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textNOTICE: Berkeley Public Housing Wait List Is Opening by Repost:
The Waiting List For Berkeley Housing Authority Public Housing Is About To Open:...
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 10:48pm PDT
calendarRECONSTRUCTING HEALTH CARE: The Pros, Cons, Benefits, and Pitfalls of Universal Coverage by Christie Bahna
The Commonwealth Club of California 595 Market St., 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94105...
Event Date: Wed, Sep 26, 2007 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 5:47pm PDT
calendarSan Rafael{Join a San Anselmo businesses man on how to create a greener Home} by
The Wooden Duck 1848 Fourth Street,San Rafael, CA 94901 415-453-0345...
Event Date: Tue, Sep 25, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 3:49pm PDT
textPotty Talk by Robert Norse
Bookshop SantaCruz Owner, Former Mayor, and Current Supervisor Neal Coonerty made some comments about vandalism, his bookshop, and homeless rights advocates Becky Johnson and Robert Norse on-line as a response to a Sentinel story about grafitti painted on City Hall yesterday. The Sentinel deleted the comment (as well as at least 25 others). I saved the webpage, yesterday, however--and here it is!...
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 12:51pm PDT
imagePhotos of Arizona Town Hall Discussing Health Care Reform 9-19-07.plus Audio
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by AZ Radio IMC
Photos of AZ Town Hall talking about Health Care Reform at Mesa Community College,with link of Audio....
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 12:50pm PDT
textFrance: Communist Party mayor calls police on the homeless by wsws (reposted)
Thursday, September 20, 2007 :In the early morning hours of September 6 in the Aubervilliers municipality in north Paris, CRS riot police brutally evicted more than 80 homeless families from a public square in the Maladrerie district where they had pitched their tents opposite a local school. Aubervilliers, a municipality of 63,000 inhabitants, is run by the French Communist Party (PCF) and its Socialist Party (PS) and Green Party allies....
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 7:08am PDT
textCourt Set to Rule Against Jose Morales in Ellis Eviction by Paul Hogarth via Beyond Chron
Thursday, September 20, 2007 : In a ruling that appears to defy the California Supreme Court, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ronald Quidachay is likely to grant judgment against tenant Jose Morales today and deny the 78-year old activist a jury trial. The judge found the landlord’s statement that he was going out of the rental housing business “conclusive” as a matter of law, despite the landlord giving multiple versions of his plans for the property....
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 6:58am PDT
textDean Preston to Start Statewide Tenant Organization by Paul Hogarth via Beyond Chron
Thursday, September 20, 2007 : Tomorrow is Dean Preston’s last day as a staff attorney at the Tenderloin Housing Clinic (T.H.C.), ending a seven-year stint in what was a very rewarding job. But local activists should not feel that Dean is “leaving.” He’ll be starting up a statewide tenants’ rights organization for California’s 14 million renters who struggle to get by in today’s brutal housing market....
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 6:57am PDT
textSchool Beat: Salad Days by Dana Woldow via Beyond Chron
Thursday, September 20, 2007 : Another day, another depressing study about kids’ health – this time it’s Newsweek reporting that a projection by the Center for Disease Control indicates that nearly half of all African American and Latino children born in the US in the year 2000 will become diabetic at some point in their lives. By now everyone knows that today’s youth are facing an obesity crisis that threatens to make their generation the first in modern history to have a shorter life span t...
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 6:57am PDT
textSave Tassafaronga Village Public Housing! by Lynda Carson
Stop the demolition of Oakland's public housing complexes, and save OUR low-rent housing in the process!...
Posted: Wed, Sep 19, 2007 10:57pm PDT
audioAudio:Arizona Town Hall Talks About Reforming Health Care 9-19-07 (audio/mpeg 7.2MB) by AZ Radio IMC
1 hour 2 minute discussion by AZ Town Hall at Mesa Community College,Mesa Az, to reform Health Care with the following speakers:...
Posted: Wed, Sep 19, 2007 8:39pm PDT
calendarCelebrating New Orleans Third Friday Free by Barbara Hayes
United Presbyterian Church, 112 E. Beach St., Watsonville Enter from the parking lot next to the Farmers Market, in back of the Cabrillo Annex lot, across the street from the Watsonville library....
Event Date: Fri, Sep 21, 2007 6:30pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Sep 19, 2007 9:47am PDT
textAs Health Care Debate Heats Up, Industry Spends Big Bucks by via Seth Michaels, AFL-CIO
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 : A new report shows that as the nation?s attention turns to health care, the health care industry has pumped unprecedented amounts of money into lobbying to protect its profit margins. According to the Congressional Quarterly (CQ), a Senate report shows the health care industry spent $227 million in just the first half of 2007 on lobbying activities?a 17 percent increase over the previous period....
Posted: Wed, Sep 19, 2007 6:55am PDT
textHouse: 9/11 Rescue Workers Deserve Health Care by via Mike Hall, AFL-CIO
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 : The Bush administration has been dragging its feet on monitoring and treating the health problems of the more than 40,000 World Trade Center first responders and recovery workers who worked on the massive and toxic rubble pile following the Sept. 11 attacks of Ground Zero, says Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.)....
Posted: Wed, Sep 19, 2007 6:55am PDT
imageThe Railroad Joins in a Tag Team Attack on Fresno’s Homeless
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by Mike Rhodes
The attacks against Fresno’s homeless continue. This incident involves a rogue officer from the Union Pacific Railroad who, I am told, slit open a homeless persons tent, roughed up one homeless man, and took his tools. The full story is below....
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 5:15pm PDT
calendarradical movie night-public blue by
The Long Haul- 3124 shattuck ave. berkley, ca. near ashby bart...
Event Date: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 8:30pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 2:27pm PDT
calendarBayview Hunters Point Summit by Espanola Jackson
The Bayview Hunters Point Summit will be held at 1800 Oakdale in the Bayview at the Alex Pitcher Community Room. The MUNI bus 23 and 44 stops within walking distance....
Event Date: Tue, Sep 25, 2007 10:00am PDT
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 2:08pm PDT
textSelfish Burlingamers tell elders to drop dead by sun
Peninsular NIMBYs versus seniors....
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 9:20am PDT
textEastern Neighborhoods, rezoning, and the ploys of the SF Planning Department. by Francisco Da Costa
The new maps, rezoning, and plans for the future of the Eastern Neighborhood smacks of unfairness, deceit, dubious ploys - that will adversely impact all of San Francisco. The SF Planning Department has once again - behind closed doors faked the maps - deceived the people and more the small developers. Really, what this plan does is entrench the " moratorium" and further leads the small developers and construction industry in limbo....
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 8:13am PDT
textUnions, Steel Giant Agree to Boost Job Safety for Workers by via James Parks, AFL-CIO
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 : Trade unions from more than 20 countries and Arcelor Mittal, the world's largest steel company, have committed to a new program to educate and train employees to raise health and safety standards throughout the company. The agreement was hammered out at the first world conference of Arcelor Mittal and its unions in Montreal....
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 7:40am PDT
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