We human beings strive to better ourselves but as much as we adhere to the concept of peace and non-violence, we find ourselves NOT adhering to the basic concepts linked to human rights and basic human freedom. (more)

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Here in San Francisco we pride ourselves that we are the City that knows how. We will try to address issues pertinent to our times and focus of Quality of Life issues. We will do this by going to City Hall and speaking out and also by posting relevant articles on this web site. We will stand by our youth and do all in our power to reduce crime and violence. We will work both with the Executive Branch and the Legislative Branch to make good stuff happen.

Sustainable Practices in San Francisco (10/24/09)

Quality of Life Issues in the Bayview (10/14/09)

The Bayview Hunters Point Beyond 2010 (9/20/09)

Plans Are Afoot to Steal Land (9/6/09)

2009 Economic Crisis (2/21/09)

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The City and County of San Francisco turned the other way while PG&E milked the poor and controlled most of the power grid. They do that even today. The rich and the powerful and the greedy! Hunters Point where PG&E have an old plant built in the 1920's is one of the oldest in California. It still spews energy and while it does it also pollutes the air, the water and the land.


Hunters Point RAB Dissolution Recommendation

Hunters Point RAB Decision Memo

Hunters Point RAB Notice of Dissolution

Restoration Advisory Board Disbanded at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard (9/6/09)

Candlestick Recreation Area (9/3/09)

CARE complaint - BVHP Shipyard

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Seventh Annual Portola Festival (9/13/09)

Sixth Annual Portola Festival (9/28/08)

The Former Boys and Girls Club on San Bruno Avenue (01/21/08)

Fifth Annual Portola Festival (10/21/07)

San Bruno Festival (10/1/06)

Dead Trees on San Bruno (9/14/06)

Trees on San Bruno Avenue in San Francisco (7/17/06)

11th Annual Junior Solar Sprint Challenge (5/28/06)

Portola District Neighborhood Map

Letter from the Department of Elections

Businesses on San Bruno Avenue

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Since the early 1960's I have been fighting for Environmental causes. Of course back then no one called them Environmental Causes - you fought to keep the rivers clean, the air clean, the beach clean - you kind of knew what was good and what was not good. You banded with friends to make good stuff happen. It was a good feeling. (more)

Comments by Wilma Subra
Draft, EIR - Hunters Point Shipyard and Candlestick Point

California Must Address Cumulative Pollution and Green Gases (1/10/2010)

Draft, EIR Hunters Point Shipyard and Candlestick Point (1/4/10)

Candlestick Point and the Shipyard Need Total Cleanup to Residential Standards (12/24/09)

Lennar and Candlestick Recreation Area (11/7/09)

San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (10/24/09)

Understanding Peak Oil Simply (9/25/09)

How Children in the Bayview Suffer (9/6/09)

Closing the Potrero Power Plant

(more Environmental Justice Advocacy)

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All over the world the lay person is asking one question - how can I be safe? How can I exercise my freedom? How can I be free? After September 11, 2001 - we all CANNOT take our freedom for granted.

As the days lead to weeks and weeks into months and months to years - we can only hope. The human being is a very complex being. We human would like to have everything on a platter. A bed of roses. The future is bright - but it will demand innovative thinking.

"Epiphany - Blossoms of Hope" will reveal a series of articles. We hope it will inspire all women and men of good faith to view our Earth from a unique perspective. A perspective that will lead to making good stuff happen.


Chowchilla Valley State Prison (12/07/09)

Chowchilla Valley Women's Prison (11/12/09)

Peace Day Celebration at Chowchilla Valley State Prison for Women (10/19/09)

RAP - Respect All People - Whakamana Tangata (10/7/09)

Big Developers Behind Gang Injunctions (9/19/09)

Caravan for Justice III (5/28/09)

Caravan for Justice II (3/27/09)

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I had the opportunity to talk to some Middle School children from E.R. Taylor School situated in the Portola District. I spoke to them about the San Francisco Port Authority and the Park they had come to visit. The Park has been named the Muwekma Ohlone Park.


