3/13: Gavin's Sunshine Problem & Ammiano Tries to Legalize It

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1st hour: Is Gavin Avoiding Transparency? - The Newsom administration claims it strongly believes in government transparency and that it adheres to the City's Sunshine Ordinance, but Rebecca Bowe's excellent cover story in this week's Guardian tells a different story. We'll speak with Bowe and Sunshine Task Force member Rick Knee to get to the bottom of this issue that is so crucial to the health of our city's democracy.

2nd hour: Can Legalization Save California? - Assemblyman Tom Ammiano is introducing a first-of-its-kind marijuana legalization bill that could generate billions of dollars of revenue for the State coffers, cut down on thousands of arrests, and drastically reduce drug traffic related violence. Ammiano's press secretary, Quintin Mecke, will be in the studio to break it down.

Also: Anarchist Bookfair - James Tracy stopped by to tell us about the Anarchist Bookfair happening tomorrow at the County Fair Building in Golden Gate Park at 9th and Irving. He also read us one of his kick-ass poems.

3/6: PowerShift Report Back & Sanctuary City Update

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6 pm: PowerShift Report Back - Last weekend, the SF League joined 12,000 young people in D.C. at PowerShift 09, a conference on clean energy and green jobs, culminating in 350 meetings with our representatives in congress, and a protest that shutdown the coal-fired power plant that powers the Capitol. We were joined by a bunch of folks from the League and Green for All.
Here's what we learned from lobbying our SF representatives and CA senators:
- Speaker Pelosi: We had a positive meeting with her chief of staff who said that our pressure made it easier to push for stronger legislation. She's hopeful that Pelosi will be able to make it to our climate townhall meeting in April.
- Congresswoman Speier: Her climate policy staffer said Speier supports our platform and will push for strong climate legislation.
- Senator Boxer: Her climate policy guy basically lectured at us. Boxer won't push for an outright ban on coal or nuclear plants, and it sounds like she wants to put most of the money from a carbon cap into tax cuts instead of green jobs for disadvantaged communities.
- Senator Feinsten: Her staff strung us along all day and ultimately wouldn't meet with 100 young people from California. Really, Diane? Friggin Oren Hatch met with PowerShift, and you wouldn't? Once again, you're our Asshole of the Week.

7 pm: Our Sanctuary City - Immigrant rights, ICE raids, and racial profiling. Why isn't San Francisco living up to it's sanctuary city status and what needs to be done about it? Our guests included:
- Bobbi Lopez and others from the San Francisco Immigrant Rights Defense Committee
- Several members of Young Workers United
- Supervisor John Avalos called in to tell us about his work on legislation to make it City policy that the police shouldn't turn over youth charged with felonies to ICE.

2/27: No show this week :( We're at PowerShift!

Most of the League crew is out in D.C. for the PowerShift conference. We'll be back next week to tell you all about it.

2/20: Public Campaign Financing & Bay to Breakers

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6 pm: public campaign financing - What is it? Why do we need it? What's the latest in SF, CA, and the USA? Our guest Rob Arnow and Moira Brennan will tell us what's going on.
7 pm: Bay to Breakers - The race organizers announced a zero tolerance policy for 2009. Facebook went bonkers. Supervisor Mirkarimi held a press conference yesterday to propose a middle ground. Now the organizers are saying maybe we can work something out. WTF's going on? WTF is up with the war on fun in San Francisco? We'll talk about it.
Asshole of the Week: Diane Feinstein - For attempting to de-charter the Harvey Milk Democratic Club at last week's Democratic County Central Committee (DCCC) meeting. Hope Johnson called in to talk about her FogCityJournal.com article about this. And DCCC members, Debra Walker and Michael Goldstein, joined us in the studio to tell us about how the progressives on the DCCC put the beatdown on Diane's attempted power grab.

2/14: SF Bike Coalition's "Love on Wheels" Dating Game (click here for podcast)

Doh! It looks like we had some technical difficulties and weren't able to broadcast the show live. But here are mp3 clips of the four dating games:


Or you can download the mp3s here:
- love-one-wheels_girl-boy.mp3
- love-one-wheels_boy-boy.mp
- love-one-wheels_boy-girl.mp3
- love-one-wheels_girl-girl.mp3

2/6: Dogpatch Biofuels & Melissa Griffin on City Hall Drama

Topics for Friday, February 6th:
6 pm: The women of Dogpatch Biofuels - The first biodiesel-only filing station in the City!
7 pm: Melissa Griffin's City Hall Update - Did Gavin really take advantage of a typo to give a campaign contributor a sweetheart deal? Why are Public Defender Jeff Adachi and Supervisor Sean Elsbernd so pissed at each other?
7:30 pm: American Apparel aftermath - Last night at the Planning Commission, Valencia street said a big "hell no" to American Apparel. Where does this new coalition go from here?

1/30: American Apparel in the Mission & an Update on the Possible June Election

Topics for Friday, January 30th:
- American Apparel in the Mission?
- San Francisco political update: Are we going to have a June election? What's happening with the budget? What the hell was that 9 hour Board of Supervisors meeting all about? We'll break it down.
- Eric Smith, talking about the upcoming Sustainable Biofuels Summit.

Playlist:
Minutemen - Working Men Are Pissed
Dan Reeder - Work Song
Boy Found Floating - Pushed to Kill
J Church - Nostalgic for Nothing
E. Doctor Smith - Blue Moon
Broun Fellinis - The Ark Has Landed
Prince - Musicology
Background music by Clutchy Hopkins