Articles Posted August 2010

  • Lawsuit Seeks Information on FBI Activities in Bay Area Muslim Communities

    Lawsuit Seeks Information on FBI Activities
    in Bay Area Muslim Communities

    The records are sought in part in response to concerns reported extensively in the New York Times, Washington Post, Detroit Free Press, NBC Bay Area, New America Media, and other publications about the chilling effects of possible racial and religious profiling and the potential harm such tactics may have on national security.

  • Overheard in Fog City: The Willie Brown Non-Cootie Endorsement Factor

    This is currently a hot topic

    Overheard in Fog City: The Willie Brown Non-Cootie Endorsement Factor

    Walker also condemned the spread of misinformation for political gain, including from her supporters.

  • Racism and Bigotry Alive and Well in America

    The controversy has been inaccurately dubbed the “Ground Zero mosque.” Actually, the building will function as an Islamic cultural center, not a mosque. It will include a prayer room, but not a single-purpose house of worship for Muslims. Furthermore, the cultural center will not be built at Ground Zero. It will be near Ground Zero.

  • Why Republicans Need Obama to be a Foreign-Born Muslim

    Why Republicans Need Obama
    to be a Foreign-Born Muslim

    This is a manufactured crisis by those who wish to divide the country into two camps by whipping up hysteria against Muslims, blacks, Hispanics and anyone who does not look and pray as they.

  • Cadillac Hotel Free Concert Today
    Features D10 Candidate E. “Doc” Smith

    Smith, a consummate musician and producer who has played with such notables including Brian Eno, Madonna, Warren Zevon and John Scofield, will provide percussion for legendary Fillmore jazz pianist Peoples under the name The UF2: The Unidentified Flying Quartet.

  • WRAP’s 2010 “Without Housing” Update Has Arrived

    WRAP concludes that ending homelessness in the United States will require a serious re-commitment by the federal government to create, subsidize and maintain truly affordable housing. It notes that the root cause of homelessness is the lack of affordable housing.

  • Wake Up Obama!

    That billions and billions of dollars are still being spent on two unnecessary wars should make everyone feel as if they are living in a big insane asylum. All that money should be going to investment (especially public infrastructure) and jobs creation here in the USA. No wonder that a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll this week found that nearly 6 in 10 Americans believe the country is on the wrong track, a majority disapproves of President Obama’s handling of the economy, and nearly two-thirds expect the economy to get worse, which it will.