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Recycle Your Electronics in San Francisco

by derek, posted to California / San Francisco / Us

Need to get rid of your old electronics but not sure how to do it in an evironmentally responsible way? Green Citizen provides some information on how to do it. If your in San Francisco they have a local drop off.

PARK(ing) Day, September 21

by derek, posted to California / News / San Francisco / Urban Planning

The Rebar group is doing another PARK(ing) Day in San Francisco on September 21. They’re looking for volunteers to help set it up.

“Please join us as we transform parking spots into PARK(ing) spaces: temporary public parks in areas that need open space – enlivening the streets and improving the quality of urban human habitat.”

Clean Elections is on California’s November Ballot

by derek, posted to California / News / Our Government / San Francisco

California is on it’s way to becoming the third state to enact Clean Money/Clean Elections campaign finance reform. Prop 89 qualified for the November ballot. I’m excited. It seems everyone is pretty much in agreement that our current method of financing public campaigns gives corporations and those with money a much bigger voice than your […]

Berkeley, California will vote on Bush Impeachment

by derek, posted to California / News / San Francisco

Berkeley, California will become the country’s first city to place a referrendum on the ballot to impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

BERKELEY / Bush impeach resolution on ballot / Council, with overwhelming support, OKs measure

San Francisco suburb uses eminent domain to keep out Wal-Mart

by derek, posted to News / San Francisco / Urban Planning

A San Francisco suburb voted Tuesday night to use the power of eminent domain to keep Wal-Mart Stores Inc. off a piece of city land after hearing from dozens of residents who accused the big-box retailer of engaging in scare tactics to force its way into the bedroom community.
The overflow crowd that packed into the [...]

Publicly Funded Elections Becoming a Reality?

by derek, posted to California / Our Government / San Francisco

The idea with publicly funded “Clean Elections” is that politicians should spend their time listening to their constituents instead of selling tickets to $200/plate dinners to pay for their campaigns. The current system seems so obviously flawed that it’s a wonder that we have it at all.

Supporting democracy is our goverment’s main function. So […]

San Francisco Pillow Fight

by derek, posted to San Francisco

The Pillow Fight Club organized a pillow fight on Valentines Day, my friend Brian tried to get me to go to but we missed it. Looks like fun.

Open Letter to Rep. Nancy Pelosi

by derek, posted to Our Government / San Francisco

I was reading this article in the Guardian and it prompted me to write the following letter to my congresswoman, Nancy Pelosi, House Minoritly “Leader.”
Impeachment is more important than the fall election. Justice must be served if our laws are to have any meaning. Our President thumbs his nose repeatedly at the enacted laws of […]

PARK(ing)

by derek, posted to San Francisco / Urban Planning

A group in San Francisco reclaims some public open space and redefines “parking” one Wednesday afternoon.

San Francisco Joins Chicago, D.C. in Revoking the Third Amendment

by derek, posted to Dissent / Opinion / San Francisco

Our Constitution prohibits the infringement of the right of the people to keep and bare arms, but I guess San Francisco voters disagree.