by El Reportero’s staff
Animal rights activists met last Wednesday, Oct. 28 in Oakland with members of the UC Board of Regents, during their annual meeting. It was to tackle the university’s violations of federal experimentation law with animals and which has caused the death of several primates at the laboratories. Several animal protective organizations urged the UC to take forceful actions so that they do not repeat these actions.
Also the UCSF has been quoted by the Department of Agriculture of the United States (USDA) immediately after the complaints of the Organism of Control. Along with this, two experimental protocols were suspended due to the violations of the federal law.
Also the UCSF has recently been cited by the USDA in the negligent deaths of several primates.
Additionally, two experimental protocols were halted due to federal violations. Along with this, two experimental protocols were suspended due to the violations of the federal law.
Latino community organization honored for 45 years of service
The Unity Council, Oakland Vice Mayor Ignacio De La Fuente, Former Senate pro Tem and Oakland Mayoral Candidate Don Perata, Mexican Consulate General Carlos Felix, BART Director Carole Ward Allen, Oakland Councilmember At-Large Rebecca Kaplan, and lead sponsor State Farm Bank, convenen to celebrate four-and-a-half decades of past accomplishments and to forge a future of new possibilities.
A commemoration of the Unity Council’s 45 years of service to the community and featuring as its keynote speaker U.S. Treasurer and former Unity Council board member, Rosie Rios, this promises to be an engaging social event with food stations and an open bar.
Located in the Fruitvale district, the Unity Council employs a comprehensive strategy to building community assets by focusing on economic, social and neighborhood needs; providing approximately 12,000 people each year with the tools needed to transform their lives, build wealth and ultimately achieve long-term educational, entrepreneurial or homeownership goals. The Unity Council’s HUD-approved counseling agency, the Homeownership Center, educated, counseled and supported more than 1,000 families at risk of losing their homes to foreclosure in 2008.
The Unity Council (also known as The Spanish Speaking Unity Council) was founded in 1964.
SF bids citywide clean energy – 51 percent by 2017
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) today released a Request for Proposals authorized by City leaders to implement the Community Choice Aggregation Program, known as CleanPowerSF. Co-drafted by the San Francisco Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) with technical assistance of Local Power, Inc. following a decade of preparation, the RFP invites bids to provide a new electricity service to San Franciscans that consists of 51% renewable energy and demand technologies by 2017, and provides municipal financing for development of at least 360 Megawatts of new solar photovoltaics, smart grid, local wind, cogeneration, energy efficiency technologies and other local green power.
The RFP, authorized by an October 27 city ordinance approved by the Board of Supervisors, puts out for contract a major metropolitan power service worth billions of dollars in multi-year revenues and hundreds of millions in City financing, seeking no less than a new retail electricity supplier alternative to Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) to serve local residents and businesses, and use voter-approved revenue bonds to finance construction of a major, in some ways unprecedented, new urban green power infrastructure to serve them: what Local Power Inc. calls “a new kind of power.”
