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The Grateful Life Saturday, June 2nd, from Noon - 4pm at
The Elephant Pharm, 4470 El Camino Real, Los Altos....
Event Date: Sat, Jun 2, 2007 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, May 21, 2007 12:01pm PDT
NEXIUM Raises the Hepatitis C Viral Load Many presription drugs will raise the viral load of hepatitis c patients. Doctors are either ignorant or negligent; or both....
Posted: Sun, May 20, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Mayor Sends Out Mixed Message Regarding Berkeley Housing Authority Mayor Tom Bates Sends Mixed Message In Regards To Berkeley's Troubled Housing Authority!...
Posted: Sat, May 19, 2007 8:19pm PDT
Rally at City Hall to Proclaim that Elder and Dependent Adult Abuse Will Not Be Tolerated San Francisco - About 100 Seniors gathered on May 15 for a midmorning rally on the steps of San Francisco's City Hall to declare that "Elder and Dependent Adult Abuse Will Not Be Tolerated in San Francisco!" The Seniors carried placard signs in Vietnamese, Chinese, Spanish, Tagalog, Russian, and English. The rally, organized by the Institute on Aging in San Francisco, is the sixth rally held in San Francisco to publicize the issue and problem of elder and dependent adult abuse....
Posted: Sat, May 19, 2007 9:13am PDT
A Low-Income Bus Pass that Most Don't Use Did you know that MUNI has a low-income Fast Pass? If you didn’t, you are not alone. In 2003, the cost of a monthly Fast Pass for MUNI went up from $35 to $45 and the cost of a single ride went from $1 to $1.25. The next year the single ride went up to $1.50. In response to public outrage, the MTA developed the Lifeline Fast Pass for low-income San Franciscans — a monthly bus pass for $35....
Posted: Sat, May 19, 2007 9:12am PDT
Re: BeyondChron reprint Regarding the Randy Shaw editorial reprinted on 5/8 from BeyondChron ( "Can San Francisco Make Low-Income Neighborhoods Desirable?" ), I am taking issue with certain of Shaw's remarks ... which can be viewed in full at http://beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=4489#more...
Posted: Fri, May 18, 2007 11:58pm PDT
Grateful Life Blood Drive at Elephant Pharm in Los Altos Elephant Pharm in Los Altos
4470 El Camino Real
Los Altos, CA
650-472-6800
For more info, please visit www.elephantpharm.com...
Event Date: Sat, Jun 2, 2007 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, May 18, 2007 2:31pm PDT
Portable Toilets, a Dumpster, and 24 Hour Security 
The City of Fresno delivered three portable toilets and a dumpster to a homeless encampment on H street today. These services are expected to be a temporary solution to improve the health and sanitation in the encampment. The city plans to purchase property to set up a “free zone” where homeless people can live. The new encampment will have portable toilets, trash bins, and more....
Posted: Thu, May 17, 2007 7:51pm PDT
Berkeley Targets Smoking by Homeless ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
The latest in progressive life-style engineering from the capital
of the politically correct, Berekeley. Instead of criminalizing the
homeless per se, the plan is to criminalize their smoking . Even
the most progressive members of the city council, such as Kriss
Worthington, who support the city's lowest-priority marijuana
ordinance and oppose cracking down on the homeless, can't bring
themselve...
Posted: Thu, May 17, 2007 6:06pm PDT
Compassion & Choices: In Thought and Action May 2007 Terminally Ill Californians Call for an End to Violent Deaths...
Posted: Thu, May 17, 2007 4:04pm PDT
REMAINS and REBIRTH: An Evening Around Katrina - May 27, 28 
Join media activist Walidah Imarisha and Orleans-based organizer Suncere Shakur for a screening and presentation on the continuing aftermath of Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, and the rebuilding and rebirthing that is going on from the ground up. Two Bay Area events are planned: 5/27 in San Francisco and 5/28 in Santa Cruz; details and full tour schedule below. Watch a 7 minute version of the film here....
Posted: Thu, May 17, 2007 8:46am PDT
Pizza for the homeless: Condemned man’s last request denied by state, realized by public Last Wednesday, at around 1:30 a.m.—after a flurry of last-minute appeals by his attorneys—prison authorities carried out the execution of Philip Workman by lethal injection. Workman, 53, was convicted of shooting and killing a Memphis, Tennessee police officer during an attempted robbery of a Wendy’s restaurant in 1981....
Posted: Wed, May 16, 2007 6:10am PDT
The City of Fresno Votes to Install Portable Toilets for the Homeless 
The Fresno City Council passed a motion today to force the city manager’s office to place portable toilets and trash bins near a downtown homeless encampment....
Posted: Tue, May 15, 2007 8:31pm PDT
Australian hospitals unable to cope with major emergency A report published in the Medical Journal of Australia last month by three leading trauma physicians in Sydney and Melbourne concluded that hospitals in Australia and New Zealand could be overwhelmed in the event of a major disaster, whether natural or man-made....
Posted: Tue, May 15, 2007 8:57am PDT
Grassroots, Labor demand Single-Payer, Universal Healthcare in CA "Host Howard Vicini discusses the growing grassroots demand for a Single-Payer system of Universal Healthcare in California with Michael Lyon of the San Francisco Gray Panthers."...
Posted: Tue, May 15, 2007 7:53am PDT
US BASED FILIPINO VETERANS/ JFAV CALLS VA NICHOLSON, RESIGN, NOW! VA Secretary Jim Nicholson, Resign Now!
Hundreds of Filipino World War II veterans, youth and students and their community supporters in different cities of the United States led by the Justice for Filipino American Veterans (JFAV) and the ACFV rallied at the VA offices in Seattle, San Francisco ( May 7), Los Angeles ( May 8) and San Diego ( May 9) and called on Veterans Affair Secretary Jim Nicholson to resign.
The Veterans decision to ask for Nicholson resignation was made last May ...
Posted: Mon, May 14, 2007 11:47am PDT
Activists and City Leaders Rally for the Next Generation In an October 2005 survey prepared by the Public Research Institute at San Francisco State University, nearly half of the families with preschool aged children interviewed stated their intent to move out of San Francisco within three years. The three major issues of concern were (a) lack of affordable housing, (b) concern over public safety and (c) the state of the public education system....
Posted: Mon, May 14, 2007 6:32am PDT
SF Requires Zoning Changes to Meet Family Needs A high-profile campaign by Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth has made San Francisco’s lack of affordable family housing a front-burner issue. The Board of Supervisors recently allocated between $10-20 million for family housing, and Coleman and other groups are pushing for 3000 affordable family units to be constructed by 2011....
Posted: Mon, May 14, 2007 6:29am PDT
New Board Members For Troubled Berkeley Housing Authority Mayor Tom Bates Appoints New Board Members For The Berkeley Housing Authority. Oddly, 2 Board Members Were Reappointed, After Firing Themselves From The Troubled Agency In Recent Months!...
Posted: Mon, May 14, 2007 4:26am PDT
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