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Petitions to save Bayview Hunters Point, the 91% Black and Brown neighborhood slated for “repeopling” by San Francisco City Hall’s Redevelopment wrecking ball, were circulating all over town today, at farmer’s markets and street fairs and bus stops....

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Our Black youth are being killed in the Bayview Hunters Point and the Black Church have NOT steped up to the plate to do the right thing. Often times in the Bayview you will hear Black Pators scream and shout but nothing more and nothing less. At one time the Black Pastors were a force to be reckoned with - no more. Today, most of them are on the take and play second fiddle to those issues that really affect the community - the Black on Black killing in one of them....

The "therapeutic ratio" of a drug compares the amount required to produce harmful effects with the amount required to provide benefit. The therapeutic ratio of acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, is about 2:1 -and even lower if your liver has been compromised by hepatitis or alcohol. An Extra-Strength Tylenol contains 500 milligrams of acetaminophen. The recommended daily maximum is eight pills -4,000 mg, or four grams. A person taking twice that much can incur severe liver damag...

Humanist Hall 390 27th Street midtown Oakland, between Telegraph and Broadway, below Pill Hill...

From 1995 to 1997, I had the pleasure of working with the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department in their Workreation program, a training program that allows teenagers to become assistant day camp directors for recreation centers and latchkey programs around the city. In three summers, I worked at Youngblood Coleman Park, Hamilton Recreation Center and John Muir Elementary School....

More than two years after fundamental rights petitions were filed, the Supreme Court in Sri Lanka ruled on May 8 that 7,456 Tamil families evicted from the Palaly High Security Zone (HSZ) on the Jaffna peninsula be resettled in their village Valikamam. Onerous conditions apply, however, which mean that the villagers must be vetted and supervised by the military, which will remain entrenched in the area....

Last month, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to approve the Bayview-Hunters' Point Redevelopment Plan, thus opening up the prospect that, in coming years, long-term residents and merchants of Bayview-Hunters' Point will find their properties forcibly seized via eminent domain, and / or find themselves otherwise dislocated or priced out of their community. Under the leadership of Bayview residents and activists, an effort is currently underway to put the Bayview-Hunters' Point Rede...

With Friday’s landmark vote at the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) to move forward with a two-phased development approach that will deliver the train-ready Transit Center by 2014, Proposition C proponents suspended campaign activity this weekend. “The decision to finally move forward with the region’s most important transportation project was a long time coming,” said Prop C spokesperson and BART Director Tom Radulovich of Livable City. “Prop C made that possible. Now we have to mainta...

5 homes in Bakai squatters' community demolished without warning, residents caught by surprise. Rumors of a child killed by the police as residents clashed with the authorities on June 1, 2006....