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Symposium Celebrates Daly Era of Community Activism
The symposium attracted as many as 200 residents to the event. Most of those in attendance were eager to honor the man who, after election to the Board of Supervisors in 2000, provided a powerful and sustained voice for issues and causes that would have otherwise been ignored.
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Misery and Despair Plague Haitians
Ecumenical Centre for Human Rights Director Jean-Claude Bajeux, said conditions are so extreme that inmates “are sleeping standing up or just on scraps of fabric.” They’re not considered human and are treated horrifically under overcrowded, poor sanitation conditions, getting little medical care or even adequate food and clean water.
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Newsom Sinks to New Low:
Gifts Public Treasury Favors to Police, Fire UnionsIn anticipation of passage of a pension reform measure, Mayor Newsom has amended memorandums of understanding with police and fire unions that will reverse previously agreed wage concessions.
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Mandelman Garners Tenants Union Endorsement
The San Francisco Tenants Union has been fighting for the rights of tenants and for the preservation of affordable housing in San Francisco since 1971.
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Doctors Without Morals
Government physicians and psychologists who participated in and authorized the torture of detainees have escaped discipline, accountability or even internal investigation. The Pentagon, the C.I.A., state licensing boards, and professional medical societies have not initiated any action to investigate, much less discipline, these individuals. Presumably these health care professionals continue to treat an unknowing public with little or no fear of prosecution or disciplinary action.
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Adachi Allies Threaten Cuts to Public Defender Budget over Pension Reform
The move is a retaliatory strike over Adachi’s pension and healthcare reform measure, SF Smart Reform, which aims to rein in unsustainable pension and healthcare costs projected to exceed $1 billion by 2016.
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Cell Phone Health Hazards: Better Safe Than Sorry
On May 6, 2010, the President’s Cancer Panel reported that “the true burden of environmentally induced cancers has been grossly underestimated” and named cell phones and other wireless technologies as potential causes of cancer that demand further research and precaution.
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