May 2010 - Transpo - list.sfgreens.org

Important: Park Merced Details
by Eric Brooks 27 May '10

27 May '10

Hi all, A major development project in Park Merced which will build huge amounts of one to one parking and have major negative transit and neighborhood impacts is up for hearings and votes next month and the effort to stop it needs our support. Here, and attached, are the details, sent by Aaron Goodman who is leading the effort to stop the project in its current form. amgodman(a)yahoo.com wrote: Please find the attached summary, with images, of Park Merced and the upcoming DEIR. June 2nd is the SF Historic Preservation Commission Hearing June 17th is the SF Planning Commission Hearing June 28th is the deadline for comments on the DEIR 5:00pm (SF Planning Dept.) Thank you for listening and your hopeful involvement in the issues of sustainability, and preservation which cannot be separated in terms of real "green" redevelopment. Sincerely Aaron Goodman

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My 'Go Vegan Radio' Anti Obama/Anti Animal-BioDiesel Interview Now Online
by Eric Brooks 17 May '10

17 May '10

Hi all, The episode of 'Go Vegan With Bob Linden' in which I am interviewed as an SFGP rep about Obama and the anti-environmental animal based bio-diesel plant proposed for the Bayview Hunters Point, is now available online. To listen go to: http://www.goveganradio.com/veg/1003/Listen_to_Past_Shows.htm then page down to the 9 May 2010 episode and click on a stream or flash link, and, fast forward the audio to the 12 minute mark. The sound quality is a little rough, but it is a really good interview and reveals a lot about the proposed bio-diesel debacle. cheers Eric B

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Weird 75 Year Parking Deal For SFPUC
by Eric Brooks 12 May '10

12 May '10

Hi all, I am watching the regular SFPUC hearing right now and the Commissioners just approved permission for the General Manager to negotiate an agreement with the MTA and Rec & Park for a -discounted- 75 year pre-paid contract for 60 parking spaces in the Civic Center Garage. This might be a giveaway on the part of the MTA and should be scrutinized. Potentially we could get a lot more money for the general fund that could be earmarked for transit if we don't give SFPUC such a good deal. This also might unnecessarily promote car use on the part of staff and Commissioners (for 75 years!) by which time most if not all staff should not be traveling by car at all... Eric B

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Sunday! SFGP on GO VEGAN WITH BOB LINDEN
by Eric Brooks 07 May '10

