Posts Tagged ‘San Francisco’

Food Bank Federal Funding Cut: Hunger Cuts Deep

Filed under: Economy | Food — by Will Kirkland 08/22/2011 @ 3:52:32 PM
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“Funding for the national Emergency Food and Shelter Program program was cut 40 percent by Congress in this year’s budget – from $200 million to $120 million.

For the first time … [Keep reading >>]

Composting Gone Wild

Filed under: Food — by Will Kirkland 04/1/2009 @ 8:37:15 AM
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Dang! Here’s a business model that past me by, back in the day of saving our daily scraps and turning them into our garden compost pile. … [Keep reading >>]

Mass Transportation, San Francisco, 1905

Filed under: California | Science & Technology | Video — by Will Kirkland 03/6/2009 @ 8:47:19 AM
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Mass Transportation, San Francisco, 1905

[thx Mari Loverde] … [Keep reading >>]

Tibet: Update Local

Filed under: Action! | Asia | California | Citizen Action — by Ruth Friend 03/26/2008 @ 8:47:51 PM
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A lot is happening in the Bay Area regarding events and people in Tibet and China. Here are some updates.

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Dear all,

Please join us at the SF City Hall 11am … [Keep reading >>]

Tibet: Local Support

Filed under: Asia | California | Citizen Action — by Ruth Friend 03/26/2008 @ 8:16:28 AM
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I spent last Saturday with Tibetan friends, dinner and a vigil in Berkeley. We walked by candlelight from Shattuck Bart Station to the UC Campus. About 300 people, mostly … [Keep reading >>]

Words for Acts

It is impudent in the extreme for this man to go around Europe haranguing people on their duties to civilization when his own country presents one of the most lawless aspects of modern life the whole world affords.

Roger Casement
Irish Human Rights Champion

commenting on Teddy Roosevelt's 1910 Guildhall
speech telling Great Britain to either rule Egypt or get out.



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