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Sacramento Food Not Bombs
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
Sacramento Food Not Bombs
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
Sacramento Food Not Bombs
Cesar Chavez Park (10th and I Streets)...
Event Date: Sun, Jul 9, 2006 1:30pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 2:17pm PDT
Oak Park Summer Concert Series with community resources
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
FEDS PAVE WAY TO PRIVATIZE OUR HIGHWAYS...
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
Hunters Point: The removal picks up speed
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
Ten months after Katrina: Gutting New Orleans
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
Disability Perspective: Disabled Excluded from 4th of July Celebration
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
The modern day ‘never ending story’: post-Katrina long-term recovery
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
Are We Getting Happy Yet?
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
Save Berkeley's Public Housing & Section 8 Program
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
July 11 Berkeley City Hall Section 8/Public Housing Rally
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
Newsom-Ammiano Health Care Proposals Merged
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
Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan Media Alert
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
URGENT: BULLDOZERS ARRIVE AT SOUTH CENTRAL FARM!!
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
Affordable Housing Program Threatens Tenants With Eviction
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
For whom are Newsom and Maxwell developing the Hunters Point Shoreline?
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
Santa Cruz eviction of disabled & critically ill
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
Los Altos looking into banning bicycles
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
Legislative recess stalls final vote on outpatient commitment bill AB 2357 until August
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