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The Fate Of 156 Families Rest In The Hands Of One Judge! If A Federal Judge Is Going To Stop The Mass Evictions Taking Place At Alameda's Harbor Island Apartments, He Better Make Up His Mind As Soon As Possible!...
Posted: Thu, Oct 21, 2004 11:55pm PDT
The Harbor Island Apartment (1,200 Evicted) Tenants Have Until November 3 To Vacate Their Units Or Face A Law Suit By The Fifteen Group! Make Those Calls Of Support To The Holdouts That Have Refused To Move! Tell Alameda Officials That A Just Cause Anti-Eviction Ordinance Is Needed In Alameda To Stop Mass Evictions!...
Posted: Wed, Oct 20, 2004 4:58pm PDT
HMO's and friends were stabbed and beaten on Wall Street today and then found out they aren't covered for malfeasance. Or prescription drugs. Heheh. (Ever wonder about the high cost of healthcare and health insurance? It's becuz you bin gettin ripped off, son...)...
Posted: Tue, Oct 19, 2004 5:02pm PDT
HUD's $300 Million Disaster Wreaks Havoc Across The Nation!...
Posted: Tue, Oct 19, 2004 3:23am PDT
A Private Developers deception cancels the Broadcast of a scheduled Community Benefits Workshop by KPOO 89.5 FM San Francisco Radio Station. This was a Public Noticed Meeting by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency...
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 7:25pm PDT
Correction For Harbor Island Apartment Evictions....
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 11:15pm PDT
"The social state is a civilization achievement.. Since free enterprise mechanisms alone cannot guarantee social security, the state has the task of guaranteeing social security for all and pursuing a policy of social equalization. Democracy needs a social foundation.."...
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 9:03am PDT
NAHRO analysis of FY 2004 changes in federal funding for the renewal of the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program indicates that nearly 500 housing agencies nationwide will be left with a shortfall of as much as $93 million for this year. The shortfall is estimated to affect housing assistance for 52,000 families....
Posted: Mon, Oct 11, 2004 10:06am PDT
On September 2, 2004, San Francisco tenants rights were crushed by Republican Judge James Warren, grandson of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren....
Posted: Sun, Oct 10, 2004 12:31am PDT
Read all about HUD's effforts to suppress the POOR VOTE!...
Posted: Sat, Oct 9, 2004 7:33pm PDT
Police harassment of Ceres Food Not Bombs, as they protest police abuse of homeless and poor in Ceres....
Posted: Sat, Oct 9, 2004 5:42pm PDT
When Mayor Gavin Newsom announced the creation of the Bayview Neighborhood Rescue Team in late August, he promised a fresh approach to dealing with problems in that neighborhood. But Sept. 30, in a move that has left city officials fumbling for an explanation, city workers tore apart a homeless encampment, a sweep that appeared to disregard the needs of the human beings involved....
Posted: Sat, Oct 9, 2004 10:03am PDT
One million US deaths, the compromising of key elements within the medical community and its regulatory structures, the blind pursuit of billions of dollars in corporate profits -- all have surfaced in a detonating pharmaceutical industry scandal of global dimension....
Posted: Fri, Oct 8, 2004 7:21am PDT
Proposition 71, the Stem Cell Initiative has a sneaky title. A moderate or liberal who doesn't read the details could read the title and believe that the question at hand is whether society should endorse or block stem cell research....
Posted: Thu, Oct 7, 2004 9:21pm PDT
Update on on some of the latest housing news from around the country!...
Posted: Thu, Oct 7, 2004 5:47pm PDT
With Jim’s vision of building a more socially just, humane and peaceful community, the services of the Office of Human Relations have grown to include mediation services to schools and to the community at-large, citizenship and immigrant programs, coordination of resources for the homeless (including winter shelters), the Network for a Hate Free Community, the Institute for Non-Violence, the Human Relations Commission, the Youth Taskforce and the Commission on the Status of Women....
Posted: Wed, Oct 6, 2004 6:22pm PDT
We live in the Society of the Spectacle, in which representations seem – in fact, are – more “real” than actualities. Such is the case with the 40th Anniversary Commemoration of the Free Speech Movement’s days in the sun of media attention, when a five thousand-strong mob of relatively privileged students (and a few spectacular leaders) defied authorities who attempted to limit their free speech by forbidding their distribution of political pamphlets on campus. As part of the event, we are to...
Posted: Wed, Oct 6, 2004 3:15pm PDT
The preliminary estimate of the number of turkeys raised in the United States in 2004. That's down 4 percent from 2003....
Posted: Tue, Oct 5, 2004 1:14pm PDT
Join with the DAAA Collective, and it's sub-group of Ceres Food Not Bombs, to make it known that police cannot drive homeless and poor people out of public areas! Two meal feed, and march to demand an end to harassment!...
Posted: Sat, Oct 2, 2004 12:16am PDT
In the second victory in less than 12 months, bus riders once again struck a blow for justice at the regional TransLink Board. “Today we beat the unjust fare increase that TransLink planned to impose on bus riders throughout the region” states Kirat Kaur of the Bus Riders Union....
Posted: Fri, Oct 1, 2004 10:41am PDT