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Just Us Voicing Our Concerns to Santa Cruz's Public Safety Committee 
On February 13th, Just Us and the Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra held a press conference and rally to call attention to Santa Cruz Police Department spying and their investigation clearing themselves of any wrongdoing. Police Auditor Bob Aaronson's rejection of the results of the SCPD’s investigation of its own behavior set the tone for the meeting of the Public Safety Committee of the Santa Cruz City Council. The Committee stated that they were not going to make any decisions until they had a ch...
Posted: Wed, Feb 15, 2006 9:54pm PST
Guns and Youngstas -- Three Youth Perspectives San Francisco recently passed a law banning the ownership of handguns; across the Bay in the Berkeley hills, a teen was stabbed at a party attended by more than 100 young people. New America Media contributor Geanise James, 16, remembers a house party she threw with her friends in Oakland that ended in gunfire. Lil E, 16, talks about why he doesn't carry a gun right now, and Lil' Chopper, 17, explains why he does. Geanice and Lil' E are writers for YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia -- Lil' Chopper...
Posted: Wed, Feb 15, 2006 7:35am PST
Judge Lets FEMA Evict 12,000 Families at Hotels A restraining order to halt the evacuees' removal is denied and the second wave of ejections begins, in some cases under guard....
Posted: Tue, Feb 14, 2006 11:17pm PST
Bay Area Children's Hospital Biased against Blacks? Ever notice that Bay Area hospitals and Children's in particular make it hard to find information on African American diseases? A recent review of a local hospital in Oakland shows the prejudice in information and ease of access to support services. Other diseases that are primarily white-man diseases have tons of information and counselors....
Posted: Tue, Feb 14, 2006 1:53am PST
3/7: STOP EVICTIONS IN BAYVIEW-HUNTERS POINT PLEASE DISTRIBUTE FAR AND WIDE!! A CALL TO ACTION!!
STOP EVICTIONS IN BAYVIEW-HUNTERS POINT
TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 4:00 p.m.
ROOM 416, CITY HALL, S.F....
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 11:11pm PST
"Have a Heart" Katrina Evacuee Press Conference TUESDAY "Have a Heart" Katrina Evacuee Press Conference
February 14th, Valentine's Day 4:00pm...
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 10:32pm PST
A Palestinian Woman Is Summarily Murdered By Israeli Army Gaza woman shot to death by IDF for coming "too" close to Kissufim crossing. What exactly does "disengagement" from Gaza really mean to Israel?...
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 9:09am PST
Bush budget targets 141 programs for elimination or drastic cutbacks The Bush administration released a detailed list Thursday of the federally funded programs it wants to cut or eliminate outright from its proposed 2007 budget. The White House has embarked on a public relations campaign to promote its budget plan, which must be approved by Congress....
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 7:27am PST
Proposal: The Healthcare Education And Accountability Act of 2008 A new Healthcare initiative that will hopefully pass and generate some momentum for change in CA....
Posted: Sun, Feb 12, 2006 8:30pm PST
The Lowdown on Sweet?: Aspartame Aspartame is sold under the brand names Nutra-Sweet and Equal and is found in such popular products as Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi, Diet Snapple and Sugar Free Kool-Aid. Hundreds of millions of people consume it worldwide. And Dr. Soffritti's study concluded that aspartame may cause the dreaded "c" word: cancer....
Posted: Sat, Feb 11, 2006 8:10pm PST
Danish Imams Fume at Cartoon Punishment COPENHAGEN, February11 , 2006 (IslamOnline.net) – Danish imams have criticized Immigration Minister Rikke Hvilshoj’s call to exclude some of them from integration dialogue in the Scandinavian country over participation in "internationalizing" the cartoons crisis....
Posted: Sat, Feb 11, 2006 3:22pm PST
Bird Flu Hits Europe, Warning of Human Mutation In an alarmingly rapid spread of the bird flu virus in Europe, Greece, Italy and Bulgaria reported Saturday, February11 , the first infections of the deadly disease in wild swans, as a UN expert warned that the virus is only two mutations away from a form that can spread easily among people, sparking a pandemic in which millions could die....
Posted: Sat, Feb 11, 2006 3:21pm PST
Eviction notice served on Bayview Hunters Point The cop who supervised the gang of police who beat and molested five children in Hunters Point on Martin Luther King Day 2002 gave us notice: “As long as you people are here, we will act like this,” he told the children’s terrified parents....
Posted: Fri, Feb 10, 2006 6:30pm PST
Affordable Housing Revision Tabled San Francisco’s Planning Commission voted Thursday to recommend that the Board of Supervisors table a proposed revision of affordable housing regulation until the results of a pending study are released this summer....
Posted: Fri, Feb 10, 2006 6:29pm PST
Direct Action for Katrina Survivors On Monday, February 13th, the New Orleans homeless population will skyrocket, and the survivors of Katrina will be victimized again. FEMA's short-term hotel program expires for most of the 26,000 displaced hurricane survivors and most of these evacuees have not been provided with long-term, or even transitional housing solutions....
Posted: Fri, Feb 10, 2006 10:02am PST
Why it matters that families are fleeing San Francisco We are child advocates, and we stand for the simple idea that our children ought to be our highest value. We believe that children are precious beyond measure and that any successful society invests its best resources and hopes in the success of its children....
Posted: Fri, Feb 10, 2006 6:35am PST
The Anti-Liquor Store Movement: an interview with Yusef Bey IV of Your Black Muslim Bakery The anti-liquor store movement in Oakland is part of the new Blackpower era that is emerging in Oakland. A few months ago, some brothas ran up in two liquor stores in North Oakland and threw all of the liquor that was being sold on the ground. That one action kicked off a movement that has Muslims from every faith involved. A Muslim brotha at the "Muslims against so-called Muslim-owned liquor stores" rally told me that 90 percent of Oakland's 930-plus liquor stores are owned by so-c...
Posted: Fri, Feb 10, 2006 6:32am PST
Bush's Social Security Sleight of Hand On page 321 of the budget proposal, you see the privatization costs..$712 billion is the seven-year total (from 2010). There are plenty of ways to fix social security besides offering private accounts as a substitute for part of the basic benefit....
Posted: Fri, Feb 10, 2006 5:44am PST
The Egyptian Ferry Disaster: Waves of anger and loss In Safaga, Mohamed El-Sayed and Magda El-Ghitany witness the tragic ramifications of the sinking of Al-Salam Boccaccio 98...
Posted: Thu, Feb 9, 2006 6:36pm PST
Direct Action for Katrina Survivors On Monday, February 13th, the New Orleans homeless population will skyrocket, and the survivors of Katrina will be victimized again. FEMA's short-term hotel program expires for most of the 26,000 displaced hurricane survivors and most of these evacuees have not been provided with long-term, or even transitional housing solutions. The National Guard is even on call to evict these survivors at gun point....
Posted: Thu, Feb 9, 2006 1:22pm PST
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