An Activist’s Life, by Thomas Leavitt

SAN FRANCISCO - The December 9 San Francisco Mayoral runoff
election pitting New Democrat, neo-liberal, pro-war Gavin Newsom against
Green and broad left candidate Matt Gonzalez is an event which will have
extraordinary repercussions on and implications for US politics.

Both candidates are leading powerful movements of sorts which, because of
the absence of mass political parties with functioning mass meetings and
participation from the rank and file, can only be expressed at election time
through the clashes of candidates.

Meta commentary about restructuring blog categories, adding peripherial content, etc.

My buddy Dave made a point of inviting me to continue guest blogging on his site (Seeing The Forest), so I’ve taken him up on that, while trying to stay within the theme of his blog (media literacy and the right-wing’s organized campaign to sway public opinion).

The first gathering of bisexual people of color took place on Thursday,
August 21, 2003, as part of the 2nd Annual North American Conference on
Bisexuality in San Diego, CA (http://www.bisexual.org/nacb/). The
Bisexual People of Color Organizing Institute was aimed at creating
dialogue and developing actions steps around the needs of bisexual
People of Color. This historic event took place after decades of active
participation of bisexual people of color in the people of color gay,
lesbian and transgender movement, the larger gay, lesbian and
transgender movement and the larger civil rights movement.
Over 30 participants from throughout the United States and Mexico
participated in the Bi POC Institute. They discussed issues of race,
class and sexuality and were encouraged to share challenges, triumphs
and learned lessons from their respective personal and professional
experience in being part of, working with and providing services to,
this often overlooked, often forgotten community.

I, Joe Williams, candidate for the U.S. Congress (House of
Representatives, 17th District) on the Peace And Freedom Party ticket, have
been certified as having achieved ballot status for the March 2, 2004
primary. A hearty thanks to all those who helped me achieve this goal.

Disappearance of gorillas, chimps and orang-utans would ‘destroy a bridge to our own origins’, warns United Nations

Tucson’s law is the oldest local
government public financing law currently administered in the nation
and demonstrates that, given sufficient time, public financing can
become an integral part of a jurisdiction’s political culture.

The 2003 San Francisco mayor’s race is making history for some very important reasons. One: The runoff candidates — Matt Gonzalez and Gavin Newsom — are both relative political neophytes. Two: Whichever one wins will be the youngest mayor ever to serve San Francisco; Newsom is 36, Gonzalez is 38.

And then there’s the fact that both are major hotties.

n response to an opening question on being a progressive candidate, Matt identifies one worldview from which he wants to govern: “I fundamentally look at the world as a place where there are wide economic disparities, and if we’re trying to make it a better society, we ought to be working to protect the most vulnerable people in that society. Sometimes progressive values intersect with neighborhood values (and) populist values - sometimes they’re conservative economic values. We (progressives) want good, clean, efficient government as well.”

Supervisor Matt Gonzalez is the front-runner, according to a new CBS 5 poll. If the election were held Tuesday, Gonzalez would get 52% of the vote in the race for City Hall.

This article omits the critical fact that a huge proportion of the world’s food production is wasted… most prominently, on animal feed that supports an increasingly meat based diet.

One in five adults in Africa now has HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, according to the annual United Nations report on the scope of the epidemic. 3 million died of the disease during 2003, the report says. 40 million are infected.

Brief analysis by the California Budget Project of governor’s proposed mid-year budget reductions.

Stick a pretty woman in the picture, and suddenly your pageviews on eBay soar.