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“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
Breaking Story: Oakland Housing Authority loses appeal in mass eviction case A bizarre case of alleged "Fraud and Corruption" ends in Oakland, when the Oakland Housing Authority lost an appeal to evict 35 families accused of being squatters, from their public housing units at Lockwood Gardens!...
Posted: Sun, Feb 11, 2007 6:56pm PST
Empowerment Conference Richmond Convention Center
3230 MacDonald Avenue
Richmond, CA 94804...
Event Date: Sat, Feb 24, 2007 10:00am PST
Posted: Sun, Feb 11, 2007 7:51am PST
Lack of affordable housing has deadly consequences Three tornadoes lashed through central Florida in the early morning hours on February 2, killing 20 people. Separate twisters touched down between 3:00 and 4:00 a.m. local time, the first in the rural community of Lady Lake, killing six people, and a few minutes later a second one swept through the small town of Paisley, claiming another 13 lives. Most of the victims were asleep and unaware of any impending danger. It is estimated that over 1,500 homes were destroyed or heavily damaged and th...
Posted: Sat, Feb 10, 2007 4:44pm PST
A stabbing in Oakland, and mugging of America The Brutal Policies Of The Bush Administration Wreak Havoc On America, and The World!...
Posted: Sat, Feb 10, 2007 12:56pm PST
Potrero Hill Public Housing Potrero Hill Public Housing is suffering because of lack of funds and personnel cuts to the SF Housing Authority. Sophie Maxwell the District 10 Supervisor and her cronies like the Potrero Boosters that you see at most of the Land Use Meetings - will not lift a finger to help those that need help most at the Potrero Hill Public Housing. While Sophie Maxwell gives large breaks and bends backwards to help the Matag Mogul on Potrero Hill - innocent, poor folks suffer each and every day....
Posted: Sat, Feb 10, 2007 5:01am PST
Action Alert: Invigorate, Don't Decimate, the Family and Medical Leave Act The Department of Labor has asked us to tell them what we think about the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and we have a week to tell them: "Invigorate, do not decimate, the Family and Medical Leave Act"....
Posted: Fri, Feb 9, 2007 9:28pm PST
TODAY (2/10), 9:15am- Protest SF Landgrab Gentrification, Relocation, Disenfranchisement....
Posted: Fri, Feb 9, 2007 1:56pm PST
Back-Alley Medicine? Uninsured Seek New Health Options Rising health care costs and crackdowns on undocumented immigrants are making many U.S. residents seek medical care from alternative health practitioners -- some of whom have dubious credentials. Viji Sundaram is New America Media's health editor....
Posted: Fri, Feb 9, 2007 7:40am PST
Edwards Gets It Right: PAUL KRUGMAN - Health Care ; How Not to Inflame Iraq KRUGMAN: Senator John Edwards has put forward a smart, serious health care proposal.
THE COMPLETE ARTICLE AND MORE...
Posted: Fri, Feb 9, 2007 6:07am PST
The Homelessness Marathon The Broadcast will originate from the Mexican American Baptist Church at the corner of “E” street and Mariposa in Fresno....
Event Date: Tue, Feb 20, 2007 4:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 7:52pm PST
The Mayor, the Broadcast and the Truth 
The Homelessness Marathon comes to Fresno...
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 7:29pm PST
California Food & Justice Coalition February Newsletter > :: Farm Bill News
> :: Internships with CFJC
> :: New Resources and Reports
> :: Funding Opportunities
> :: Roots of Change Fund Information & Outreach Meeting
> :: World Hunger & Food Price Protest (from Hunger Action Los Angeles)
> :: ACTION: Stop Amendments That Would Cut Farm Workers from the Minimum Wage
> (from UFW via Hunger Action Los Angeles)
> :: Member Announcements jobs, events, alerts and more.......
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 5:14pm PST
Protest At San Franscisco General Hospital to Reninstate City Medical Pot Card Axis of Love San Francisco is Putting a Call out to all Medical Marijuana Patients, Disability Activists, Aids Activists and Our Allies in San Francisco to Come and Protest the IMMENSE Increase in the FEE for a State Medical Marijuana Card by Over $125 bucks – Ross Mirkarimi has put a resolution to reinstate the city card program that would cost 25-50 bucks. It is facing an uphill battle....
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 4:54pm PST
Camp Quixote Supporters To Call Free Radio Tonight (2/8) Homeless activists and their supporters have responded to the anti-homeless Pedestrian Obstruction Law (Olympia Washington's latest version of the Santa Cruz Downtown Ordinances) with civil disobedience. On February 1st they created a homeless-run encampment--Camp Quixote. Ray, an Olympia activist, will call in tonight around 6:15 PM on Free Radio Santa Cruz at 101.1 FM (www.freakradio.org) to educate, agitate, and organize....
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 12:37pm PST
US Federal Reserve chairman issues warning on social inequality In a speech to the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce Tuesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, America’s central banker and one of the most powerful figures in the country, became the latest member of the US establishment to issue a caution about the growth of social inequality....
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 9:50am PST
The Value of Homeless Outreach My article establishes how outreach to our homeless communities will allow us as concerned community members to combat homelessness and poverty that is prevalent in our communities. I speak of three pockets of the homeless that we have to outreach to in different ways if we are to encourage social mobility in our social mobility among the poor and homeless of our communities. Our poor and homeless are struggling all over the state of California and we have to outreach to them....
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 12:32am PST
Urgent: Camp Quixote in Olympia Given Orders to Shut Down I thought I'd pass this along as yet another example on how this country is waging war on the homeless. Maybe the Bay Area homeless need to get more organized, like these guys appearently are....
Posted: Wed, Feb 7, 2007 8:38pm PST
Senate Votes on Funding for Public Housing: Call Today! Our Senators will vote this week on a joint funding resolution which could help fill the $1 billion shortfall for Public Housing. Now is the time to call to urge Senators Boxer and Feinstein to increase funding levels!...
Posted: Wed, Feb 7, 2007 10:44am PST
Getting My GED When I’m Sleeping Outside Countless hours of studying is perhaps the simplest part of preparing for the GED for homeless youth Alex Gutierrez. Gutierrez is a writer for Silicon Valley De-bug....
Posted: Wed, Feb 7, 2007 8:13am PST
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