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Gavin Newsom = Downtown's Mouthpiece 
collage by chance martin
concept stolen from AdBusters...
Posted: Fri, Aug 30, 2002 9:47am PDT
The 13 Biggest Lies Prop. N Backers Are Telling San Francisco Voters Powerful interests are casting the next Mayor's race from the backs of homeless people and, if successful, hoping they can ride this hate campaign into office....
Posted: Fri, Aug 30, 2002 9:39am PDT
Elderly Renter Fighting Economic Eviction Oaklands Elderly Under Attack By Greedy
Landlords Taking Advantage Of Their Fragility....
Posted: Sun, Aug 25, 2002 6:17pm PDT
Fraud Not Care 
A Quick examiniation of some facts from the NYC experience with Care Not Cash, Proposition N on this fall's ballot....
Posted: Sun, Aug 25, 2002 12:19pm PDT
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Summit Hospital in Oakland closed the Pain Clinic, dumping 2ooo patients! These patients are being told to go to Stanford. These are Cronic pain patients. That is too far to travel and too expensive....
Posted: Sat, Aug 24, 2002 10:48pm PDT
Poverty & Homelessness in San Francisco (audio/mpeg 27.2MB) audio documentary on poverty and homelessness in san francisco. background on the issues affected by Proposition N...
Posted: Sat, Aug 24, 2002 12:11pm PDT
No On N Protest (video/quicktime 34.5MB) No On N activists are increasing the pressure on the Gavin Newsom "Care Not Cash" proposal which may hurt the poor more then help them....
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 10:10pm PDT
No Prop. N Action, Friday NoCNC (Prop. N) Coalition announces action against this anti-Homeless and Poor initiative...
Posted: Thu, Aug 22, 2002 4:21pm PDT
Is Proposition N Homophobic? 
The question of whether Gavin Newsome is Homophobic or not has come up again and again. His new Homeless Policy will certainly add to the misery of marginalized queers....
Posted: Thu, Aug 22, 2002 4:05pm PDT
Asking for change The "care not cash" initiative examined...
Posted: Tue, Aug 20, 2002 2:47pm PDT
Free Market Leaves Pain Patients At Risk The Free Market System Continues To Leave Many Casualties In It's Wake Of Corporate Domination Over The Will Of The People!...
Posted: Mon, Aug 19, 2002 12:21am PDT
Can A Neighborhood Dream For Itself? The Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition unveils it's new plan for the Mission District free of big money investors...
Posted: Thu, Aug 15, 2002 10:36pm PDT
Remember the I-Hotel! (video/quicktime 3.4MB) August 4th rally celebrating a quarter-century since the Bay Area turned out to resist the I-Hotel eviction. This is a one-minute excerpt of an 18min. 75MB QT movie on my web site.
3.5MB 1min....
Posted: Wed, Aug 14, 2002 10:25am PDT
SF: No on R-Save Rent Control Endorsements-Add Yours The endorsements are being listed now on the Save Rent Control website. Add your organization's endorsement to this crucial effort to defeat Prop R on Nov 5 in San Francisco and save rent control and the progressive and cultural communities which depend on rent control....
Posted: Sun, Aug 11, 2002 9:02pm PDT
SF: Summary of Prop R-the Rent Control Repeal Measure The Save Rent Control website has an excellent summary of Prop R which is reprinted below. Please note that large buildings, as well as the small ones, can be converted to condos by Prop R, causing the tenants to be homeless!...
Posted: Sat, Aug 10, 2002 12:01pm PDT
SF: No on N&R; Yes on S: Save Our Homes; Defend the Homeless; Support Medical Marijuana The ballot is now final for the November 5, 2002 election and the call to arms has already been issued by the SF Tenants Union to defend rent control and defeat Prop R. We must also defeat Prop N, the latest Democrat-Republican attack on the homeless....
Posted: Sat, Aug 10, 2002 11:14am PDT
SF Autonomous Initiative A new initiative is in the germinal stages of development to form a Autonomist Collective and eventually a People's Union...
Posted: Thu, Aug 8, 2002 2:15pm PDT
I-Hotel 25th Anniversary (video/quicktime 2.6MB) People gathered at Portsmouth Square Sunday (Aug.4) to honor the tenants of the International Hotel. QT slideshow of photos - 2 minutes. 2.6MB...
Posted: Tue, Aug 6, 2002 2:35pm PDT
I-Hotel Bittersweet Celebration (audio/mpeg 3.2MB) Twenty-five years ago, on August 4, 1977, the San Francisco police evicted the elderly Filipino men from their single occupancy rooms at the I-Hotel. Today, marks the 25th anniversary and a new project to build a Manilatown Community Center on the site where the I-Hotel once stood. KPFA broadcast this report on Sunday, August 4, 2002 at 6PM. 04:43 [MP3 file 3.3MB]...
Posted: Sun, Aug 4, 2002 8:43pm PDT
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