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2/18: Come out for Leno's Ellis Act Press Conf. this Friday, S.F. Assembly Member Mark Leno has introduced legislation which will require
that landlords own a property for 5 or more years before they can do an
Ellis....
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 3:57pm PST
Newsom is lying The reports about the homeless numbers dropping is a lie....
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 7:49am PST
Social Security – CRISIS or Political Propaganda? Here we go again, the President of fabrication, CRISIS, and fear mongering.
What virtues! It is time for “we the people” to pay attention to the facts, not
rhetoric. The Bush propaganda extravaganza is corrosive to Democracy.
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Where are the morals and values of a President who would fabricate and deceive us
AGAIN? Oh what a web we weave when we practice to deceive....
Posted: Mon, Feb 14, 2005 11:55am PST
McDonald's Settles Landmark Trans Fat Lawsuits "The excellent legal settlement reached between McDonald's and BanTransFats.com and in the class action on the same matter is a perfect example of how litigation can motivate food companies to change their practices for the better....
Posted: Mon, Feb 14, 2005 12:15am PST
New Yorkers rally for affordable housing NEW YORK — On Feb. 2 more than 5,000 people took part in a “Housing Here and Now!” rally outside of City Hall. It was the largest show of support for affordable housing the city has seen in decades. Union members and leaders, city residents, religious groups and elected officials came together to demand city leaders enact a five-point program to put an end to New York City’s housing crisis....
Posted: Sun, Feb 13, 2005 12:46pm PST
San Francisco Is Nanny State U.S.A. Those who favor smaller government will likely be familiar with the term "nanny state." A nanny state is defined as "a government which tries to give too much advice or make too many laws about how people should live, especially about eating, smoking or drinking alcohol." Perhaps not coincidentally, nanny states and blue states tend to go hand in hand....
Posted: Sun, Feb 13, 2005 12:15pm PST
The Message of Mary Jesus The suicide of Mary Jesus was a prophetic warning, written in blood and death, that rent hikes and evictions destroy the lives of the poor...
Posted: Sat, Feb 12, 2005 12:45am PST
The further hemorrhaging of Detroit—city to shut 34 public schools Detroit parents, students and teachers reacted with shock and anger to Thursday’s announcement that 34 of the city’s public schools will close their doors this June. More than 10,000 of the district’s 140,000 students will be uprooted and shifted to different schools when the academic year ends and the facilities are shut down....
Posted: Fri, Feb 11, 2005 10:31pm PST
Your Fault? Democrats Begin Their CAVE-IN On Social Security Every one of you who is registered Democrat or votes Democrat - this is YOUR FAULT!!!!!!! Drop that party now and understand that it only exists to prop up the Republicans, not to offer anything meaningful to the people, who are being enslaved by both of these parties for the interests of the rich....
Posted: Fri, Feb 11, 2005 8:56pm PST
Kirsten Anderberg: Capitalist Termites in the Walls of Social Services People tend to think of social services, such as welfare grants to single parents and Section 8 rental assistance, as purely humanitarian aid. But the industries of welfare and housing assistance are laced with capitalist profit seekers and even documented corruption, such as the mess that Clarence Thomas had a hand in at HUD before becoming Supreme Court Justice....
Posted: Fri, Feb 11, 2005 11:26am PST
Somalia's Other Crisis Victims Forgotten On a dusty old radio, Ali Abdallah Mohamed Osman followed the news after giant waves lashed the Somali coastline, sweeping away homes and livelihoods. Within days, truckloads of aid began rolling in to the northeastern fishing village of Hafun, the Somali town hit hardest by the same tsunami...
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 10:03pm PST
Bush budget assailed as ‘war’ on people WASHINGTON — Outraged protests greeted President George W. Bush’s $2.57 trillion budget proposal, with many calling it a fraudulent, radical plan to starve spending on human needs while lavishing billions on the “greedy.”...
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 9:55pm PST
New Roseville Food Not Bombs a new chapter of Food Not Bombs started yesterday in Placer County....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 12:04pm PST
Fight for Social Security (video/quicktime 34.2MB) Workers and seniors protest against privatization of social security. Eleven-minute QT movie from Jan. 18, 2005. 34MB....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 12:03pm PST
No Muni Fare Hike Press Release re: protest at City Hall 2/11/05 11:00 AM...
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 11:39am PST
The MUNI Disaster: Inequity, How We Got Here, and How to Get Out Michael Burns began a full-court press yesterday to get his proposed MUNI budget passed, meeting with several members of the Board of Supervisors to request their support. MUNI representative Stuart Sunshine told the Chronicle they’re “looking at a balanced way to share the solution” to their current budget crisis. Yet Burns’ proposal balances the budget squarely on the backs of the working class, raising the yearly cost of a Fast Pass $109 and only upping the yearly cost of a residential par...
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 9:39am PST
BTL:Opponents Prepare to Challenge Bush Budget Cuts and Drive to... ...Privatize Social Security ~ Interview with Roger Hickey, co-director of the Campaign for America's Future, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 5:08am PST
Poor, distraught and desperate: Oregon man threatens suicide on floor of state Senate As he was escorted handcuffed down the capitol steps, Owens turned to reporters and TV cameras. “I’m disabled!” he screamed. “I need housing! That’s all!”...
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 10:55pm PST
please respond to "Totally Bummed Out" 
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
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