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Grassroots Effort in Alameda to Oppose a Megaplex - City Council Mtg Tues, 7th In 2001 Mayor Appezatto got advice from other City Mayors telling him that they regret erecting huge parking structures downtown, that they usually aren't necessary, but always pushed for by developers. They told him that parking garage will destroy a City's Civic Center. Do we want a Civic Center where we can walk, stroll, bike and drive when we need to, or one permanently choked in fumes and traffic? Did you know that if erected the 6 level parking garage will be the tallest building downt...
Posted: Mon, Jun 6, 2005 6:33pm PDT
WAR IN ARCATA THIS IS WAR, SO DON'T RELEGATE THIS ARTICLE TO THE POVERTY SUBCATEGORY, OK??...
Posted: Sat, Jun 4, 2005 4:59pm PDT
Arcata Homeless Service Plan Update The domestic war on the homeless counterposed to the imperialist war on insurgency elucidated by these documents from the Arcata Homeless Shelter and Service Plan Task Force. A survey questionaire from the HSU consulting team and a task force subcommittee meeting's minutes with the chief of police, Randy Mendosa....
Posted: Fri, Jun 3, 2005 5:58pm PDT
Arcata's Homeless Task Farce update Arcata's Homeless Task Force co-opted by anti-homeless Bigots...
Posted: Fri, Jun 3, 2005 1:20pm PDT
Protest Hastings' Tenderloin parking garage: Thursday (6/2) at noon @ 200 McAllister **** Protest Hastings' proposed 7-story, 500-space, mega parking garage in
the Tenderloin *****
Thursday, 6/2 noon to 1 pm
Meet at 200 McAllister...
Posted: Wed, Jun 1, 2005 10:33pm PDT
Contact your Supervisor: Reverse Cuts in Parking Fees/Fines, Fund Muni Maintenance Last week, the Board of Supervisors Finance Committee voted to cut back
proposed increases in parking fees and fines, taking $4.4 million away
from Muni service and preventative maintenance and handing it back to
car drivers....
Posted: Wed, Jun 1, 2005 10:29pm PDT
US child poverty on the rise—statistics mask depth of crisis The child poverty rate in the US has steadily risen every year from 2000, according to several recent reports and press releases from public policy institutes and government agencies....
Posted: Wed, Jun 1, 2005 7:00am PDT
YUPPIE LIVE/WORK LOFTS INVADE CITY HALL!!!! 
Hey it's National Environment day!!! June 5th. and folks need YOUR HELP to make this the spectacle it deserves
to be!!...
Posted: Tue, May 31, 2005 3:15am PDT
Bush's Numbers Racket Bush's plan would undermine a system that has provided security for tens of millions of workers and their families for seven decades and which can continue to do so long into the future if it is just left alone. His private accounts would provide far less security while hugely raising costs.....
Posted: Sun, May 22, 2005 7:49am PDT
Human Dignity is Inviolable The Christian faith is obviously losing ground.. Dis-orientation and superstition spread. The merciless religion of the market has long replaced faith in the humanitarian God..Act so you always treat people as ends and never merely as means to an end (Kant)....
Posted: Sun, May 22, 2005 6:46am PDT
Is the Social State Ending? Socially just means people have comparable chances to develop in their lives, may have work, are protected against the great risks of life and can age with dignity. To that end, social systems and personal effort are necessary....
Posted: Fri, May 20, 2005 9:16am PDT
Federal Govt Experiments On Children "Current regulations are adequate to ensure that foster children enlisted in federal medical experiments are protected, a Bush administration official said Wednesday."
The Bush Regime's Crimes Against Humanity Are Further Exposed By The Experiments Taking Place On Our Nation's Children That Are Immoral, Unethical & Must Be Ended Immediately!....
Posted: Thu, May 19, 2005 5:00pm PDT
Voices Of The Lost And Forgotten - Pt. Three: The children's voices These are some of the voices of the children lost in a world of poverty, homelessness and despair. Their voices are the most painful to listen to. Everyone needs to hear their stories to fully understand the nightmare of homelessness and poverty from a child’s perspective....
Posted: Wed, May 18, 2005 2:30pm PDT
Storm Over Redevelopment Randy Shaw 18.MAY.05 ::
A large crowd overflowed the meeting of the Redevelopment Commission yesterday to protest Agency plans to cut funding to a popular Western Addition social service program and its support for a Starbucks at the former site of the Japantown Bowl. Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi condemned the Agency’s decision to allow Starbucks to circumvent a ban on franchise stores in the area, and at yesterday’s Board of Supervisors meeting requested a hearing on the city’s ability to main...
Posted: Wed, May 18, 2005 8:07am PDT
Broad Coalition Unites Against Newsom Budget Plan Casey Mills 18.MAY.05 ::
In a strong display of unity among the progressive community, members of organized labor, social service providers, seniors and a variety of activists gathered on the steps of City Hall yesterday to voice opposition to Mayor Gavin Newsom’s new plan for the City’s budget. Soon after the revelation that San Francisco would be $40 million richer next year due to jump in tax revenue, Newsom announced a plan to use all of this extra money for capital improvements, or in h...
Posted: Wed, May 18, 2005 8:05am PDT
Update On Steve DeCaprio's Case: Sentencing Wednesday Morning At 9am A judge has told Steve he can see a public defender but has also said that Steve will be receiving jail time (for squatting an abandoned building). Steve is currently out on bail....
Posted: Mon, May 16, 2005 12:16pm PDT
Johnson & Johnson Beset by RNs: No quarter given to Schwarzenegger allies 
"Last year, after Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed four bills that would have allowed Californians to buy cheaper prescription drugs from Canada, Johnson and Johnson contributed almost $50,000 to defeat the measure. Now the industry has pledged $10 million to defeat a ballot initiative that would create drug price controls with real teeth. Johnson & Johnson has already donated $1.3 million to the campaign."
--California Nurses Association, May 11, 2005...
Posted: Sun, May 15, 2005 7:51am PDT
Democrats Ammiano, Ad Nauseum, Oppose Bus Riders; Support Fare Hikes The "liberal" Democrats, Supervisors Tom Ammiano and Jake McGoldrick demonstrated their reactionary colors with their support of the "newly" found $9.2 million to go toward reducing parking fines & fees and not reducing bus fares. In Ammiano's District 9 in November 2004, the voters could have chosen socialists Steve Zeltzer or Lucrecia Bermudez or Green Party Renee Saucedo, but they chose Democrat Ammiano and they got the Democrat they voted for....
Posted: Fri, May 13, 2005 10:31pm PDT
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