07 May '10

Hey all, I'm the featured guest this Sunday at 3pm on the Green 960 AM radio program 'Go Vegan With Bob Linden' talking about the monstrous proposed Darling International animal biofuels project. Both I and the host also get in some good shots against Obama and the two party system. You can listen live on the internet at http://www.green960.com/main.html See the details in Bob Linden's email below. Eric B -------- Original Message -------- Subject: this weekend on GO VEGAN WITH BOB LINDEN Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 02:01:21 -0700 (PDT) From: BOB LINDEN <meatfreeamerica(a)yahoo.com> To: brookse(a)igc.org CC: nicoleforet(a)gmail.com **/ <http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.slavetoentertainment.com/…>/** GO VEGAN RADIO - a project of 501c3 International Humanities Center PO Box 475414 San Francisco, CA 94147 Bob(a)GoVeganRadio.com 818-623-6477 Support the only program in the mainstream media that advocates for animals, environmental sustainability, and improved human health, and brings you important shocking news that impacts your life that you won't hear anywhere else. We must purchase broadcast airtime every week. Please make a tax-deductible donation NOW at www.GoVeganRadio.com by clicking DONATE so that we can continue to bring you stories like the ones this coming weekend - Listen in the Bay Area to GREEN 960 AM RADIO AND ONLINE THIS SUNDAY AT 3PM because... Hold Your Breath - SAN FRANCISCO IS ABOUT TO PARTNER WITH A HORRENDOUS FELONIOUS CORPORATE CONGLOMERATE, WITH AN EGREGIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL RECORD, TO PURCHASE "BIOFUELS" MADE FROM MURDERED ANIMALS, SUPPORTING AND MAKING MORE PROFITABLE CONCENTRATION-CAMP FACTORY-FARM AGRICULTURE!!! Guest Eric Brooks, co-chair of the Sustainability Working Group of the San Francisco Green Party tells us why Darling International is no darling to environmentalists, and how it has racked up fines in the millions destroying rivers, as well as sickening residents in poor neighborhoods, and has even recycled melamine into the food chain. What can you do to stop this partnership? LISTEN!!! (By the way, the Animal Advocacy Working Group of the San Francisco Green Party meets this Monday evening at 7 at Gracias Madre vegan organic Mexican restaurant, 2211 Mission Street. Also on this Sunday's program - Bob makes an appeal to honor all mothers, and Mother Earth, by going vegan. And...Meat is not inspected for pesticides, antibiotics, or toxic metals...Mass killer of animals Proctor and Gamble's publicity stunt using the Gulf oil crisis to appear "animal friendly"...Supreme Court indifferent to GMO alfalfa contamination...Bill Gates' meathead approach to climate change...and a Beverly Hills judge sets a court date for Bob's trial stemming from his Fur Free Friday arrest last November. Listen to the GO VEGAN FRIDAY FEATURE WITH BOB LINDEN in the noon hour every week on GREEN 960 AM RADIO & ONLINE Your tax-deductible donation also supports progressive talk radio. Please make your check payable to GO VEGAN RADIO and mail to PO BOX 475414 San Francisco, CA 94147 Join our new VEGAN ORGANIC WINE CLUB - click the wine glass icon at the homepage at www.GoVeganRadio.com Advertise your vegan and cruelty-free products and services affordably on GO VEGAN WITH BOB LINDEN... Bob(a)GoVeganRadio.com GREAT NEWS - The new LOVING HUT vegan restaurant is now open in Westfield Mall, Market and Powell, in the food emporium - GRAND OPENING CELEBRATION - Thursday May 20, 11:30 AM Broadcast in the Bay Area is made possible by VEGETARIAN HOUSE restaurant, 520 East Santa Clara, downtown San Jose - www.VegetarianHouse.us <http://www.vegetarianhouse.us/> >>>and>>> LOVING HUT 516 Barber Lane, Milpitas & LOVING HUT 165 University Ave, Palo Alto www.LovingHut.us <http://www.lovinghut.us/> LATEST PROGRAM, May 2 broadcast date, NOW ARCHIVED - We blame welfare mothers, we blame immigrants, we blame spinach, watermelon, and green onions - but we never put the blame on what's really responsible - Meat And Dairy (MAD)!!! This week - the role of Meat And Dairy in the immigration equation. Farmer John, Ronald McDonald, Colonel Sanders - show us YOUR papers! <AND> Shocking News for Vegans - Your Wine Probably Is Neither Vegan Nor Organic. Hear about it from Veronique Raskin, of the Organic Wine Company, whose family has been producing wine in France for over 200 years, and is the first to import organic French wines into the USA. Of course your vegan and environmental ideals should be reflected in the wine you drink, so please click on the wine glass on the www.GoVeganRadio.com <http://www.GoVeganRadio.com> homepage and join our new VEGAN ORGANIC WINE CLUB. You receive 3 bottles of fie wine, bi-monthly for just $49.95, satisfaction guaranteed by the Organic Wine Company. Enjoy dining in the Bay Area at vegan restaurants - HERBIVORE, San Francisco, Berkeley GOLDEN ERA, 572 O'Farrell, SF GOLDEN LOTUS, 1301 Franklin, Oakland NOW ARCHIVED: Weekend of April 25: Supreme Court Declares Animal Cruelty Free Speech > Do People Who Speak - Especially On Behalf of Animals - Have Free Speech? > How Did Meat & Dairy Cause the Icelandic Volcanic Ash Cloud? > What's Wrong with Vivisection? (What's Right with It? nothing) SEE BELOW Guest MARLA STORMWOLF-PATTY of Stop Ctrush discusses the new Supreme Court decision to extend free speech rights to animal cruelty, specifically by overturning a ban on perverted crush videos and movies, where women in high heels crush innocent small animals. Who pressured the Supreme Court (in)Justices for this? <ALSO> Guest GREG KELLY of Band of Mercy, co-founder of Win Animal Rights, talks about direct action victories for animals, the campaign to shut down New Jersey Guantanamo-for-the-animals Huntingdon Life Sciences, a notorious animal experimenting facility that kills 500 animals daily. <AND> As World Week for Animals in Laboratories comes to a close - a further look at the "dumbing down" of science that that cruel animal-experimenting vivisection is, and why it is a threat to public health. Gandhi, Cesar Chavez, and Dennis Kucinich have long been voices in opposition to vivisection. Please ask UCLA, UCSF, and the entire UC system to end these archaic and medieval practices terrorizing innocent animals with no public health benefit or cures. The University of California system can no longer afford to pay for violence, nor use it as a teaching tool. NOW ARCHIVED: April 18 program: Obama's plan to "drill, baby drill" is inevitable environmental devastation and a major disaster for animals according to guest STAN SENNER, Director of Conservation Science for Ocean Conservancy, formerly Executive Director of the National Audubon Society's Alaska State Office, where he was deeply engaged in coastal and marine conservation issues, such as oil and gas development in the Arctic. Stan also worked for more than 7 years as the Chief Restoration Planner and then Science Coordinator for the State of Alaska following the Exxon Valdez oil spill. In the late 1970s-early 1980s, Stan worked for The Wilderness Society to secure passage of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act and was on the professional staff of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, where he worked on ocean dumping and other marine conservation issues. <<<ALSO>>>Anthony Marr, geophysicist and environmental technologist, author of "Homo Sapiens: Save Your Planet" and "Omni Science", champion of the bengal tiger, and anti-hunting activist, now on his 7th Compassion for Animals Road Expedition through 40 states. April 11 broadcast, now archived: ALF? ALF? What do you mean ALF? No - not that ALF - it's the Animal Liberation Forum -the conference that happens this Thursday April 15 - Sunday April 18 at Cal State University Long Beach.(BOB LINDEN on media panel Sunday). Guest this week - NICOAL SHEEN, co-founder of Cal State Long Beach student abolitionist group CEASE ANIMAL TORTURE, and organizer of the ALF - Animal Liberation Forum, that is. See BOB LINDEN on the trailer for the forum at http://ceaseanimaltorture.org/ forum.htm <http://ceaseanimaltorture.org/forum.htm> <also> BOB celebrates MONDAY VEG DAY in San Francisco with a tribute to SF Veg Society prez Dixie Mahy, and with the question - if getting rid of meat and dairy is so good for Mondays, what about Tuesdays through Sundays? April 4 broadcast, now archived: Professor GARY FRANCIONE of Rutgers Law School,the first academic to teach animal rights law in a major university, updates us on his abolitionist perspective on animal rights > BRIAN VINCENT of Big Wildlife says every animal rights activist should be outraged by Sarah Palin's new million dollar a week salary from the Discovery Channel <<<and>>> what most people don't know about CESAR CHAVEZ - that he was a vegan, animal rights activist > ) March 28 broadcast, now archived: Whale meat on the menu in Southern California - just as disgusting as cows, pigs, chickens, and the flesh of others. ZOLI TEGLAS, of the music group Pennywise (and a longtime member of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society), and KURT LIEBER of the Ocean Defenders Alliance & Sea Shepherd, discuss the undercover investigation that led to the closing of the Hump restaurant in Santa Monica, exposing its exotic menu that included whale flesh and raw horse cadaver Thanks CESAR CHAVEZ DAY organizers for inviting BOB LINDEN to speak at the CESAR CHAVEZ DAY FESTIVAL on 24th Street in San Francisco to honor and show respect and admiration for the great social justice hero by putting center stage the fact that MR CHAVEZ was vegan and encouraged others to be vegan, and that MR CHAVEZ was an animal rights activist who opposed the use of animals for meat, dairy, eggs, clothing, entertainment, and experimentation, and that MR CHAVEZ loved dogs, and that to honor him, many of his family members are vegan. Listener comments? Bob(a)GoVeganRadio.com LOVE ANIMALS? Don't eat them, wear them, buy products tested on them, or patronize "entertainment" that uses them. GO VEGAN!!!

