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Mid-Market PAC Set to Suspend Activities
Tuesday, July 10, 2007 : It has been clear for some time that the Redevelopment Agency would not be taking over San Francisco’s Mid-Market neighborhood. On July 11, the Mid-Market Project Area Committee will formalize this reality by voting on whether to “suspend Mid Market Redevelopment Survey Area and Redevelopment Project Planning,” and to set up a new community planning process in its place....
Posted: Tue, Jul 10, 2007 8:44am PDT
Focus Forward Through Art
River Park Shopping Center Upper Level Parking Lot
Blackstone & E. Nees...by Gottschalks, Fresno, CA 93720...
Event Date: Sun, Jul 22, 2007 3:30pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jul 9, 2007 10:31pm PDT
Julian Bond: 5 Million More Live in Poverty Since Bush Took Office
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Posted: Mon, Jul 9, 2007 10:25pm PDT
Success Blooms at the Renaissance Garden Project
You may have heard of our new project, "The Renaissance Garden Project" from the media and word of mouth. The Garden Project started when U.C.S.C. students responded to a call for help that Renaissance High School (R.H.S.) students sent out about the lack of nutrition they were receiving at school; students felt unhealthy....
Posted: Mon, Jul 9, 2007 4:25pm PDT
Steve Taylor-Ramírez in concert for homeless
College Ave. Presbyterian Church
5951 College Avenue
Oakland (Rockridge), CA 94618...
Event Date: Fri, Jul 20, 2007 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jul 9, 2007 10:58am PDT
Chicago: Homeless Man Severely Beaten
Homeless man beaten
By Dan P. Blake
Tribune staff reporter
July 9, 2007, 10:35 AM CDT...
Posted: Mon, Jul 9, 2007 10:29am PDT
Muni Charter Amendments Offer Different Solutions
Monday, July 9, 2007 : Everyone agrees that Muni is struggling, but not everyone has the same solution. In 2005, voters rejected Proposition D to reform the Municipal Transit Authority (MTA) – despite the unelected body having just passed a fare hike and service cuts that adversely affected low-income riders. Now two Supervisors who both supported Prop D have each submitted a Charter Amendment for November, with widely divergent solutions....
Posted: Mon, Jul 9, 2007 6:26am PDT
Health Care Terror: PAUL KRUGMAN - Universal Healthcare = Terrorism +
KRUGMAN: The only things standing in the way of universal health care are the fear-mongering and influence-buying of interest groups.
THE COMPLETE ARTICLE AND MORE...
Posted: Mon, Jul 9, 2007 5:25am PDT
Planton to oppose expen$ive condos + walgreens & retake it for affordable housing!
3400 Cesar Chavez St, corner at Mission St. (Old Kelly-Morre site)...
Event Date: Mon, Jul 9, 2007 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Jul 8, 2007 11:24pm PDT
9-17th Planton to oppose expen$ive condos & walgreens!!!
3400 Cesar Chavez St, corner at Mission St....
Event Date: Mon, Jul 9, 2007 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Jul 8, 2007 9:29pm PDT
New Bill Seeks Universal Healthcare
Sunday, July 8, 2007 : A new bill, timed with the premier of Micheal Moores new film SICKO in Washington D.C., would offer Americans comprehensive health care. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, authored the bill....
Posted: Sun, Jul 8, 2007 1:44pm PDT
Homeless Woman Arrested at McDonald’s
A homeless woman in a wheelchair was arrested and given a citation because she needed to use a bathroom....
Posted: Sun, Jul 8, 2007 1:07pm PDT
Pleasant Care Corporation Nursing home saga continues
New information on the bankruptcy, negligent deaths, and possible closures of Pleasant Care nursing homes, specifically Santa Cruz Pleasant Care....
Posted: Sat, Jul 7, 2007 5:56pm PDT
What is Phentermine and why is it dangerous?
Recently I was cleaning out all the comment spam that I receive on this site. I was surprised to see a large percentage of it was selling phentermine online. Considering the dangers and addiction potential of this drug, I wanted to warn people who might be tempted to buy this medication online....
Posted: Sat, Jul 7, 2007 5:36pm PDT
Media Advisory: Home Care Workers To Tell Congress How Deficient Long-term Care Coverage Threatens The Well-being Of Seniors
Friday, July 6, 2007 : Legislation Would Help Fix Weaknesses in America’s Long-Term Care System Washington, DC-- On Tuesday, July 11, home care workers will urge the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee to pass legislation establishing a national insurance program for adults who might become functionally disabled or currently have severe impairments and need affordable long-term care....
Posted: Sat, Jul 7, 2007 10:27am PDT
Toxic Questions Surround Two Richmond Sites
Friday, July 6, 2007 : More questions are swirling around the cleanup efforts at two adjacent contaminated sites in Richmond this week. Issues range from the adequacy of testing of contaminants at UC Berkeley’s Richmond Field Station (RFS) and the possibility of radioactive contamination both at the field station and at the adjacent site at Campus Bay, owned by AstraZeneca, a Swiss agro-chemical giant....
Posted: Sat, Jul 7, 2007 10:22am PDT
Michael Moore's Sicko: very limited conceptions, very limited results
Saturday, July 7, 2007 :Sicko, written and directed by Michael Moore Sicko is documentary filmmaker Michael Moore’s critique of the American health care system. Despite the director’s undoubted sincerity and flair for showmanship, it’s a terribly limited work, weaker than Fahrenheit 9/11, his 2004 response to the Bush administration’s “war on terror.” One is not unmindful of Moore’s past contributions, but he has launched himself into the social and political arena with his films, demanding t...
Posted: Sat, Jul 7, 2007 10:15am PDT
Vote for Laura Richardson 37th Congressional District ~ California
Laura Richardson hard work and diligence has paid off in an opportunity to serve our United States of America. Our sista friend fine butter pecan queen political voice, Honorable Laura has the complete support of the California Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association. So many residents of the 37th Congressional Disctrict of California will embrace a better standard of living by the work of Laura. Let August 21 be a wonderful celebration for the people....
Posted: Fri, Jul 6, 2007 9:52pm PDT
Marin Tenants Organizing Meeting-¡Acompañenos! El Sabado En el Pickleweed Park
Off of 101 take Bedlam after taking turn off going toward Richmond Bridge(do not go on freeway going troward bridge}. Take left Under Freeway when see shoping center and main post office - Look for Circuit City take Kerner away from Bridge - to end of St. - Take right...
Event Date: Sat, Jul 7, 2007 9:45am PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 6, 2007 7:46am PDT
Where is Nancy Pelosi and Diane Feinstein on Parcel A and the bombardment of our children?
Both Diane Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi are as fake as the two inch make up they wear and have no idea what is happening in their own back yard here in San Francisco. Daily, Lennar BVHP is bombarding the community and especially the children with toxic particulates and breaking every law and protocol that mandates the curbing of pollution. Lennar, has with intent adversely impacted thousands and continues to defy logic, and breaks every law, rule and protocol....
Posted: Fri, Jul 6, 2007 7:12am PDT