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imageVote for Laura Richardson 37th Congressional District ~ California
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by Khubaka, Michael Harris
Laura Richardson hard work and diligence has paid off in an opportunity to serve our United States of America. Our sista friend fine butter pecan queen political voice, Honorable Laura has the complete support of the California Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association. So many residents of the 37th Congressional Disctrict of California will embrace a better standard of living by the work of Laura. Let August 21 be a wonderful celebration for the people....
Posted: Fri, Jul 6, 2007 9:52pm PDT
calendarMarin Tenants Organizing Meeting-¡Acompañenos! El Sabado En el Pickleweed Park by Olivia Beltran - Night/Weekend Number David Q
Off of 101 take Bedlam after taking turn off going toward Richmond Bridge(do not go on freeway going troward bridge}. Take left Under Freeway when see shoping center and main post office - Look for Circuit City take Kerner away from Bridge - to end of St. - Take right...
Event Date: Sat, Jul 7, 2007 9:45am PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 6, 2007 7:46am PDT
textWhere is Nancy Pelosi and Diane Feinstein on Parcel A and the bombardment of our children? by Francisco Da Costa
Both Diane Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi are as fake as the two inch make up they wear and have no idea what is happening in their own back yard here in San Francisco. Daily, Lennar BVHP is bombarding the community and especially the children with toxic particulates and breaking every law and protocol that mandates the curbing of pollution. Lennar, has with intent adversely impacted thousands and continues to defy logic, and breaks every law, rule and protocol....
Posted: Fri, Jul 6, 2007 7:12am PDT
textSupport the Healthy Families Act: Write to your rep. by NOW (reposted)
Thursday, July 5, 2007 : Sixty-six million full-time and part-time workers have NO sick leave, even after a full year of employment -- which means their jobs may be at risk when they or members of their family are ill. This represents 54% of all private sector and state/local government employees. You can help us change that situation....
Posted: Fri, Jul 6, 2007 6:54am PDT
textWaiting Times for Care? Try Looking at the U.S. - Nurses, Doctors Say It's Time to Debunk the Myths by CalNurses (reposted)
Even Aetna Admits U.S. System 'Is Not Timely'. Thursday, July 5, 2007 : Waiting times in U.S. hospitals and clinics are becoming so lengthy that even one of the nation's biggest insurers, Aetna, has admitted to its investors that the U.S. healthcare system is "not timely" and patients diagnosed with cancer wait "over a month" for needed medical care, said two leading organizations of doctors and nurses today....
Posted: Thu, Jul 5, 2007 5:12pm PDT
imageHomeless Evictions Heat up in Fresno
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by Mike Rhodes
With temperatures going up to 111 degrees today, City of Fresno crews were busy pushing homeless people from a shady overpass. There is no safe place for the over 8,000 homeless people to go. The mayor has reneged on a promise to provide them with a safe place to go....
Posted: Thu, Jul 5, 2007 4:29pm PDT
textFlood-hit Pakistanis Carve for Help by IOL (reposted)
KARACHI — With local and international focus centered on the Red Mosque crisis, thousands of people in the flood-ravaged southeastern Balochistan and southern Sindh provinces are still carving for attention and help....
Posted: Thu, Jul 5, 2007 9:04am PDT
textWill Sicko spark a movement? by Znet (reposted)
Thursday, July 5, 2007 : MICHAEL MOORE’S film Sicko has become a lightning rod for all the anger with the U.S. health care system--and activists who support radical health care reform were on hand to show tens of thousands of people who saw the film what they can do about it....
Posted: Thu, Jul 5, 2007 8:59am PDT
imageUK: Two Arrested at Cambridge GM potato picnic
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by Indymedia Repost
Syndicated Content From UK Indymedia...
Posted: Thu, Jul 5, 2007 8:35am PDT
textMayor Gavin Newsom fails the constituents of Bayview Hunters Point again and again by Francisco Da Costa
Mayor Gavin Newsom started his ploys up at Hunters Point in the projects by fixing some basket ball courts and planting some flowers. Now, if you visit the sites the flowers and dead the basket ball courts not maintained and dirty. Mayor Gavin Newsom - is as fake as the make them - a scum bag that chose to put ethics and morals in the waste basket and choose lies, fake projects , and sell outs to make deals and deceive mostly poor people that cannot defend themselves....
