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After Years In Limbo -- More Immigrant Detainees Choose 'Voluntary' Deportation
Disappeared in America is a new, regular feature profiling immigrants who've been detained or deported and whose cases illustrate unjust or inhumane features of the Department of Homeland Security's immigration and detention systems. The first report chronicles the story of a Sikh man who chose to be deported back to India, where he had been tortured, rather than languish in limbo in detention in California. Camille T. Taiara is editor of NAM's "Disappeared in America" series and reports on i...
Posted: Tue, Aug 8, 2006 9:51am PDT
Save the Date! Make Your Voice Heard! A Call for Nonviolent Resistance!
Declaration of Peace Campaign Calls on Congress to End the Occupation of Iraq....
Posted: Tue, Aug 8, 2006 5:37am PDT
SAVING COMMUNITY ACCESS TV & THE PUBLIC’S ACCESS TO VIDEO “MOTION-MEDIA”
Summary: Steven’s Rewrite of Telecommunications Franchising Rules Temporarily Stalled—legislation impacting Community Access TV, the Internet, and public access to media services slows in Washington despite best efforts of phone companies and their ‘politician’ allies....
Posted: Mon, Aug 7, 2006 5:14pm PDT
San Diego Hate Crimes Met with Swift Action by Community and Police
The brutality of these attacks is beyond the pale and left
an entire community angered and stunned. San Diego residents - gay and
straight - came together as one community to help police find the
criminals and sent a loud message that hate crimes will not be
tolerated....
Posted: Thu, Aug 3, 2006 12:27am PDT
BCA E-Alert August 2006
1. NEW AT BCA: BCA Welcomes New Staff
2. IN THE NEWS: San Francisco Supervisors Approve Citywide Health Care; Study
Examines Side Effects of Raloxifene; Research Challenges Tamoxifen Use in Healthy
Women
3. TAKE ACTION: Learn More About Single-Payer Health Care; Urge California to List
Teflon Chemical as a Carcinogen
4. SAVE THE DATE: Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Centers' Third Annual
Symposium, November 2-3, Berkeley, CA; Cancer as a Turning Point: From Surviving to
Thr...
Posted: Wed, Aug 2, 2006 11:40pm PDT
Why pay for US War,Murder, Torture, Etc. when you don't have to?
why pay for war when you don't have to?...
Posted: Wed, Aug 2, 2006 9:05pm PDT
California Safe Schools Honors Sheinbaum & Farrell
Students Dialogue With Legendary Activists...
Posted: Wed, Aug 2, 2006 5:26pm PDT
Children Who Are Forbidden To Cry
Beating kids stops crying. What a statement, eh? You would think beating children would make them cry. But if the beatings are severe enough, they make children NOT cry. We see this in concentration camps, in war, in child protection institutions and foster care...I would assume that mental state of *not crying when in fear* is called “trauma.” Many survivors of severe child abuse are just now learning to cry as adults...the lost tears of their childhood....
Posted: Tue, Aug 1, 2006 9:04am PDT
S.D. District Attorney Podcast on Medical Marijuana
The website of San Diego County District Attorney
Bonnie Dumanis has posted the following
interesting broadcast about the rationale for the
recent medical marijuana arrests....
Posted: Mon, Jul 31, 2006 7:05pm PDT
Murray Bookchin (January 14, 1921 – July 30, 2006)
another death in radical circles. RIP...
Posted: Mon, Jul 31, 2006 4:54pm PDT
Breakdown FM: Producer Fredwreck Speaks out on War in Lebanon (audio/mpeg 23.2MB)
Palestinian Hip Hop producer Fredwreck and Dr. Hatem Bassein Middle Eastern expert and a professor at UC Berkeley speaks with HKRs Davey D about the recent upsurge of violence in the Middle East....
Posted: Mon, Jul 31, 2006 4:13pm PDT
Alexander Visits Santa Barbara, Ventura
The Peace and Freedom Party Candidate for California Lieutenant Governor, Stewart Alexander, continues to take his campaign to the people; recently reaching tens of thousands in Santa Barbara, Ventura and Oxnard. Alexander says, “My message is simple, give 38 million Californians a voice in government to oppose the Iraq War, reduce gasoline prices, bringing back free college education, and ending Schwarzenegger’s term in office.”...
Posted: Fri, Jul 28, 2006 8:18am PDT
Líbano esta secuestrado
Seràn el gobierno de Israel de hoy y el señor Bush, arrastrados al Tribunal Europeo de
La Haya, por crimen contra de la humanidad, algún dia????...
Posted: Wed, Jul 26, 2006 4:42pm PDT
Judge Rules Against South Central Farmers, Lawyers to Appeal
LOS ANGELES, July 26, 2006 - Judge Helen Bendix rejected all the farmer’s claims in the case South Central Farmers vs. Ralph Horowitz and the City of Los Angeles today. Attorneys for the farmers say they will appeal the decision to the appellate court. The verdict does not come as unexpected, Judge Bendix has ruled against the farmers in the past only to be overturned in appeal....
Posted: Wed, Jul 26, 2006 3:55pm PDT
Honorable Judge Helen I. Bendix Will Render Verdict
bright and early on weds:
After 3 years of struggling in the political arena and in the courts the
South Central Farmers and Supporters anticipate an outcome to the legal
struggle (Case # BC311110) with a verdict from Honorable Judge Helen Bendix....
Posted: Tue, Jul 25, 2006 11:18pm PDT
South Central Farms 2005 Live Concert CD , Zack De La Rocha, Son De Madera, and more
Save The Farm (live concert compilation CD - NOVEMBER 2005) Zack De La Rocha, Son De Madera, Los Cojolites, Quetzal, and more.....
Posted: Tue, Jul 25, 2006 12:23am PDT
DEA Shuts Down SD MMJ Clubs - ASA Responds
7/25: Gather @ 9:30 a.m. in front of City Hall, 220 C Street, San Diego
Speak to the council @ 10:00 a.m. in the Council Chambers....
Posted: Fri, Jul 21, 2006 7:37pm PDT
Immigrants Are Lost In American Politics
Over the past 25 years Americans have enjoyed the benefits of immigrants for cheap labor; now the Washington leadership, that has relaxed enforcement and has permitted over twelve million immigrants to establish residency in the United States, is now reversing direction because cheaper labor is now in abundance in Asia. Washington is acting to protect the interest of corporate America, however there are many ramifications, families that are now part of the American fabric, working with us, l...
Posted: Mon, Jul 17, 2006 7:36pm PDT
Race, Class and the Battle for South Central Farm
When the Los Angeles City Council sold the 14 acre plot called the South Central Farm to developer Ralph Horowitz, they sold land they didn't own....
Posted: Fri, Jul 14, 2006 6:47am PDT
Feral Visions Against Civilization gathering in SE Arizona, Aug. 4-13th
Feral Visions Against Civilization - Announcing the 4th Annual Green Anarchist Gathering! August 4th-13th, 2006 (full moon on the 9th), in the high elevation Sky Island Mountains of Southeastern Arizona....
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 2:27pm PDT