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Sat Jan 24 2009
Barack Hussein Obama Becomes 44th U.S. President
Northern California Reaction to Bush Leaving Office and Obama Beginning Anew
On January 20th, 2009, George W Bush left the White House and Barack Hussein Obama was inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States. The transition was marked — before, during, and after — in several ways across Northern California. Many are concerned about military policies of George Bush that Obama may continue or expand.

In San Francisco on January 19th and again on January 20th, people threw shoes at outgoing President George W. Bush and sent an anti-war message to incoming President Barack Obama. video Video, photo Photos

On January 20th in Fresno, Peace Fresno and the ACLU held a demonstration in front of the Federal Building to call on President Obama to close Guantanamo Bay Prison, Ban Torture, and Stop Extraordinary Rendition. video Video

In Mountain View, the Raging Grannies and CodePink barhopped to "educate" Obama enthusiasts. photo Photos

In Santa Cruz, Women's International League for Peace & Freedom called for people to "celebrate and recommit." photo Photos

On January 21st, a "Day of Action" was called at the Federal Building in Sacramento. Report

More Local: Will the Obama Administration back science in the Klamath River Basin? | The 2008 Election & the Prospects for Change | San Franciscans Celebrate into Wee Hours | A Look Back at Early Campaign Stop In Oakland

Non-local Reports and Analysis from Obama's First Week: Obama’s new foreign policy team prepares escalated bloodletting in Afghanistan and Pakistan | Noam Chomsky: Obama's Stance on Gaza Crisis "Approximately the Bush Position" | Obama Orders Closure of Guantanamo Prison, Interrogations Must Follow Army Field Manual | Obama's orders leave torture, indefinite detention intact | Obama’s libel against the American people | How the Gay Community Got Chicago'd at the Inaugural | Obama pick for treasury secretary tells Senate: Trillions for the banks, austerity for the people | CODEPINK Hands Out Thousands of Ribbons Urging Obama to Keep Campaign Promises on War, Guantanamo, Torture | Bill Fletcher on an Historic Inauguration in the Shadow of Gaza | Rick Warren Protested and Disrupted During MLK Day Speech—Called “Bigot” | US markets plummet as banks falter and world slump deepens | Obama's Pledge to Withdraw from Iraq and the Iraqi Reality; 2 US Soldiers Wounded; 7 Dead, 22 Injured in Bombings | Jesse Holland on How Slaves Built the White House and the US Capitol | President-elect Barack Obama: "There Is No Obstacle that Can Stand in the Way of Millions of Voices Calling for Change" | Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writer Alice Walker and Civil Rights Leader Bob Moses Reflect on an Obama Presidency and the Struggle | Pete Seeger & Bruce Springsteen Perform Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" | Queen Latifah Remembers African American Singer Marian Anderson at Lincoln Memorial Concert | Openly Gay Episcopal Bishop Eugene Robinson Silenced on HBO Broadcast of Lincoln Memorial Inauguration Concert | Last Days of Cake - the EVIL webcomic | Some Thoughts on Obama and the US Empire | On the eve of Obama’s inauguration | Antiwar Activists “Boot” Dubya Out the Door | Obama Inauguration on No Lies Radio | Hail to the Chief | Chavez Warns that Obama "Repeats Bush's Discourse Against Venezuela"
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