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Coaltion Working to Protect Secure Retirements Reacts to Governor's OPEB Commission
A coalition representing California’s teachers, nurses, peace officers, firefighters and other public employees said today that the announcement of those who will make up the Public Employee Post-Employment Benefits Commission marks an initial step in the right direction towards the protection of the hard-earned retirement and health benefits of California’s public workers....
Posted: Tue, Feb 20, 2007 5:16pm PST
Free Shit in the Bay Area
Free Shit Bay Area is an online directory of independent spaces, Actions/events, and free goodies to help support the alternative /radical community in San Francisco Bay Area. This project is an open publishing system meaning, anyone can and you are encuraged to update the listings, zoom into the location you want to add and click submit listing!...
Posted: Tue, Feb 20, 2007 8:40am PST
Eyes on Newsom and Dufty as Healthy Saturdays Reintroduced
After an independent study commissioned by Mayor Gavin Newsom was released last week and reported clear favorable impacts of car-free space in Golden Gate Park, Supervisor Jake McGoldrick announced his intention to send Healthy Saturdays legislation, vetoed by the Mayor last year, back to the Board of Supervisors today....
Posted: Tue, Feb 20, 2007 7:54am PST
10th Annual Homelessness Marathon to Air Tuesday on Free Radio Santa Cruz
As it usually does, Free Radio Santa Cruz (101.1 FM, www.freakradio.org) will air--broadcast conditions willng--the 10th Annual Homelessness Marathon from 4 PM Tuesday February 20th to 6 AM Wednesday February 21st....
Posted: Mon, Feb 19, 2007 7:08am PST
City of Fresno Cleans up Homeless Encampment (video/x-ms-wmv 16.6MB)
On Friday February 16, 2007 the City of Fresno removed trash from a homeless encampment at H and San Benito street in downtown Fresno. The video below shows Public Information Officer Rhonda Jorn explaining the new city policy. The City of Fresno was directed, by a federal court, to stop taking and immediately destroying homeless people’s property. For background information about that case, see: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/23/18332519.php...
Posted: Sun, Feb 18, 2007 4:04pm PST
Save Oakland's Public Housing
The City Of Oakland Filed Suit Against The Oakland Housing Authority (OHA), Accusing The OHA Of Being A Slumlord & Accusing Oakland's Public Housing Tenants Of Being Drug Dealers, Gang Members & Prostitutes!...
Posted: Sat, Feb 17, 2007 6:14pm PST
Santa Cruz Homeless crack down in full selective force
Rise in Homeless harassment...
Posted: Sat, Feb 17, 2007 4:20pm PST
New Front Opens in the War on Social Security (video/quicktime 10.3MB)
Senator Diane Feinstein takes the lead in tryiing to establish what will be called the "Social Security and Medicare Solvency Commission." One-minute QT movie. 10MB....
Posted: Sat, Feb 17, 2007 5:59am PST
Open Letter: Section 8 Rent Increases In Berkeley
Rent Increases Threaten Berkeley's Senior and Disabled Community!...
Posted: Fri, Feb 16, 2007 8:59pm PST
WHERE IS THE LOVE?
The State of California, because of its own incompetence, is raising the cost for obtaining a state Medical Cannabis ID card almost 400%...
Posted: Fri, Feb 16, 2007 8:30am PST
News Flash: Oakland Housing Authority Faces Lawsuits For Poor Behavior
As first read in recent days on Indy Bay News Wire, the Oakland Housing Authority faces major problems for mistreating it's public housing tenants, and now faces numerous lawsuits as a result... See the latest below......
Posted: Thu, Feb 15, 2007 12:34pm PST
Schools, Youth, and Parks Department Must Collaborate
How would you spend your spare time if you were a youth in San Francisco today?
The San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department suffers greatly from a misunderstanding of what young people desire for recreational services. No matter how tight their budget, the Department can claim no shortage of property and facilities to accommodate its users. At the same time, the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) is not able to keep pace with demand for athletic and after school programs. ...
Posted: Thu, Feb 15, 2007 9:18am PST
‘We shall not be moved!’
Making history in Black History Month, 1,000 residents demand no more ‘Negro Removal’...
Posted: Thu, Feb 15, 2007 1:02am PST
Newsom’s San Francisco: Most Racist City in California
Will you be joining me Saturday morning at Whitney Young Child Development Center for our rally at 9:30 and then a meeting with the mayor that he describes as “an in-depth community discussion”? It should be interesting....
Posted: Wed, Feb 14, 2007 6:19am PST
How San Francisco’s taxi paratransit program is getting ruined by politics
San Francisco’s taxi paratransit program has long been a blessing for our disabled citizens. Since 1979—more than a decade before the federal ADA law of 1991—our city government has provided subsidized transportation for frail seniors, wheelchair users, dialysis patients and others with serious disabilities. Its innovative use of taxicabs for paratransit has been emulated nationwide....
Posted: Wed, Feb 14, 2007 6:16am PST
Oakland Housing Authority To Spend $400,000 On Evictions
Oakland Housing Authority Plans To Spend $400,000 On Evictions, Despite Claiming Poverty!...
Posted: Wed, Feb 14, 2007 6:16am PST
Supes Support Alice Griffith Tenants – But Endorse Lennar
The Board of Supervisors passed 8-2 a resolution yesterday to “endorse efforts” by the City, the Redevelopment Agency and the Lennar Corporation to transform parts of Hunters Point into a mixed use development – with a new 49ers Stadium, open spaces and various “tangible economic benefits” to the community’s low-income residents. Supervisors Chris Daly and Ed Jew were the only dissenting votes. Responding to an outcry from tenants at the Alice Griffith Housing Project (who fear losing their h...
Posted: Wed, Feb 14, 2007 6:16am PST
Groups With more than 8 Million California Members Launch “It’s OUR Healthcare!” Campaign
Seniors, Consumer Advocates, Health Advocates, Communities of Faith, and Labor Unite to Ensure That the People of California Have a Strong Voice to Shape Healthcare Reform...
Posted: Tue, Feb 13, 2007 2:11pm PST
Fears About Public Housing Show City Hall’s Disconnect
Rumors abound about the fate of San Francisco’s public housing developments. In a recent rant on Indybay.org, activist Francisco Da Costa claims that the City’s plan is to “slowly board up all of Public Housing at Potrero Hill, bring in the SF Redevelopment Agency and build high rise buildings for the filthy rich.” As reported in Beyond Chron on February 12th, angry residents of the Alice Griffith housing development marched on the Mayor’s “town hall” meeting protesting the City’s plans to de...
Posted: Tue, Feb 13, 2007 9:19am PST
Open Letter to the San Francisco Bay Area and Monterey Bay Area
We would also be interested in finding out if there are any other groups working on this particular issue, as not to "reinvent the wheel." So if someone from a group working on the Livermore issue can contact Kyoko, that would be great....
Posted: Mon, Feb 12, 2007 11:57am PST