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textSchwarzenegger, Rove, Bush, and Fascism by 4democracy
Thinking about voting for Schwarzenegger--or not voting at all for Governor? Please refresh your memory about Schwarzenegger's family heritage, and please consider Schwarzenegger's own words: "I was always dreaming about very powerful people - dictators and things like that...people who could be remembered for hundreds of years."...
Posted: Thu, Nov 2, 2006 3:31pm PST
textMedical Marijuana Patients Arrested at DEA Convention in San Diego by via ASA
(from Tuesday, I believe) Medical marijuana patients demanding to speak with the head of the federal Drug Enforcement Agency were arrested in San Diego shortly after noon today for refusing to leave the site of an agency convention....
Posted: Thu, Nov 2, 2006 10:07am PST
audioFRSC: Oaxaca Solidarity, From New York to San Diego (audio/mpeg 14.4MB) by Bradley and Vinny
Two interviews with activists on both coasts doing solidarity work with the people and struggles of Oaxaca, Mexico....
Posted: Wed, Nov 1, 2006 7:28pm PST
imageAfghanistan After Democracy: the untold story through photographic images
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by Mohammed Daud Miraki, MA, MA, PhD
Afghanistan after democracy: the untold story through photographic images" is the story of suffering of the Afghan people. This book exposes the lies of the Bush administration about the post-Taliban Afghanistan, and the disaster brought upon Afghanistan by the United States of America and her allies. It exposes democracy as the buzz word for the neocolonial adventure of the US. The claims of reconstruction in Afghanistan is nothing but a total fraud. It exposes the failure of the US governm...
Posted: Wed, Nov 1, 2006 12:09pm PST
imageRegional Conference on Socialism in Los Angeles
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by Party for Socialism and Liberation
Come to a regional conference on socialism. Get involved in the fight against capitalistm. There will be workshops, speakers, discussion and more....
Posted: Tue, Oct 31, 2006 11:05am PST
textAlexander Wants Free Education By 2009 by Stewart A. Alexander
The plan Alexander is presenting will unfold over the next three years; first, students will receive a 35 percent reduction in college tuition fees by 2007, by 2008 students will receive an additional 20 percent reduction on fees, and by 2009 all state colleges and universities will offer free education....
Posted: Mon, Oct 30, 2006 9:19am PST
textDemand Congress Impeach U.S. President George W. Bush. by Mike Romano
Demand your Representatives in Congress to Vote for the Impeachment and Prosecution of U.S. President George W. Bush. for Criminal Obstruction of Justice, Criminal Fraud, Murder!...
Posted: Sun, Oct 29, 2006 11:09pm PST
imageUCSB Students lock down Chancellor's Office
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by Darwin
Protests have been shaking the UCSB campus for almost two weeks now.... A tent city has been built by students and has sat in the center of campus since October 16th....
Posted: Thu, Oct 26, 2006 11:17am PDT
textJoin California Safe Schools & Tell EPA Pesticide Labels Should Identify ALL Ingredients by California Safe Schools
Our national pesticide law only requires that certain ingredients in a pesticide (called the active ingredients) be identified on the label. All the others are misleadingly called inert ingredients, and are not identified. These same ingredients escape from most of the testing and evaluation required for active ingredients. They're not really inert, just untested. The public is being kept in the dark It's time for a change!...
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2006 8:15pm PDT
textPlease Support Reform - Vote! by Drug Sense FOCUS
Two weeks from today, Tuesday, November 7th is Election Day. How folks like you vote could have a real, substantial, impact on drug policy reform - and our laws - in the years ahead....
Posted: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 10:51pm PDT
imageOpening up the media: Cutting campaign costs and allowing more voices to be heard
Forrest Hill is the Green Party Candidate running for California Secretary of State.  In this article, he explains how a responsible media is a necessary ingredient to make a healthy democracy.

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by Forrest Hill (repost and link)
Forrest Hill is the Green Party Candidate running for California Secretary of State. In this article, he explains how a responsible media is a necessary ingredient to make a healthy democracy. Dr. Forrest Hill: "To break this chain of control over our elections we must provide all ballot qualified candidates with equal access to the most important means of disseminating their message - the media."...
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 5:11pm PDT
text9th Circuit Rules that Card Tables Used for Expressive Activity Cannot be Banned by repost
Although the plaintiffs were more interested in passing out literature than in petitioning, the opinion clearly helps those who desire to obtain signatures on a petition....
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 8:56am PDT
textDEA Has Gone Too Far by ASA
In response to this raid and continued DEA raids, ASA is organizing a peaceful demonstration on October 31st outside of a DEA convention in San Diego....
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 7:32pm PDT
textPhilippine troops, Harass farmers in Anti-GMA –Pro Peasant caravan in Pampanga by Pesante-USA
The Philippine Peasant Support Network (Pesante) -USA in solidarity with the peasant organizations in the Philippines, strongly condemns the military and police harrasment of the peasant caravan from Central Luzon in Pampanga, going to Manila in protest over the agrarian reform month in the Philippines. Media souces reported today that 500 militant farmers taking part in a Central Luzon-wide caravan against political killings and American war games were stopped on Thursday by about 200 govern...
Posted: Thu, Oct 19, 2006 7:31pm PDT
textAsian Americans the New 'Sleeping Giant' in California Politics by New American Media (reposted)
In the 1980s and 1990s, Hispanics were considered the "sleeping giant" in California politics because of their growing numbers. Now Asian Americans are at a point where Hispanics were about two decades ago, according to an analysis conducted by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the UC Asian American and Pacific Islander Policy Initiative....
Posted: Thu, Oct 19, 2006 5:34pm PDT
textProposition 89 Ad Spreads Virally by Yes on Prop 89
In California, where initiative campaigns regularly cost tens of millions of dollars, supporters of this year's public financing initiative are coupling innovative media with emerging technologies to empower grassroots activism in a half a billion dollar campaign spending environment....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:23pm PDT
audioSprouts: Protests in Oaxaca and California (audio/mpeg 26.5MB) by Sprouts
Most major state and municipal government offices in the capital have been blockaded by public school teachers and members of the so-called Popular Assemebly of the People of Oaxaca -or APPO as it's known in Spanish, reports Shannon Young from Oaxaca....
Posted: Fri, Oct 13, 2006 7:38pm PDT
textMedical Marijuana in the News: Week of 10/6 by ASA via WD via me
· FEDERAL: Raids in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Modesto · CALIFORNIA: Dispensary Regulations Continue...
Posted: Thu, Oct 12, 2006 11:54am PDT
textStudent/Farmworker Alliance Days of Action! by SFA
1-2 Punch! Nationwide McDonald's actions Oct. 27-28th From 'sweet spot' to sore spot!... This October 27-28th, join students and young people across the country in standing with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to end sweatshops and modern-day slavery in the fields!...
Posted: Tue, Oct 10, 2006 8:38pm PDT
textSan Diego Delivery Services Raided by Police by CA NORML
San Diego Delivery Raids...
Posted: Tue, Oct 10, 2006 12:08pm PDT
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