Stand up!

Demand

MEDICAL CANNABIS

PATIENTS RIGHTS!

Call for mayor Gavin Newsom

To join with Bay Area Mayors

Demand an end

To D.E.A. scare tactics!

Tuesday, January 29th 12 noon

Plaza In front of

San Francisco City Hall

STAND UP!

Show your support for

San Francisco’s

Medical Cannabis Community

and compassionate services!

Contacts: Rev. Randi Webster 415-794-9577

20,000 workers at the University of California are engaged in an historic fight for justice. Patient care workers and service workersare fighting for an end to poverty wages, a real solution to hospital staffing problems, and to protect our health care and pension. Please join us in our New Year Resolutions Picket on Thursday, January 31. Together we can and will Take Back Our University!

STATEWIDE DAY OF ACTION AT UC CAMPUSES THURSDAY, JANUARY 31at 3 different Locations in San Francisco:

1) UCSF Moffitt-Long Hospital (505 Parnassus Ave, on N-Judah line),7:30-8am, 12noon-1:30pm

2) UCSF Mount Zion Hospital (1600 Divisidero between Post and Sutter),12noon-1:00pm

From Axis of love:
MONDAY AT 4PM PATIENTS AND OUR ALLIES WILL BE GATHERING FOR A CANDLE LIGHT VIGIL AT THE STEPS OF CITY HALL to demand that our city stand up for safe access - the patient co-op a long standing community center is at risk of closure - while there have been ups and downs and concerns about the co-op.It had finally gotten on its feet and ready to fight . The DEA is blocking safe access at the heart of ,the vunberable part of our community our patient services center .
This co-op actually was adhering to patients needs for community support to break isolation to become active in local polictis - to able to have shelter from the Storm and rest your bones all day if needed. This community center must survive. We have lost other business /commerical models in the last months but this is real.This center meets a need that no other center does in the city.Axis of Love SF joins the patients co-op in their protest and encourages our allies to be there with us as we demand that the local government stands up for safe access! Please join with your voice and take action demand city hall follow in the foot steps of Senator Carole Migden and enter a resolution , and bring out our MIA mayor and give support to chief Fong to reaffirm our sanctuary status - its time to show our teeth to the feds! and let them know to get out of compassionate terrority! or else!

How well does San Francisco’s city government monitor the former government services that it allows to be privatized? Does its monitoring practices imitate that of Utah, Alabama, Louisiana, or Maine…that is, none at all?

That alarmed question, among others, came up while reading the recent Progressive States Network (PSN) report on privatization. Privatizing In The Dark: The Pitfalls of Privatization & Why Budget Disclosure Is Needed, with a 50-State Comparison Of Privatization Trends made me feel as if privatization was to government health what deliberate bleeding of “bad blood” was to curing bodily illness.

Axis of Love SF
medical cannabis patient advocates group
rock n roll fundraiser party!
December 29th
7pm -?
El Rincon 2700 16th @harrison
15$ donation no patient turned away for lack of funds
pls bring items for end of month food pantry
compassionate yummy cookie contest
‘’yule log'’ rolling contest w/ celebrity judge Ed ‘’hero'’ Rosenthal
sonic smoothness from DJKATE 808 ,JEWNBUG&LOTUS,CARA VIDA….
SOULSHAKING ROCK N ROLL from Rampage,Lucifer’s band and James brown
*All proceeds going towards spaghetti dinner and community forum w/ legal panelist regarding the DEA failed attempts to block safe access in SF!
December 30th @ patients co-op 350 divisadero 530-7pm

Sing the above line to the song “We wish you a Merry Christmas” three times next time you are Christmas Caroling. Last year, a group of community advocates and labor activists sang that song to the GGRA when the GGRA filed a lawsuit against the City of San Francisco to stop the implementation of our local groundbreaking universal health care ordinance. Accompanying the Caroling advocates was the Grinch who handed GGRA members lumps of coal at their annual Holiday party. This year the GGRA handed us a lump of coal.

picture by terrrie frye

Security Officers are standing up for Good Jobs
with Quality, Affordable Health Care Now!

While SF’s real estate giants enjoy an economic boom, hard-working
security officers that protect their tenants and properties can’t afford
health care for themselves or their families. Help us stop the separate
and unequal treatment that keeps security officers in poverty.

Join us as we march for full family health care, what every working
family deserves.

SEIU Stand for Security
March for Family Health Care
Thursday October 25, 4:30 PM,
Freedom Plaza: 1 Front Street SF

There’s a horrific article in Discover this month about the lingering health effects of the 9/11 attack on New York. The magazine, not exactly known as a bastion of radical sentiment, makes no bones about the disastrous effects of what it calls “The 9/11 Cover-Up”.

Civil rights attorney Felicia Dunn Jones, who worked a block from the towers, was caught in the initial deluge of dust when the towers fell. Although her family rejoiced upon her return home, Dunn Jones developed a serious cough the following January. She died barely five weeks later of sarcoidosis, an immune disorder caused by toxic exposure. Dunn Jones’s name will be added to the list of victims when the memorial is completed in 2009, and the honor isn’t just a token gesture. The addition of her name is a hard-won acknowledgment that exposure to 9/11 contaminants can lead to death.

This Labor Day, Urge State Legislators to Pass Affordable Health Care!

We are less than two weeks away from the end of this year’s legislative session. Take action now to urge legislators to pass affordable health care reform for working families. Go to www.calaborfed.orgto find out how!

As part of the annual AFL-CIO Labor Day briefing on August 29th, national AFL-CIO Executive Vice-President Linda Chavez-Thompson joined California Labor Federation Executive Secretary-Treasurer Art Pulaski, Mayor Gavin Newsom, San Francisco Supervisor Tom Ammiano and local labor leaders to announce the kick-off of a national campaign for health care reform. Several local San Francisco residents were also on hand to tell their personal health care stories and to urge California legislators to pass real health care reform by end of session in mid-September.

Eric Mar reports that Bill Sorro, longtime hero in the movement for justice, passed away early this morning. Words cannot describe how diminished our community is by his passing, but as Eric said, we should honor his fighting spirit by redoubling our efforts to fight displacement, to fight for affordable housing and for worker’s rights.
A leader in the International Hotel struggle, Bill was smart, passionate, fiercely radical, tough, but incredibly kind. He touched so many activists lives and was a role model and mentor to many. I am honored to have known him. Our love and respect from Leftinsf to Guilliana and his family.