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Today is National HIV Testing Day; Infection Rates among Women on the Rise Wednesday, June 27, 2007 : Today marks the 15th annual National HIV Testing Day, organized by the National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA). HIV and AIDS prevention advocates encourage routine testing for HIV/AIDS and education programs that teach young people about risky behaviors and methods to prevent contracting t......
Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2007 7:59pm PDT
Response to a Sentinel editorial and op ed critical of Single Payer I answer the critiques of the Editor and OpEd piece in a recent Sentinel article, with examples from my own experiece and that of others I have worked with....
Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2007 6:56pm PDT
Mayor's Budget Cuts Proposal Hearing and People's Rally 6/21/07 "We can't keep relying on them (San Francisco Board of Supervisors) to come and save or help us. This is OUR money and not theirs! Every year, it seems like these kinds of things just keep happening, over and over. It all comes down to all of us coming together and taking care of ourselves, we can't rely on anyone else to do it!"...
Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2007 3:22pm PDT
NAM Poll Uncovers Precarious Health Conditions of Undocumented Tuesday, June 26, 2007 :SAN FRANCISCO - Three-fourths of undocumented immigrants from Latin American countries say they are living without health insurance, according to a recent national survey conducted by Bendixen and Associates and commissioned by New America Media....
Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2007 8:15am PDT
"Divided We Fail" Commends Bipartisan Senate Leadership On Health It Legislation Wednesday, June 27, 2007 :WASHINGTON, DC - AARP, Business Roundtable and SEIU, which together represent more than 50 million Americans, today took another groundbreaking step for their "Divided We Fail" group by endorsing legislation that would help reduce medical errors and save lives and money by moving from a paper-based health care system to secure electronic medical records....
Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2007 7:53am PDT
The Mayor's Budget For Housing Wednesday, June 27, 2007 : Beyond Chron has run multiple pieces on San Francisco's proposed housing budget. The Mayor's Office of Housing offers its perspective below....
Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2007 7:41am PDT
Canadian Supreme Court ruling in BC hospital dispute A boost for the union bureaucracy Tuesday, June 26, 2007 :A ruling issued by Canada’s highest court earlier this month is being hailed by the trade union officialdom as an “historic victory” for workers. It is nothing of the sort....
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 11:30pm PDT
Preservationists Win Round in Downtown Plan Debate Tuesday, June 26, 2007 : The ongoing tensions among factions in the struggle over the Berkeley's evolving landscape surfaced again last week in a joint meeting of two city panels, but the meeting ended in a lopsided 17-2 vote supporting a proposed chapter spelling out the role to be played by historic preservation in Berkeley's future downtown for the new plan....
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 9:01am PDT
We are from a country that floats over lakes of oil... Tuesday, June 26, 2007 :Through my work and visits to the Iraqi families here in Jordan for some months, I found that a lot of them live here without a legal residency permit, without the right to work, the right of free education for their children, or someone to cover the cost of their medical treatment if they suffer an accidental or chronic health conditions....
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 8:44am PDT
NYC Residents & Workers Accuse Whitman & Bush Administration of Covering Up Dangers of Toxic Air After 9/11 Tuesday, June 26, 2007 :
On Monday, two busloads of Ground Zero workers and residents traveled to Washington to hear Christine Todd Whitman's testimony. We hear from two members of the group Beyond Ground Zero, environmental attorney Joel Kupferman and Democracy Now co-host Juan Gonzalez who attended Monday's hearing....
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 8:34am PDT
Detroit Riverview Hospital to close: "Losing this hospital will devastate this community" Tuesday, June 26, 2007 :St. John Detroit Riverview Hospital has served east side Detroit since 1987. Earlier this year, the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute announced their intent to transform the community hospital into a facility devoted exclusively to cancer patients....
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 8:28am PDT
Supes Challenge Health Department's No-Bid, Anti-Union Contract Tuesday, June 26, 2007 : Board President Aaron Peskin is challenging a $5.2 million no-bid contract that the San Francisco Department of Health (DPH) is seeking to hand to a non-union, non-organizable entity that it created to manage its supportive housing sites. DPH's action undermines Mayor Newsom's repeated highlighting of the importance of competitive bidding, and contradicts the spirit of the mayor's 2004 order requiring department heads to identify "all possible opportunities" to bid ou...
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 8:24am PDT
Failure of McGoldrick Recall to Qualify Should Give Proponents Pause Tuesday, June 26, 2007 : On June 22nd, business interests who want to recall Supervisor Jake McGoldrick failed to gather enough signatures to put it on the November ballot - falling about 1,000 signatures short. But proponents of this effort, which include the local Republican Party, told the San Francisco Examiner that they will now try for the February 2008 ballot....
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 8:22am PDT
Public Protests Agonizing Health Care Budget Cuts Tuesday, June 26, 2007 : At 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday, June 19th, I arrived halfway through the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Bielenson hearings, state-mandated at any time cuts are proposed for programs serving indigent people....
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 8:21am PDT
Basmati Rice Fraud in U.S. Markets Exposed Monday, June 25, 2007 :NEW YORK: In a major case of "Food Fraud", more than 30 percent of the "Basmati Rice" sold in the retail markets of the US and Canada has been found to be adulterated with inferior quality grains....
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 6:32pm PDT
RNs to Provide Healthcare Screenings Tonight At "SiCKO" Screening at Union Rescue Mission Monday, June 25, 2007 : Registered nurse members of the California Nurses Association will conduct parking lot healthcare screenings tonight outside the Union Rescue Mission in downtown Los Angeles in conjunction with a special film screening with Michael Moore of his stunning new film, "SiCKO."...
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 5:50pm PDT
New HUD Proposals Are A Threat To All Subsidized Renters New HUD Proposals Threaten Everyone Including Children, In The Nations Subsidized Housing Programs!...
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 3:09pm PDT
NASGA response to Marin County defamation lawsuit Robin Westmiller, president of the National Associaiton to Stop Guardian Abuse responds to Marin County defamation lawsuit...
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 7:05am PDT
No Way Out: Lack of Education Traps China's Rural Youth Monday, June 25, 2007 :China's booming economy has spurred a massive village-to-city migration for its youth seeking a better life, but those without a college education find themselves forced to return home to the village....
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 6:45am PDT
Storm wreaks havoc across Australia's Hunter Valley and Central Coast Sunday, June 24, 2007 :People across the Hunter Valley and Central Coast regions in the southeast Australian state of New South Wales are still cleaning up nearly three weeks after devastating storms ravaged the area over a three day period, causing widespread damage and claiming nine lives....
Posted: Sun, Jun 24, 2007 9:30pm PDT
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