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The following is a list of restaurants that are members of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association (GGRA). Please support POOR Magazine in boycotting the following restaurants because they are members of the GGRA, which support Gavin Newsome's Proposition N, which contrary to its claims of "care" will put more poor people on the streets by taking away their rent money, reducing drug treatment services, healthcare and pay folks pennies per hour for their work-fare (the work required by the City to recieve your monthly cash assistance)
POOR contacted GGRA several times to inquire about their reason for supporting Prop N, but they did not respond, so we are asking our subscribers and readers to join us in boycotting these restaurants in opposition to this very harmful legislation.
Absinthe Brasserie and Bar
398 Hayes Street
San Francisco
Alfred's Steakhouse
659 Merchant
San Francisco
Alioto's Restaurant
8 Fisherman's Wharf
San Francisco
All You Knead
1466 Haight Street
San Francisco
Allegro Restaurant
1701 Jones Street
San Francisco
Amante
570 Green Street
San Francisco
Amphora Wine Merchant
384A Hayes Street
San Francisco
Andale Taqueria
2150 Chestnut Street
San Francisco
Anjou
44 Campton Place
San Francisco
Ansonia Hotel
711 Post Street
San Francisco
Aqua
252 California Street
San Francisco
Ar Roi Thai Cuisine
643 Post St.
San Francisco
Arlequin To Go
384B Hayes Street
San Francisco
B44
44 Belden Place
San Francisco
Balboa CafÈ
3199 Fillmore Street (corner of Greenwich)
San Francisco
Baskin Robbins Lakeshore
1539 Sloat Boulevard
San Francisco
Bayside Sports Bar & Grill
1787 Union Street
San Francisco
Betelnut
2030 Union Street
San Francisco
Big Nate's Barbeque
1665 Folsom Street
San Francisco
Bistro 1650
1650 Balboa St.
San Francisco
Bix
56 Gold Street
San Francisco
Bizou
598 Fourth Street
San Francisco
Black Cat
501 Broadway
San Francisco
Blackthorn Tavern
834 Irving St.
San Francisco
Blondies Bar & No Grill
540 Valencia Street (between 16th & 17th)
San Francisco
Blowfish - Sushi To Die For
2170 Bryant Street
San Francisco
Boulevard
One Mission Street
San Francisco
Brazen Head Restaurant
3166 Buchanan St.
San Francisco
Bruno's
2389 Mission Street
San Francisco
Buena Vista CafÈ
2765 Hyde Street
San Francisco
Bus Stop
1901 Union St
San Francisco
Butter
354 11th Street
San Francisco
Butterfly
1710 Mission Street (at Duboce)
San Francisco
Buzz 9
139 - 8th Street
San Francisco
Caesar's Italian Restaurant
2299 Powell Street
San Francisco
CafÈ 44
761 Post Street
San Francisco
CafÈ Arguello
1499 Valencia Street
San Francisco
CafÈ Bastille
22 Belden Place
San Francisco
CafÈ Claude
7 Claude Lane
San Francisco
Cafe de la Presse
352 Grant Ave
San Francisco
Cafe Desiree
160 Spear Street
San Francisco
CafÈ deStijl
One Union St.
