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Bay Area Jews Renounce the Jewish Right to Return!
As a non-Jew, I recognize the extra courage and self-honesty Jews must have to confront the racism that is Zionism and in Zionist Israel. Bravo to this group for organzing and pulling off this event successfully....
Posted: Thu, Oct 2, 2003 10:05pm PDT
Gay Shame Puts Newsom and Dufty on the Stand
Activists serve Supes Gavin Newsom and Bevan Dufty with subpoenaes on 10/1....
Posted: Thu, Oct 2, 2003 3:19pm PDT
Berkeley Students Organize To Oppose Animal Testing
JOIN US for celebrations of
WORLD VEG DAY and WORLD FARM ANIMALS DAY!
wednesday, october 1 from 11 am - 2 pm on lower sproul. free vegan "ice cream" and cookies with live music from sf punk band the mits!!!
thursday, october 2 from 11 am - 2 pm on upper sproul. free vegan "veggie jerquee".
Food generously provided by Turtle Mountain, Inc. -- Berkeley Bowl -- Sun Flour Baking Company -- Lumen Foods....
Posted: Thu, Oct 2, 2003 2:49pm PDT
Tonight! the Occupation Began in 1492!
The brutal occupation of Iraq that we see today is the result of a process started in 1492....
Posted: Thu, Oct 2, 2003 1:19pm PDT
October $10 a month idea for NCEF!/Gypsy Mountain Call to Action!!!!
Gypsy Mountain Raided Today!!!!
CALL TO ACTION!!!!
Simple fundraiser to support non-violent civil disobedience and direct action campaign to save some of the last threatened Old Growth Redwoods and Douglas Fir forests!!!!...
Posted: Thu, Oct 2, 2003 1:14pm PDT
Berkeley- Strike over Unfair Labor Practices Friday
The union of the teaching assistants or Graduate Student Instructors is having a one day strike Friday over unfair labor practices after contract negotiations broke down. UAW bargainers accuse the UC of 64 contract violations....
Posted: Thu, Oct 2, 2003 8:36am PDT
Schwarzenegger Threat: Bay Area Progressives Debate What To Do Now (audio/mpeg 0.1KB)
KPFA hosted an hour long discussion/debate on the subject of what progressives should do now that Arnold's poll numbers are strengthening. A variety of positions are aired, and while some of the arguments are the sort you would expect the debate is nonetheless thoughtful....
Posted: Thu, Oct 2, 2003 2:19am PDT
Interviews from S28 Antiwar Demonstration (audio/mpeg 5.9MB)
Some thoughts from rally and march participants on 9/28/03......
Posted: Thu, Oct 2, 2003 12:52am PDT
Save Medicine Lake
Medicine Lake is being threatened by geothermal development. Many NorCal Tribes regard Medicine Lake as sacred for spiritual healing waters. Calpines drilling for geothermal energy would bring toxins such as hydrogen sulfide to the surface in large amounts. This would destroy the balance of Medicine Lake.....
Posted: Wed, Oct 1, 2003 11:16pm PDT
Unannounced police maneuvers in former housing projects in SF
Police having been staging "urban warfare" maneuvers all week in the emptied Valencia Gardens Housing Projects in the 14th and 15th street block between Valencia and Guerrero...
Posted: Wed, Oct 1, 2003 7:04pm PDT
Arnold Sexist Schwarzenegger will be in Pleasanton 4 pm @ Alameda Fair Grounds & Sac. Sun
Schwartzenegger is coming to northern California Saturday and Sunday....
Posted: Wed, Oct 1, 2003 6:06pm PDT
Public Outcry Leads to Inclusion of Green Candidate Peter Camejo in Final Debates
Keeping Peter in the last debates is a huge victory - thanks to all who wrote letters!...
Posted: Wed, Oct 1, 2003 5:04pm PDT
EDUCATION NOT INCARCERATION Teach-ins and Statewide Day of Action
The Education not Incarceration Coalition (www.may8.org) is kicking off the 2003-2004
school year with EDUCATION NOT INCARCERATION TEACH INS in schools statewide, building toward a STATEWIDE DAY OF ACTION to demand funding for our schools not more prisons which will tentatively occur on Wednesday, November 12, 2003...
Posted: Wed, Oct 1, 2003 4:02pm PDT
Protest at Humboldt law firm - PL/Sheriff conflict
Humboldt county, California--Local forest and civil rights activists protested in Eureka outside the law firm Mitchell, Brisso, Delaney, and Vreize today to expose conflicts of interest and unethical practices, including drawn out litigation at the expense of the
taxpayers....
Posted: Wed, Oct 1, 2003 12:19pm PDT
White People Take a Stand Against War on the African Community!
Join the African People's Solidarity Committee and make your voice heard for justice and economic development for African people!...
Posted: Wed, Oct 1, 2003 10:09am PDT
Playing for Peace
Playing for Peace in streets of San Francisco...
Posted: Wed, Oct 1, 2003 4:44am PDT
SF events 10.01.03
A Jury with 12 non-African Americans just acquited the Riders on 8 charges.
http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/09/1649529_comment.php#1649555
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/09/30/riders30.DTL
RALLY AND PRESS CONFERENCE ALAMEDA COUNTY COURT HOUSE
1225 Fallon St in Oakland (near Lake Merrit) 12 PM WED OCT 1...
Posted: Wed, Oct 1, 2003 12:52am PDT
Poverty in the United States (audio/mpeg 2.7MB)
The Census Bureau released its Poverty report last Friday. Among other things, it found that for the second year in a row, by the government’s own numbers, the number of people in poverty increased dramatically. The report found that 34.6 million people were living below the official poverty threshold, that 7.2 million families were in poverty, that children living in poverty numbered 12.1 million, and that the poverty rate for Blacks was 24 per cent. These numbers all marked increases from ...
Posted: Tue, Sep 30, 2003 11:26pm PDT
Police Training in former San Francisco housing projects
Police using abandoned housing projects in San Francisco for training grounds. The drill: urban guerilla warfare. Police use explosives and practice storming apartment buildings at the former Valencia Gardens....
Posted: Tue, Sep 30, 2003 9:36pm PDT