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Leaders Urge Congress, Bush to Reauthorize Health Insurance for Children
Wednesday, July 25, 2007 : Nine million of America's children have no health insurance?and a broad coalition of groups came together on Capitol Hill today to send an important message: Health care coverage for our nation's children is something everyone should agree on. The coalition is urging Congress to pass, and President Bush to sign, legislation to reauthorize the State Children?s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and provide coverage for a vulnerable population our nation cannot afford t...
Posted: Wed, Jul 25, 2007 8:45pm PDT
California: Take Action for Universal Health Care
Special BCA E-Alert for California
Hello! This is a special e-alert for our California members. There are some exciting
upcoming opportunities in California to take action and do something, besides worry,
about breast cancer....
Posted: Wed, Jul 25, 2007 1:15pm PDT
Jesus-ing Up the Democratic Party
Wednesday, July 25, 2007 : Whom would Jesus vote for? That may well be the question on conservative Christian voters’ minds next year when they go to the polls to choose a new president. If political strategists in the Democratic Party have their way, the answer will be “the Democratic candidate.” Democratic leaders have been worried of late that their party comes off a little too secular or even anti-religious....
Posted: Wed, Jul 25, 2007 6:32am PDT
Lennar BVHP LLC making plans to transfer project linked to Parcel A at Hunters Point.
Koffi Bonner will be asked to leave Lennar BVHP LLC and seek fresher pastures. I hope he does so and moves far away from the Bay Area. Koffi with intent harmed thousands of our constituents in the Bayview Hunters Point and knows this to be a fact. Land Banking is bad - bad, for the Nation and bad for everyone - the only ones that profit from " Land Banking " are cartels and the Mafia. In San Francisco we will not tolerate such nonsense....
Posted: Wed, Jul 25, 2007 6:24am PDT
For Immediate Release / Ahimsa 4 Mayor / Thurs 7-26
For IMMEDIATE RELEASE / AHIMSA 4 MAYOR / THURS 7-26...
Posted: Wed, Jul 25, 2007 3:54am PDT
Tell Your California Legislator to Support SB840 for Single Payer Healthcare
The outstanding movie, Sicko, on the crisis in the US medical system, raises the issue once again this year in California, as with last year, does the state legislature have enough votes to pass SB840 for singlepayer healthcare and override Nazi Schwarzenegger's veto? It will if you tell your California assemblyperson and senator to co-sponsor SB840....
Posted: Tue, Jul 24, 2007 7:19pm PDT
Picket the Blue Shield Corporate Office in San Francisco
Blue Shield Corp HQ
50 Beale St,
San Francisco
(1/2 block south of Market at the Embarcadero BART/MUNI)...
Event Date: Thu, Jul 26, 2007 11:30pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Jul 24, 2007 3:31pm PDT
Lamp Swap
Elephant Pharm San Rafael
909 Grand Avenue
(415) 462-6000
www.elephantpharm.com...
Event Date: Wed, Aug 8, 2007 3:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Jul 24, 2007 10:57am PDT
MARIN GRASSROOTS Affordable housing letter to M. Board of Supervisors @ County Budget Meet
for more info on meeting and links @ http://egovwebprd.marinpublic.com/depts/AD/main/bgt07/index.cfm
MEETING STARTS LATTER OR END EARLIER...
Event Date: Wed, Jul 25, 2007 9:00am PDT
Posted: Tue, Jul 24, 2007 10:51am PDT
The Basics of Chinese Herbology
Elephant Pharm Berkeley
1607 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA 94709
(510) 549-9200
www.elephantpharm.com...
Event Date: Wed, Aug 22, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Jul 24, 2007 10:51am PDT
Children's Defense Fund's Marian Wright Edelman Calls on Government To Help the Country's Nine Million Children Without Health Insurance
Tuesday, July 24, 2007 :
As President Bush vows to veto a bill expanding the Children's Health Insurance Program, Marian Wright Edelman says Washington must do far more to help the nation's children and to truly leave no child behind....