San Francisco
CafÈ Dolci
740 Market St.
San Francisco
CafÈ Focaccia
101 Spear Street
San Francisco
CafÈ Lil Bean
754 Post Street
San Francisco
CafÈ Mars
798 Brannan Street
San Francisco
Cafe Mozart
708 Bush St
San Francisco
CafÈ Niebaum-Coppola
916 Kearny St.
San Francisco
CafÈ Pescatore
2455 Mason Street Tuscan Inn
San Francisco
CafÈ Rosso
SFSU 1600 Holloway Drive
San Francisco
Cafe Venue
721 Market Street
San Francisco
Cafe Venue
70 Leidesdorff Street
San Francisco
Cafe Venue
218 Montgomery Street
San Francisco
Caffe Espresso
462 Powell Sreet Sir Francis Drake
San Francisco
Caffe Museo - in the SF MOMA
151 Third Street
San Francisco
Caffe Proust
1801 McAllister Street
San Francisco
Caffe Soma
1601 Howard Street
San Francisco
Calzone's Pizza Cucina
430 Columbus Avenue
San Francisco
Capp's Corner
1600 Powell Street
San Francisco
Carnelian Room
555 California Street, 52nd Floor
San Francisco
Casa Sanchez
2778 24th Street
San Francisco
Cassidy's
1145 Folsom Street
San Francisco
Castagnola's
286 Jefferson Street
San Francisco
Catering With Style
2800 Bryant St
San Francisco
Chancellor Hotel & CafÈ
433 Powell Street
San Francisco
San Francisco
Charles Nob Hill
1250 Jones Street
San Francisco
Chow
215 Church Street
San Francisco
Chowders
Space A3, Pier 39
San Francisco
Cioppino's on the Wharf
496 Jefferson Street
San Francisco
Citizen Cake
399 Grove Street
San Francisco
Cityscape Bar & Restaurant
333 O'Farrell Street Atop the Hilton San Francisco
San Francisco
Cliff House
1090 Point Lobos
San Francisco
Compass Rose
335 Powell St.
San Francisco
Conard 9th Street CafÈ
160 9th Street
San Francisco
Conard Montgomery Street CafÈ
710 Montgomery Street
San Francisco
Cozmo's Corner Grill
2001 Chestnut Street
San Francisco
Crab House at Pier 39
203C, Pier 39
San Francisco
Crustacean San Francisco
1475 Polk Street
San Francisco
Daily Grill
347 Geary Street
San Francisco
Delaney's
2241 Chestnut St.
San Francisco
Dewey's
335 Powell Street
San Francisco
Diamond Corner CafÈ
751 Diamond St
San Francisco
Divas
1081 Post Street
San Francisco
Don Ramon's Mexican Restaurant
225 11th Street
San Francisco
Durty Nelly's Irish Pub
2328 Irving Street
San Francisco
East Coast West Deli
1725 Polk Street
San Francisco
Eastside West
3154 Fillmore Street
San Francisco
Edward II Inn and Suites
3155 Scott Blvd
San Francisco
Enrico's
504 Broadway
San Francisco
Farallon
450 Post Street
San Francisco
Faz CafÈ at Bechtel
50 Beale Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco
Faz Restaurant
161 Sutter Street
San Francisco
Fiddler's Green
1333 Columbus Ave
San Francisco
Fifth Floor
12 Fourth Street (at Market) Hotel Palomar
San Francisco
Fior d'Italia
601 Union Street
San Francisco
Fishermen's Grotto
No. 9 Fisherman's Wharf
San Francisco
Fleur de Lys
777 Sutter Street
San Francisco
Florio
1915 Fillmore Street
San Francisco
Fog City Diner
1300 Battery Street
San Francisco
Food Court, North Beach Deli, Crab Pot
SF International Airport P.O. Box 251600
San Francisco
Foreign Cinema
2534 Mission Street
San Francisco
Franciscan Restaurant
Pier 43 1/2 Fishermans Wharf
San Francisco
Ghirardelli Chocolate Manufactory
Ghirardelli Square Clock Tower 900 North Point
Street
San Francisco
Gino & Carlo
548 Green Street
San Francisco
Globe
290 Pacific Ave
San Francisco
Goat Hill Pizza
300 Connecticut Street
San Francisco
Gold Spike Restaurant
527 Columbus Avenue
San Francisco
Gordon's House of Fine Eats
500 Florida Street
San Francisco
Grand CafÈ
501 Geary Street Hotel Monaco SF
San Francisco
Harrington's Bar & Grill
245 Front Street
San Francisco
Harry Denton's Starlight Room
450 Powell Street Sir Francis Drake
San Francisco
Hemlock Tavern
1131 Polk Street
San Francisco
Holy Cow Nightclub
1535 Folsom Street
San Francisco
House of Prime Rib
1906 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco
Houston's Restaurant
1800 Montgomery Street
San Francisco
Il Fornaio Cucina Italiana
1265 Battery Street
San Francisco
It's Tops Coffee Shop
1801 Market Street
San Francisco
Jacks Elixir
3200 16th Street
San Francisco
Jardiniere
300 Grove Street
San Francisco
Jelly's A Dance CafÈ
295 Terry Francois Blvd
San Francisco
Jester's
50 Third St
San Francisco
Jianna
1548 Stockton Street
San Francisco
Johnny Foley's Irish House
243 O'Farrell Street
San Francisco
Judi's Place
1414 Market Street
San Francisco
Julius Castle Restaurant
1541 Montgomery Street
San Francisco
Kate O'Brien's
579 Howard St
San Francisco
Kelly's Mission Rock
817 China Basin
San Francisco
Kelly's on Trinity
333 Bush St. #101
San Francisco
Kiku of Tokyo
333 O'Farrell Sreet
San Francisco
Kilowatt
3160 16th Street
San Francisco
Kokkari Estiatorio
