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The Social State is a Civilization Achievement "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
Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program Budget-Based Renewal Leaves Agencies with Shortfa 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
Justice for Trinity Plaza Tenants: The Death of Prop M 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
HUD Suppressing Poor Vote Read all about HUD's effforts to suppress the POOR VOTE!...
Posted: Sat, Oct 9, 2004 7:33pm PDT
Police Harass Ceres Food Not Bombs 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
Newsom-era homeless policy includes towing and dumping poor people's property 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
Drug Industry Scandal a 'Crisis' 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
Stem Cell Initiative- Grossly expensive subsidy to private profit 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
Roll Back The Rents! Tenant Housing News From Around The Nation! Update on on some of the latest housing news from around the country!...
Posted: Thu, Oct 7, 2004 5:47pm PDT
10/13: CONTINUING JIM MC ENTEE’S LEGACY: Community Planning Mtg 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
FSM: No Cause to Celebrate 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
Where your thanksgiving meal will come from this year 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
Reclaim the Parks in Ceres! 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
Vancouver: Bus Riders Defeat Fare Increase! 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
HUD Raids Section 8 Tenants- Detailed Report Below Is A Recent Report That Came In Which Offers Some Details About Raids Being Conducted By HUD Against The Section 8 Tenants....
Posted: Thu, Sep 30, 2004 8:53pm PDT
Press Release- Disaster For San Francisco Section 8 Renters HUD's Final Listing Of Bay Area Fair Market Rents Reveal A Disaster Is In The Making For Bay Area Section 8 Renters!...
Posted: Thu, Sep 30, 2004 7:44pm PDT
Social Justice instead of Hartz IV - We Have Alternatives! "Millions of jobs are missing in Germany.. This unsocial policy of redistribution from bottom to the top is pursued by the government and mainstream parties to assure extra profits for the mammoth corporations.. No new jobs will be created.."...
Posted: Sat, Sep 25, 2004 1:08pm PDT
Shanti Commemorates 30 Years of Care and Support Provided to the Bay Area Overview of upcoming event/fundraiser for Shanti, a Bay Area non-profit that has provided care and support for those afflicted with life threatening illnesses for three decades....
Posted: Fri, Sep 24, 2004 12:14pm PDT
Low-Income Renters Of Marin Unite The Section 8 Crisis Has Been Instrumental In Uniting The Low-Income Renters Of Marin Into A Force To Oppose The Bush Administration's Proposals To Gut The Section 8 Program!...
Posted: Fri, Sep 24, 2004 12:08am PDT
Bridging The Gap For Health Care! This is a repost of a newswire we put on the Rogue Valley IMC. Check it out and be sure and look at the video stream, a kool little musical video that is 2:43 long......
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 7:01pm PDT
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