Small Park Represented Big Dreams

The Death of Muwekma Ohlone Park

Muwekma Ohlone Park 2005
photos #1 photos #2

Link to MP3

Link to "Urban Oasis Garden in Legal Limbo"

Link to "Urban Paradise Lost"

Link to "Citizen Park Patrol"

The Last Frontier

Bridge Update

(more Muwekma Ohlone Park)

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I was born in Nairobi, Kenya and I am always very proud that I was born in Africa. As soon as this idea of having a summit was brought to my attention, I did everything possible to make this summit a success in the Bay Area.

Darfur Genocide (9/18/06)

African American History

Kenyan Nomads are Perfect for Anthropology

First African Rulers (In the Years of Independence)

Link to "Federal Government Settles With African Refugee"

Link to "Stunning Fossil Find Supports Out-of-Africa Theory"

Museum of the African Diaspora

Link to The Goan Voice

Link to NRI Goa Facilitation Centre

Link to "Cave's Treasure Could Mean Human Culture Began in Africa"

Link to Blombo's Cave Project

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Muwekma Ohlone Website

Video by Edward Goehring (12/17/09)

Sunrise Ceremony - Alcatraz (11/26/09)

We Are Still Here (11/21/09)

Mission Dolores and the First People

Western Shoshone

Defend Sacred Sites

The Trials and Hope of the First People

A Blow to Trust Land and Indian Tribes

Muwekma Closer to Federal Recognition

Shellmound Walk - 2008 (11/24/08)

Longest Walk - 1978-2008

Jose Gusman and the Ohlone language

A Dispute About Ohlone Remains

Shellmound Peace Walkers: November 15-23, 2007

Elem Indians from Clear Lake

History of the Ohlone

Protect Medicine Lake (4/6/07)

Protect Sacred Sites

Sacred Shellmounds (3/30/07)

The Muwekma Ohlone

San Francisco Peaks - A Victory

The Healing Poles

Shellmound Peacewalk 2006

Save the Peaks Movie

San Francisco Peaks (9/15/06)

savethepeaks.org

Aloha Festival 2006 (8/11/06)

Sacred Sites in California (6/10/06)

California Sacred Sites (PDF) (6/8/06)

International Indian Treaty Council

Native American Nations

Sacred Sites Visited and Alcatraz Gathering

Epic Shellmound Peace Walk

Native Americana at Auction

The Urban Gamble

Federally Recognized Native American Tribes

The Muwekma Ohlone Tribe: Perspective

Sacred Burial Grounds — Shellmounds

Maori Art Exhibit Opens in San Francisco

California Indians and Genocide

Link to "Revival of the Muwekma Ohlone Language"

Link to "Composition of the Costanoan Tribes"

Link to "World Class Native American Museum"

Link to "Tribes Win Trinity Flow Fight"

Link to Hopi Prophesies

Major Indian Burial Site Uncovered at Lafayette Development

(more First People)

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We are here on this earth for a limited time and all of us human beings have just one chance to live a full life and make sense of our existence. The least we can do is respect Mother Earth. It is important that we take care of our Earth and leave it a better place for those that will live on this Earth long after we have left it.

State a Leader in Curtailing Flow of Waste

Recycling Christmas

Norcal Waste Systems and Recycling in San Francisco

San Francisco and Waste Management

Little Waste

Earth Day

Link to "S.F. Turns Greener"

Recycling

Bay Area Tops State in Concern for Earth

Waste Management & Art

Link to "Recycling: Now More Than Ever"

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Former San Francisco Mayor
Willie Brown





The African American community has always been strong and contributed to the growth and culture of our city. Now at last we are witnessing the creation of an African American cultural institution in the Yerba Buena district of downtown San Francisco.