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President Chiu Leg. Rejects Muni Budget
by Eric Brooks 04 May '10

04 May '10

President Chiu just introduced legislation to 1) reject the MTA budget and 2) adopt Controller's recommendations on Muni "Work Orders"

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Controller's Audit Shows MTA Work Orders Out Of Control
by Eric Brooks 01 May '10

01 May '10

http://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/under-the-dome/Audit-points-out-lac… Audit points out lack of documentation for MTA work orders By: Will Reisman <http://www.sfexaminer.com/bios/41456417.html> Examiner Staff Writer 04/30/10 1:00 PM PDT The Municipal Transportation Agency lacked supporting documents for its work-order billings, based allocations on budgeted, rather than actual costs, and in some cases, did not have written contracts with fellow city agencies, according to a new report from The City's Controller Office. The MTA's work-order payments --- reimbursements to fellow city departments for various tasks --- amounted to nearly $66 million this fiscal year, a total that accounts for eight percent of the agency's budget. That high cost has come under fire from many members of The City's Board of Supervisors, who suggested the agency should cut down on work-order spending before moving forward with proposed service reductions. On Friday, the Controller's Office released a months-long report on MTA work orders, with the audit issuing 43 separate recommendations to help the agency improve its reimbursement process. The recommendations suggest the MTA provide consistent reports that confirm tasks are performed efficiently, make sure that all work-order agreements are backed by written contracts, and make payments only after sufficient supporting documents have been provided. Since 2001, the MTA's work order payments have more than doubled, from $30 million to $66 million. The agency plans on reducing its work order payments by $6.5 million (roughly 10 percent of its current total) for the upcoming fiscal year, although it still has not specified how it will do so. Read more at the San Francisco Examiner: http://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/under-the-dome/Audit-points-out-lac…

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