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Apartment Investment and Management Company (AIMCO) bombards renters with Asbestos. AIMCO controls over 604 housing units and has in recent months started rehabilitating units with their jurisdiction at Hunters Point. In recent months many homes closer to Ingalls and Oakdale when had notices posted on the homes. The notice reveal that the residents have been exposed to Asbestos. Close by the residents were already exposed to Asbestos from the activities linked to Parcel A. In this case it is residential Asbestos that is adding to the state of affairs....
Posted: Sat, Oct 6, 2007 2:52pm PDT
Some of the factors that go into an Economic Analysis for the Bayview Hunters Point Over $200 million leaches out of the Bayview Hunters Point. A disparity has been created between those that live in Public Housing and home owners. There is NOT one single good Supermarket and the Public Transportation System is a utter failure in the Bayview Hunters Point. Add to that pollution - with over 450 toxic hot spots, the bombardment of toxic dust and Asbestos from Parcel A and Lennar BVHP LLC. This City and County of San Francisco - now has totally failed in its mission to uphold H...
Posted: Sat, Oct 6, 2007 8:30am PDT
San Francisco Planning Commission fails to demand Economic Analysis for the Bayview The Bayview Hunters Point is the last frontier and has been treated badly when it comes to serious Planning. Some years ago the SF Planning held some workshop only to shelf the plans. In the interim some vested interest with the help of the BVHP Project Area Committee blanketed large areas as Survey Areas and then Project Areas - without any meaningful dialog. Latinos, Samoans, Asians have been kept out - by a handful of corrupt Blacks working with the SF Redevelopment Agency and some Big Dev...
Posted: Fri, Oct 5, 2007 9:13pm PDT
Still Working for Food Justice 4173 mcarthur blvd
Oakland CA, 94619...
Event Date: Sat, Oct 27, 2007 10:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, Oct 5, 2007 5:05pm PDT
oil task force job The Peak Oil Preparedness Task Force consists of seven members appointed by the Board of Supervisors- there is one vacancy that needs to be filled....
Posted: Fri, Oct 5, 2007 4:05pm PDT
The dubious evaluation by the Agency for Toxics and Substance Disease Registry on Parcel A The Agency for Toxics and Substance Disease Registry (ATSDR) is a Federal Agency that mostly takes orders and follows them. This Federal Agency does not conduct independent tests and as such reviews current and old data. In this case dubious data provide by Lennar BVHP LLC. But, the ATSDR this time went further when it had the California Department of Public Health - prepare the report and in doing so - two agencies one Federal and the other State - failed to do the right thing by the communi...
Posted: Fri, Oct 5, 2007 8:53am PDT
Australia: Miscarriage tragedy highlights deliberate running down of public hospitals Friday, October 5, 2007 :Jana Horska, a 14 weeks pregnant, 32-year-old woman, suffered a tragic miscarriage in the toilet of one of Australia’s flagship teaching hospitals last week. In response to the media coverage of her ordeal, other people have started speaking out about their own experiences, revealing a public health system on the point of collapse....
Posted: Fri, Oct 5, 2007 7:37am PDT
Children demand "Health care, not warfare" Friday, October 5, 2007 : Huge coalition urges Congress to override SCHIP veto Children marched to the White House Oct. 2 pulling red wagons filled with petitions demanding that President Bush drop his plan to veto legislation passed by the Senate and House that would extend the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and expand it to cover an additional 4 million children....
Posted: Fri, Oct 5, 2007 7:36am PDT
Supporters rally for single-payer health care Friday, October 5, 2007 : CHICAGO — Imagine that every U.S. resident received a health insurance card that could be presented to any doctor or hospital for a full range of medical benefits. As a patient, you would pay nothing, and you would receive no medical bills. Does this sound to good to be true? Many argue that the U.S....
Posted: Fri, Oct 5, 2007 7:34am PDT
Religious Leaders Denounce Crackdown on Homeless Friday, October 5, 2007 : While Mayor Newsom held a press conference yesterday announcing the 2,000th person being housed under Care Not Cash, Religious Witness for Homeless People denounced the City’s crackdown on “quality-of-life” offenses. The interfaith group released a study showing that, in the past four years, the City has spent $7.8 million prosecuting such infractions....
