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Lunardi's Los Gatos Demonstration
Lunardi's Supermarket, 720 Blossom Hill Rd, Los Gatos, CA 95032-3503...
Event Date: Sun, Feb 18, 2007 12:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Jan 31, 2007 9:31am PST
Key to the Future of Information Technology -- Underrepresented Groups
There is trouble brewing in IT-Land. At a time when technology jobs are projected to double over the next five years, fewer people of color are graduating with degrees that will prepare them for jobs in information technology. This development has serious implications for industry, higher education and groups seeking their share of the American pie....
Posted: Tue, Jan 30, 2007 8:49pm PST
Native Americans and Environmentalists Resist Energy Development on Sacred Land (audio/mpeg 1.8MB)
Native American rights activists and environmentalists gathered at Calpine headquarters in San Jose today to dissuade the energy company from its decades long plan to develop a power plant on a sacred area near mount Shasta. Calpine operates over 90 geothermal, renewable power plants in the U.S. with nearly 30 in California. Tribes are concerned the power plants would pollute local indigenous communites and the sacred area called Medicine Lake in Northern California....
Posted: Tue, Jan 30, 2007 11:36am PST
7 Year Anniversary of the Centro Aztlan Chicomoztoc's Existence, an organizing center
Celebrating 7 years of the the existence of a community grass-roots independent organizing center in San Jose, CalifAztlan...
Posted: Tue, Jan 30, 2007 10:38am PST
Raging Grannies Against Environmental Racism: Save Medicine Lake!
Raging Grannies got the call from Morning Star and Dixie B and headed out to Calpine Headquarters at Noon for Rally to Protect Sacred Space. There we met many friends, old and new....
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2007 9:49pm PST
Rally & Protest to Protect Sacred Places: Save Medicine Lake!!
San Jose, CA - Pit River Indian Tribe members and Indigenous and environmental justice supporters delivered an eviction notice to Calpine Corporation in downtown San Jose on Monday, January 29, 2007 demanding they drop their decades-long attempt to build polluting power plants in the Medicine Lake Highlands near Mount Shasta. Tribal members and supporters vowed to nonviolently defend Medicine Lake from any attempts to build power plants at this area that is profoundly sacred to area Native p...
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2007 8:02pm PST
January 27 Antiwar Protest in San José Says, Bring the Troops Home Now
In support of the march in Washington, DC against the U.S. war on Iraq, 200 people gathered in San José on January 27th to protest the Bush's "troop surge" and to call for impeachment of the president....
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2007 3:24pm PST
NO WAR ANYWHERE - JAN 27 - FREE TO FIGHT
Anti-war, bring the troops home rally at Stevens Creek and Winchester on Saturday, January 27th 2007...
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2007 8:06am PST
Hotel room attendants tell their stories
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The walls of the meeting room were lined with photos of dozens of women, their warm and friendly faces contrasting sharply with the close-ups of their swollen, work-scarred hands, mounted below....
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2007 6:32am PST
CURING CALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE: 5 Steps to Universal CHOICE in 2007
Stuft Pizza, Campbell (private room)
1461 Campbell Avenue (at San Tomas Aquino)
Campbell, CA 95008
(408) 871-7171...
Event Date: Wed, Jan 31, 2007 6:30pm PST
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2007 12:51am PST
San Jose: Protest at the Peace Crossroads
Stevens Creek and Winchester Blvd
San José, CA...
Event Date: Sat, Jan 27, 2007 11:30am PST
Posted: Fri, Jan 26, 2007 9:37am PST
San Jose KFC protest
KFC, 250 North Bascom Ave., San Jose (corner of No. Bascom/Naglee)...
Event Date: Sat, Dec 1, 2007 12:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Jan 25, 2007 12:39pm PST
Emergency Protest : February 7th International Day in Solidarity with Haiti, with multi-city protests on 4 Continents
South end of Cesar Chavez Plaza
Corner of Market and San Carlos Streets
downtown San Jose, CA...
Event Date: Wed, Feb 7, 2007 5:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:03pm PST
Honor Leonard Peltier in San Jose
Pagesincolor.com
Fair Trade Store
888 East Santa Clara Street
near 19th Street
San Jose, CA 95116...
Event Date: Tue, Feb 6, 2007 6:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:58pm PST
Struggle On A Continent With No Name: Sonora's Indigenous
MACLA (Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, Inc.)
510 South 1st Street
San Jose, CA
(408 998-2783 - for directions, etc....
Event Date: Sun, Feb 4, 2007 4:30pm PST
Posted: Tue, Jan 23, 2007 1:13am PST
Protest Calpine's Proposed Power Plant on Native Lands!
Rally at 10 a.m. at Plaza De Cesar Chavez Park
South Market Street and 50 W. San Fernando Street
Protest at high noon at Calpine Headquarters
50 W. San Fernando Street, San Jose...
Event Date: Mon, Jan 29, 2007 10:00am PST
Posted: Mon, Jan 22, 2007 1:22pm PST
NO WAR/IMPEACH THE EXECUTIVES
Weekly (every Saturday and Sunday from 11:30 to 2:00 PM) Demonstration at the corner of Stevens Creek and Winchester in San Jose to demand an end to war and the impeachment of the war criminals in the White House....
Posted: Mon, Jan 22, 2007 9:12am PST
Sen. Bernie Sanders: You Must Be Concerned About Corporate Control of the Media
Sen. Bernie Sanders: If You Are Concerned About Health Care, Iraq, the Economy, Global Warming You Must Be Concerned About Corporate Control of the Media
Tomorrow night President Bush will give his seventh State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress. Last weekend, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders gave what could be described as an alternate State of the Union before thousands gathered in Memphis, Tennessee at the third National Conference for Media Reform....
Posted: Mon, Jan 22, 2007 7:07am PST
‘Dr. King was nation’s greatest unionist’ Millions commemorate peace, civil rights leader
Last week, Americans marched, rallied, petitioned, held community service events and worshipped in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Here are only a few of the tens of thousands of events honoring King’s legacy, the civil rights movement and the fight for peace, dignity and economic justice for all....
Posted: Mon, Jan 22, 2007 7:01am PST