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Coastal Access Denied to Motorhomes and Trailers in Santa Cruz Ranger John Wallace, six police officers and four squad cars showed up Wednesday August 29, 2007 at noon at a public parking lot designated as LOT A on West Cliff Drive, north of the Lighthouse and Steamer Lane to harass and ticket a 60 year old woman and her companion, critically ill with AIDS. New signs were posted during the night denying motorhomes and trailers access to the parking lot during day hours. He cited municipal code 13.04.010MC given by the ranger states "Limitations on publ...
Posted: Thu, Aug 30, 2007 5:26pm PDT
New Orleans Hit By Another "Hurricane of Racism, Greed and Corruption" - Community Activist Malik Rahim Thursday, August 30, 2007 :
On the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Democracy Now! broadcasts live from the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans. We take a look at the state of New Orleans two years after the storm with two local activists: Malik Rahim, cofounder of the Common Ground Collective and Alice Craft-Kerney of the Lower Ninth Ward Health Clinic....
Posted: Thu, Aug 30, 2007 8:10am PDT
"The Red Cross Has Basically Stolen Money From Victims in New Orleans" - People's Hurricane Relief Fund Blasts Katrina Aid Pr Thursday, August 30, 2007 : A five-day International Tribunal on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita opened last night in New Orleans. The tribunal is bringing together hurricane survivors, international delegations, expert witnesses, a team of human rights and civil rights prosecutors, and a panel of US-based and international judges....
Posted: Thu, Aug 30, 2007 8:10am PDT
Post-quake Peru runs out of tents Thursday, August 30, 2007 : Peruvian officials say they need 40,000 more tents to house victims of the quake that struck two weeks ago....
Posted: Thu, Aug 30, 2007 7:44am PDT
Hurricane Katrina's aftermath: from natural disaster to national humiliation Thursday, August 30, 2007 :We are reposting below a statement that originally appeared on the WSWS on September 2, 2005, four days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall. It is also published in the pamphlet “Hurricane Katrina: Social Consequences & Political Lessons,” which brings together articles and statements posted on the WSWS in the immediate aftermath of the Katrina disaster, and can be ordered online....
Posted: Thu, Aug 30, 2007 7:43am PDT
Bush visits New Orleans on Katrina anniversary: returning to the scene of the crime Thursday, August 30, 2007 :Working class residents of New Orleans responded with anger and protests to the visit paid by George W. Bush Wednesday on the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, a tragedy which led to the loss of more than 1,800 lives and massive devastation in the region. Bush administration neglect and indifference contributed to the deaths and mass suffering and continues to be responsible for the plight of countless thousands of present or former New Orleans and Gulf Coast...
Posted: Thu, Aug 30, 2007 7:42am PDT
US census report shows falling earnings, rise in uninsured Thursday, August 30, 2007 :New census data released this week shows that American workers continued to see an erosion of their living standards in 2006, even as the US economy entered its the fifth year of job growth following the recession of 2001. The new census report, “Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States,” gives a glimpse of the economic suffering felt by tens of millions of working people in the US....
Posted: Thu, Aug 30, 2007 6:46am PDT
Lennar BVHP LLC the nearby Public Housing Projects and Mayor Gavin Newsom The Federal Government should be very cautious of the plans - Mayor Gavin Newsom has for Federal Property and more for poor people that he does not bother to included in any discussion. Mayor Gavin Newsom has failed to garner Hope VI funds, linked to Public Housing - thinks he can bring some PUNK rick folks and tell them all of Bayview Hunters Point consists of very poor people. And that is not so. Again, he has made a FOOL of himself....
Posted: Thu, Aug 30, 2007 6:37am PDT
Nation’s Second Largest Mall Owner Drains Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars From Local Communities And Schools Across US Wednesday, August 29, 2007 : As Nation’s Children Return to the Classroom, Study Details More Than $200 Million in Public Giveaways and Tax Savings Washington, D.C.—The nation’s second largest mall owner, General Growth Properties (GGP), has pursued what appears to be a systematic business strategy that has drained hundreds of millions of dollars from local communities and schools across the United States....
Posted: Thu, Aug 30, 2007 6:34am PDT
Lower 9th Ward School Reopened Originally From New America Media
Thursday, August 30, 2007 : New Orleans, LA – Following numerous months of arduous struggle, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Charter School for Science and Technology finally had something to celebrate. At its rededication ceremony on June 10th, a jubilant crowd cheered as Joseph Recasner, dean of students, called on the community to “take pride in what has been done....