Posted: Fri, Oct 5, 2007 7:20am PDT
The Chronicle Sinks to a New Low Friday, October 5, 2007 : In a transparent effort to boost its Internet readership, the San Francisco Chronicle is actively urging people to send e-mails describing how much they hate homeless people. Stirring up feelings of contempt toward our fellow humans is quite a journalistic endeavor. And what a wonderful way to convey a “love thy neighbor” sensibility! One can endorse police involvement in getting homeless people off sidewalks without denigrating people’s humanity....
Posted: Fri, Oct 5, 2007 7:20am PDT
Affordable Housing and its role in a sustainable future Green Fusion Design Center
14 Greenfield Ave
San Anselmo, CA 94960...
Event Date: Tue, Nov 6, 2007 6:30pm PST
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2007 4:31pm PDT
50% houses on market in Celebration, FL Celebration Florida is a centrally planned town neighboring Disney World in Florida, where street plans and architecture was designed to match a historical american village style.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration,_Florida...
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2007 3:44pm PDT
Emeryville Tree Removal Proposal: Oct 12th deadline to write formal objections The Oakwalk Mixed Use Project on 40th at San Pablo plans to remove about a dozen good sized trees and filed a Notice of Application to Remove Trees in the Public Right of Way on. September 28, 2007...
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2007 12:38pm PDT
Ban on Public Assemblies in Public Parking Lots at City Council Next Tuesday Vice-Mayor Ryan Coonerty's latest attack on the Constitution is a new local law. It will expand a bad law passed last year to ban lingering in a city parking garage. Coonerty's expansion will ban all those not parking a car or auto from all downtown city parking garages and now all downtown city parking lots. It will be coming to City Council for a first reading on the afternoon of Tuesday October 9th. soon after 3 PM. No more Food Not Bombs or Drum Circles on Wednesday. Cars, yes. hum...
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2007 11:21am PDT
NOW Calls on Congress to Remember our Children and Override Presidential Veto Wednesday, October 3, 2007 : NOW Calls on Congress to Remember our Children and Override Presidential Veto October 3, 2007 The health and well-being of our children should be a national priority....
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2007 7:44am PDT
Health of Drug Company Profits Thrives at the Expense of Seniors Thursday, October 4, 2007 : George Kourpias, president of the Alliance for Retired Americans, a 3.4-million members grassroots advocacy organization for current and future retirees, describes the extent and effects of drug company price gouging, as found in a new Alliance for Retired Americans Educational Fund report. Kourpias is a former president of the Machinists.By now, the fact that drug companies are profiting at the expense of patients is probably not surprising....
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2007 7:38am PDT
Nurses Blast Bush for Veto on Children's Health Wednesday, October 3, 2007 : The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee today condemned President Bush’s veto of the bill to refund the State Children’s Health Program. “Listening to the overheated rhetoric coming out of the White House, it seems that Karl Rove may be gone but his legacy lives on,” said Zenei Cortez, RN, member of the CNA/NNOC Council of Presidents....
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2007 7:34am PDT
Federal Gay Rights Bill: All of Us or None of Us Wednesday, October 3, 2007 : "All of us or none of us." That about sums up my feelings about the controversy over the exclusion of transgenders from the Congressional gay rights bill that would protect queers from discrimination in employment. Last week, U.S. Representative Barney Frank (D-MA) pushed to delete transgender folks from the legislation....
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2007 7:33am PDT
Nurses Rally to Save St. Luke’s As Strike Looms Thursday, October 4, 2007 : While George Bush vetoed a bill to expand the federal health insurance program for low-income children, Bay Area nurses protested a more local and immediate obstacle to affordable health care – Sutter Health. The corporate hospital conglomerate plans to shut down three of its local facilities that serve low-income patients, including St. Luke’s in the City’s Mission District. And with nurse staffing shortages that fall below proper regulations and industry standar...
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2007 7:27am PDT
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