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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
NICHOLS: More lies from Livermore nuclear weapons lab 
"A group of citizens of the Bay Area are seeking a lawyer to take legal action to stop the open air explosions set off by Livermore Lab in Tracy, California......
Posted: Sat, May 12, 2007 1:19pm PDT
Michigan Democrats prepare to slash social spending With a June 1 deadline approaching, Michigan Republicans and Democrats are locked in a battle over competing plans to deal with the state’s budget deficit, which is $3 billion by some estimates....
Posted: Sat, May 12, 2007 7:43am PDT
Downtown Oakland--the 10K Report Card AIA East Bay, 1405 Clay Street, Oakland (at corners of 14th & Clay Streets)...
Event Date: Wed, May 30, 2007 5:30pm PDT
Posted: Fri, May 11, 2007 5:11pm PDT
Forced hospice forced for profit hospice Our relative was forced to receive for profit hospice in Monterey County, CA. She did not ask for hospice. We are opposed to forced hospice of the elderly or anyone and opposed to for profit hospice. Hospice should be voluntary and a family decision....
Posted: Fri, May 11, 2007 3:17pm PDT
FILIPINOS IN THE UNITED STATES 
Filipinos in the United States today comprise the largest community of Asians. But knowledge about them is scarce. Instead we find trivialities, cliches and stereotypes about them spread by academics and Filipino historical associations. This review calls attention to one serious approach to the Filipino community, part of the 10 million Overseas Filipinos around the world, from a historical-materialist perspective....
Posted: Fri, May 11, 2007 4:33am PDT
ATTN:Berkeley Landlords Collect Rent On The Deceased In Berkeley, Landlords Have Been Charging High Rents To The Deceased!...
Posted: Fri, May 11, 2007 3:18am PDT
Fuel the Revolution: Biofuels Conference & Sustainable Transportation Expo University of California, Santa Cruz
1156 High St, Santa Cruz, 95064
UCSC Women's Center...
Event Date: Sat, May 19, 2007 1:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, May 11, 2007 12:02am PDT
Oral sex causes cancer - Ignoring the obvious in order to promote puritan values What I find interesting about this article is it seems no attempt has been made to ascertain if the couples used condoms or not.
The puritan NOT scientific agenda could not be clearer....
Posted: Thu, May 10, 2007 8:14pm PDT
Public Housing Tenants Need Repairs, Not Promises Mayor Gavin Newsom has made repeated statements this year about his “intense commitment” to improve the city’s public housing. Recognizing that there are serious problems with crime, health and safety, and general living conditions in the over 6,000 units run by the San Francisco Housing Authority, the Mayor has announced numerous steps he intends to take towards addressing the issues....
Posted: Thu, May 10, 2007 7:53am PDT
Serotonin Syndrome: Many Doctors Refuse to Recognize the Lethal Risks In addition to recent reports that the drugs work no better than sugar pills, the latest warnings added to the long list of adverse events linked to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressants have focused on birth defects, suicide risks and violence....
Posted: Wed, May 9, 2007 7:02am PDT
MUNI 15 Bus should be restored its rights to serve the people - now. Bring Back the MUNI 15 bus to serve the people as it has done all these many years. The T-Third Light rail is a mess with long waits - some for over one hour. The performance is getting worse every single day. What has Mr. Nathaniel Ford and Mayor Gavin Newsom to say about this fiasco?...
Posted: Wed, May 9, 2007 6:11am PDT
Kansas tornado recovery hampered by dispatch of National Guard to Iraq A massive hurricane leveled the small US town of Greensburg, Kansas on Friday evening, killing at least 10 people and destroying 95 percent of its homes and businesses. After the devastation, Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius said the state’s ability to respond to the disaster had been impeded because National Guard troops and equipment needed for the recovery effort were in Iraq....
Posted: Tue, May 8, 2007 10:10pm PDT
Can San Francisco Make Low-Income Neighborhoods Desirable? San Francisco progressives have spent decades in a multi-front battle against gentrification. The struggle to prevent the displacement of low-income working people from the city has led to rent controls and eviction protections, zoning restrictions, highrise limitations, inclusionary housing, and a constant push for truly affordable housing. But stopping gentrification alone does not make low-income neighborhoods desirable, or even livable. In San Francisco, neighborhoods that have defeated g...
Posted: Tue, May 8, 2007 9:32am PDT
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