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Mayor Newsom's budget cuts protested
Hiz Honor refuses to meet with representatives of San Francisco's poor. January 13, 2005....
Posted: Fri, Jan 14, 2005 11:43am PST
The Phony Social Security Crisis
The Wall Street/Bush Administration Con-men Promote Their Phony Social Security Crisis In Hopes Of Duping The Public Into Allowing The Privatizion (termination) Of America's Favorite Retirement Program!...
Posted: Thu, Jan 13, 2005 11:39am PST
Public Editor: Why the NY Times Doesn't Cover Environmental and Social Justice Issues!
I just received the following e-mail from the NY Times Public Editor, Daniel Okrent. My request: The NY Times should start an environmental and social justice section...
Posted: Thu, Jan 13, 2005 9:52am PST
Public Citizen Launches WorstPills.org, a Website Listing Dangerous Prescription Drugs
Public Citizen Launches WorstPills.org, an Online Database Listing Dangerous Prescription Drugs and Alternatives; New 'Worst Pills, Best Pills' Book Also Released...
Posted: Wed, Jan 12, 2005 10:58pm PST
Behind Our Uniforms We Are All Human Beings
I was struck by this article and the flyer put out about Mary Jesus' suicide by the Oakland Fire Department Critical Incident Stress Management Team, who hosted a memorial on January 10 to "honor and celebrate the life of Mary Jesus" a homeless woman who committed suicide, and actually wrote on the flyer "behind our uniforms we are all human beings". As political activists, this is the kind of spirit we want to encourage, while not relenting on our critique of the police ...
Posted: Wed, Jan 12, 2005 1:04pm PST
FREE FAX: Fight MUNI Fare Cuts
Go to Local Impact and send a free fax telling the MTA not to balance the MUNI budget on the backs of public transit riders....
Posted: Mon, Jan 10, 2005 9:43pm PST
Housing Activist Challenge For Troubadors' Concert
Ethan Evans of the Sacramento Housing Alliance promises to dye his hair hot pink if we sell out tickets to the Troubadours fundraising concert. Help turn his hair hot pink!...
Posted: Fri, Jan 7, 2005 5:59pm PST
Vancouver Bus Riders Union Membes Use Public meeting of Oppose Fair Increase
Vancouver Jan 7, 2005: Bus Riders Union Members Opposes Lower Mainland Fare Increase. This here is a short photo documentary about how The Bus Riders Union used the Dec 8, 2004 Translink Meeting to voice ther oppoisition to increase fares. The link for the documentary is below...
Posted: Fri, Jan 7, 2005 4:39pm PST
1/18: Hands off Social Security!
HANDS OFF SOCIAL SECURITY!
Social Security for Our Future,
Not for Wall Street Profits!...
Posted: Fri, Jan 7, 2005 9:22am PST
Tsunami: Providing Relief, Promoting Social Justice
IN THE WAKE OF THE TSUNAMI:
** Demand increased U.S. aid
** Demand immediate debt cancellation
** Donate to grassroots relief efforts (details below)
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Posted: Fri, Jan 7, 2005 12:12am PST
Sallie Mae, Student Debt & Indebted Slavery in an Age of Narco-Petro Fascism
the building of a slave society...
Posted: Thu, Jan 6, 2005 9:36pm PST
Schwarzenegger Prescription Drug Proposal Puts Drug Firms in Control
Schwarzenegger Prescription Drug Proposal Puts Drug Firms in Control, Leaves Seniors Without Protection, Says Consumer Group...
Posted: Wed, Jan 5, 2005 11:18pm PST
THE DANCE OF DEATH TO LONG-TERM SKILLED NURSING FACILITY CARE IN SAN FRANCISCO
A Tsunami Sized Death-Dance Change To Laguna Honda Hospital’s Mission
Overturning Prop A Promises to Voters in the 1999 Election...
Posted: Sun, Jan 2, 2005 3:09pm PST
Bush administration targets medical care for the poor
The federal government has dispatched auditors to state capitals around the country in an effort to rein in the cost of Medicaid, the program designed to provide medical coverage for the poor. The program also pays for about 70 percent of the nation’s nursing home patients....
Posted: Sat, Jan 1, 2005 9:27am PST
Hunger Banquet on Dec. 29
I encourage everybody to go to the Hunger Banquet on Wednesday, December 29, at the UUS of Sacramento....
Posted: Tue, Dec 28, 2004 3:27pm PST
Bay Area Media Blitz To Save Social Security!
Save Social Security!...
Posted: Sat, Dec 25, 2004 7:10pm PST
Hope and Disappointment
We are saved but in hope. The hope that one sees is not hope since one cannot hope for what one sees.. Hope is as vital as the air we breathe.. Hope even if it is only as weak as a straw keeps laive our longing for freedom....
Posted: Sat, Dec 25, 2004 8:20am PST
Update: Seduced and Abandoned
MAYOR NEWSOM AND MITCH KATZ, PUBLIC HEALTH DIRECTOR, CONTINUE TO OVERRIDE SAN FRANCISCO VOTE TO FUND LAGUNA HONDA HOSPITAL FOR THE FRAIL ELDERLY
Elderly Female Patients Forced Out of County for Skilled Nursing Facility Care...
Posted: Sat, Dec 25, 2004 2:16am PST
Mumbai, Inidia - 6,000 shanties detroyed in a day leaving thousands homeless...
Over 39,000 shanties have been destroyed the past 18 days in what is the largest 'makeover' Mumbai has seen. Once again, the working class poor are targeted again; vendors, cab drivers, builders and others have been the target of this effort to make one of India's richest cities look well off by pulling the rug from underneath those that make their profiting a reality......
Posted: Fri, Dec 24, 2004 2:46pm PST
JUSTICE FOR TRINITY PLAZA TENANTS: Chris Daly, Defender of the Disenfranchised
The Coalition to Save Rent Control members worked diligently since 09/02/2004 when right-wing, Republican Judge James Warren slashed Prop M, the Housing Preservation Initiative, from the November ballot....
Posted: Thu, Dec 23, 2004 8:00pm PST