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Attacks on Darfur aid workers are rising One year on from a much-heralded peace deal for Darfur, aid agencies have been forced to roll back operations and are facing an unprecedented level of attacks on personnel, according to United Nations maps seen by The Independent....
Posted: Wed, May 2, 2007 8:00pm PDT
IVE/ Rotary Club San Francisco Golden Gate�s event: Alleviating Poverty Through Microfinan Hotel Rex
562 Sutter Street (at Mason)
San Francisco, CA 94102...
Event Date: Thu, May 10, 2007 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, May 2, 2007 4:45pm PDT
Holistic Disaster Preparation: Herbs & 1st Aid for A Community Response RSVP for location details....
Event Date: Sat, May 26, 2007 9:00am PDT
Posted: Wed, May 2, 2007 2:31pm PDT
Holistic Disaster Preparation: Herbs & 1st Aid for A Community Response RSVP for Location Details...
Event Date: Fri, May 25, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, May 2, 2007 2:28pm PDT
The Bush administration slashes public services for rural America The failure of Congress and the Bush administration to reauthorize a law that provided funds to rural counties containing large swathes of federal land has precipitated a crisis that may devastate schools, libraries and a multitude of other programs in rural communities across the US....
Posted: Wed, May 2, 2007 6:41am PDT
Why Was Juan Gonzalez Left Out of NY Daily News Pulitzer for 9/11 Health Effects? The New York Daily News has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for an editorial series on the medical fall-out from the 9/11 attacks. But in some circles, the Pulitzer award was as noteworthy for whom it did not mention: Daily News columnist and Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez. Gonzalez was the first reporter to question government officials' insistence that the air around Ground Zero was safe and wrote a series of groundbreaking exposes on the issue....
Posted: Tue, May 1, 2007 8:00am PDT
Keep Newsom’s Free Muni Discussion Moving As Matt Gonzalez once argued, when it comes to Gavin Newsom, we should fight him when he is wrong and support him when he is right. And finally, Newsom’s talk about free Muni is on the right track....
Posted: Tue, May 1, 2007 7:56am PDT
City of Fresno Continues to Destroy Homeless Peoples Property 
The City of Fresno has a court order preventing them from taking and destroying homeless peoples property. On April 5, 2007 the city implemented a new policy to take and store homeless peoples property during their sweeps. The policy is that they (the City of Fresno) will take and store, for 90 days, homeless peoples property. Homeless people can come to the city yard on G street and reclaim their property. . . except that the property was left out in the rain and is no longer usable....
Posted: Mon, Apr 30, 2007 2:19pm PDT
Be the One! EmeryBay Marketplace, next to Peet's Coffee...
Event Date: Sat, May 19, 2007 11:00am PDT
Posted: Mon, Apr 30, 2007 12:32pm PDT
Study details US junk food industry’s targeting of youth through TV ads A recent report details the food industry’s policy of targeting children in television advertising to promote snack foods and sugar-laden cereals. The study, released on March 28, was conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a privately operated foundation focusing on health issues. The report was spurred by growing concern over the number of obese children in the US: about one in three, or 25 million....
Posted: Mon, Apr 30, 2007 9:24am PDT
Study: FEMA refused overseas aid for Katrina WASHINGTON -- Federal agencies used only a small fraction of the more than $800 million in Hurricane Katrina assistance offered by foreign governments, according to documents released Sunday by a private watchdog group....
Posted: Mon, Apr 30, 2007 7:17am PDT
I-580 Accident Underscores Importance of Vehicle and Passenger Ferries on the Bay Sunday morning’s crash of a tanker-trailer carrying thousands of gallons of gasoline that resulted in the collapse of a McArthur Maze overpass to the Bay Bridge should encourage Bay Area transit and emergency officials to seriously consider the purchase vehicular ferries, particularly for the transport of hazardous materials during non- commute hours....
Posted: Mon, Apr 30, 2007 6:31am PDT
Van Jones spoke at UCSC on Wed., April 25, 2007 on "Growing Greener, Growing Together" (audio/mpeg 30.5MB) Van Jones spoke at UCSC on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 on "Growing Greener, Growing Together: Sustainability, Social Justice and the Future of the Progressive Movement". Van Jones is the Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights....
Posted: Sun, Apr 29, 2007 7:06pm PDT
Encampment Rebuilt @ Entrance of Arcata Redwood Park encampment now at Redwood Park in Arcata...
Posted: Sun, Apr 29, 2007 6:03pm PDT
More Spit on the Military by San Francisco? Changes to MUNI's 38 Geary - Fort Miley line are causing hardships on disabled veterans who have difficulty negotiating a steep hill. The legacy of spit continues to haunt San Francisco which has a reputation of being anti-military. What happened this time....
Posted: Sun, Apr 29, 2007 4:18pm PDT
Somalia cholera death fears grow An escalation in violence in Somalia has left many too frightened to seek treatment for cholera, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres has warned....
Posted: Sun, Apr 29, 2007 12:48pm PDT
Tanker fire destroys part of MacArthur Maze; 2 freeways closed near Bay Bridge (04-29) 09:24 PDT OAKLAND -- The heat of a dramatic gasoline tanker fire destroyed an overpass and closed two major roadways in the MacArthur Maze at the East Bay access to the Bay Bridge early this morning....
Posted: Sun, Apr 29, 2007 10:33am PDT
ASA Co-Sponsors Largest HIV/AIDS Lobby Day This month, Americans for Safe Access (ASA) will co-sponsor the largest annual
HIV/AIDS constituent-based federal advocacy and education event in the US...
Posted: Fri, Apr 27, 2007 11:00pm PDT
US: FDA knew of food contamination for years For years, the federal Food and Drug Administration knew about contamination problems on California spinach farms and at a Georgia peanut butter processor that sickened at least 600 people and caused at least three deaths, according to agency documents and interviews obtained by the Washington Post....
Posted: Fri, Apr 27, 2007 10:12pm PDT
New on Electric Politics: U.S. Welfare Tickets 
Chris Howard, author of The Welfare State Nobody Knows, talks to George Kenney at Electric Politics....
Posted: Fri, Apr 27, 2007 9:11am PDT
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