Posted: Thu, Aug 30, 2007 6:32am PDT
Free to the Public Stanford Prevention Research Center Health Screening & Recruitment Fair Hoover Pavilion 211 Quarry Road
Stanford, CA 94305
http://ppop.stanford.edu
(Located at the north east corner of Stanford Campus across from Stanford mall;
directions located at http://prevention.stanford.edu/contact.asp)...
Event Date: Sat, Sep 15, 2007 8:00am PDT
Posted: Wed, Aug 29, 2007 3:25pm PDT
The Path to Destruction: Two Years After Katrina, Cleanup and Recovery Far From Complete Wednesday, August 29, 2007 :
Today marks the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The storm ravaged the Gulf coast of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama and left over 1,600 people dead. More than 300,000 homes were destroyed and over 770,000 people displaced. It was the most powerful and expensive natural disaster to hit the country and one of the deadliest hurricanes recorded in US history. We speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, John McQuaid....
Posted: Wed, Aug 29, 2007 8:54am PDT
"The APA Has Long Been a Clan" - Psychologist, Author Mary Pipher Returns APA Award over Interrogation Policy Wednesday, August 29, 2007 :
"I think that the APA has long been a clan," said Mary Pipher, a clinical psychologist and author of Reviving Ophelia" among several other books. She returned her Presidential Citation award from the America Psychological Association in protest over the group's policy on military and CIA interrogations. "The top leadership, the people on the council have been there for decades. It's a very ingrown group of people and I think we probably need some new leadershi...
Posted: Wed, Aug 29, 2007 8:54am PDT
SF Mayors Miss New York City’s Main Lesson Wednesday, August 29, 2007 : After traveling to New York City earlier this year, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom began promoting a local version of the “Community Court” he had observed in Brooklyn. Newsom’s attempt to apply NYC programs to SF is part of a long tradition. In the 1980’s, San Francisco underwent a high-rise development boom known as “Manhattanization.” In the 1990’s, Mayor Frank Jordan sought to replicate Rudy Giuliani’s criminalization of homelessness through his “Matrix” pro...
Posted: Wed, Aug 29, 2007 8:34am PDT
Marin In-Home Supportive Services Public Authority Meeting Grassroots Council Monthly Meeting
Pickleweed Park Community Center Room #4
50 Canal Street., San Rafael
August 30th 2007
6:00-8:00pm
Meetings end a guess...
Event Date: Thu, Aug 30, 2007 4:30pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Aug 29, 2007 8:29am PDT
Bush’s Medicare Drug Fails to Cut Costs Wednesday, August 29, 2007 : The first report card on Bush's Medicare prescription drug program is in?and it shows a failing grade for controlling the cost of medication for seniors. Seniors in Medicare's Part D prescription drug program are more likely to pay at least $300 a month for medicines than those on other plans, according to a study published by the journal Health Affairs....
Posted: Wed, Aug 29, 2007 8:23am PDT
Two Years After Katrina: ‘Our National Shame’ Wednesday, August 29, 2007 : Michele Baker and her husband, Alex, survey the damage at their home after Hurricane Katrina. In the two years since Hurricane Katrina came ashore on the Gulf Coast, the Bush administration has failed miserably to deliver on the president's promise to rebuild the area, especially New Orleans. Instead of acting quickly to provide the aid needed to bring the Crescent City back, the administration is using the rebuilding effort to promote its conservative agenda a...
Posted: Wed, Aug 29, 2007 8:22am PDT
Hurricane Katrina two years on Part 1: New Orleans--A city in social and economic distress Wednesday, August 29, 2007 :The following is the first in a series of articles on the second anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. Future installments will deal with housing conditions, the state of the levee system, profiteering in the Gulf Opportunity Zone and other issues. Two years ago, on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the US Gulf Coast....
Posted: Wed, Aug 29, 2007 8:15am PDT
Renowned Psychologist, Author Returns APA Award over Interrogation Policy Tuesday, August 28, 2007 :
Renowned psychologist and New York Times bestselling author Mary Pipher decided last week to return her Presidential Citation award from the APA in protest. In a letter to the group's president, she wrote, "I have struggled for many months with this decision and I make it with pain and sorrow...I do not want an award from an organization that sanctions its members' participation in the enhanced interrogations at CIA 'black sites' and at Guantanamo."...
Posted: Tue, Aug 28, 2007 4:45pm PDT
Fremont-Rideout to Lock out RNs, One-day strike is set for August 31 - RNs Condemn Role of U.S. Nursing Corporation Tuesday, August 28, 2007 : Registered nurses at Fremont-Rideout Health Group today sharply criticized the decision of hospital officials to use professional strikebreakers and threats to lock out the RNs for several days following a one-day strike Friday – at a cost of far more than it would take to settle the current contract dispute....
Posted: Tue, Aug 28, 2007 4:43pm PDT
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