Sharen Hewitt, Executive Director of C.L.A.E.R., to appear on KALW 91.7 at 5pm tomorrow

Hear Public Press/KALW budget roundtable on 'Crosscurrents' at 5 p.m. Monday

On Monday make sure to catch the Public Press/KALW budget roundtable, on KALW’s "Crosscurrents" news program at 5 p.m.

The panel of local experts gathers for what promises to be a lively and enriching on-the-air discussion about San Francisco’s budget crisis. Tune in to 91.7 FM to hear the show, or go to the site later for an archived podcast.

Also check out the Public Press Web site for full audio, text and an interactive presentation on the city budget and its impacts on residents and communities.

On the air with host Holly Kernan will be Christopher Cook, editor of The Public Press’ City Budget Watchdog project. Guests on the panel are:

Calvin Welch, longtime housing activist and program director of the San Francisco Information Clearinghouse
Sharen Hewitt (former top Housing Authority advisor and executive director of the Community Leadership Academy & Emergency Response Project
Gabriel Metcalf, executive director, San Francisco Planning & Urban Research Association


KALW Crosscurrents link: http://www.crosscurrentsradio.org/
For more on the Public Press Budget Watchdog project: http://www.public-press.org/san-francisco-city-budget-watchdog

C.L.A.E.R. Responds to Obama's Healthcare Plan

The Community Leadership Academy and Emergency Response (C.L.A.E.R.) Project
1099 Sunnydale Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94134
P: 415-333-3017
F: 415-587-7481
www.claerproject.com
www.theclaerproject.blogspot.com
TWITTER: TheCLAERProject


“African Americans Weigh in on in Obama’s Healthcare Bill”

Because of the disproportionality of African Americans living below the poverty line, the C.L.A.E.R. Project calls out a dramatics plea for all stakeholders to join President Obama and Congresswoman Pelosi on their leadership for health access for all. Low-income African American disproportionality drain our system at the more acute end of services, because of the lack of a real primary care and preventative structure available for low-income and working class families. Sharen Hewitt, Executive Director of the C.L.A.E.R. Project says, "all of our public leaders must engage in this very critical initiative now before our country”. Many of the most egregious symptoms oftentimes results in excessive violence and even homicides. Low-income communities have suffered silently with the stigma and inaccessibility of mental health professionals and medical assessments for treatable diseases. With the disportianlity of health issues in the African American families, including, hyperpressure, diabetes, increasing incidence of cancer, and AIDS and other STDs, and in-utero exposure to alcohol, tobacco, and substance abuse. It is lack of support of this initiative that has taken the common sense out of common. This is not a debate any of us can afford to be polarized around. We urge all concerned citizens to follow the trial of CLEAR’s” little engine theory. “I think I can, I know I can, I know we can, and yes we must.”

Write your Representatives TODAY and tell them that an URBAN AGENDA must be made a priority

Hope can't be put on the back burner, Obama. A fiscal crisis means nothing when people, children, are actually dying. The urban agenda needs to be addressed now, and not later.

See article below:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/08/BAKQ1962HL.DTL&tsp=1

Write your representatives:


Congresswoman Barbara Lee
Oakland District Office
1301 Clay Street Suite 1000-N
Oakland, CA 94612
Phone: (510) 763-0370
Fax: (510) 763-6538


Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi
District Office
450 Golden Gate Ave. 14th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94102

San Francisco Chronicle launches a new "Crime Scene" blog

The San Francisco Chronicle has created a blog to moniter crime that doesn't make it to the headlines.


Please visit the link below:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/crime/index