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Does the following Daily Cal article enrage you as much as it enraged me? If so, the author claims that he wants to hear your two cents. If you'd like to oblige, his mail address is at the end of his column....
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 3:30pm PST
2/11: Seniors, People With Disabilities to Tell Governor Schwarzenegger: 'Have a Heart!' Hundreds to Deliver Signed Hearts, Photos Representing Those Who Will Suffer From Governor's Proposed Cuts to Home Care...
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 1:12am PST
Medical bills cause more than half of US personal bankruptcies Debt due to medical bills is the largest single cause of personal bankruptcies in the United States, a newly published study on the Health Affairs web site reported. About half of those filing bankruptcy in 2001 did so because of medical bills resulting from illness or injury. What is most unexpected about the data is that most individuals or couples who went bankrupt were not part of the 45 million uninsured. Nearly 76 percent had health insurance at the start of their illness....
Posted: Tue, Feb 8, 2005 11:56pm PST
US budget slashes social spending to pay for war and repression The budget released by the Bush administration Monday provides for $2.57 trillion in spending, but two thirds of this falls under programs already mandated by Congress, including Social Security, Medicare, unemployment compensation and the payment of interest on the burgeoning national debt. The main focus of the budget document is so-called discretionary spending, which requires annual appropriations by Congress....
Posted: Tue, Feb 8, 2005 11:55pm PST
Bush’s budget: government by fraud and lies The most important feature of the new budget released by the Bush administration on Monday is that it is not, in any serious sense of the word, a budget at all. It is a monumental fraud, aimed at concealing fiscal reality and usurping decisions on spending that, under longstanding US constitutional procedures, are reserved to Congress rather than the executive branch....
Posted: Tue, Feb 8, 2005 11:54pm PST
Bush's New $2.5 Trillion Budget Boosts Pentagon Spending, Slashes Domestic Programs President Bush sent Congress a federal budget yesterday that some say reads like a hit list against almost every social program paid for by US taxpayers. It calls for the elimination of some 150 government programs. One out of every three of the targeted programs concerns education....
Posted: Tue, Feb 8, 2005 11:15pm PST
Honoring Our Covenant of Compassion with Homeless People 
Religious leaders, Houseless folks and Advocates meet to tell the truth of the racist, classist legislation, Care Not Cash...
Posted: Tue, Feb 8, 2005 1:20pm PST
Housing Clinic Marks 25 Years of Improving Tenants’ Lives It was 25 years ago this week that the Tenderloin Housing Clinic opened its all-volunteer office. Nine months later Ronald Reagan was elected President, ushering in over two decades of federal backtracking from greater social and economic fairness. But today, Tenderloin residents, residential hotel tenants citywide, and low-income and working-class tenants across San Francisco enjoy far greater legal protections and better conditions than in 1980, countering the nationwide trend. This is the ...
Posted: Tue, Feb 8, 2005 6:44am PST
Back from Iraq - and suddenly out on the streets NEW YORK – Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts are now showing up in the nation's homeless shelters....
Posted: Tue, Feb 8, 2005 6:39am PST
Upholding Social Security: Labor targets Schwab SAN FRANCISCO — The labor movement and community organizations took on the financial institutions backing Social Security privatization as they held noontime demonstrations Jan. 26 in San Francisco and Boston to protest Charles Schwab and Co.’s leading role in trying to open up the system to Wall Street. Demonstrators in the two cities carried signs saying, “Don’t Pick Our Pockets to Line Yours!” They handed out fliers calling Schwab’s backing for the privatization scheme a conflict of intere...
Posted: Mon, Feb 7, 2005 9:57pm PST
Bush plans renewed assault on Medicaid At the center of the sweeping domestic spending cuts unveiled by the Bush administration Monday is the proposal for a major assault on Medicaid, the main government program that pays for health care for the poor and disabled in the US....
Posted: Mon, Feb 7, 2005 9:55pm PST
Nurses Protest At Governor's Super Bowl Party 
A small but out spoken group of activists from the California Nurses Association staged a protest outside the gates to the governor’s Brentwood estate today. The protest was held today at the mansion in response to the governor’s lavish Super Bowl party planned for tonight....
Posted: Sun, Feb 6, 2005 11:44pm PST
Planning Commission Says Yes to Unique Affordable Housing Project The San Francisco Planning Commission voted 5-0 Thursday night to approve a 56 unit affordable housing project designed to provide apartments for current SRO tenants. The project at 785 Brannan, to be owned by the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, will house tenants whose incomes are too low to qualify under the city’s inclusionary housing law. The Commission hearing revealed much about class and racial attitudes in today’s San Francisco....
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 8:30pm PST
Super Bowl Party at Arnold's...Nurses, Patients, Students, Disabled Protest at Gov's Home When: 2 PM, Sunday, February 6
Where: 12989 Chalon Road/ Corner of Mandeville Canyon Road & Chalon (North of Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles)...
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 11:13am PST
Muni Fare Hike? 
Not a good idea! Seven-minute QT movie. 30MB....
Posted: Thu, Feb 3, 2005 11:50pm PST
SF's homeless dead recent memorial service/rally in Civic Center Plaza...
Posted: Tue, Feb 1, 2005 11:07pm PST
2/4: Stand for Peace in the Streets of SF Last year, SF passed Oakland as the homicide capital of the state
with 88 deaths. This year there are at least 8 and possibly 10
homicides in SF. The majority of these violent acts happen in the low
income, African American and minority communities....
Posted: Tue, Feb 1, 2005 8:13pm PST
Fight or Walk: the Chicago Transit Fare Strike The purpose of this article is to help us discuss the strengths and weaknesses of our fare strike campaign in Chicago, as well as to help groups in other cities who want to organize around transit issues. When we first decided to do this campaign, there wasn’t much to read on how other people had organized fare strikes. Hopefully this can be useful to other groups who want to use similar tactics....
Posted: Tue, Feb 1, 2005 2:12pm PST
MTA Hearing TODAY concerning Muni Budget TODAY at 4 pm, the Municipal Transportation Agency (MTA) Board is
meeting to discuss the FY 2006 budget and proposals to eliminate an
estimated $55 million deficit. Fare increases and service cuts, as
well as increases in parking fees and fines, have been proposed....
Posted: Tue, Feb 1, 2005 1:49pm PST
MoveOn Launches Ad Campaign Highlighting Benefit Cuts in President's Social Security Pla MoveOn Launches Ad Campaign Highlighting Benefit Cuts in President's Social Security Plan; Large TV Ad Buys Aim at Members of Congress Who May Support Privatization; Print Ads to Highlight 'Phony Crisis'...
Posted: Mon, Jan 31, 2005 11:10pm PST
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