Filed under: NGNO: UC Berkeley's News Portal
Originally published through UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism news site.
SAN FRANCISCO — As the sun went down one recent evening, images of oozing wounds, knives sticking out of eyes, brains on the sidewalk and lifeless bodies in blood puddles flashed on a projection screen in the softly lit chapel of Bryant Mortuary in the Western Addition. (more…)
Filed under: Center of the City: SF News Blog
Original post on Center of the City.
The Department of Public Works secured $3 million in federal funding for a greening and street-scaping project along Divisadero Street between Haight Street and Geary Boulevard.The department presented its proposal for how to use the funds at a community meeting held at Ida B. Wells High School on Thursday. Community input will drive the final plans for how to improve the corridor.
ALCATRAZ — Families gathered at sunrise for a ceremony on Alcatraz Island commemorating the 1969 occupation of the island by Native groups. This year, they also celebrated the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, adopted by the United Nations on September 13, 2007.
Watch a multimedia slideshow of the event.
Filed under: Center of the City: SF News Blog, NGNO: UC Berkeley's News Portal
Originally published on North Gate News Online
SAN FRANCISCO — When Gail Baugh founded the John Muir Elementary School PTA last year, it had no parents.
Baugh and her husband Jim Warshell moved to Hayes Valley in 2003 as empty-nesters after their son left for college, expecting to start their post-child-rearing years. (more…)
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Originally published on North Gate News Online
SAN FRANCISCO — One hundred and thirty-four police officers are out of their squad cars and walking their beats throughout San Francisco – roughly double the number since the Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance last year mandating that more police walk the streets in 2007. (more…)
Filed under: New America Media
SAN FRANCISCO — Automakers take note: a majority of Californians are considering buying a hybrid or electric car as their next vehicle. It’s not the alluring sleekness of the Toyota Prius driving people to consider spending premium rates on fuel-efficient vehicles; Californians are choosing what will both save money in the long run and be better for the environment.
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PALO ALTO — With a crowd of TV cameras and adults with microphones towering over them, Adrian, Yadira and Adriana Ramirez – 6, 10 and 12 years old – sat on a bench outside of First United Methodist Church in Palo Alto yesterday, and shyly told the news crews that though they wanted to stay at their home in Palo Alto, they would go to Mexico to be with their father, who was deported an hour after his arrest by Immigration Customs and Enforcement officers.
The Ramirez children are among thousands of U.S. citizen children of undocumented parents who are facing deportation and have to decide whether to bring their children with them — taking them away from the educational opportunities they have a right to in the United States — or let them stay and be forced into foster care.
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TACOMA, Wash. — Locked away in a detention center in Tacoma, Wash., Rosemary Okere, a Nigerian journalist, refuses to give up her and her son’s bid for asylum in the United States.
On one side she faces death at the hands of her husband’s killers if she is deported to Nigeria. But every day she spends behind bars — she’s been held for nearly one and a half years — separates her from her teenage son, who is living with relatives outside of Tacoma. The cost of her prolonged absence is a deepening depression that led him to try to end his life last summer.
On the other side is Nigeria, a country her son doesn’t remember and where her life fell apart. She fears the impact of uprooting him from the only community he calls home and moving to a tumultuous and unfamiliar country.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Russian-language media in the United States are divided over whether the Nov. 24 death-by-poison of writer and former Russian secret agent Alexander Litvinenko was government-backed or intended to frame President Vladimir Putin, though most agree Alexander Litvinenko is a curious target.
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SAN FRANCISCO — On May 23, 2006, Mayor Gavin Newsom and PG&E President Tom King flipped a symbolic human-sized plastic light switch off in front of a large crowd, celebrating the closure of the Hunters Point Power Plant. The ceremony was held outside under the silent and non-smoking stacks of the 77-year-old power plant.
“For the first time, I can look out and see no smoke coming out of the smoke stacks. I want to respect the fact that PG&E has kept its word,” said James Bryant, president of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, a national organization of black trade unionists.
