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SFRA lick your chops sans gravy
The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (SFRA) and the SFRA Commissioners have failed this City and this constituents. Time and time again in the Bayview, in Mission Bay, at the Fillmore, all over the City the SFRA has hurt innocent people. Now, for the first time we the people are asking all of the people to decide the fate of SFRA via the Ballot. SFRA should be sent packing off from San Francisco - complete, with all the crooks that work for SFRA....
Posted: Mon, Sep 4, 2006 5:20am PDT
Robert Fisk: American and Muslim: six million people in search of an identity
Seattle businessmen, students, Miami housewives... Well, what did I expect, asks Robert Fisk at the Chicago Muslim convention...
Posted: Sun, Sep 3, 2006 8:43am PDT
Recent Attacks Spread Fear in Korean Community
Two violent attacks on Korean storeowners in a quiet, middle class section of San Francisco have brought the issue of safety in the Korean American community to the surface. Aruna Lee is a writer and monitors the Korean-language press for New America Media....
Posted: Sun, Sep 3, 2006 8:38am PDT
NAIMA & ALIXA: Spoken-Word Soul Sisters from Brooklyn, Sept. 14th in San Jose
9/14/06
THE SPIRITUAL POWER OF THESE WOMEN IS HEALING, A RARE TREAT FOR SAN JOSE, COME OUT! YOUNG AND OLD!...
Posted: Sat, Sep 2, 2006 12:23pm PDT
Friends of Louisiana
An Update from the Family and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children (FFLIC), a grassroots group in Louisiana doing incredibly important and difficult work....
Posted: Sat, Sep 2, 2006 11:15am PDT
US Muslims Regret "Worsening" Islamophobia
CHICAGO – Nearly five years after the September 11 attacks, American Muslims still face high levels of hatred and suspicion, and political leaders and the news media are mostly to blame, US Muslim leaders said on Friday, September1 ....
Posted: Sat, Sep 2, 2006 11:10am PDT
Katrina Survivors Speak Out -- II
On the one-year anniversary of America's worst natural disaster, World Can't Wait sponsored a speakout at FEMA's Bay Area headquarters in Oakland....
Posted: Sat, Sep 2, 2006 9:33am PDT
Katrina Survivors Speak Out!
On the one-year anniversary of America's worst natural disaster, World Can't Wait sponsored a speakout at FEMA's Bay Area headquarters in Oakland....
Posted: Fri, Sep 1, 2006 6:09pm PDT
We Will Not Be Silent: Movement Grows to Challenge Racial Profiling at Airports
A growing movement across the country is challenging what appears to be an increase in racial profiling at airports. More and more travelers are donning T-shirts that say "We Will Not Be Silent" in English and Arabic in solidarity with Iraqi blogger and activist Raed Jarrar who was forced to change the T-Shirt before boarding a JetBlue Airways flight at Kennedy airport....
Posted: Fri, Sep 1, 2006 7:48am PDT
Marsha Rosen and Gavin News what have you two to say on SFRA?
Marsha Rosen, Jesse Blout, Michael Cohen and Mayor Gavin Newsom what have you say now that we have the signatures and the grassroots movement to point out the right way for the kinds of you. It is a shame that a few filthy rich folks that have made their money by exploiting the poor back San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (SFRA). That Marsha Rosen that evil woman will do anything including LIE to make money for herself, her agency, and the crooks that back her up....
Posted: Fri, Sep 1, 2006 6:39am PDT
CNN'S VICE PRESIDENT OF RACISM AND ASSOCIATES
RACISM IN US CORPORATE MEDIA...
Posted: Thu, Aug 31, 2006 11:23am PDT
Ceremonial gathering and welcoming
Yerba Buena Park...
Event Date: Wed, Sep 13, 2006 1:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Aug 31, 2006 9:48am PDT
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS ORDERS SCHOOL TO ACCEPT ANTI-DAJJAL BUSH T-SHIRT
On Aug. 30, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York City issued a ruling saying a Williamstown school district had gone too far in its attempts to censor a politically charged T-shirt worn by seventh-grader Zachary Guiles. The court found the T-shirt was protected as free speech and cleared Guiles' school record of disciplinary actions that resulted....
Posted: Thu, Aug 31, 2006 9:14am PDT
Benefit Concert 4 New Orleans--La Plebe, Loco Bloco, BLO!
@ Balazo Gallery
(2183 Mission St. @ 18th St.)...
Event Date: Sat, Sep 16, 2006 8:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Aug 30, 2006 10:13pm PDT
APAture Gallery Opening
Kearny Street Workshop space180
180 Capp St. @17th St.,
San Francisco...
Event Date: Tue, Sep 19, 2006 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Aug 30, 2006 3:35pm PDT
Asian Americans Go Missing When It Comes to TV
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The paucity of nominations for Asian Americans in last weekend’s Emmy Awards reflects their virtual absence from network televisions according to a study financed by a civil and human rights organization....
Posted: Wed, Aug 30, 2006 6:30am PDT
David Onek leaves Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice
David Onek was perhaps the only person that understood something when it came to crime, violence, shootings and killings at the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice (MOCJ). He is leaving to take a better postion in the East Bay. So, now we are left with Allen Nance and the situation that is worse will get worser. There is no real leadership at the MOCJ so we will watch and see what happens....
Posted: Tue, Aug 29, 2006 6:50pm PDT
For Whom is New Orleans Being Rebuilt? City Demographics Radically Altered
A year after Hurricane Katrina hit, only about half of New Orleans' population of 450,000 has returned. Many of those unable to come back are poor and African-American, drastically altering the demographics of a city that used to be two-thirds black. Investigative journalist Greg Palast reports from New Orelans....
Posted: Tue, Aug 29, 2006 8:05am PDT
Mayor Gavin Newsom - 62 have been killed and what are you doing?
62 have been killed as of August 29, 2006 and Mayor Gavin Newsom has no idea what is happening on the streets and neighborhoods of San Francisco. If a number of Whites were killed by thugs there would have been a hue and cry. The same if a number of gays will killed the streets of Market Street would be packed with marchers protesting. Daily the Mayor should know in many neighborhoods - gun fire is heard and thousands live in fear....
Posted: Tue, Aug 29, 2006 7:06am PDT
Allen Nance from the the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice a joker
We have crossed the 60th killing in San Francisco and at the rate we are going we will fly past last year's total. The Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice with Allen Nance from Chicago at its head is a joker. Allen Nance decided to cut funding to frontline Community Based Organizations (CBOs) and gave money to those CBOs that might deserve some but not at the expense of frontline CBOs that deal with youth and other issues and prevent killings, shootings, violence and so on....
Posted: Mon, Aug 28, 2006 4:02am PDT