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Yellowstone Park? No, Farragut Square park "The crime is camping, and here apparently it is a crime to lay on a bench because protecting a statue of David Farragut from everything except the pigeon shit is more important to our national heritage than are the poorest residents of our city who have no rooves over their heads."...
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 8:40am PDT
Through the Cracks and Out in the Cold Coalition on Homelessness Reports High Shelter Turn-Aways...
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 7:43am PDT
Is Sickness a Crime? Arizona Man With TB Locked Up Indefinitely in Solitary Confinement 27 year-old Robert Daniels is being held against his will in a Phoenix hospital ward reserved for sick prisoners. If state officials have their way, he could be there for the rest of his life. Daniels is suffering from a deadly strain of tuberculosis known as XDR-TB. Doctors say he is virtually untreatable. He has been forced to live in a hospital cell in complete isolation....
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 7:17am PDT
BCA E-Alert April 2007 Hello! It's time for another installment of Breast Cancer Action's monthly e-alert--
a collection of news, notices, and action alerts for people concerned about the
breast cancer epidemic. Welcome to any new e-alert members!...
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 10:18pm PDT
Fresno Homeless Evicted 
The City of Fresno forced homeless people to move from an encampment on Olive and West Avenue, just West of Roeding Park today. Instead of taking and immediately destroying homeless peoples property, they put there things in a large container and hauled it off to a city owned warehouse in downtown Fresno. The photo below was taken shortly before the clean-up began....
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 4:55pm PDT
Possible Bike Church in Watsonville Brown Beret Headquarters (406 Main St., Suite 408A) Behind Ritmo Latino in Watsonville....
Event Date: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 12:45pm PDT
homes not jails rally and march rally @ mission and 24th street then march to the house occupation site...
Event Date: Sat, Apr 7, 2007 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 11:44am PDT
Free Market "Champions" Oppose Single-Payer Health Plan State Senator Sheila Kuehl, who represents Santa Monica, has authored one of the four prominent health care plans that challenge Governor Schwarzenegger’s proposal. Kuehl’s plan—known as SB 840—is the only plan that offers comprehensive, single-payer health coverage to everyone in California. SB 840 calls for replacing the private health insurance companies with a statewide trust fund responsible for funding the program....
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 10:41am PDT
Planning Surgery Required on Luxury Condo Cancer at Market/Octavia As San Francisco fights for its future against an onslaught of developers and their senior planner allies in the Eastern Neighborhoods who are enamored with million-dollar condos and luxury towers, another massive re-zoning comes quietly before the Planning Commission for final approval today—the “Better Neighborhoods” Market Octavia Plan. Commenced around 1999, this once innovative planning process was put into place to repair the urban fabric in Hayes Valley as the Central Freeway was torn ...
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 10:37am PDT
Solomon Islands: tsunami causes humanitarian disaster At least 30 people are confirmed to have died in Solomon Islands after a massive earthquake measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale triggered a tsunami, which struck the western part of the country on Monday morning. The final death toll may be significantly higher and more than 5,000 are believed to be homeless. The Solomon Islands government has appealed for international assistance and declared a state of emergency for the Western and Choiseul Provinces and the northern part of Isabel Island....
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 10:36am PDT
The Restoration Advisory Board (RAB), the Citizens Advisory Committee(CAC) to the Shipyard The Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) and the Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) to the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard have an important role to play. The CAC tows the line and when the Mayor says jump it does - just before the Disposition and Development (DDA) to Parcel A was published it stacked the members to 26 from 9. The RAB works closely with Navy and the clean up of the entire Shipyard. When parcel A was conveyed to the City and County of San Francisco - the RAB did no endorse the decisi...
Posted: Wed, Apr 4, 2007 5:58pm PDT
April 7 & Port money for Schools PORT MONEY for EDUCATION & SOCIAL SERVICES is among the themes of the Saturday, April 7th rally at Port Headquarters. Please see below for info on April 7th and also articles on where Port money could go--but does not currently go....
Posted: Wed, Apr 4, 2007 5:36pm PDT
Critical Manners- Bike Spring! Fri., Apr. 13 | 5:30pm meet, 6:00pm start, Northeast corner of Larkin &
Grove*
Critical Manners: a revolutionary act of courtesy. Come put the nice back in
the bike world with critical manners! A helmet-wearing, bell-ringing,
blinkie-sportin' good time for you and all your bike friends....
Posted: Wed, Apr 4, 2007 4:11pm PDT
NCPA: Corporate Profits - Supercede Cancer Care Needs In the current system of drug development, if a promising compound can't be patented, it is highly unlikely ever to make it to market — no matter how well it performs in the laboratory. The development of new cancer drugs is crippled as a result, says columnist Ralph W. Moss....
Posted: Wed, Apr 4, 2007 3:05pm PDT
Humanity For Homeless Halts Monday Night Meal Humanity For Homeless Halts Monday Night Meal...
Posted: Wed, Apr 4, 2007 1:32pm PDT
Subprime Lending Crisis: Millions of Families Face Losing Their Homes to Foreclosure 
Subprime loans have led to one million American families losing their homes in the past decade, a new study by the Center for Responsible Lending has found. In the last ten years, the subprime loan industry has emerged as a major, and controversial, player in the housing market. We speak with an attorney at the Center for Responsible Lending....
Posted: Wed, Apr 4, 2007 7:11am PDT
Lennar BVHP LLC spreading LIES before Park and Recreation Advisory Committee There was Lennar BVHP LLC complete with fake maps, incomplete documentation, spread fabrication before the SF Park, Recreation and Open Space Advisory Committee - better know as PROSAC. Now, Lennar wants to place the proposed nee stadium stark center on top of Parcel E. Parcel E has a raging fire that is still burning underground. It is estimated that this parcel alone will take over $3 billion to clean up. The crooks plan to CAP the area and expose thousands to the worst pollutants. Again gr...
Posted: Wed, Apr 4, 2007 6:38am PDT
The Subprime Tsunami Awards A tsunami has swept the land of sub-prime mortgages: most of which lies in the southern reaches of California, home of New Century Financial Corp, where the executives are cut from the same cloth that made Enron infamous. Soon the dry-cleaning will begin, and Robert K Cole, one of the founders of New Century Financial, is among the first ......
Posted: Tue, Apr 3, 2007 3:25pm PDT
AUDIO: Pastors For Peace Promotes Free Med School In Cuba 
Conference at Laney College promoting scholarships at the Latin American School of Medicine
Audio: Alicia Jrapko, (US Rep., Int’l Cmte For the Freedom of the Cuban Five) (8:42)
Rev. Lucius Walker, ED of Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO) (14:54)
Carol Cross, Bay Area Cuban Sister Cities (31:22)
Ellen Bernstein, Associate Director, IFCO (leading Q&A) (48:43)
Sarpoma, a 5th-year student at the Latin American School of Medicine (7:47)...
Posted: Tue, Apr 3, 2007 10:50am PDT
Homeless Fall Through the Cracks While Care Not Cash has housed over 1,500 people, last week’s release of the annual count shows that the homeless population in San Francisco remains unchanged from last year. Meanwhile, nearly 1,000 people have been dropped from the County Adult Assistance Program (C.A.A.P.) rolls without getting housed – and most are still in town....
Posted: Tue, Apr 3, 2007 8:37am PDT
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