200 Jackson Street
San Francisco
Kuleto's Italian Restaurant
221 Powell Street Villa Florence
San Francisco
La Folie
2316 Polk Street
San Francisco
La Mediterranee
2210 Fillmore Street
San Francisco
La Mediterranee
288 Noe St
San Francisco
Lapis Restaurant
Pier 33 The Embarcadero
San Francisco
Lavash Mediterranean Bistro
4 Embarcadero Center
San Francisco
Le Central Bistro
453 Bush Street
San Francisco
Le Colonial
20 Cosmo Place
San Francisco
Le Zinc
4063 - 24th Street
San Francisco
Lefty O'Doul's
333 Geary Street
San Francisco
Liverpool Lil's
2942 Lyon St
San Francisco
Locanda San Pietro
1801 Clement St
San Francisco
L'Olivier Restaurant
465 Davis Court
San Francisco
L'Ottavo Ristorante
692 Sutter Street
San Francisco
Louis Restaurant
902 Point Lobos
San Francisco
MacArthur Park
607 Front Street
San Francisco
Market Street Grill
1231 Market Street
San Francisco
Martin Macks Bar & Restaurant
1568 Haight Street
San Francisco
Masa's
648 Bush Street Hotel Vintage Court
San Francisco
MATRIXFILLMORE
3138 Fillmore Street
San Francisco
Maya
303 Second St
San Francisco
Mel Hollen's Bar & Fine Dining
673 Union Street
San Francisco
Mel's Drive In
1050 Van Ness
San Francisco
Mel's Drive In
3355 Geary Blvd.
San Francisco
Mel's Drive In
801 Mission Street
San Francisco
Mel's Drive In
2165 Lombard Street
San Francisco
Miz Brown's Feed Bag
3401 California Street
San Francisco
Modern Catering
500 Florida Street
San Francisco
MoMo's
760 Second Street
San Francisco
Moose's
1652 Stockton Street
San Francisco
Mozzarella DiBufala Pizzeria I
1529 Fillmore Street
San Francisco
Mozzarella DiBufala Pizzeria II
69 West Portal Ave
San Francisco
'N Touch Bar
1548 Polk Street
San Francisco
Napa Ranch CafÈ
201 Spear Street
San Francisco
Napa Ranch CafÈ
3415 California Street
San Francisco
Napa Ranch CafÈ
465 California Street
San Francisco
Napa Ranch CafÈ
280 Battery Street
San Francisco
New Pisa
550 Green Street
San Francisco
Nick's Lighthouse
2815 Taylor Street
San Francisco
Nob Hill Noshery
1400 Pacific Ave
San Francisco
Noe Valley Bakery & Bread
2277 Shafter Avenue
San Francisco
North Beach Pizza
1499 Grant Avenue
San Francisco
North Beach Restaurant
1512 Stockton Street
San Francisco
One Market Restaurant
1 Market Street
San Francisco
O'Reilly's Irish Pub & Restaurant
622 Green St.
San Francisco
Original Joe's
144 Taylor Street
San Francisco
Original U.S. Restaurant
515 Columbus Avenue
San Francisco
Palio d'Asti
640 Sacramento Street
San Francisco
Palio Paninoteca
500 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco
Palio Paninoteca
505 Montgomery Street
San Francisco
Palomino
345 Spear Street
San Francisco
PAN-O-RAMA BAKING Company
500 Florida Street
San Francisco
Paragon Restaurant & Bar
701 Second Street
San Francisco
Park Chow
1240 Ninth Street
San Francisco
Parkside CafÈ
1600 17th Street
San Francisco
Pasta Pomodoro
3611 California Street
San Francisco
Pasta Pomodoro
2304 Market Street
San Francisco
Pasta Pomodoro
2027 Chestnut Street
San Francisco
Pasta Pomodoro
655 Union Street
San Francisco
Pasta Pomodoro
1875 Union Street
San Francisco
Pasta Pomodoro
4000 24th Street
San Francisco
Pasta Pomodoro
1865 Post Street
San Francisco
Pasta Pomodoro
816 Irving Street
San Francisco
Pasticci
8 Trinity Street
San Francisco
Pat's CafÈ
2701 Leavenworth St
San Francisco
Pauline's Pizza Pie
260 Valencia Street
San Francisco
Pazzia Caffe & Trattoria
337 Third Street
San Francisco
Perry's
1944 Union St
San Francisco
Perry's Downtown
185 Sutter Street
San Francisco
Pier 23 CafÈ
The Embarcadero
San Francisco
Pizzeria Uno
2 Embarcadero Center
San Francisco
Pizzeria Uno
2200 Lombard Street
San Francisco
PJ's Oyster Bed
737 Irving Street
San Francisco
Plouf
40 Belden Place
San Francisco
PlumpJack CafÈ
3127 Fillmore Street
San Francisco
Pompei's Grotto
340 Jefferson Street
San Francisco
Ponzu
401 Taylor Street Serrano Hotel
San Francisco
Postrio
545 Post Street Prescott Hotel
San Francisco
Prego Ristorante
2000 Union Street
San Francisco
Puccini & Pinetti
129 Ellis Street Monticello Inn
San Francisco
Puerto Alegre Restaurant
546 Valencia Street
San Francisco
Red Herring
155 Steuart St., At the Hotel Griffon
San Francisco
Redwood Park
600 Montgomery Street (near Clay) TransAmerica
Pyramid
San Francisco
Restaurant Jeanne D'Arc
715 Bush Street
San Francisco
Rose Pistola
532 Columbus Avenue
San Francisco
Rose's CafÈ
2298 Union Street
San Francisco
Rubicon
558 Sacramento
San Francisco
Ruby Skye
420 Mason Street
San Francisco
Sam's Grill
374 Bush Street
San Francisco
San Francisco Brewing Co.
155 Columbus Ave.
San Francisco
Sanraku
704 Sutter Street
San Francisco
Sanraku
101 4th Street (at the Metreon)
