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Spike Gets It Right in 'Levees,' Says New Orleans Resident Spike Lee's 4.5-hour documentary on New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina is mesmerizing. Just as important, the writer says, it's an evenhanded take on what went wrong, and a loving tribute to the city and its residents. Randy Fertel, a native New Orleanian, teaches the Literature of War and of Exile at the New School for Social Research. He directs the Ruth U. Fertel Foundation, which is devoted to education in Louisiana. He serves as executive producer on the forthcoming documentary "Tootie's ...
Posted: Thu, Aug 24, 2006 9:10am PDT
Ethnic Media Share Survival Stories One Year After Katrina SAN FRANCISCO – The men in the office slept on the floor, had to forego bathing and ate rations provided by the National Guard, but they were able to broadcast nonstop after the devastating hurricane. The men were five dee jays for 1540 Radio Tropical Caliente, some of the workers for the ethnic media of New Orleans that survived Katrina to provide first response services and eventually overcome financial blows and play a role in the rebirth of the city....
Posted: Thu, Aug 24, 2006 9:09am PDT
Katrina’s One–Year Anniversary Yields Harsh Retrospective WASHINGTON, D.C. – Dawn Peterson, Miss Wheelchair Louisiana 2005, was paralyzed from the waist down by gunfire in a carjacking gone bad. Yet, armed with an education and ferocious perseverance, she continued to sustain herself as a paralegal, fully employable, she said, until Hurricane Katrina ripped the wheels off her life....
Posted: Thu, Aug 24, 2006 9:04am PDT
San Francisco's Public Housing Budget Slashed! Take Action Now! When is the last time you heard the President mention housing? In all of his State of the Union addresses and stump speeches combined, the issue of housing simply never comes up. While it's obvious that Mr Bush has other priorities such as the war and tax breaks for the wealthy, he has been known to at least give lip service to some issues that are important to working people such as health care, jobs and social security. Even if we on the left don't like what he has to say about these issues...
Posted: Thu, Aug 24, 2006 9:02am PDT
“Critical Mass" Puts Blind Pedestrians At Risk The July version of bicyclists' "Critical Mass" ride exposed a long-time problem that SF's political glitterati have steadfastly, adamantly, religiously, unrelentingly, and without exception refused to respond to: hazards to pedestrians. At the July Critical Mass demonstration, a blind pedestrian who uses a white cane was walking along the south side of Union Square after work. This ped. was stopped, for minutes and minutes and minutes, by the circling swarm of cyclists. Here's where it gets ...
Posted: Thu, Aug 24, 2006 9:00am PDT
California Legislature passes outpatient commitment bill 
With bipartisan super-majority votes that stunned and dismayed mental health clients and advocates, the California Senate and Assembly passed involuntary outpatient commitment (IOC) bill AB 2357, sending the bill to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign or veto. The bill would extend Laura's Law, California's existing outpatient commitment law, by five years. Opponents, including the California Network of Mental Health Clients, plan to launch a letter-writing campaign to urge the Governor to...
Posted: Thu, Aug 24, 2006 3:13am PDT
A HOT SALSA BENEFIT for "Patrice" Batya Ackerman CAFÉ COCOMO
650 Indiana @ Mariposa
San Francisco, CA...
Event Date: Sun, Aug 27, 2006 8:30pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Aug 23, 2006 5:51pm PDT
PARTYIN’ Benefit for "Patrice" Batya Ackerman LA PEÑA CULTURAL CENTER
3105 Shattuck @ Prince
Berkeley, CA...
Event Date: Wed, Aug 23, 2006 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Aug 23, 2006 5:27pm PDT
Watsonville Benefit Show Ramsay Park Center
1301 Main St.
Watsonville...
Event Date: Sat, Sep 9, 2006 6:30pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Aug 22, 2006 4:45pm PDT
Spike Lee Discusses "Levees" BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. - It has been 20 years since Spike Lee burst on the scene with his sexy and controversial movie, “She’s Gotta Have It.” The low-budget, independent film was shot in two weeks and cost a paltry $175,000 to make. However, “She’s Gotta Have It” grossed $8 million at the box office and catapulted the fledgling filmmaker’s career....
Posted: Tue, Aug 22, 2006 4:02pm PDT
SF BAY SQUATTERS ALLIANCE (HOMES NOT JAILS) 2431 Mission St (cross street is 20th)
transit lines: BART 16th or 24th ST Stops, 14 Muni line, 33 Muni line if coming from Haight Ashbury.
San Francisco California...
Event Date: Mon, Aug 28, 2006 8:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Aug 22, 2006 2:21pm PDT
Commemorating Katrina: More than 50 events planned to honor and heal >
> This Calendar of whats up this week in New Orleans is brought to you by your friends at www.neworleansnetwork.org....
Posted: Mon, Aug 21, 2006 3:18pm PDT
KATRINA COMMEMORATION EVENTS, UPCOMING! > GREAT FLOOD COMMEMORATION EVENTS: ONE YEAR LATER
> Take time to honor and remember our dead. Fight for the right to
> return for all those still displaced. Stop the Ethnic Cleansing of New
> Orleans....
Posted: Mon, Aug 21, 2006 3:03pm PDT
Food Not Bombs 2nd Annual Fundraiser @ Full Circle Brewery Full Circle Brewing Co. located at 620 F Street in Fresno's historic chinatown....
Event Date: Sun, Sep 24, 2006 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Aug 21, 2006 12:02pm PDT
War in Sri Lanka creates a flood of refugees Ongoing fighting initiated by the Sri Lankan military against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is creating a social catastrophe. More than 160,000 people have been displaced since the army launched what the Colombo government falsely described as a “limited, humanitarian operation” on July 26 to seize the Mavilaru irrigation sluice gate inside LTTE territory....
Posted: Mon, Aug 21, 2006 6:44am PDT
Promoting Homelessness (audio/mpeg 13.7MB) 15-min excerpt of 58-min R.I.S.E. audio program on Bush attack on low-income housing. Lynda Carson, a Section 8 tenant in Oakland, CA, is an anti-eviction activist....
Posted: Fri, Aug 18, 2006 10:26pm PDT
Indian flood deaths highlight government indifference to recurring social calamity In what has become a tragic annual ritual during the summer (June-September) monsoons, rains and overflowing rivers have killed at least 400 people and left more than 4 million homeless in the Indian states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh over the past two and a half weeks. The lives of as many as 15 million people have been disrupted by the flooding....
Posted: Fri, Aug 18, 2006 6:24am PDT
Haiti Today: Occupation and Resistance St. Joseph the Worker church
1640 Addison Street, Berkeley (between Jefferson and McGee)
Wheelchair accessible/disabled persons should park on Jefferson
Parking is available in the church lot on McGee...
Event Date: Sat, Sep 9, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Aug 17, 2006 11:32pm PDT
Sparkle SF Benefit to Support Under One Roof St. Regis Hotel San Francisco
125 3rd Street
San Francisco, CA, 94103...
Event Date: Fri, Nov 3, 2006 6:30pm PST
Posted: Thu, Aug 17, 2006 1:56pm PDT
Herrera Sues Skyline Realty, CitiApartments for Pattern of Illegal Business Practices City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed suit against one of the largest residential landlords and property managers in San Francisco today, alleging an egregious pattern of unlawful and unfair business practices whereby rental units were illegally recovered from tenants; renovated in clear violation of building and safety codes; and then unlawfully relet at dramatically increased rental rates -- occasionally as short-term corporate housing, representing still another violation of local law. The li...
Posted: Thu, Aug 17, 2006 8:31am PDT
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