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Memories of Camp Quixote
The abbreviated story of Olympia, WA's Camp Quixote......
Posted: Fri, Feb 16, 2007 1:53pm PST
WHERE IS THE LOVE?
The State of California, because of its own incompetence, is raising the cost for obtaining a state Medical Cannabis ID card almost 400%...
Posted: Fri, Feb 16, 2007 8:30am PST
Bush budget would slash Medicare, reward rich
“The president’s budget is filled with debt and deception, disconnected from reality and continues to move America in the wrong direction,” charged Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, on Feb. 5....
Posted: Fri, Feb 16, 2007 7:00am PST
The Health Care Racket: PAUL KRUGMAN ; Dick Cheney’s Dangerous Son-in-Law
KRUGMAN: In our health insurance system, resources that could have been used to pay for medical care are instead wasted in a zero-sum struggle over who ends up with the bill.
THE COMPLETE ARTICLE AND MORE...
Posted: Fri, Feb 16, 2007 6:58am PST
US and UK worst places in developed world to be a child
The United States and Britain are the worst places in the major industrialised nations to be a child, according to a new report produced by Unicef. The organisation, which usually highlights the plight of child soldiers and children living in poverty in the so-called developing world, has turned the spotlight on 21 wealthy OECD countries. Its findings have exposed the appalling results of growing social inequality in both the UK and US. The report thoroughly refutes the claims of both governm...
Posted: Fri, Feb 16, 2007 6:29am PST
20th Anniversary of Toxic Wastes and Race
Center for Race, Poverty, and the Environment
450 Geary Street, Suite 500, San Francisco, CA...
Event Date: Thu, Feb 15, 2007 6:30pm PST
Posted: Thu, Feb 15, 2007 2:46pm PST
News Flash: Oakland Housing Authority Faces Lawsuits For Poor Behavior
As first read in recent days on Indy Bay News Wire, the Oakland Housing Authority faces major problems for mistreating it's public housing tenants, and now faces numerous lawsuits as a result... See the latest below......
Posted: Thu, Feb 15, 2007 12:34pm PST
Schools, Youth, and Parks Department Must Collaborate
How would you spend your spare time if you were a youth in San Francisco today?
The San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department suffers greatly from a misunderstanding of what young people desire for recreational services. No matter how tight their budget, the Department can claim no shortage of property and facilities to accommodate its users. At the same time, the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) is not able to keep pace with demand for athletic and after school programs. ...
Posted: Thu, Feb 15, 2007 9:18am PST
‘We shall not be moved!’
Making history in Black History Month, 1,000 residents demand no more ‘Negro Removal’...
Posted: Thu, Feb 15, 2007 1:02am PST
Call for the Second Katrina Survivors Assembly
In accord with the principle that “the People Must Decide”, the People’s Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition (PHRF/OC) calls for the convening of the Second Survivors Assembly on Saturday, August 25th – Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 in New Orleans, Louisiana. We ask that all Survivors Councils, independent Survivor formations, Gulf Coast civil society organizations, and Solidarity Committee’s interested in participating in the Second Survivors Assembly please contact us by March 1st, 2...
Posted: Wed, Feb 14, 2007 1:53pm PST
US, UK 'worst places for children'
Britain and the United States are the worst places in the industrialised world for children to live, according to a report by the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef)....
Posted: Wed, Feb 14, 2007 6:28am PST
Newsom’s San Francisco: Most Racist City in California
Will you be joining me Saturday morning at Whitney Young Child Development Center for our rally at 9:30 and then a meeting with the mayor that he describes as “an in-depth community discussion”? It should be interesting....
Posted: Wed, Feb 14, 2007 6:19am PST
How San Francisco’s taxi paratransit program is getting ruined by politics
San Francisco’s taxi paratransit program has long been a blessing for our disabled citizens. Since 1979—more than a decade before the federal ADA law of 1991—our city government has provided subsidized transportation for frail seniors, wheelchair users, dialysis patients and others with serious disabilities. Its innovative use of taxicabs for paratransit has been emulated nationwide....
Posted: Wed, Feb 14, 2007 6:16am PST
Oakland Housing Authority To Spend $400,000 On Evictions
Oakland Housing Authority Plans To Spend $400,000 On Evictions, Despite Claiming Poverty!...
Posted: Wed, Feb 14, 2007 6:16am PST
Supes Support Alice Griffith Tenants – But Endorse Lennar
The Board of Supervisors passed 8-2 a resolution yesterday to “endorse efforts” by the City, the Redevelopment Agency and the Lennar Corporation to transform parts of Hunters Point into a mixed use development – with a new 49ers Stadium, open spaces and various “tangible economic benefits” to the community’s low-income residents. Supervisors Chris Daly and Ed Jew were the only dissenting votes. Responding to an outcry from tenants at the Alice Griffith Housing Project (who fear losing their h...
Posted: Wed, Feb 14, 2007 6:16am PST
Groups With more than 8 Million California Members Launch “It’s OUR Healthcare!” Campaign
Seniors, Consumer Advocates, Health Advocates, Communities of Faith, and Labor Unite to Ensure That the People of California Have a Strong Voice to Shape Healthcare Reform...
Posted: Tue, Feb 13, 2007 2:11pm PST
Fears About Public Housing Show City Hall’s Disconnect
Rumors abound about the fate of San Francisco’s public housing developments. In a recent rant on Indybay.org, activist Francisco Da Costa claims that the City’s plan is to “slowly board up all of Public Housing at Potrero Hill, bring in the SF Redevelopment Agency and build high rise buildings for the filthy rich.” As reported in Beyond Chron on February 12th, angry residents of the Alice Griffith housing development marched on the Mayor’s “town hall” meeting protesting the City’s plans to de...
Posted: Tue, Feb 13, 2007 9:19am PST
Open Letter to the San Francisco Bay Area and Monterey Bay Area
We would also be interested in finding out if there are any other groups working on this particular issue, as not to "reinvent the wheel." So if someone from a group working on the Livermore issue can contact Kyoko, that would be great....
Posted: Mon, Feb 12, 2007 11:57am PST
Demolition of Alice Griffith Homes Dominates Newsom Forum
As he continues to defy the voter-approved “Question Time” at the Board of Supervisors, Mayor Gavin Newsom held a second Town Hall on February 10th at the Whitney Young Child Development Center in Bayview. In stark contrast to his first meeting in the Richmond, the audience did not let the Mayor run a scripted, staged event where he is in complete control. The largely low-income African-American residents of Bayview were upset about the past, frustrated about the present, and anxious about th...
Posted: Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:47am PST
“It’s lonely out in space”: The desperate astronaut and the unreality of official American
The unhappy incident involving astronaut Lisa Nowak is the latest episode in American life on which official sources shed virtually no light....
Posted: Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:23am PST