Posted: Tue, Jul 24, 2007 10:01am PDT
Lack Of HIV Services For Gays Highlighted At International AIDS Conference
Tuesday, July 24, 2007 : (Sydney, Australia) Discrimination and a lack of access to health services have sparked an alarming rise in the rate of new HIV infections among men who have sex with men in developing countries, a leading American AIDS research group said Tuesday. Studies have found that infection rates are growing among men who have sex with men in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and less than five percent of those men have access to HIV-related health care, according to a statis...
Posted: Tue, Jul 24, 2007 8:43am PDT
San Francisco’s Planning Gridlock
Tuesday, July 24, 2007 : According to a recently issued report from Mayor Newsom’s “SF Stat” project, in the last six months of 2006 it took 287 days for an application for a construction project in San Francisco to even be assigned to a planner. It took over 500 days for initial environmental studies to be completed, a period that precedes the often lengthy public hearing process....
Posted: Tue, Jul 24, 2007 8:32am PDT
Newsom’s Double Standard
Tuesday, July 24, 2007 : Despite strong evidence against Supervisor Ed Jew, with most of his colleagues either urging him to resign or calling on the Mayor to take action, Gavin Newsom has remained aloof. In fact, the Mayor announced on Friday that the laws regarding a Supervisor’s residency and taking cash payments “need to be strengthened,” and asked the City Attorney to draft legislation to clarify the law....
Posted: Tue, Jul 24, 2007 8:32am PDT
MARIN GRASSROOTS WORKSHOP TO DRAFT LETTER on affordable housing For Marin Supervisors-S.R.
2915-A Kerner Blvd. San Rafael, CA 94901
P: (415) 451-4350 F: (415) 451-4357
E-mail: info@maringrassroots.org -...
Event Date: Tue, Jul 24, 2007 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Jul 24, 2007 8:25am PDT
Why doesn't Rep. Pelosi co-sponsor HR 676 for single payer health care?
The obvious question after viewing the outstanding movie exposing the bankrupt US healthcare system, Sicko, is what is Congress doing about this? The answer is there is HR 676, a bill for single payer healthcare. Believe it or not, Rep. Pelosi is not listed as a sponsor, and neither is most of the California delegation. If you cannot find your representative on the following sponsor list, call them and demand they sponsor HR 676 now....
Posted: Mon, Jul 23, 2007 9:38pm PDT
Tammy Faye: Show Woman to the End
Monday, July 23, 2007 : No one symbolized the opulence of the televangelist life like Tammy Faye Baker Messner. The once queen of the half-million-member television ministry called PTL (Praise the Lord) died July 21 at age 65. She went after a long struggle with colon cancer that left her weighing only 65 pounds. In her final years, Tammy Faye became a camp icon among drag performers and their audiences as well as a pro-gay televangelist who defended a community that most fundamentalists pub...
Posted: Mon, Jul 23, 2007 6:36am PDT
Call For Greater Access To HIV/AIDS Care
Sunday, July 22, 2007 : (Sydney, Australia) The world will not be able to celebrate advances in HIV diagnosis and treatment until the United Nations' goal of universal access to drugs is reached, leading international AIDS researchers said at a conference Sunday. "We are dealing with a preventable disease and 11,000 people are contracting HIV/AIDS every day....
Posted: Sun, Jul 22, 2007 10:37pm PDT
TENANTS VOICE MEETING-Grassroots Academy Alumni Picnic-Pickleweed Park
12pm Picnic Ends @ 3pm Tenants meeting Ends at 12:30pm...
Event Date: Sat, Aug 4, 2007 9:30am PDT
Posted: Sun, Jul 22, 2007 9:58pm PDT
Trash, and solidarity, grow
Friday, July 20, 2007 : OAKLAND, Calif. — As Waste Management of Alameda County’s lockout of nearly 500 union drivers entered its third week, mountains of garbage continued to grow in many parts of Oakland and neighboring communities. Solidarity with the members of Teamsters Local 70 continued to grow as well, as government, communications, transit, health care, and service workers, along with members of ACORN, joined the drivers, machinists, landfill, clerical and recycling workers on the pi...
Posted: Sun, Jul 22, 2007 5:21pm PDT