San Francisco
Savoia Ristorante
2355 Chestnut Street
San Francisco
Scala's Bistro
432 Powell Street Sir Francis Drake
San Francisco
Scoma's Restaurant
Pier 47 One Al Scoma Way
San Francisco
Self-Help for the Elderly
407 Sansome Street
San Francisco
Shanghai Kelly's Saloon
2064 Polk St.
San Francisco
Silks at Mandarin Oriental Hotel
222 Sansome Sreet
San Francisco
Simple Pleasures Cafe
3434 Balboa Street
San Francisco
Sitio
1151 Folsom Street
San Francisco
South Park Cafe
108 South Park
San Francisco
Specialty's Cafe & Bakery
505 Sansome Street
San Francisco
Specialty's Cafe & Bakery
185 Berry Street
San Francisco
Specialty's Cafe & Bakery
101 New Montgomery Street
San Francisco
Specialty's Cafe & Bakery
1 Post Street
San Francisco
Specialty's Cafe & Bakery
150 Spear Street
San Francisco
Specialty's Cafe & Bakery
22 Battery Street
San Francisco
Specialty's Cafe & Bakery
312 Kearny Street
San Francisco
Specialty's Cafe & Bakery
369 Pine Street
San Francisco
Spoon
2209 Polk Street
San Francisco
St. Francis CafÈ
335 Powell Street
San Francisco
Stars Bar and Dining
555 Golden Gate Avenue
San Francisco
Station CafÈ
SFSU 1600 Holloway Drive
San Francisco
Subway Sandwiches & Salads
1500 Fillmore St.
San Francisco
Subway Sandwiches & Salads
1 Market Plaza
San Francisco
Subway Sandwiches & Salads
753 Polk Street
San Francisco
Sushi Chardonnay
1785 Union St
San Francisco
Sushi Groove
1916 Hyde Street
San Francisco
Sushi Groove South
1516 Folsom
San Francisco
Swan Oyster Depot
1517 Polk Street
San Francisco
Sweetie's
475 Francisco Street
San Francisco
Tadich Grill
240 California St
San Francisco
Tad's Steak House
120 Powell Street
San Francisco
Taqueria Zapata
4150 18th St
San Francisco
Tarantino's Restaurant
206 Jefferson
San Francisco
Taste Catering
3450 3rd Street, # 4D
San Francisco
Terra Brazilis
602 Hayes Street
San Francisco
Terrace Restaurant
San Francisco International Airport Terminal 3
San Francisco
Thanh Long
4101 Judah Street
San Francisco
The Argent Hotel
50 Third St
San Francisco
The Beach Chalet Brewery & Restaurant
1000 Great Highway
San Francisco
The Blue Light
1979 Union Street
San Francisco
The Cosmopolitan CafÈ
121 Spear Street
San Francisco
The Endup
401 6th Street
San Francisco
The Grove
2016 Fillmore Street
San Francisco
The Grove
2250 Chestnut Street
San Francisco
The Magic Flute Garden Ristorante
3673 Sacramento St
San Francisco
The Mucky Duck
1315 9th Ave
San Francisco
The Occidental Grill
453 Pine Street
San Francisco
The Ramp
855 China Basin
San Francisco
The Slanted Door
100 Brannan Street
San Francisco
The Stinking Rose
325 Columbus Avenue
San Francisco
The Waterfront
Pier 7 on the Embarcadero
San Francisco
Tia Margarita
300 - 19th Ave
San Francisco
Tommy's Joynt
1101 Geary Blvd
San Francisco
Tony Roma's
126 Ellis Street
San Francisco
Toraya
1734 Post Street
San Francisco
Tosca CafÈ
242 Columbus Avenue
San Francisco
Trattoria Contadina
1800 Mason Street
San Francisco
Treasure Island Job Corp
655 H Avenue, Bldg. #442
San Francisco
Upton's Catering
2435 Lombard Street
San Francisco
Village Pizzeria
1243 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco
Whizwit
1525 Folsom Street
San Francisco
XYZ Restaurant
181 3rd Street
San Francisco
Yank Sing Restaurant
49 Stevenson Street
San Francisco
Yank Sing Restaurant
101 Spear Street (at Rincon Center)
San Francisco
You See Sushi
94 Judah Street
San Francisco
Zao Noodle Bar
3583 - 16th Street
San Francisco
Zao Noodle Bar
2031 Chestnut Street
San Francisco
Zao Noodle Bar
2406 California Street
San Francisco
You act as though you're being asked to give space in your own home to a homeless person. If you should ever become homeless yourself perhaps you would not have this attitude. Nobody's asking that much from you. And Newsom's proposal isn't going to save you any money.
Regarding restaurants: I happily see my favourite Polk Street eating establishment, Sushi Rock, is not on this list. Hooray!
Newsom's proposal will still provide necessary services while at the same time cutting off the cash for their addictions. In the current state of affairs, only drug dealers and alcohol companies are the winners. Since the homeless are irresponsible or addicts, they cannot be trusted to manage their own finances. By regaining control of resources, the City is taking the first step to end homelessness.
The people who are most against this proposal are those who benefit from the homeless bureaucracy political machine.
Newsom's proposal will still provide necessary services while at the same time cutting off the cash for their addictions. In the current state of affairs, only drug dealers and alcohol companies are the winners. Since the homeless are irresponsible or addicts, they cannot be trusted to manage their own finances. By regaining control of resources, the City is taking the first step to end homelessness.
The people who are most against this proposal are those who benefit from the homeless bureaucracy political machine.
Newsom's proposal will still provide necessary services while at the same time cutting off the cash for their addictions. In the current state of affairs, only drug dealers and alcohol companies are the winners. Since the homeless are irresponsible or addicts, they cannot be trusted to manage their own finances. By regaining control of resources, the City is taking the first step to end homelessness.
The people who are most against this proposal are those who benefit from the homeless bureaucracy political machine.
Newsom's proposal will still provide necessary services while at the same time cutting off the cash for their addictions. In the current state of affairs, only drug dealers and alcohol companies are the winners. Since the homeless are irresponsible or addicts, they cannot be trusted to manage their own finances. By regaining control of resources, the City is taking the first step to end homelessness.
The people who are most against this proposal are those who benefit from the homeless bureaucracy political machine.
Newsom's proposal will still provide necessary services while at the same time cutting off the cash for their addictions. In the current state of affairs, only drug dealers and alcohol companies are the winners. Since the homeless are irresponsible or addicts, they cannot be trusted to manage their own finances. By regaining control of resources, the City is taking the first step to end homelessness.
The people who are most against this proposal are those who benefit from the homeless bureaucracy political machine.
Newsom's proposal will still provide necessary services while at the same time cutting off the cash for their addictions. In the current state of affairs, only drug dealers and alcohol companies are the winners. Since the homeless are irresponsible or addicts, they cannot be trusted to manage their own finances. By regaining control of resources, the City is taking the first step to end homelessness.
