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More Spit on the Military by San Francisco? Changes to MUNI's 38 Geary - Fort Miley line are causing hardships on disabled veterans who have difficulty negotiating a steep hill. The legacy of spit continues to haunt San Francisco which has a reputation of being anti-military. What happened this time....
Posted: Sun, Apr 29, 2007 4:18pm PDT
Somalia cholera death fears grow An escalation in violence in Somalia has left many too frightened to seek treatment for cholera, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres has warned....
Posted: Sun, Apr 29, 2007 12:48pm PDT
Tanker fire destroys part of MacArthur Maze; 2 freeways closed near Bay Bridge (04-29) 09:24 PDT OAKLAND -- The heat of a dramatic gasoline tanker fire destroyed an overpass and closed two major roadways in the MacArthur Maze at the East Bay access to the Bay Bridge early this morning....
Posted: Sun, Apr 29, 2007 10:33am PDT
ASA Co-Sponsors Largest HIV/AIDS Lobby Day This month, Americans for Safe Access (ASA) will co-sponsor the largest annual
HIV/AIDS constituent-based federal advocacy and education event in the US...
Posted: Fri, Apr 27, 2007 11:00pm PDT
US: FDA knew of food contamination for years For years, the federal Food and Drug Administration knew about contamination problems on California spinach farms and at a Georgia peanut butter processor that sickened at least 600 people and caused at least three deaths, according to agency documents and interviews obtained by the Washington Post....
Posted: Fri, Apr 27, 2007 10:12pm PDT
New on Electric Politics: U.S. Welfare Tickets 
Chris Howard, author of The Welfare State Nobody Knows, talks to George Kenney at Electric Politics....
Posted: Fri, Apr 27, 2007 9:11am PDT
Encampment Still Going Strong on City Hall Lawn 
Update on People Project Protest in Arcata with photos....
Posted: Fri, Apr 27, 2007 8:15am PDT
Somalia is 'worst refugee crisis' More people have been displaced in Somalia in the past two months than anywhere else in the world, the United Nations has said....
Posted: Fri, Apr 27, 2007 6:12am PDT
Camp Quixote Solidarity! The Movement To End Racism, Classism and Sexism! 
Just like the homeless crisis in California, and just like Resurrection City, there is another incredible movement in the USA that isn't getting enough publicity. That movement is called Camp Quixote, a tent city that includes several members who survived Hurrican Katrina! #4 of "the Open Source Classism, Racism, and Sexism Project" zine has just come out and is structured in an opensource mode so that people can circulate it and help their own movement as well!...
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 8:08pm PDT
Anna Nicole Paternity Test/farm bill! This is just a statement about the upcoming farm bill. It has been widely ignored in the past, but it's really significant. It sets our standards and rule for the American Food Service. It has led to rididculous subsidies for soy, wheat, rice, and corn which has led to cheap processed unhealthy food being more affordable than fruits and vegetables. It is also destroys the world econoomy....
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 5:53pm PDT
Environmental Health Groups Intend to Sue EPA on Carbon Monoxide Environmental Health Groups to File Suit to Keep Children and Mothers Safe
from Carbon Monoxide Pollution; Bush Administration Drags its Feet, Fails to Strengthen
Nationwide Clean Air Standards...
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 5:10pm PDT
AIDS Activists Call for Global Boycott of Abbott for Withholding Drug Sales in Thailand AIDS activists from around the globe are converging in Illinois on Friday to protest outside the annual shareholders meeting of the pharmaceutical company Abbott Laboratories. Abbott manufactures several leading AIDS drugs but has been embroiled in controversy over its actions in Thailand where it moved to withhold medicines from the country over a commercial dispute....
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 8:46am PDT
Photos Challenge Claims Made By Arcata Mayor About Encampment 
photos and claims...
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 8:46am PDT
Crushing Small Farms at Home, Destroying Third World Farmers Abroad US Agricultural Policy is Destructive...
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 8:39am PDT
Will Leland Yee Stand With Tenants on Ellis Act Reform? Last year, the San Francisco Tenants Union endorsed Leland Yee in his successful run for the State Senate. So did the Harvey Milk Club, the Bay Guardian and other progressive groups in town. They endorsed him despite questions about Yee’s record on tenants’ rights, after pro-tenant politicians like Jake McGoldrick insisted that he could be trusted....
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 8:35am PDT
Arcata Encampment Update Many spent the night in front of city hall....
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 8:28am PDT
People Project Camp Busted in Arcata 
April 25, 2007
Arcata, CA...
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 10:11pm PDT
Regional powers provide a pittance in aid to tsunami victims in Solomon Islands The response of the Australian and New Zealand governments to the humanitarian crisis in Solomon Islands underlines their callous indifference toward the people of the Pacific island states. A massive earthquake triggered a tsunami on April 2, devastating much of the Western and Choiseul provinces and causing a series of landslides on Ranonga Island. Thousands of people have been displaced, leaving them vulnerable to disease and food shortages....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 10:02pm PDT
People Now Occupying Front of Arcata City Hall we are now in front of city hall....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 9:46pm PDT
T Train 25% on time;Engineering Report on Central Subway 39% done The boondoggle, palm-greasing scheme known as the T Third train is now supposedly 25% on time, up from 12% on time, both signs of a failure in the planning stages, wasting almost $700 million from us tax payers. Meanwhile, the other palm-greasing construction project, the worthless Central Subway which is to go from 4th & King to Clay & Stockton, not solving any transportation problems, has an engineer's report that is 39% done....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 8:59pm PDT
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