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There have always been leftovers at People’s Park, be it food, clothes, shoes, plants, or anything else people want to donate to those in need. But when Berkeley naturalist Terri Compost turned up there last Saturday to carry out her usual work-day routine of planting and spreading wood chips, a UC Berkeley police officer came up to her and said that she could no longer block access to the driveway for delivering food and garden supplies or leave food on the stage....

The other day during a brief press opportunity, President Bush expressed his concern about rising gasoline prices, assuring Americans that his administration feels the public's pain, while laying out three reasons for rocketing prices of the past two months....

Supporters of San Francisco’s Prop D rallied on the steps of City Hall yesterday to highlight a recently released state report revealing widespread acts of violence against patients at Laguna Honda. The situation at Laguna Honda is so bad that the state is fining SF daily, and suspending new medical payments to the facility. But Health Director Mitch Katz showed up at the rally and claimed Prop D backers are misrepresenting the state report. Katz argued that Laguna Honda remains the best skil...

"federal appeals court panel ruled on Friday that arresting homeless people for sleeping, sitting or lying on sidewalks and other public property when other shelter is not available was cruel and unusual punishment." New York Times April 15...

As the city held a variety of ceremonies commemorating the disasters that resulted from great quake of 1906, a group of activists staged a ‘die-in’ to dramatize a looming disaster that could happen should another quake occur. Lying amidst a variety of fake bricks and other rubble, the protestors demanded the 156-unit Civic Center SRO Hotel be seismically retrofitted immediately. The was supposed to be retrofitted two months ago, but the owners – Plumbers Union Local 38 - have yet to file for ...

This Wednesday April 19 is the Follow Up to the Community Dialogue that happened several weeks ago...

We take a look at what the United Nations calls "one of the world's worst humanitarian crises" - Sudan's Western region of Darfur. We speak with Fatima Haroun, a Darfurian refugee, and Juan Mendez, the United Nation's Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide....

The Big One will come and that fact has been made very clear by many experts. Foremost the United States Geological Survey Agency. I have studied the maps for the last 15 years and what I see from the maps and very recent data makes the situation at hand very serious. As human beings we can take the precaution and wait. We cannot defeat Mother Nature - we saw that with the Tsunami and we saw it with the recent major Earthquakes. The pity is that we have inept City Officials in San Francisco t...

Christ's end was his true beginning. If Christian hope is reduced to the deliverance of the soul in a heaven beyond death, then its life-renewing and world-changing power is lost.. The hope of Jews and Christians is also hope for the nations and hope for the earth and all its inhabitants....

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down LA's sleeping ban! They are going to prevent its enforcement for as long as the homeless population exceeds the shelter beds. Cruel and unusual punishment was the grounds for striking it down. Inform yourself at the web link provided....