The people who are most against this proposal are those who benefit from the homeless bureaucracy political machine.
Newsom's proposal will still provide necessary services while at the same time cutting off the cash for their addictions. In the current state of affairs, only drug dealers and alcohol companies are the winners. Since the homeless are irresponsible or addicts, they cannot be trusted to manage their own finances. By regaining control of resources, the City is taking the first step to end homelessness.
The people who are most against this proposal are those who benefit from the homeless bureaucracy political machine.
Newsom's proposal will still provide necessary services while at the same time cutting off the cash for their addictions. In the current state of affairs, only drug dealers and alcohol companies are the winners. Since the homeless are irresponsible or addicts, they cannot be trusted to manage their own finances. By regaining control of resources, the City is taking the first step to end homelessness.
The people who are most against this proposal are those who benefit from the homeless bureaucracy political machine.
Newsom's proposal will still provide necessary services while at the same time cutting off the cash for their addictions. In the current state of affairs, only drug dealers and alcohol companies are the winners. Since the homeless are irresponsible or addicts, they cannot be trusted to manage their own finances. By regaining control of resources, the City is taking the first step to end homelessness.
The people who are most against this proposal are those who benefit from the homeless bureaucracy political machine.
Newsom's proposal will still provide necessary services while at the same time cutting off the cash for their addictions. In the current state of affairs, only drug dealers and alcohol companies are the winners. Since the homeless are irresponsible or addicts, they cannot be trusted to manage their own finances. By regaining control of resources, the City is taking the first step to end homelessness.
The people who are most against this proposal are those who benefit from the homeless bureaucracy political machine.
Newsom's proposal will still provide necessary services while at the same time cutting off the cash for their addictions. In the current state of affairs, only drug dealers and alcohol companies are the winners. Since the homeless are irresponsible or addicts, they cannot be trusted to manage their own finances. By regaining control of resources, the City is taking the first step to end homelessness.
The people who are most against this proposal are those who benefit from the homeless bureaucracy political machine.
This is untrue and you know it is. Addiction is one of the problems that needs to be addressed, but cnc doesn't even do this.
nice try though
Bulldung Awards for Summit Hypocrites
OPINION
September 3, 2002
Posted to the web September 4, 2002
Jim Peron
Johannesburg
The contrast couldn't be more extreme. Carrying his placard the man in front of me was clearly one of the poorest of the poor. His shoes were not only threadbare, they were tattered, merely rags barely being held together. He shuffled down the streets of affluent Sandton just outside the chic conference centre and the five star hotels where the UN's World Summit on Sustainable Development was being held.
Protesters at such events are expected. Every year affluent Europeans and American who are full-time 'radicals' fly off to demonstrate on behalf of the world's poor. But the poor themselves rarely participate in these elite demonstrations.
This time it was different. Far more different than first meets the eye. You had to read the signs these poor people were carrying to understand how much their message contrasted with that of affluent protesters from the Northern Hemisphere. If you stepped in front of the man with slivers of leather attached to his feet you'd see his sign said: "Trade Not Aid."
The marchers in this protest were mainly poor, virtually all black, and mostly women. They were street traders and farmers. Without fail everyone had a sticker saying :"Freedom to Trade."
Farmers from India marched side by side with Zulu women wearing T-shirts saying: "Biotechnology for Africa."
On the sideline the press and Summit delegates stood aghast. What do you say to poor people with signs reading: "Stop Eco-Imperialism" or "Save the Planet from Sustainable Development" or "Free Trade IS Fair Trade".
The Green Left wants to paint globalisation as rich versus the poor but the rich are supposed to be in favour of free trade and the poor opposed to it. But here the situation was precisely the opposite. The anti-globalisation protesters were those who could afford to fly in on international flights and stay at expensive hotels that local street traders could never afford to visit.
The farmers from India were demanding the right to grow genetically modified crops. Other speakers at the rally demanded the end of subsidies for agriculture in developed countries while English group Oxfam called for more subsidies for their first-world farmers.
One rally speaker was Barun Mitra of the Liberty Institute of New Delhi, India.
He announced that they wanted to give a well-deserved award to various Green and anti-globalisation groups that he said were perpetuating poverty in the Third World. He announced that he wanted to grant the "Bullshit Award for Perpetuating Poverty" to the high priestess of the environmental movement - Ms Vandana Shiva. Among the others nominated in this very close contest were Greenpeace, Third World Network, SAFeAge and other such groups. The mere mention of Greenpeace brought loud and derisive remarks from the marchers.
There was general agreement among the marchers that increased productivity, through trade and technology, not only helps in reducing poverty, but also helps in improving the quality of environmental resources. Clearly, increased consumption reflects economic and environmental well-being.
Surely this must have been the environmentalists' worst nightmare. Real poor people marching in the streets and demanding development while opposing the eco-agenda of the Green Left.
These were people who had real concerns. They need development. They need economic prosperity. As one of the street traders told me: "I've got children to feed. I don't want to be a criminal." Her words brought an immediate chorus of agreement from several other woman standing with her.
Meanwhile that day another Green group released another report demanding less free trade, less development, and less prosperity. They specifically said that it would be wrong to economically develop poor nations. Instead we should impoverish wealthy nations so everyone is equal. They called for 'wealth alleviation'.
One of the authors of that report is Green guru Anita Roddick who once gushed the sentiment, "how quickly you could fall in love with the economics of less." The economics of less wouldn't mean much to Roddick. She's a multimillionaire.
