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calendarSacramento Food Not Bombs by Sac FNB
Sacramento Food Not Bombs Cesar Chavez Park (10th and I Streets) Every Sunday 1:30 PM...
Event Date: Sun, Jul 23, 2006 1:30pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 2:20pm PDT
calendarSacramento Food Not Bombs by Sac FNB
Sacramento Food Not Bombs Cesar Chavez Park (10th and I Streets) Every Sunday 1:30 PM...
Event Date: Sun, Jul 16, 2006 1:30pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 2:19pm PDT
calendarSacramento Food Not Bombs by Sac FNB
Cesar Chavez Park (10th and I Streets)...
Event Date: Sun, Jul 9, 2006 1:30pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 2:17pm PDT
calendarOak Park Summer Concert Series with community resources by
McClatchy Park (35th Street and 5th Avenue) in Sac....
Event Date: Sat, Jul 22, 2006 1:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 11:24am PDT
textFEDS PAVE WAY TO PRIVATIZE OUR HIGHWAYS... by Bob Dacy
The question is how do you destroy the national sovereignty of the United States, merge it with the rest of the western hemisphere, build the infrastructure system needed to link up the entire landmass, confiscate private property on a wholesale level, spy on everyone's comings and goings, and trick American suckers into paying for their own demise all in one fell swoop ? The answer: TOLL EVERYTHING! "public-private partnerships." tolls collected will be automatic, requiring universally...
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 9:19am PDT
text Hunters Point: The removal picks up speed by SF Bay View (Reposted)
SF Redevelopment Agency watching and waiting while all poor people of color are swept off ‘the Hill’...
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 6:48am PDT
textTen months after Katrina: Gutting New Orleans by Bill Quigley (Reposted)
Saturday I joined some volunteers and helped gut the home of one of my best friends. Two months after she finished paying off her mortgage, her one-story brick home was engulfed in 7 feet of water. Because she was under-insured and remains worried about a repeat of the floods, my friend, a grandmother, has not yet decided if she is going to rebuild....
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 6:32am PDT
textDisability Perspective: Disabled Excluded from 4th of July Celebration by Beyond Chron (reposted)
MTA, through both MUNI and DPT, made--and then failed to communicate--traffic control decisions that systematically excluded people with disabilities from taking public transit to the Aquatic Park site for the 4th of July celebrations. This also resulted in a substantial exclusion of people with disabilities from actually getting down to Aquatic Park....
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 6:21am PDT
textThe modern day ‘never ending story’: post-Katrina long-term recovery by SF Bay View (Reposted)
FEMA’s decision to discontinue rental assistance to Katrina survivors last month led to a scramble to locate sufficient resources in the Bay Area. Unfortunately, these efforts have resulted in a dead end search....
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 6:19am PDT
textAre We Getting Happy Yet? by New American Media (reposted)
A study that says more sex -- from once a month to once a week -- makes you just as happy as getting $50,000 more a year has unintended repercussions, writes Rene Ciria-Cruz, an editor at New America Media....
Posted: Thu, Jul 6, 2006 10:07pm PDT
textSave Berkeley's Public Housing & Section 8 Program by Lynda Carson
Budget Cuts Have Placed Berkeley's Housing Authority At Risk! More Than 1,800 Public Housing & Section 8 Families At Risk Of Homelessness!...
Posted: Thu, Jul 6, 2006 12:53pm PDT
calendarJuly 11 Berkeley City Hall Section 8/Public Housing Rally by Lynda Carson
Where: On The Steps Of The Old City Hall At 2134 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way., In Berkeley!...
Event Date: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 6:30pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Jul 6, 2006 12:24pm PDT
textNewsom-Ammiano Health Care Proposals Merged by Casey Mills, Beyond Chron (reposted)
The Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee voted unanimously yesterday to merge two proposals aimed at provided universal health care to San Franciscans. Mayor Gavin Newsom's proposal, which he co-wrote with a panel of experts and some Supervisors, contained the framework for the plan, but according to testimony from both the Budget Analyst and Public Health Director Mitch Katz, it lacked sufficient funding to work. Supervisor Tom Ammiano's proposal solves that problem by requiring...
Posted: Thu, Jul 6, 2006 6:45am PDT
textPastors for Peace Cuba Caravan Media Alert by Agusto Cesar Sandino Segundo (y mucho mas)
This post includes a couple things. A link (again) to a blog maintained by a fellow caravanista, a link to the SC cuba caravan groups myspace and a media alert from the Intereligious Foundation for Community Organizing, the parent organization of Pastors for Peace....
Posted: Wed, Jul 5, 2006 8:20pm PDT
textURGENT: BULLDOZERS ARRIVE AT SOUTH CENTRAL FARM!! by Victoria
Activists practicing civil disobedience inside the nations largest urban farm are being violently dragged out and arrested! One minor was thrown violently onto the concrete before being aprehended. More and more police continue to arrive! Stop this injustice!...
Posted: Wed, Jul 5, 2006 3:24pm PDT
textAffordable Housing Program Threatens Tenants With Eviction by Beyond Chron (reposted)
An Orange County-based management company is attempting to use the federal Low Income Housing Tax Credit program (LIHTC) to displace dozens of tenants from their homes. The company also seeks to remove the large Tenderloin apartment building from San Francisco’s rent control law. Although the LIHTC is designed to increase affordable housing, as applied at 1030 Post Street the program raises rents for virtually all tenants, evicts those unable to pay the higher rents, and permanently exempts t...
Posted: Wed, Jul 5, 2006 7:12am PDT
textFor whom are Newsom and Maxwell developing the Hunters Point Shoreline? by SF Bay View (Reposted)
The 10,000 people who have signed the Stop Redevelopment petition so far don’t intend to give it up...
Posted: Tue, Jul 4, 2006 5:48pm PDT
textSanta Cruz eviction of disabled & critically ill by Donna Deiss
I, a 58 yaer old disabled marine pipefitter and my partner who has full blown AIDS and many other disabilities, are facing an Eviction lawsuit and have been unable to find an attorney and must go to a hearing on July 12. My partner needs his HUD voucher to be put through ASAP and to find a 2 BR house by early August. PLEASE HELP!...
Posted: Tue, Jul 4, 2006 2:03pm PDT
textLos Altos looking into banning bicycles by richard Maxum
taking the lead from it's neighbor Woodside California Los Altos CA. is considering limiting Bicycle traffic...
Posted: Tue, Jul 4, 2006 1:23am PDT
imageLegislative recess stalls final vote on outpatient commitment bill AB 2357 until August
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by Delphine Brody
The California Senate adjourned Friday without having voted on involuntary outpatient commitment extension bill AB 2357, affording the bill's opponents an additional month to defeat the legislation....
Posted: Mon, Jul 3, 2006 11:03pm PDT
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