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Falun Gong out of San Francisco New Year's Parade
Group lawsuit claims religious discrimination
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Luke Thomas
By Brent Begin, Bay City News Service
January 19, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) - Members of a spiritual movement
forbidden in China hope a lawsuit filed a year ago will apply
enough pressure on San Francisco leaders to allow the group to
march in the annual Chinese New Year parade.
Falun Gong practitioners in San Francisco claim in a lawsuit
that they have consistently been denied entry into the annual
parade based on the basis of religious discrimination.
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California hospitals will miss earthquake preparedness
deadline according to Rand report
By Tamara Barak, Bay City News Service
January 19, 2007
Almost half of California's hospitals will fail to meet the
state's earthquake safety requirements by the 2013 deadline, according
to a report
released Thursday by the California HealthCare Foundation.
The report, conducted by the RAND Corporation as a follow-up
to a 2002 study, found upgrading hospitals to meet the deadline
could total as much as $110 billion.
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Is the mainstream American press
in cahoots with the Pentagon?
Horror story of 6 murdered Iraqi girls and
their mother
by U.S.soldiers brushed aside
By Angela
Alioto
Special to Fog City Journal
January 18, 2007
On a cold and foggy Umbrian night in December
2006, I was preparing to go to a small dinner party in the center
of Trevi, the roman hilltop town next to Assisi. I walked over
to turn off the TV when I heard the BBC talking about Iraq.
The announcer's voice was trembling when he said, "six
little girls ranging in age from 6 months to 8 years old were
shot to death in their home. An unidentified woman was lying
next to them grasping the baby."
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