 7:07pm PST
Free Adoption Informational Workshop
Adopt A Special Kid
8201 Edgewater Drive Suite 103
Oakland, CA 94621...
Event Date: Tue, Mar 4, 2008 7:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Feb 20, 2008 5:14pm PST
Mayor Newsom and Cronies Repeated Mafia Tactics to Silence BVHP Supporter!
Mysterious and Unexplained Vandalism and Burglary Due to BVHP Supporter at My Residence!...
Posted: Wed, Feb 20, 2008 5:08pm PST
Welcome Dr. Luther Castillo Harry at Fundraiser for Health Care in Honduras Feb. 21
I urge you to attend this wonderful event benefiting health care in the Garifuna communities of Honduras. The keynote speaker, Dr. Luther Harry, is the leader of the rural health care movement in Honduras and trained at the Latin American School of Medicine in Havana, Cuba. Please join Lt. Governor John Garamendi, Bill Camp, executive secretary of the Central Labor Council and other Sacramento area supporters of CHIMES (California Honduran Institute for Medical and Educational Support)....
Posted: Wed, Feb 20, 2008 3:38pm PST
Incorporando a la Salud Ambiental a la medicina
Hoy en día, la humanidad contemporánea comprueba cómo se desarrollan la técnica y el progreso; pero, también alrededor de ella, existen preocupaciones por el progresivo deterioro del ambiente. El problema ambiental esta profundamente relacionado con el vínculo que tienen los hombres con su entorno y depende también de la relación de los hombres entre sí. El factor demográfico y el uso y consumo de todos los recursos naturales e industrializados que utilizamos los humanos a todo lo largo de nu...
Posted: Wed, Feb 20, 2008 1:03pm PST
How Ernie Worked to Make His Mother Homeless!
How Ernie Worked to Make His Mother Homeless! Vote No on 98, Yes on 99!...
Posted: Wed, Feb 20, 2008 11:48am PST
Meeting on PG&E's Planned Sierra Foothill Transmission Line, C3ETP
27953 Oak Flat Lane. From Fresno o east on Highway 168 past Academy, turn right on Sample Road. Continue about 5 miles to where Sample ends at Pittman Hill Road. Continue straight (east) on Pittman Hill about 3 miles to Sales Creek Road and wait there for a caravan and follow us in at 1:50PM....
Event Date: Sat, Feb 23, 2008 2:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Feb 20, 2008 9:31am PST
14 Hour Homelessness Marathon on Free Radio
101.1 FM Free Radio Santa Cruz www.freakradio.org
Archived at http://www.homelessnessmarathon.org/ .http://www.indybay.org/calendar/event_add.php?topic_id=0®ion_id=60
San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center...
Event Date: Wed, Feb 20, 2008 4:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Feb 20, 2008 8:59am PST
Why spend $850,000 on an Initiative that the City has NO economic analysis on and more
It is critical that when the City and County of San Francisco initiates any Major Initiatives and these are proposed to be put on the Ballot. A ballot measure that affect thousands of lives - that we have an ECONOMIC analysis in place on the subject. In fact there is an ORDINANCE in place but the City and County of San Francisco - keeps circumventing the WILL of the PEOPLE. Using scum bags like SAM SINGER to undermine the WILL of the people. Who is this Sam Singers that messes with Quality o...
Posted: Wed, Feb 20, 2008 7:31am PST
Detroit: highest home foreclosure rate in US
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 :Over the last four decades, Detroit has gone from boasting the highest rate of home ownership in the nation to the highest rate of home foreclosures in the US. Last week, the mortgage research company RealtyTrac Inc. announced that the economically depressed automotive center had the highest foreclosure rate in 2007 of the largest 100 metropolitan areas nationally....
Posted: Wed, Feb 20, 2008 7:18am PST
City Officials, Not Activists, Deserve Blame for Construction Delays
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 : John King wrote an article in yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle that blamed activists for delaying the revitalization of the Market/Octavia neighborhood. King and others have essentially accused Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi of halting progress last week by pushing for increased development fees in the area....
Posted: Wed, Feb 20, 2008 7:13am PST