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Social Justice and Social Policy We run the risk of making economic success absolute. However economic success is a means to an end..Economic success is only legitimate when it improvoes the living conditions of citizens.. The social foundations of democracy fade when poverty, unemployment and social insecurity grow....
Posted: Wed, Apr 27, 2005 10:54am PDT
ACORN Protests Wells Fargo Loan Abuse Wells Fargo held its annual shareholders meeting Tuesday afternoon, and as security officers and customer service representatives fawned over stockholders holding a blue admission ticket, several individuals in red shirts crashed the party protesting what they saw as predatory lending practices by one of the country’s oldest banks....
Posted: Wed, Apr 27, 2005 10:04am PDT
Mayor Wasting Precious Anti-Poverty Funds on ‘Home Ownership Counseling’ The Mayor’s Office of Housing recently revealed its plan for allocating the multi-million dollar Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), a federal contribution to cities earmarked for helping low-income people. The plan allocates more than $200,000 to ‘home-ownership counseling,’ including classes, workshops and support for low-income people who want to purchase a home. Yet nowhere does the plan explain why the Mayor wants to spend money on services you could get from any realtor, or why he...
Posted: Wed, Apr 27, 2005 10:03am PDT
West Oakland Resident View on the Wood St. Development Project This article represents true community opinion regarding the Wood St. Development Project. Unfortuatunely, the coalitions and grass root groups never bother to asked before representing us....
Posted: Mon, Apr 25, 2005 3:08pm PDT
Town Hall Meeting of MUNI Drivers and Riders 
Join us on May Day at Cell Space at 7pm for a free dinner, community meeting, and film screening. We will be discussing how drivers and riders can together fight MUNI management against the employee lay-offs and the fare hike....
Posted: Mon, Apr 25, 2005 12:40pm PDT
Five Reasons for an Unconditional Basic Income for All Participation in modern societies is only possible when one has an income..The proposal to grant a basic income to every person independent of gainful work results from human rights and from pragmatic-economic considerations....
Posted: Mon, Apr 25, 2005 7:13am PDT
STOP THE FARE HIKES 
The Transit Justice Coalition needs your help to fight bus fare hikes and service cuts in San Francisco!...
Posted: Fri, Apr 22, 2005 5:55pm PDT
Prop 72, Local Edition? 70% of San Franciscans voted for it and 1 in 8 San Franciscans don't have it, but health coverage for the working uninsured may be in mid-range future if the city can make what Supervisor Tom Ammiano called "an extremely reasonable, incremental step toward universal health care." Yesterday Ammiano sponsored a Budget and Finance Committee hearing on the feasibility of city-mandated health insurance, which could add to the mosaic of city-sponsored programs already in place, and reduce...
Posted: Thu, Apr 21, 2005 9:46pm PDT
The Chronicle, Rescue Muni, and the Perils of One-Source Journalism Casey Mills 20.APR.05: Reading the past few articles published by the Chronicle concerning Muni, it would appear transit riders in San Francisco have a single leader who they trust completely to speak for them – Andrew Sullivan of Rescue Muni. When writing about everything from union strikes to service cuts, Chronicle reporters rely almost entirely on Sullivan to provide riders’ views. Yet Sullivan does not speak for most Muni riders, and he does not claim to do so. The Chronicle’s reliance o...
Posted: Wed, Apr 20, 2005 10:25pm PDT
4/21: Rincon Hill Development to be Contested at Public Hearing South of Market Residents and Advocates say High-Rises must not obscure
Community Needs on the Ground...
Posted: Wed, Apr 20, 2005 2:28pm PDT
Supervisor and Activists Vent Over City Homeless Policies Just about everybody would agree that homelessness is one of San Francisco's top problems, but that doesn't mean they agree on much beyond that. Yesterday the City Operations and Neighborhood Services forwent its usual bland diet of liquor licenses and stop signs for a five hour long hearing on the city's homeless policy that gave non-profit groups and Chris Daly a chance to vent frustrations, ask about the gritty details of some programs and question the success and motivations of others. In...
Posted: Tue, Apr 19, 2005 3:48pm PDT
Urgent Action Needed. On Tuesday, April 19, safe cosmetics legislation (AB 908) Hello! On Tuesday, April 19, safe cosmetics legislation (AB 908) in Sacramento will be up for its first and most difficult vote (which will be in the Assembly Health Committee)....
Posted: Tue, Apr 19, 2005 10:25am PDT
The Political History of Shoes 
Shoes are considered one of the first things humans made. Some made wooden shoes, some sandals from grass, some boots from fur and skins. Over time, fashion superceded utility and shoes became status symbols, as well as social factors, such as high heels and China's foot binding......
Posted: Mon, Apr 18, 2005 8:43am PDT
I wouldn’t have made it through school without them 
The Betty Shabazz Family Resource Center at City College of San Francisco provides free child care for low-income single parents who are students and needs the communities’ help to stay open...
Posted: Sun, Apr 17, 2005 3:38pm PDT
Back on the street blues 
A weekly cartoon from Dirtworshiping Heathens Sketchbook...
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Posted: Sun, Apr 17, 2005 12:57pm PDT
Disability Group Calls for Immediate Changes in Emergency Planning for People with Disabil National Council on Disability Calls for Immediate Changes in Emergency Planning for People with Disabilities...
Posted: Sun, Apr 17, 2005 10:40am PDT
10 Reasons Why a Basic Income is Necessary Today A basic income could heal our fragmented society caught in work fanaticism and work fetishism.. A basic income could change social attitudes and goals and give real meaning to the human rights to life and participation....
Posted: Sat, Apr 16, 2005 5:57pm PDT
Proposed Tenderloin Housing Clinic Cut Amounts to Attack on Renters, Immigrants For the past twenty years, renters in San Francisco knew that if they faced wrongful eviction, they could turn to the Tenderloin Housing Clinic (THC) for free legal help. Yet now, Mayor Gavin Newsom wants to launch another salvo at low-income and working class people by cutting in half funding for this aid. Should this proposed cut become a reality, vulnerable tenants throughout San Francisco, including monolingual Spanish speakers, will suffer....
Posted: Fri, Apr 15, 2005 6:49am PDT
FIGHTING FOR PUBLIC TRANSIT IN CHICAGO CHICAGO, April 13, 2005...
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 1:50am PDT
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