Posted: Thu, Jul 5, 2007 3:28am PDT
textNew Zealand woman dies after power company cuts off electricity supply by wsws (reposted)
Wednesday, July 4, 2007 :New Zealand mother-of-four Folole Muliaga, 44, died on May 29, three hours after a contractor working for the Mercury Energy power company cut off the electricity supply to her South Auckland home because the family was late paying a $168.40 power bill. The action rendered Muliaga’s electrically-operated oxygen machine useless....
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 11:09pm PDT
textEthnic Seniors Lost in America by Viji Sundaram,New America Media (reposted)
Wednesday, July 4, 2007 :The American Association of Retired People held a first of its kind national diversity conference that explored a wide range of issues affecting America’s burgeoning elderly population, particularly their access to health care....
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 9:15am PDT
textPrague: thousands protest against cuts in social programs by wsws (reposted)
Wednesday, July 4, 2007 :On Saturday, June 23, one of the largest demonstrations since the collapse of the former Stalinist regime in 1989 took place in the Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic. Approximately 35,000 people protested against the reform plans of the country’s conservative-Green Party coalition. The protest held in Prague’s Wenzelsplatz had been called by the central Czech trade union federation CMKOS and various other trade union organizations....
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 8:59am PDT
textEU-BRAZIL Summit: neglect of poor causing extreme violence by Amnesty International (reposted)
(Brussels 4 July) As Portugal hosts its first Summit after taking over the EU Presidency Amnesty International urges it to set a precedent for the next six months by having a frank discussion about human rights with its counterpart, Brazil....
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 8:54am PDT
textThugs sent all over the Bayview to spread misinformation by SF Health Department by Francisco Da Costa
Why would the San Francisco Health Department and Dr. Rajiv Bhatia resort to educating thugs and others at the last moment to send them into the community to spread misinformation. Lennar has been bombarding the community with toxic dust and Asbestos friables for months. Now, suddenly the SF Health Department has chosen to remedy the situation after adversely impacting the Bayview Hunters Point community for so long....
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 8:34am PDT
calendarTRAUMA FIRST AIDE CLASS by Ellen Byrne
Women’s Building, 3543 18th St., #8 San Francisco, California...
Event Date: Fri, Aug 17, 2007 9:00am PDT
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 7:45am PDT
textCrucial Week for Sicko in 200 More Cities on 7/3 and 100 more on 7/6 by $
We, the millions of people who saw Sicko on its first weekend, were successful beyond all expectations! We packed so many movie theaters across the nation that it will now be shown in 200 more cities starting July 3 and 100 more cities starting July 6. This is a Make it or Break It Week for Sicko! Go there with everyone you can find over age 10 and then you and everyone you bring should sign up for your state's single payer health care plan campaign now! Ticket information, Single Payer b...
Posted: Tue, Jul 3, 2007 8:37pm PDT
calendar@Space 550 (Club) 1 yr. old Chris Padua Fundraising Event-Liver Transplant! by Cecilia Wong
Space 550 (Club) 550 Barneveld St, S.F....
Event Date: Sat, Jul 7, 2007 10:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Jul 3, 2007 10:07am PDT
textZoning Board Rejects South Berkeley Cell Phone Antennas by Berkeley Daily Planet (reposted)
Tuesday, July 3, 2007 : A group of South Berkeley residents won a close victory Thursday when the Zoning Adjustments Board (ZAB) voted 5-4 to reject a use permit application by Verizon Wireless and Nextel Communication for 11 cell phone antennas atop the UC Storage building at 2721 Shattuck Ave., following a second remand from the City Council in May....
Posted: Tue, Jul 3, 2007 9:03am PDT
textThe Day I Kissed a Guy at the Liberty Bell by Tommi Avicolli-Mecca via Beyond Chron
Tuesday, July 3, 2007 : I grew up in South Philly not far from where the Liberty Bell resided in historic Independence Hall, but I never actually saw the famed cracked bell until I was well into my 30s. I don’t think anyone in my working-class, Italian neighborhood ever had. When you live that close to something, you tend to take it for granted....
Posted: Tue, Jul 3, 2007 8:13am PDT
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