But the people in the streets of Sandton couldn't survive on the 'economics of less.' Less to feed their children means the children starve.
Unlike the well-funded anti-globalisation elite these people couldn't afford to fly around the world for conferences. They crammed into small mini-vans just to get to the Summit while UN delegates rode by in chauffeur-driven limousines with police escorts. The street traders couldn't afford a press attaché to contact the media on their behalf. Their media outreach was a loudspeaker attached to the roof of a dilapidated old truck that had to pushed through the streets.
These weren't the poverty pimps from the North: that band of elite Westerners who are paid to lobby full-time on behalf of what they think the poor need.
These people were the poor themselves and they were demanding something that baffles the Left. It is called freedom.
Author: Jim Peron is a freelance researcher and writer. This article may be republished without prior consent but with acknowledgement. The patrons, council and members of the Free Market Foundation do not necessarily agree with the views expressed in the article.
© 2002 Moneyweb. All rights reserved. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com).
Don't try to paint the liberal left as elitist and wrong for the poor. The right wing isn't the answer, and neither are poor people's opinons - when they are in desparate predicaments - the only ones that count.
No on idiotic N
Neither are poor people's opinions the ones that count, you said. What an incredibly elitist remark. YOU know what's best for someone who is hungry?
All you are is an armchair asshole. Just another useless liberal.
Neither are poor people's opinions the ones that count, you said. What an incredibly elitist remark. YOU know what's best for someone who is hungry?
All you are is an armchair asshole. Just another useless liberal.
countless hours trolling = Revenge of the SubNerds
And as for "grefft", what is that? The sound when your buddy bov pulls out?
Resurrecting the "Happy Darky"
http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com |
They've got rhythm. They've got watermelon. They've got quaint folk customs. So what need have they for jobs, for education, for civil rights? So went the "Happy Darky" myth, prevalent among well-off whites in the segregated South of half a century or so ago.
The "Happy Darky" myth is being resurrected in more pernicious form by environmentalists.
The introduction of electricity is "destroying" the cultures of the world's poor, said Gar Smith, who edits "The Edge," the online magazine of the San Francisco-based Earth Island Institute.
With the introduction of electricity, African villagers spend too much time watching television and listening to the radio, Smith said.
George Monbiot, a columnist for the trendy leftist British newspaper the Guardian, said poor people are happier people:
"In southern Ethiopia, the poorest half of the poorest nation on earth, the streets and fields crackle with laughter," Monbiot wrote. "In homes constructed from packing cases and palm leaves, people engage more freely, smile more often, express more affection than we do."
At a taping of a PBS special on the Earth Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, a female panelist decried "the pernicious introduction of the flush toilet."
The World Health Organization estimates that famine in southern Africa will take the lives 300,000 people in the next six months. But delegates and journalists in Johannesburg applauded the dictators of Zambia and Zimbabwe for refusing to let their starving people eat genetically modified American corn.
About 17,000 tons of corn donated by the U.S. Agency for International Development is sitting in storage in Zambia. Greenpeace and Friends of Earth have been lobbying the governments in Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique not to accept the corn.
Americans eat this corn every day. But environmentalists describe it as "toxic." The starving people it was sent to feed have a different opinion: "About all Josephine Namangolwa has in her hungry, weary body is anger, and in an instant it all comes surging out," wrote New York Times correspondent Henri Cauvin Aug. 31. "It has been days since she had a nourishing meal to feed her eight children."
"'We are dying here,' she shouts as aid workers arrive in her village of Chipapa to check on their warehouse and the nearly 500 tons of cornmeal inside...She and the rest of the 2.4 million facing starvation in Zambia will be eating any of this food, or any of the thousands of tons of additional food being shipped from the U.S.," Cauvin wrote.
"Please give us the food," pled an elderly blind man in the village of Shimbala, quoted in a Los Angeles Times dispatch Aug. 28. "We don't care if it's poisonous because we are dying anyway."
There were no empty bellies at the Earth Summit. Dennis Morgan, head chef of the five star Michelango Hotel in the posh Johannesburg suburb of Sandton told the London Sun he had ordered 5,000 oysters, a half ton of lobster and other shellfish, two tons of steak and chicken breasts, and buckets of caviar and foie gras, and gallons of champagne and cognac for the environmentalists to eat and drink.
Southern Africa is drought stricken. But each of the environmentalists was using, on average, 53 gallons of water a day. The 45,000 delegates also generated hundreds of tons of trash. Environmentalists think other people must sacrifice to protect the environment. But not, of course, the environmentalists themselves.
The "Happy Darkies" who environmentalists think can do without electricity, flush toilets and food are not happy with the fate Greenpeace and other environmental organizations would consign them to.
Seven organizations representing small farmers in Africa, India and the Philippines presented to Greenpeace and to two other environmental organizations at the Johannesburg summit a "trophy" consisting of a piece of wood upon which two heaps of dried cow dung had been mounted. They called it the "Bulls...t Trophy."
Barun Mitra, who presented the trophy, called the environmentalists parasites who "prey on the blood of the poor."
"They are not interested in famine or poverty," he said. "This lot is concerned only about their own interests."
From the New York Times
August 30, 2002
Between Famine and Politics, Zambians Starve
By HENRI E. CAUVIN
USAKA, Zambia, Aug. 29 — About all Josephine Namangolwa has left in her hungry, weary body is anger, and in an instant it all comes surging out.
