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4/30: A forum on standing up for civil rights in the Bayview
"Enough is Enough !"
DATE: Sat. 4/30/2005
TIME: 7:00 PM
Duration: 2 Hours
San Francisco
SF Bayview Opera House 4705 3rd st
between Oakdale and Newcomb)...
Posted: Fri, Apr 29, 2005 10:44pm PDT
"The Great Conspiracy" New 9/11 Film airs on Ch. 29 - Sat. 7pm.
The new 9/11 documentary "The Great Conspiracy"
will air on public access Cable Channel 29 in San Francisco this Saturday nite, April 30th, at 7 p.m....
Posted: Fri, Apr 29, 2005 9:36pm PDT
NYC-IMC Hacked update
As of the time of this posting the NYC-IMC site is down....
Posted: Fri, Apr 29, 2005 9:29pm PDT
Please Pass This Video Feed On, and On, and On
"Jim Senyszyn" wrote:
Marking the second year of
US occupation in Iraq:...
Posted: Fri, Apr 29, 2005 7:15pm PDT
Indymedia Film Premiere- Biscuit Logging Documentary
"Truth and Lies of the Biscuit Fire"- Indymedia Film Premiere- with recent action footage and speakers from the front lines.
Saturday, April 30th, 8pm. Station 40- 3030b 16th St at Mission. Upstairs....
Posted: Fri, Apr 29, 2005 12:02pm PDT
NYC-IMC hacked!
A call for mutual aid:
Help NYC-IMC get back online....
Posted: Fri, Apr 29, 2005 8:18am PDT
Victory for Forest Activists in Pepper Spray Trial
Jury votes no pepper spray on non-violent protestors....
Posted: Thu, Apr 28, 2005 7:11pm PDT
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