From lachungsf at yahoo.com Fri Aug 10 11:10:22 2007 From: lachungsf at yahoo.com (Lisa Chung) Date: Fri Aug 10 11:11:16 2007 Subject: [SPJ-NorCal] SPJ Urges Renewed Commitment to Investigative Journalism in Chauncey Bailey's Memory. Message-ID: <344935.31634.qm@web50107.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Press Release Aug. 8, 2007 Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists Contact: Linda Jue, President, 4l5-321-1733 Pueng Vongs, Vice President, 4l5-336-5671 The board of the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists was shocked and saddened by the killing of Chauncey Bailey, editor of the Oakland Post. Bailey was a tireless advocate for the African-American community and a passionate investigative journalist. His work will be missed dearly in the Bay Area. We also offer our deepest condolences to Bailey's family, friends and colleagues. Bailey's death underlines the enormous risks journalists take to seek truth and report it. At least 100 journalists were killed around the world while covering the news the first six months of this year, according to the News Safety Institute. The chapter urges journalists throughout the Bay Area to continue to pursue tough investigative stories in Bailey's memory and in honor of all the courageous journalists who continue to risk their lives around the world. -30- ____________________________________________________________________________________ Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC From lachungsf at yahoo.com Mon Aug 20 12:15:46 2007 From: lachungsf at yahoo.com (Lisa Chung) Date: Mon Aug 20 12:15:53 2007 Subject: [SPJ-NorCal] Sept. 7: Discuss Environmental Justice with the Society of Environmental Journalists Message-ID: <847924.32534.qm@web50108.mail.re2.yahoo.com> SEJ-SPJ DINNER TO DISCUSS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ISSUES Sept. 7 at KQED WHO: Society of Environmental Journalists and Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists WHAT: ??Defending Your Community?? A buffet dinner and informal discussion about environmental justice WHEN: Friday, September 7th, 7:30 ?V 10:30 pm (Deadline to reserve: Sept. 4) WHERE: KQED studios, second-floor atrium, Bryant and Mariposa streets, Mission District, San Francisco WHY: To mark the annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Journalists held this year at Stanford University Well before the broader fight to limit global warming became a public priority, the threat of a degraded environment spurred action among grassroots activists in communities across the nation. One of the sparks in that movement was born 10 years ago in Bayview-Hunters Point in San Francisco. A determined band of activists worked to bring government and public pressure on industrial polluters who had created a toxic environment in the diverse, working-class neighborhood. Literacy for Environmental Justice has become a model of how communities can defend themselves. LEJ has turned the tide against industrial polluters ?V a massive shipyard, an inefficient power plant, and a roster of manufacturing plants producing, handling or storing an array of chemicals and solvents. For journalists everywhere, documenting a fight for environmental justice is a natural story: it??s a local matter tied to a national phenomena, tucked into a global context. To mark the annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Journalists, held this year at Stanford University, the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists invites you to meet activists from LEJ, student journalists from UC Berkeley??s Graduate School of Journalism who chronicled the Bayview-Hunters Point struggle, and environmental writers and editors from throughout the country. A Mexican buffet dinner will be held in the second-floor atrium at KQED, at Bryant and Mariposa streets in San Francisco??s Mission District. Space is limited. Please RSVP no later than September 4th to: Ricardo Sandoval: 415-786-1258; rsp1958(at)gmail.com Linda Jue: 415-321-1733; nvijdirector(at)gmail.com Lani Silver: 4l5-665-4761; lanisilver(at)aol.com Cost is $22.00 (SEJ PARTICIPANTS, PLEASE NOTE: NorCal SPJ is arranging for vehicle transportation to KQED from the 16th Street BART station. Take CalTrain from Palo Alto to the SFO/Millbrae stop and transfer to BART northbound. Exit at 16th and Mission streets.) -30- ____________________________________________________________________________________ Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder tool. http://autos.yahoo.com/carfinder/ From lachungsf at yahoo.com Mon Aug 27 21:29:55 2007 From: lachungsf at yahoo.com (Lisa Chung) Date: Mon Aug 27 21:30:01 2007 Subject: [SPJ-NorCal] Change a member's e-mail address on the listserv Message-ID: <347641.87454.qm@web50111.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Hi, Josh: Can you change a member's e-mail address? I believe it used to be francineb@earthlink.net. She wants to change to: Francine@FrancineBrevetti.com Mil grazie. Best regards, Lisa ____________________________________________________________________________________ Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=summer+activities+for+kids&cs=bz From lachungsf at yahoo.com Mon Aug 27 22:08:41 2007 From: lachungsf at yahoo.com (Lisa Chung) Date: Mon Aug 27 22:08:48 2007 Subject: [SPJ-NorCal] Recalling: "Change a member's e-mail on the listserv" Message-ID: <619577.1754.qm@web50111.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Dear members: Please disregard the above-referenced subject line to a recent e-mail. It was issued in error. Lisa Chung ____________________________________________________________________________________ Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz From lachungsf at yahoo.com Mon Aug 27 22:47:52 2007 From: lachungsf at yahoo.com (Lisa Chung) Date: Mon Aug 27 22:47:58 2007 Subject: [SPJ-NorCal] Sept. 5: "Universal Health Care Coverage" discussion and more Message-ID: <977746.85843.qm@web50109.mail.re2.yahoo.com> SPJ announces the following upcoming programs presented by the Northern California chapter, and other journalism organizations: - Sept. 5: Universal Health Coverage discussion for journalists- at the Kaiser Family Foundation, Menlo Park - Sept. 7 Discussion on environmental justice with the Society of Environmental Journalists and SPJ at KQED 1. Bay Area Health Journalists' Panel: "Universal Health Coverage" Wed. Sept 5, 2007 Menlo Park, CA Kick off your fall with a thought-provoking panel discussion about current (and