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West Coast ports shut on May Day
In San Francisco, more than a thousand people marched from Local 10’s union hall, led by the Local 10 Drill Team, along the Embarcadero where the 1934 Big Strike took place.
US Navy aims its big guns at Latin America
While Washington assures that its sole interest in the region is combating “new threats” – terrorism, drug trafficking and the Maras gangs of Central America – Latin American people often see it as the pursuit of “imperialist” interests dictated by energy needs.
Viequenses support Barack Obama
Vieques is an exquisite white-sand-trimmed island, a jewel in the blue Caribbean, where the 10,000 Viequenses fight valiantly for cleanup of massive contamination left by the U.S. Navy.
Lennar built homes on land littered with live bombs
Now that we know how that negligence has endangered an upscale white neighborhood in Florida, will anyone in Hunters Point stand up in Lennar’s defense?
Ocean View activists protest lack of work for community youths
A Bay View investigation into the workforce at the Ingleside Library, which is being built by CLW Builders, found that none of the workers on the construction site were from the Ingleside community.
Environmental organizations and residents warn against consequences of Lennar’s ‘Prop Greed’
Despite Lennar's promises to clean up toxics at this site, environmentalists point to the text of Propsition G, which states that “the final development plan for this Project Site may be materially different from the Project."
Haitians demand food
Supposedly, the UN occupation and the 2006 election had allowed Haitians to forget that its democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, had been overthrown in a violent coup. The massive protest over food prices has shattered this facade.
Our Prop F is winning! And it’s ahead of Lennar’s Prop G!
San Francisco was built lot by lot by local builders with local workers – some with experience, some in training. That’s how we’ll renovate our solid existing homes and commercial buildings in Bayview Hunters Point and build new ones.
Enough Is Enough Rally For Self-Determination Monday 11 a.m. at City Hall
All that it takes to be branded an urban terrorist evidently is to be a "troublemaker": complaining when sewage backs up into your sink or asserting your rights or defending your community in any way.
Statement on the Sean Bell verdict
Police officers seem to know that they can kill certain people with impunity.
Children’s Defense Fund calls Schwarzenegger’s revised budget shameful
In a state with the eighth largest economy in the world, it is a moral outrage that cuts to foster care, health coverage, cash assistance for children and food programs are even being considered.
Revolutionary Black psychologist honored for changing education and society
“Joseph White has made a fundamental shift in how ethnic minorities are viewed, understood and treated in American psychology.”
Cuba: If change is in the air, does prosperity lie ahead?
35 percent of the National Assembly members are Black, up from 33 percent in 2003 and 28 percent in 1998. Forty-three percent of the National Assembly members are women, making Cuba one of the worlds’ leaders in the percentage of women in representative government.
‘Smart Cities’ reject redevelopment agencies
There are only three medium-sized cities in Northern California that have withstood pressure from a powerful Sacramento lobby, an army of lawyers, consultants, bond brokers and land developers.
Prop 98 would eliminate rent control and tenant protections
If passed by the voters, Prop 98 would terminate rent control and other tenant protections and would place homeowners at risk by allowing unscrupulous property owners to challenge existing building codes and zoning laws.
Assembly Speaker Karen Bass: Our society will be judged on the way it cares...
People are scared about the future in a state that should be all about hope for the future. We represent California – the eighth largest economy on the planet.
On the road toward health
Step by step, access to healthy living is increasing with community efforts.
Outstanding California childcare providers recognized at State Capitol ceremony
The ceremony was held to recognize the important role that informal childcare providers play in raising preschool age children and preparing them for Kindergarten.
‘Sophie, you sold us out again!’
Allowing 604 Hunters Point families to become homeowners is not in Newsom's ethnic cleansing game plan.
Prop F answers SF’s top housing issue: Affordability
Lennar and their fleet of consultants are calling the Bayview Affordable Housing Initiative a “poison pill.” The irony here shouldn’t be lost on anyone.