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A Uniform Voting System for California: Ending Private Control of our Elections 
Hill (writing about the Republican and Democratic Party candidates running for California Secretary of State): "...putting the integrity of our votes into the hands of a 'network' of private corporations is really a recipe for disaster."
Forrest Hill is the Green Parety candidate running for California Secretary of State....
Posted: Tue, Sep 12, 2006 5:03am PDT
National Latino Congreso Endorses Public Campaign Financing The National Latino Congreso is meeting in Los Angeles for the comprehensive Latino political gathering since 1977. Today, delegates unanimously endorsed a resolution specifically calling for public financing of election campaigns in California....
Posted: Thu, Sep 7, 2006 12:35pm PDT
Dan Ellsberg, Chris Daly, and others... speaking tonight 7-9pm at the LGBT Center! The World Can't Wait -- Drive Out the Bush Regime! Thurs. Sept. 7th planning meeting for the Oct. 5th day of resistence....
Posted: Thu, Sep 7, 2006 11:01am PDT
Berkeley Mayor’s Race Reflects a City in Twilight Berkeley, California has long been America’s leading municipal incubator of progressive social change. Berkeley was the home of the nation’s first alternative, listener sponsored radio show (Pacifica), and was the first city to ban Styrofoam and disinvest from South Africa. Berkeley was the first city west of New York to enact rent control (in 1973), it is the home of the visionary and politically powerful MoveOn.org, had the first gourmet coffee house in Peets, and its Chez Panise invented w...
Posted: Thu, Sep 7, 2006 7:36am PDT
Tommi Avicolli Mecca: Why I Didn’t Run I didn’t run for supervisor in District 8 because in the end my heart just wasn’t in it. I’ve always been more of an outside agitator than an inside kind of guy. That should come as a surprise to no one....
Posted: Thu, Sep 7, 2006 7:35am PDT
Diverse Group of Local Elected Officials Announce Opposition to Arena Tax A diverse group of local elected officials opposed to the Arena Tax held a press conference, well attended by the media, today at 1:30 pm at Sacramento City Hall....
Posted: Wed, Sep 6, 2006 4:11pm PDT
African-American City Council Contender Simba Kenyatta on FRSC Simba Kenyatta, black City Council candidate, will co-host Bathrobespierre's Broadsides on Free Radio Santa Cruz Thursday Evening 6-8 PM....
Posted: Tue, Sep 5, 2006 9:50pm PDT
Reformers Happily Join the San Francisco Democratic Party Machine Last Thursday, the Bay Area Reporter revealed that Supervisor Tom Ammiano was running for Assembly in 2008. Mark Leno, the current incumbent, is said be heading up Ammiano’s campaign, and John Burton is allegedly on board. The former School Board member and longtime progressive supervisor is already an electoral lock for the November 2008 race, adding to San Francisco’s trend of virtually uncontested races for major offices. The San Francisco Bay Guardian and many San Francisco progressives o...
Posted: Tue, Sep 5, 2006 7:34am PDT
CA's SB1056 Fails, Communities Retain Right to Shape their Food Systems ATTEMPT TO STRIP LOCAL AUTHORITY OVER SEEDS AND PLANTS
FAILS IN CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE...
Posted: Fri, Sep 1, 2006 8:06pm PDT
Lt. Gov. Candidate Wants To Economize Gasoline The crusader against rising gasoline prices, Stewart A. Alexander, is opposed to a California proposition on the State’s November ballot, to tax gasoline, because he believes it will not prevent gasoline price gouging at the pumps. Instead Alexander is proposing to introduce a program that he has identified as the, Friendly Petroleum Producers Program, to help provide relief at the pumps for consumers and the trucking industry....
Posted: Fri, Sep 1, 2006 5:13pm PDT
Alexander Visits Fresno, S.F. Bay Area 
Stewart Alexander is continuing his street campaign to become the next California Lieutenant Governor visiting the cities of San Francisco, Fresno and Oakland. He is reaching thousands wherever he goes with a simple and brief message; “Stop the war and bring the troops home now.” Within the past two months the street campaign has given Alexander the opportunity to make a visible presence to over a half million Californians statewide....
Posted: Wed, Aug 30, 2006 8:42pm PDT
Volunteer to "Stop the Maloof Tax"!!! The Stop the Arena Tax Campaign (aka "The Maloof Tax") is fully underway. Last Thursday, we started calling voters to let them know that we will not put up with this free hand-out to billionaire sports owners!...
Posted: Sun, Aug 27, 2006 7:37am PDT
Help build an electronic grassroots network for democracy Forrest Hill, Green Party campaign for Secretary of State, has just finished a TV ad that he plans to show in several major media markets in California. If the campaign is successful, this will be the first time a statewide Green Party candidate has run an Ad campaign in California....
Posted: Fri, Aug 25, 2006 11:16pm PDT
SF Village Voice / August 25, 2006 (audio/mpeg 33.0MB) Interview with Phil Berg, Libertarian Candidate for Congress, California...
Posted: Fri, Aug 25, 2006 6:20pm PDT
Katrina Speakout: Never Forgive and Never Forget! Join us for a lunchtime speakout in front of the FEMA office in Oakland!...
Posted: Fri, Aug 25, 2006 2:53pm PDT
An End to Politics As Usual: Local Green Party Fields Strong Slate of Candidates for 2006 Calling for an end to politics as usual, the San Francisco Green Party (SFGP) is fielding a slate of seven strong candidates for local office this November....
Posted: Fri, Aug 25, 2006 8:51am PDT
Proposition 89 Gaining Support California's clean elections initiative is gaining support from key good goverment organizations working to clean up state politics....
Posted: Thu, Aug 24, 2006 3:00pm PDT
Sacramento's Maloof Tax Millionaires Make a Killing as Killings Continue...
Posted: Thu, Aug 24, 2006 2:27pm PDT
Sam Farr's Town Hall in Santa Cruz: Is the problem Farr or the system? While attendees brought up a myriad of issues, the people's concern for the U.S. Bombings and invasions of other countries overwhelmed the dialog. This meeting testified to the disconnect between federal Democrats and their constituencies. Farr did sign the Declaration of Peace, but did not offer other hopes to end U.S. Driven war. He claimed consistently, “The Republicans have the majority,” and, thus, the Democrats, and what he supports, is squelched by the all powerful Republicans....
Posted: Thu, Aug 24, 2006 1:17pm PDT
Please join Marie's Campaign ! Marie Harrison, our Next SF District 10 Supervisor Marie HARRISON
SF District 10 Supervisor
Please join Marie's Campaign !...
Posted: Wed, Aug 23, 2006 4:18pm PDT
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