It has been days since she had a nourishing meal to feed her eight children, victims, like millions of other Zambians, of the deepening food shortage that is sweeping southern Africa.
Yet before her eyes stand sacks and sacks of untouched — and for now untouchable — cornmeal, which has been the foundation of the Zambian diet for generations and is currently at the center of a scientific and diplomatic debate over genetically modified food.
It is an argument that means nothing and everything to Ms. Namangolwa.
"We are dying here," she shouts as aid workers arrive in her village of Chipapa to check on their warehouse and the nearly 500 metric tons of cornmeal stored inside, all of it from the United States and some of it almost certainly from genetically engineered crops. "We want to eat."
For now, however, she and the rest of the hungry in Zambia will not be eating any of the food from Chipapa, or any of the thousands of tons of additional food being shipped to the region from the United States.
President Levy Mwanawasa has banned the distribution of food produced with genetically modified organisms, or G.M.O.'s, laying down a hard line in a debate that has gripped the region for weeks.
The president, along with close advisers and sympathetic scientists, has expressed a number of concerns about G.M.O.'s. Health is one; trade relations with the European Union and the United States is another.
Genetically engineered corn is shipped in two forms, as unmilled kernels and as cornmeal. Zambian officials worry that the kernels might be used as seed, producing genetically modified corn that would cross-pollinate with nonmodified varieties. This would jeopardize Zambian exports to the European Union, which requires all genetically modified products to be so labeled.
A number of people following the debate say that it has at some level turned into an undeclared trade dispute between the European Union with its powerful environmental activists and the United States and its influential biotechnology industry.
With millions of lives in the balance, neither side wants it to look that way, and both have gone to great lengths to keep the trade issue out of the public debate. In a statement today, the European Union mission here all but encouraged Zambia to accept the modified corn, saying that milling would allay its concerns about exports from the country.
But even if the incoming corn were milled into cornmeal, eliminating the risk to the Zambian agriculture industry, the government remained concerned about the suitability of the food for human consumption.
"I have been told it is not safe," the minister of agriculture, Mundia Sikatana, said in an interview.
Asked if he believes such foods are poisonous, Mr. Sikatana said the studies he had read had led him to that conclusion. "What else would you call an allergy caused by a substance? That substance that the person reacts to is poisonous."
All of the talk of toxins and trade has confused many local people, while frustrating the United Nations World Food Program and angering Washington, which is supplying about three-quarters of the food for the W.F.P.'s operations in the region.
The W.F.P., which is feeding just over a million Zambians now, expects to be feeding about 2.5 million by the end of the year.
At the moment, the agency says it has only about 7,000 metric tons of food, or some two weeks worth, approved and available for distribution. About 14,000 tons already in the country, some already milled, some still whole grain, have been frozen by the president's edict. Far larger shipments on the way face the same fate unless Mr. Mwanawasa changes his mind.
In an indication of the matter's urgency, Andrew S. Natsios, the head of the United States Agency for International Development, met with Mr. Mwanawasa this week to urge him to accept the corn and to offer Zambia assistance in assuring that the food is indeed safe.
In an effort to ease Zambia's doubts about the safety of the foods, the agency has offered to fly Zambian scientists to the United States to meet with government and academic researchers. Mr. Natsios maintained that Mr. Mwanawasa was open to the offer and the possibility that it might yield a solution.
"I think he wants more information," Mr. Natsios said. "There's no commitment to change, but I don't think this story is at an end."
Mr. Sikatana said the government has made its decision and can meet the country's needs without American aid. Efforts to bring hundreds of thousands of tons of corn from elsewhere are underway, and Mr. Sikatana said no Zambian will starve.
With each passing day, however, the fates of millions of hungry people around Zambia grow more dire.
Loveness Malupande, who lives not far from Chipapa, in the village of Kabweza, with an extended family of about 24, said her family had sold off all but two of the 20 cattle they had, all to buy stopgap supplies of food, which have since run out. For now, the family is left to scavenge. "We go out in the bush and look for wild roots," she says.
One of her relatives, Cliff Malambo, 27, said he had heard about the food at the warehouse in Chipapa. "They have said that the food is not good for us, but we don't know," he said. "They don't explain."
Many Zambians question the government's statements and wonder why friends who received the American corn before the ban went into effect have not died. Others applaud the government's vigilance. Almost all of them are somewhat befuddled.
"People ask me if it's safe," Steven Grabiner, who runs the Riverside Development Agency, a church-affiliated charity, said. "I say, `Yes, I think it is. If you make me a bowl I'll eat it."'
Foods produced from crops engineered to be more resistant to worms, for example, are now widely consumed in the United States less than a decade after such products first entered the market. By many accounts, they have made American agriculture more productive, but they have also brought controversy.
A number of scientists and consumer advocates argue the effects of genetic engineering on both the environment and consumers have not been adequately examined. Yet, years of extensive testing have not turned up any findings that would suggest such foods are not safe for humans, Marc Cohen, an analyst at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, said.
While genetically engineered food has almost certainly found its way into Zambia for several years, through international aid or through imports from South Africa, which produces genetically modified crops, the scale was always small and never attracted attention. But the volume of food being brought in for the relief operation is huge, aimed at feeding 13 million people across six countries, and red flags went up.
Mozambique and Zimbabwe at first joined Zambia in resisting the geneticaly modified corn, particularly out of concerns over cross-pollination. Ultimately, Mozambique and Zimbabwe decided to mill the corn before bringing it into the country, eliminating the potential threat to their agricultural sectors.
