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Buccus: Poor people are not a threat to social order Monday, July 2, 2007 : This week academics from around the world arrive in Durban for a major international conference on poverty.The conference will be opened by a high profile city official and would have been an ideal opportunity for Durban and KwaZulu-Natal to put their best foot forward....
Posted: Mon, Jul 2, 2007 6:45pm PDT
City of Fresno Evicts Homeless 
Lupe Garcia (photo below) is the City of Fresno’s next target in its war against the homeless. The city might not have a plan to end homelessness, but they are working hard to eliminate the homeless. Details below....
Posted: Mon, Jul 2, 2007 4:59pm PDT
San Francisco the City that knows how has NO sitting Epidemiologist San Francisco the City that knows how does not have a sitting Epidemiologist. Now, how could that happen with the current increase of AIDS and other such diseases. The bombardment of Asbestos Dust and other toxic dust in and around Parcel A - with the SF Health Department looking the other way. The SF Health Department with a $1 Billion dollar budget and growing is a disgrace to the human race. Some one must take responsibility - but before that Dr. Mitch Katz must go - he must resign....
Posted: Mon, Jul 2, 2007 8:22am PDT
Report documents over one million "severely poor" children in UK Monday, July 2, 2007 :The relentless drive by successive Labour and Conservative governments in Britain to cut welfare programs has condemned the poorest families to destitution....
Posted: Mon, Jul 2, 2007 7:22am PDT
US: Local and federal agencies threaten to shut down Los Angeles hospital Monday, July 2, 2007 :County, state and federal agencies are threatening to shut down Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor UCLA Hospital in South Central Los Angeles. The attempts to close King-Harbor have received new momentum after another highly publicized incident involving the death of a patient at the California hospital due to neglect and mistreatment....
Posted: Mon, Jul 2, 2007 7:17am PDT
Just Say AAA: PAUL KRUGMAN - Housing Bubble; FRANK RICH - Wider Cheney Plot + KRUGMAN: The housing bubble, like the stock bubble before it, is claiming a growing number of innocent victims.
COHEN: Tax authorities in the United States and Britain have lost touch with the super-rich, as has most of humanity.
THE COMPLETE ARTICLES AND MORE...
Posted: Mon, Jul 2, 2007 7:10am PDT
Newsom Camp Split Over Approach to Board Monday, July 2, 2007 : The recent debate over Mayor Newsom’s proposed “community court” revealed an ongoing split between the mayor’s political and policy camps. After Board President Aaron Peskin wisely reduced the proposed court’s budget from $750,000 to $500,000, and joined his Budget Committee colleagues in putting the money on reserve, Newsom re-election campaign manager Eric Jaye publicly attacked the move....
Posted: Mon, Jul 2, 2007 7:08am PDT
Budget Fight Was About Politics – Not Policy Monday, July 2, 2007 : When Chris Daly tried to take $37 million out of the Mayor’s Budget, Gavin Newsom reacted as if Daly had attacked his manhood. He brought his entire re-election campaign to the steps of City Hall , accusing the District 6 Supervisor of cutting vital services....
Posted: Mon, Jul 2, 2007 7:08am PDT
Gavin Newsom's Legacy Monday, July 2, 2007 : I smiled at published statements from the Mayor's Office that he wants to eliminate bus stops to speed up Muni. What a legacy Gavin Newsom is creating! First he suggested getting rid of public trash cans, now elimination of already underserved bus stops. In my seven decades of living in San Francisco, I can't remember any elected official ever accomplishing less that our current Mayor, running unopposed at this time, and issuing a barrage of press releases announcing mo...
Posted: Mon, Jul 2, 2007 7:08am PDT
Raging Grannies for Single Payer Health Care at SICKO 
Interactive Street Theater with members of the Raging Grannies and theater patrons at SICKO....all to promote passage of SB840...that's California-speak for Single Payer Health Care!
Photos: Kim Kinoshita, R. Robertson...
Posted: Sun, Jul 1, 2007 4:04am PDT
Raging Grannies "Play Doctor" at SICKO 
Awesome First Night for SICKO in Mountain View, California with the Raging Grannies acting up for passage of Single Payer Health Care!...
Posted: Sun, Jul 1, 2007 2:58am PDT
An Awesome First Night for "Sicko" 
The photo below shows a member of the California Nurses Association passing out flyers at the opening of SiCKO yesterday in Fresno. About 50 CNA members were on hand to pass out flyers and talk to movie goers about the need for universal health care. The article (also below) is from Michael Moore about how opening day went....
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 7:41pm PDT
NM HIV/AIDS Patients To Get State Grown Marijuana Saturday, June 30, 2007 :(Santa Fe, New Mexico) New Mexico has a new medical marijuana law with a twist: It requires the state to grow its own. The law, effective Sunday, not only protects medical marijuana users from prosecution - as 11 other states do - but requires New Mexico to oversee a production and distribution system for the drug....
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 6:04pm PDT
Nurses, Doctors, Healthcare Activists to Greet Sicko Audiences With Call for Guaranteed Healthcare Thursday, June 28, 2007 : Broad National Coalition to Enlist Movie Goers to Join Campaign For Medicare for All Style Reform without Insurance Interference Registered nurses, doctors, and healthcare and community activists – part of a broad, national coalition – will be out in force in America's theaters this weekend as Michael Moore’s "SiCKO," a riveting indictment of the healthcare industry, opens across the nation....
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 5:53pm PDT
U.S. Halts Some Chinese Fish and Seafood Friday, June 29, 2007 : The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has put a hold on five different types of farmed fish and seafood. Many of these imports contain traces of potentially harmful drugs used to prevent disease in the fish....
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 8:20am PDT
Australian government takeover of Aboriginal communities: the real content of the "Children are Sacred" report Saturday, June 30, 2007 :Prime Minister John Howard has claimed that the trigger for his announcement last week of a federal military takeover of Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory was the Northern Territory Board of Inquiry’s report into sexual abuse of Aboriginal children, entitled "Little Children are Sacred"....
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 7:51am PDT
Quigley: How to Destroy an African-American City – Lessons From Katrina Saturday, June 30, 2007 : Step One. Delay....
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 7:50am PDT
Jose Morales, 77 Faces Eviciton After 42 Years in SF Mission Home (audio/mpeg 1.9MB) A SAN FRANCISCO JUDGE ORDERED A TEMPORARY STAY IN THE PROCESS OF EVICTING 77 YEAR OLD MISSION DISTRICT RESIDENT JOSE MORALES TODAY. MORALES HAS LIVED IN HIS APPARTMENT FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS. TENANTS’ RIGHTS ADVOCATES SEE THE EVICITON OF THE . REzZ REPORTS FROM THE SAN FROANCISCO SUPERIOR COURTHOUSE....
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2007 6:34pm PDT
Sweep Away the Sleeping Ban: Sign Up Sunday in front of Coonerty's Bookshop 1520 Pacific Ave. in front of the Bookshop Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Sun, Jul 1, 2007 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2007 6:31pm PDT
Nearly Two Years After Katrina, Gulf Coast Residents Fighting Environmental Neglect, Privatization Friday, June 29, 2007 :
Twenty two months after Hurricane Katrina devastated the gulf region of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, residents are still fighting to save their communities. We speak with Monique Harden, co-director of the New Orleans-based Advocates for Environmental Human Rights, and organizer of a caravan of Katrina activists to the U.S. Social Forum this week....
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2007 8:01am PDT
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