future) trends in universal health coverage. When: Wednesday, September 5, 6:30 - 8:30 pm Location: The Kaiser Family Foundation, 2400 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park (directions below) Light refreshments will be served from 6:30 - 7 pm. in the reception area at the entrance. The panel discussion will begin at 7 pm. Please RSVP if you haven't done so already, and invite your colleagues. Universal health coverage in California and the U.S.: Will it happen, when, and what will it look like? Panelists: ** Richard Figueroa, healthcare advisor in the office of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, where he is working on the governor's healthcare reform initiative. Previously, he was the legislative director for California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi. He is also a member of the State of California Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board (MRMIB), which administers the Healthy Families Program (S-CHIP) and other programs. ** Larry Levitt, M.A., vice president of the Kaiser Family Foundation and editor-in-chief of kaisernetwork.org, the Foundation's online health policy news service. He previously served as a senior health policy advisor to the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services, working on the development of President Clinton's Health Security Act. He has also worked on health policy with California insurance commissioner John Garamendi and was a medical economist with Kaiser Permanente, where he worked on insurance reform. ** Harold S. Luft, PhD is a professor of health policy and health economics at the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco. His research and teaching cover areas including medical care utilization, HMOs, quality and outcomes of hospital care, and healthcare reform. He has formulated a hybrid strategy for providing universal coverage for major and chronic illnesses, under a plan that incorporates aspects of both a single-payer model and a PPO-like approach. Contact: Colleen Paretty cparetty@pobox.com 510-703-1816 ---------- DIRECTIONS TO THE KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION 2400 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park Directions from 280 North Take 280 south to Menlo Park. Take the Sand Hill Road Exit (East); the exit loops to the right and crosses over the freeway. Get in the left lane and continue straight on Sand Hill Road. LEFT at the third stoplight (Saga Road), (The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center sign should be on your right). Go up the hill, past the circular drive-around with the oak tree in the middle. At the top of the hill, to your left, is a small visitors' parking lot. There are no signs but each stall will say "2-Hour Visitor Parking." Park in the lot. (After hours, it isokay if you park there more than 2 hours.) Walk towards the stone circular driveway with the flagpole. To the left is a short staircase. (Quadrus Conference Center should be directly in front of you.) Go down the stairs and turn right. Enter the double doors that lead into the Foundation. There is no suite number and the Foundation is all on one floor. The reception will be held in the open area next to our reception desk, as you enter, to the immediate left. The meeting will be held in the Board room, down a short hallway across from the reception desk. Directions from 280 South: Take 280 north to Menlo Park. Take the Sand Hill Road Exit (East); the exit veers to the right. Get in the left lane and continue straight on Sand Hill Road. Go Left at the second stoplight, Saga Road, (The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center sign should be on your right.) Follow the rest of the directions above. 2. SEJ-SPJ DINNER TO DISCUSS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ISSUES Sept. 7 at KQED WHO: Society of Environmental Journalists and Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists WHAT: ??Defending Your Community?? A buffet dinner and informal discussion about environmental justice WHEN: Friday, September 7th, 7:30 ?V 10:30 pm (Deadline to reserve: Sept. 4) WHERE: KQED studios, second-floor atrium, Bryant and Mariposa streets, Mission District, San Francisco WHY: To mark the annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Journalists held this year at Stanford University Well before the broader fight to limit global warming became a public priority, the threat of a degraded environment spurred action among grassroots activists in communities across the nation. One of the sparks in that movement was born 10 years ago in Bayview-Hunters Point in San Francisco. A determined band of activists worked to bring government and public pressure on industrial polluters who had created a toxic environment in the diverse, working-class neighborhood. Literacy for Environmental Justice has become a model of how communities can defend themselves. LEJ has turned the tide against industrial polluters ?V a massive shipyard, an inefficient power plant, and a roster of manufacturing plants producing, handling or storing an array of chemicals and solvents. For journalists everywhere, documenting a fight for environmental justice is a natural story: it??s a local matter tied to a national phenomena, tucked into a global context. To mark the annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Journalists, held this year at Stanford University, the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists invites you to meet activists from LEJ, student journalists from UC Berkeley??s Graduate School of Journalism who chronicled the Bayview-Hunters Point struggle, and environmental writers and editors from throughout the country. A Mexican buffet dinner will be held in the second-floor atrium at KQED, at Bryant and Mariposa streets in San Francisco??s Mission District. Space is limited. Please RSVP no later than September 4th to: Ricardo Sandoval: 415-786-1258; rsp1958(at)gmail.com Linda Jue: 415-321-1733; nvijdirector(at)gmail.com Lani Silver: 4l5-665-4761; lanisilver(at)aol.com Cost is $22.00 (SEJ PARTICIPANTS, PLEASE NOTE: NorCal SPJ is arranging for vehicle transportation to KQED from the 16th Street BART station. Take CalTrain from Palo Alto to the SFO/Millbrae stop and transfer to BART northbound. Exit at 16th and Mission streets.) -30- ____________________________________________________________________________________ Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today! http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7