Zambia so far has balked at milling in part because of the cost, which at $25 a ton is not an inconsequential expense for one of the poorest countries in the world.
Critics of the government say that officials were late drafting a comprehensive policy on genetic engineering and were nowbuying time to try to form one.
"We should be confining our debate in this hour of emergency to corn," said John W. K. Clayton, president of the Zambia National Farmers' Union. "We don't have the luxury of time to launch into broadranging debate on this issue."
"This is the work of the politicians," Ms. Namangolwa said as she looked in on the stockpile of corn. "This meal is O.K. They are not helping us. They are killing us."
Excuse me. Got to lick my own vomit now, like a good liberal should....
If you are unable to form cogent thoughts upon which to base a follow up, why do you even bother?
Have you ever heard of colonialism? oh, I guess you think your command of the simplified supply-demand concept on page 10 of your high school economics textbook outweighs any opinion of the ex-head of the world bank.
Do you think that during all of history, people in the poor countries in African, Asia, Central America have just been sitting around doing nothing and the concept of 'free trade' was just discovered a couple years ago and it needs to be tried for the first time? Please read a book. Most of Africa came out from under direct colonialism of the british during the 60s, and most were not under communist systems during the time since then, and 'free' trade has been given a chance for quite some time. Because 'free' trade as it has been occurring is not free at all, none of these countries have had per capita income increase at all. Exactly the same is true for central america and asia. Hey boss, do you want to try to tell us why Mexico keeps getting poorer and more desperate, even though they're so close to the US and have a lot of resources and NAFTA has been in place for a decade? The exceptions to the trend are places like Singapore and S. Korea that did *not* do what the IMF tried to order them to do and they protected key industries and negotiated trade deals that were fair for them. IMF/WTO negotiated 'free trade' is extremely slanted.
The free trade you seem to be referring to seems to be this adolescent or uneducated notion of someone in high school who is exploring the differences between the two most major pure economic systems - capitalism and communism. No successful country uses one of these pure systems that are imperialist almost by definition.
Hungry and Homeless in SF?
Care Not Cash: Dine and Dash!
Boycotting these places will only hurt the people that work there. And most people that work in restuarants are one paycheck or less away from being homeless them selves. Beleive me I worked in restaurants for years.
I also have been homeless and on the streets. i was homeless for more than a year, thanks to excessive alcohol and drug use. I can tell you right now, if I was given cash it would have gone straight to drugs and alcohol, and I might still be out there or dead. Giving ddicts and alcoholics cash is only destructive and does nothing to help them.
And neither does boycotting restaurants that may not even agree with al off the ballots and proposition the association supports. Most restaurants on your lists are small mom and pop places that have only joined to association only to save money on things like heath care for their employees or other services that are cheaper when applying as a group. And have not a clue as to what the association does or does not support politically.
During the nineteen thirties and early forties, there was a political party in Germany called the 'Nationalsozialist Deutscherarbeiter Partei (NSDAP) headed by none other than the infamous Adolf Hitler. His main criteria were the Jewish population, among others such as the Gypsies, the handicapped, homosexuals, dissidents, and all other so-called 'non-Aryan' folk. Steps had been taken to rid Germany of all these so-called 'Untermensch', or 'enartige leute'. Firstly, came the restricted Ghettos, then the actual deportations, to the extermination camps such as Auswitz and Börkennau (just to cite a couple).
Now, fast forward to the present. With the Bush administration, and his cute little crappy lap mutt, by the neme of Tony Blair, and otherof the socalled-G-7, or G-8, there is another subtle and insidious indoctrination that has been going on, as to vilify not the Jewish population, nor the gays, nor the Romany, nor thse afflicted with physical or mental chalenges, not even POLITICAL disidents, BUT THE POOR AND DESTITUTE OF THE WORLD! It is these most of these arseholes with money that have this maniacal psycholocal need, as to use the American expression, 'trash' those of our fellow species as placing labels upon them of the magnitude of discrediting their self worth as being for naught. It is the callous disregard for the poor, as like their buddy, A. Hitler, they would just steam in glee atthe prospect of gassing all the poor on this planet out of existence! These dispicable arseholes or shitheads have nothing better to do with their money, as they MUST be suffering a great deal of bordom, as to fight for the demise of those less fortunate themselves. Some of these arseholes call them Christians. May I remind these Christian nuts who might be reading this commentary, that their unsung hero, the Master Jesus, Himself, had lived a life of renunciation and POVERTY!? Need I remind these grain of rice siyed brains that He also spoke out for the POOR during His time? I am not a Christian, myself, as I belong to a NON religious, or seculara world wide recognised and respected esoteric fraternal organisation (open to both genders) pf the Initiatic Tradition, that encourages FREE THINKING and is opposed to all forms of religious fanaticism and dogmatic indoctrination.
However, as far as these filthy rstinking wealthy arseholes are concerned, theres MUST be indeed a RELIGION that these numbskulls belong to that whos dogma is the destruction of all the poor on this finite planet. I certainly would never catch myself ascribing to that religion at all!
Sabn Francisco USED to be a 'progressive' city, one that had actually welcomed the down and out. Not today! Oh no, not in these times! Just the opposite has taken place, as San Francisco has become THE most expensive city in North America (second most expensive in the world only to Tokyo, the most expensive) it is these filthy stinking rich speculators that have invaded this city, and turned it (or are bloody well trying to( turn the City and County of San Francisci itself into just another 'gated community'!
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