Famous Pullman Porters

Some Famous Trains in the USA

Are Blacks Becoming History in San Francisco? (2/20/08)

Interview with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Black History Month 2008 (1/21/08)

Black History Month 2007 (2/20/07)

Juneteenth 2006 (6/26/06)

Black History Month 2005

Black History Month 2004

Link to "History Takes Second Look at Black Panthers"

Mabel Teng and Black History Month

Presidio of San Francisco Officers Club

Captain Michael Healy

Presidio Celebration Photos

(more African American Cultural Heritage)

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Evergreen plantation has over twenty-five slave houses neatly built in a row. Neatly planted are the famous Evergreen Oaks with their hanging Spanish Moss. Most of the slave houses or quarters are being rehabilitated today. We were given the opportunity to enter one and take photographs. (article; photos.)

Creoles

Link to "Thousands Online For Slave Data"

L:ink to "Californians to Get Look Back at Slavery"

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Photographs

The Committee

A Permanent Museum

Light at the End of the Tunnel

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Buffalo Soldiers and the Indian Wars

Buffalo Soldiers Cemetary, Presidio of San Francisco

Buffalo Soldiers in the Philippines

Black Jack Pershing

Italian Town Honors Black GI's

When the West Was Black: Cowboys Lament Loss of Rodeo

(more Buffalo Soldiers)

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Presidio Backgrounder



Radar Reveals Old Presidio Walls

The Pork Park

Construction Underway on Fort Baker Lodge, Retreat Project

Presidio of San Francisco and the Nefarious Presidio Trust (12/24/06)

Merchant Seamen Cemetery at the Presidio (11/25/06)

* Photo Essay *



(More Presidio of San Francisco)

Presidio Resources

Link to Presidio Homepage

Link to Presidio Directory

Doyle Drive

An Open Letter

Misrepresentation

They Gather and Bark at Each Other

Link to Environmental and Design Study

Centennial Year

NPS Accepts Early Outs and Fails in its Mission

The Bay Area Thousands of Years Ago

Crissy Field No Garbage Dump When the Ohlone Reigned Supreme

Letter from Coalition of Concerned NPS Retirees
(Adobe Reader Format)

Link to Privitization Political Cartoon By Mark Fiore

Link to "Archaeologists' Jobs on Budget Block at NPS"

Outsourcing

East Fort Baker

Link to Golden Gate Bridge and Fort Baker

Link to "Vets at War Over S.F. Monument"

Link to "Parks Chief Calls It Quits"

Crissy Field

Link to "National Parks Caught in Web"

No Internet

Link to the Past

Museum of the City

San Francisco

California Missions

Link to "Rescue Mission"

Tonu Shane Eagleton

Tiki Master

Link to "Port Chicago Explosion Still Echoes 60 Years Later"

(Port Chicago.)

Tonu Shane Eagleton Homepage

Shane Eagleton Bio

First Peoples' Childrens Healing Pole

Shane's Healing Poles at SulliStudios

Koa

Eco-Visonary

Goa

The Death of Goa

Photos From a School at Mapusa

News

Bechtel's Bolivian Debacle

Link to Contract on LIfe of Dog Case Prosecutor
(I know Kerry Tremain who wrote the orginal article in San Francisco Magazine.)

Information

Link to Anova



For Children

Link to "700 Great Sites"


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60 Years — D-Day

Sixth U.S. Army

Sixth U.S. Army, the Presidio, and Korean War, 1946-1980
(Adobe Reader Format)

Photograph of Commemorative Marker

More Sixth U.S. Army Photographs

Article

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Libania De Souza

Familia

My sister Eualalia and niece Jacqueline

Eualalia Martins

Libania De Souza



Family

Events

Portraits

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Open Your Eyes

Spiritual Sustainability

Representation

Reconciliation

Millenium

Memorial Day 2000

Photos

Family Reunion

Photos

Espanola Jackson

Photos

Shellmound Conference:

- 5000 Years of History -

by James Carter

Diversity in the NPS

The Presidential Debacle

Link to "Nobody Knows"

Vision Taking Shape

Vision Beyond

2001

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James Brown

Natasha Saelua

Giovanni the Kind Shoemaker

Tsunami

Shellmound Peacewalk

Andrew Bozeman

Creative Powers

El Polin Spring

First People

Humming Birds

John Denver

Joel Skidmore

Lonely Nights

Monica Wadsworth

Nelson Mandela

Shane Eagleton

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