Mayor Gavin Newsom and First Lady Jennifer Siebel
glad hand Pride celebrants Sunday following a die-in protest, sans Ketchup.
Photos by Luke Thomas
By Luke Thomas
June 30, 2009
The San Francisco Chronicle is up to its usual tricks of inventing propaganda and pandering to the political establishment.
According to an article posted today by Chronicle gossip maven Leah Garchik, Mayor […]
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A candlelight vigil was held yesterday outside City Hall
to protest Mayor Gavin Newsom’s budget which includes over $125 million
in cuts to health and human services.
Photos by Luke Thomas
By Luke Thomas
June 30, 2009
Protests against Mayor Gavin Newsom’s budget proposal continued Monday with a candlelight vigil and die-in outside City Hall.
As many as two hundred protestors, mostly […]
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California Attorney General Jerry Brown
at the annual Alice B. Toklas Pride Breakfast yesterday.
Photos by Luke Thomas
By Luke Thomas
June 29, 2009
Juicy news in the 2010 race for California governor; Attorney General Jerry Brown will officially declare his candidacy in “a few months,” Fog City Journal has learned.
“Now that Antonio Villaraigosa’s out of the race for governor, […]
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Thomas Berry, 1914-2009
By Steven Chapman
June 29, 2009
Earlier this month, on June 1, the Earth became a little bit darker. Father Thomas Berry, cultural historian, visionary cosmologist, “geologian,” and mentor to many, passed away in his hometown of Greensboro, North Carolina.
Berry was one of the most original and creative thinkers of the modern environmental movement, and […]
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Public health and human service activists staged a die-in protest during Pride 2009 today
to draw attention to Mayor Gavin Newsom’s budget
that includes over $121 million in cuts to health and human services.
Photos by Luke Thomas
From Direct Action to Stop the Cuts, Coalition for Budget Justice, Coalition to Save Public Health
June 28, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO – On […]
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Judi Iranyi
By Judi Iranyi, guest editorial
June 28, 2009
According to an “Analysis of the Outcomes of the San Francisco Community Justice Court” by Milissa Sills (June 17, 2009), a majority of the cases heard by San Francisco’s Community Justice Court (CJC) were discharged as were over 90 percent of the following types of cases: public […]
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From Coalition to Save Public Health
June 27, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO – While celebrating at their floats this year, many of the marchers at Sunday’s Gay Pride Parade will also be protesting inequities in Mayor Newsom’s 2009-2010 budget, released earlier this month. LGBT organizations such as the Harvey Milk Democratic Club and Pride-at-Work will be joined by […]
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By Luke Thomas
June 26, 2009
As a friend and I were having lunch yesterday, we heard the tragic news of Michael Jackson’s passing. A fellow patron stood to announce the legendary King of Pop was dead. At just 50 years of age, Jackson reportedly died from cardiac arrest following several years of Class-A pain medication abuse, […]
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Dr. Ahimsa Sumchai
By Dr. Ahimsa Sumchai, guest editorial
June 26, 2009
Due to the presence of hazardous materials, the Hunters Point Shipyard was placed on the National Priorities List in 1989 and designated a federal Superfund site pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response and Liability Act (CERCLA). Under CERCLA, the U.S. Navy can conduct emergency and time-critical […]
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