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SEIU State Council regarding 1877 decertification
This document has been distributed within the SEIU In California to help SEIU staffers explain why San Francisco janitors voted to decertify SEIU Local 1877....
Posted: Fri, Sep 17, 2004 6:44pm PDT
American Anarchist Motion Picture
A historical documentary video is now available---free for educational use. Explains the legacy of several American-style anarchists from Emma to Ammon...
Posted: Fri, Sep 17, 2004 10:03am PDT
California's black history
The back-to-school edition of
californiablackhistory.com urges students to
understand their role in the larger community by
stressing the importance of school attendance and
showing role models for future careers in addition to
the access to the significant heritage of
African-Americans in the Golden State....
Posted: Thu, Sep 16, 2004 9:06pm PDT
Plaintiffs' Case Wraps Up in Pepper Spray By Q-tip Trial
The pepper spray by Q-tip trial to determine whether activists' Fourth Amendment rights were violated when law enforcement inserted Q-tips soaked in liquid pepper spray directly into their eyes continues in SF Federal court....
Posted: Thu, Sep 16, 2004 1:21pm PDT
Weekly fisheries news bulletin service of Fishlink - 3 September 2004
Dungeness Crab Trap Limits on California Governor’s Desk; Oregon Seeks MSC Certification. PFMC TO MEET IN SAN DIEGO; GROUNDFISH ISSUES DOMINATE AGENDA OREGON CLOSES SPORT FISHERY ON POPULAR GROUNDFISH STOCKS:...
Posted: Thu, Sep 16, 2004 12:55am PDT
Its a MediaEmergenC!! Converge against Corprate Media
Media EmergenC, a conference organized by the San Diego Independent Media Center to promote, strengthen and build democratic media organizations, will incorporate performance, street action, workshops, speakers and forums October 6-9 to raise a voice of opposition against the increasing corporate control of our media....
Posted: Wed, Sep 15, 2004 1:00pm PDT
Another Death in CYA, How You Can Help
If you haven't heard yet, we have sad, bitter news. Another young man has died
inside a California Youth Authority prison....
Posted: Tue, Sep 14, 2004 6:06pm PDT
Stand up for Prisoners - Press Conference - Lawsuit to be filed Mon. end Medical Neglect
The UNION press conference will be held at 1 pm, Monday Sept. 13 (this coming Monday) in front of the Hall of Justice in Fairfield.
Hall of Justice is at 600 Union Avenue.
Our attorney, Mark Ravis, MD, JD will file a lawsuit on Monday in the Eastern District Federal court against CMF and individuals responsible for the medical neglect of Donald Swisher, a mentally ill inmate at CMF Vacaville. Swisher leaves behind five children who live in Merced, CA.
He died in April from...
Posted: Fri, Sep 10, 2004 1:21pm PDT
BEFORE YOU SPEND that dollar bill
maximize your political muscle with little effort....
Posted: Thu, Sep 9, 2004 3:36pm PDT
CAL judge approves Domestic Partners
Fascists lose a battle in their ongoing war against California's expanded Domestic Partnership law....
Posted: Thu, Sep 9, 2004 6:51am PDT
US DOJ Press Release: Major Marijuana Growing Operation Dismantled
On Wednesday, August 18, 2004, Special Agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration, with the assistance of the Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office, and the Wolf Team of the California National Guard, executed a federal search warrant on four properties in Upper Lake, California, owned by Mr. Charles Edward Lepp....
Posted: Thu, Sep 9, 2004 12:22am PDT
Caltrans set to pave over valley oaks to build 101 bypass of Willits (Mendo)
A four lane 101 freeway bypass around the town Willits would decimate valley oak woodlands in the path of the paving.....
Posted: Tue, Sep 7, 2004 2:58pm PDT
The Corporate Agenda is Alive and Well at KPFA
Ongoing struggles at KPFA......
Posted: Tue, Sep 7, 2004 1:04pm PDT
Public Health Crisis - Prisons
Three Inmates dead in past few months at CMF/CSP Solano County alone, the UNION will be filing a lawsuit next week at a press conference in the death of a mentally ill by brain injury father of five children, stand by for exact date and time...
Posted: Mon, Sep 6, 2004 10:05pm PDT
Free Bart rides 9/7 don't drive
First Spare the Air Day - get on BART free before 9am....
Posted: Mon, Sep 6, 2004 7:44pm PDT
October: California Protests Operation Guardian
Preparation continues for the march/rally planned for San Ysidro, Ca.
on Sat. Oct. 2nd against 10 years of Operation Guardian and the neoliberal
policies and theft against the people of LatinoAmerica.
ALSO on Oct.16th, there will be a statewide march against
Immigration Raids, for legalization for all and against the government's
anti-immigrant policies....
Posted: Mon, Sep 6, 2004 3:59pm PDT
CALIFORNIA SAFE SCHOOLS (NON-PROFIT) PROMOTES SAFETY!
KIDS GET MORE THAN CALICUM FROM MILK!...
Posted: Sun, Sep 5, 2004 10:21pm PDT
California Voids Gay Custody Rulings
The California Supreme Court has set aside rulings in three cases in which former lesbian partners are claiming parental status for children they had helped to raise....
Posted: Sat, Sep 4, 2004 12:15pm PDT
Call for Art, Performance, Papers, and Workshops for GenderQueer/GenderEnders Conference
GenderQueer/QueerGenders is a multidiscplinary, multimedia conference
that will take place in Santa Barbara, CA, this coming February. It
will be a forum for people who?ve been thinking about queerness and
gender from different places (institutions, geographic locations,
identities) and through different means (performance, scholarship,
organizing, cultural politics, etc)....
Posted: Fri, Sep 3, 2004 11:32pm PDT