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Victory in the Pepper Spray Lawsuit Unanimous verdict finds police used excessive force against peaceful activists protesting logging of ancient redwoods....
Posted: Thu, Apr 28, 2005 6:24pm PDT
Save the Cute Animals! This week's SAN FRANCISCO WEEKLY (April 27-May 3) features an article by Harmon Leon entitled, "SAVE THE CUTE ANIMALS! The inside story on protests against dog-eating, foie gras-enjoying, and fur-wearing." IDA, Viva!USA, Farm Sanctuary, and Animal Place are all mentioned by name, along with descriptions of particular protests in San Francisco. The piece is written tongue-in-cheek and tends to trivialize the importance of the issues at hand, as well as the protestors themselves.
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Posted: Thu, Apr 28, 2005 5:46pm PDT
StreetLevel TV: Episode 13 May Day, May Day, May Day!!! . In an age where even the Democrats are pulling out all the stops to create new MTV-like "fadical" broadcast networks, truly independent media is still struggling to keep the attention focused on the real issues. Come join SLTV for a night of some truly grassroots community media!!...
Posted: Thu, Apr 28, 2005 1:34pm PDT
SF State Anti-War Activists Protest Disciplinary Action Anti-war progressives at San Francisco State University held a press conference Wednesday in support of three students and two anti-war organizations being targeted for disciplinary action by the school’s judiciary affairs department....
Posted: Thu, Apr 28, 2005 10:19am PDT
israeli War Crimes (audio/mpeg 5.5MB) This is a summary of israeli War Crimes committed in Palestine for the week ending 28 April 2005. 5mins (english)...
Posted: Thu, Apr 28, 2005 8:55am PDT
"Zizek!" Sneak Previews at the Roxie 
Zizek told the audience why he was a philosopher. He does not want to explain and account for the unaccountable, and instead wants to "render strange something we accept as given." Seeing things in a new way to "help us get a small shift of perspective to see the unexpected, implicit consequences" of thought and actions. "We do not know where we truly are," he stated, adding "we do not know what is really going on. We are in a radical crisis," he conclu...
Posted: Wed, Apr 27, 2005 10:21pm PDT
Students & Teachers Rally outside Schwarzenegger's SF Offices 
Delivering another big punch before Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger releases the May Revise of his proposed California budget, CSU students and faculty members and supporters from other schools and other teachers' unions rallied outside his offices in San Francisco and Fresno and his restaurant in Santa Monica today.
And even more demonstrated outside a steel plant in Fontana where Schwarzenegger was speaking.
“The governor’s proposed budget doesn’t even begin to address the true needs...
Posted: Wed, Apr 27, 2005 7:48pm PDT
The Web: Search engine privacy threats A story about how Google threatens our privacy....
Posted: Wed, Apr 27, 2005 1:18pm PDT
Really Really FREE Market Saturday April 30, 2005 12-4pm at Dolores Park
We would love for you to come and offer your special gifts and talents at this event.
The RRFM is based on the idea of a gift economy, namely that giving feels good; that if we were to all to share what we had, we wouldn’t have less than we have now, we’d actually all have more than we currently have. Giving is a pleasure in itself. Gift others with your clutter. Gift others with your talents. Gift others with your presence!...
Posted: Wed, Apr 27, 2005 1:09pm PDT
ACORN Protests Wells Fargo Loan Abuse Wells Fargo held its annual shareholders meeting Tuesday afternoon, and as security officers and customer service representatives fawned over stockholders holding a blue admission ticket, several individuals in red shirts crashed the party protesting what they saw as predatory lending practices by one of the country’s oldest banks....
Posted: Wed, Apr 27, 2005 10:04am PDT
Mayor Wasting Precious Anti-Poverty Funds on ‘Home Ownership Counseling’ The Mayor’s Office of Housing recently revealed its plan for allocating the multi-million dollar Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), a federal contribution to cities earmarked for helping low-income people. The plan allocates more than $200,000 to ‘home-ownership counseling,’ including classes, workshops and support for low-income people who want to purchase a home. Yet nowhere does the plan explain why the Mayor wants to spend money on services you could get from any realtor, or why he...
Posted: Wed, Apr 27, 2005 10:03am PDT
SF: HRC FINDS AS FACT GAY BAR OWNER’S MULTIPLE CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS Following an exhaustive ten-month investigation, the San Francisco Human Rights Commission has forcefully concluded that Les Natali, owner of one the city’s most popular gay bars, has violated numerous civil rights ordinances in his discriminatory practices in employment and patronage against people of color....
Posted: Tue, Apr 26, 2005 11:42pm PDT
Pepperspray case goes to jury After closing arguments in federal district court
today, the Pepper Spray By Q-Tip civil rights case was given to the
eight-person jury to decide the questions of 4th Amendment
Constitutional rights violations and excessive force by the Humboldt
County Sheriffs' Dept. and Eureka Police....
Posted: Tue, Apr 26, 2005 11:21pm PDT
The Solution to the Gasoline Crisis and Other Problems An article which discusses the current gasoline crisis and proposes a solution within the context of what is politically possible in California. Incorporates quotes and statistics provided by the California Energy Commission and the BP Statistical Review of World Energy....
Posted: Tue, Apr 26, 2005 7:12pm PDT
Badlands guilty of discrimination Popular SF bar Badlands found guilty of racial discrimination by HRC....
Posted: Tue, Apr 26, 2005 6:21pm PDT
We Will Be Educated 
City College of San Francisco Students WALK out of classes in protest of tuition hikes, demanding Education NOt Incarceration...
Posted: Tue, Apr 26, 2005 12:56pm PDT
Full house for pot club hearing in SF Former San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan told a Board of Supervisors
committee Monday that strict regulation of pot clubs in San Francisco isn't
feasible....
Posted: Tue, Apr 26, 2005 12:50pm PDT
World Week for Animals In Laboratories – San Francisco Event IDA is looking for volunteers to take part in a World Week for Animals In Laboratories event on the UCSF campus...
Posted: Tue, Apr 26, 2005 10:51am PDT
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