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Hello! On Tuesday, April 19, safe cosmetics legislation (AB 908) in Sacramento will be up for its first and most difficult vote (which will be in the Assembly Health Committee)....
Posted: Tue, Apr 19, 2005 10:25am PDT
WHAT: Mother’s Day March and Rally
WHERE: Southern California (Location TBA)
WHEN: Saturday, May 7th, 5 PM
RSVP: Jakada, 510-428-3939 x226, jakada@ellabakercenter.org or Youth Justice
Coalition: 323-240-1449, freelanow@yahoo.com...
Posted: Tue, Apr 19, 2005 12:55am PDT
An estimated up to 100 people are being arrested at UC Santa Cruz tent city....
Posted: Tue, Apr 19, 2005 12:25am PDT
Man enters plea on smuggling charge...
Posted: Sat, Apr 16, 2005 8:50pm PDT
Health & Environmental Conference
Celebrating programs and policies that protect health & the environment...
Posted: Sat, Apr 16, 2005 6:35pm PDT
Press Conference: Adult Entertainment Industry Touts Economic Impact, Asks for Support...
Posted: Sat, Apr 16, 2005 10:38am PDT
Sonoma vintner Don Sebastiani and former Domino's Pizza owner Tom Monaghan gave 200,000 to fund anti-choice ballot initiative....
Posted: Fri, Apr 15, 2005 9:21am PDT
SAN FRANCISCO — In a surprise announcement April 7, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he is delaying until June 2006 a controversial ballot initiative to change state workers’ pensions from public, guaranteed-benefit programs to privatized 401(k)-like pensions.
“The governor’s retreat on the pensions initiative is a huge defeat for the corporate special interest agenda,” Jim Farrell, spokesperson for the 2-million-member Alliance for a Better California, said in a telephone interv...
Posted: Fri, Apr 15, 2005 6:46am PDT
Following is the recommendation to adopt a Moratorium by the City Attorney
and the notes from my speech before the City Council Tuesday, April 12th....
Posted: Fri, Apr 15, 2005 12:41am PDT
Americans for Safe Access (ASA) and its Legal Campaign has begun 2005 with a
bang! With patients continuing to be cited and prosecuted for conduct that
has been lawful for more than 8 years, ASA thought it was time to fight
back!...
Posted: Fri, Apr 15, 2005 12:37am PDT
UC San Diego witnessed 1000 strikers and 300 at a solidarity rally today, April 14, 2005 in a long overdue labor action at all 9 University of California campuses and other UC facilities....
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 7:01pm PDT
List of all the pickets and contacts...
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 1:16pm PDT
The Web: New rules for online gambling...
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 12:43pm PDT
Gov. Schwarzenegger Donors' Fraud Could Cost Calif. Taxpayers $400 Million; AIG's Stock Decline in Wake of Investigation Hits State Retirement Systems Hard...
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 12:06am PDT
The Assembly Judiciary Committee today approved AB 654 (Berg/Levine), the bill that sanctions state sponsored doctor assisted suicide. The vote did not follow party lines with five members of the committee voting to support and four voting to oppose....
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 12:04am PDT
Occupied Territory II: Of Ballot Boxes and Dreams, will be taking place in the Ventana Wilderness from May 20th -22nd!...
Posted: Tue, Apr 12, 2005 9:04pm PDT
there's no limit to the dishonesty of these people, see the following article by Zeynep of Under the Same Sun, with my comments about why there was no "mistake" afterwards...
Posted: Mon, Apr 11, 2005 5:14pm PDT
DawnWatch: "Thousands of feral pigs will be killed" -- LA Times 4/9/05...
Posted: Sun, Apr 10, 2005 9:37pm PDT