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Don’t Let Oakland’s Children Be Sacrifices For Jerry Brown's Political Career (A Plea)
Don't Let Oakland's Kids Be Sacrifices for Jerry Brown's Political Career!
Below Anita of Raparation Records and the Measure Y Coalition makes a solid case for why we should start treating Oakland kids with the dignity and respect they deserve before we stand by and watch martial law go into full effect in Oakland.
Also below is reposted info on the next Measure Y Coalition meeting.
Seen a few sideshows in my time, but Jerry's looks like the most wack and dangerous this kids seen i...
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 9:43pm PDT
Unifying the Left: This Time, Let’s Make it Happen
This Saturday, hundreds of activists from across San Francisco will gather in the hopes of achieving what some consider impossible – unifying the city’s left. The stakes are enormously high, as progressives confront a Mayor whose public relations machine cloaks moderate policies in progressive rhetoric and whose strong support for gay marriage has won him allies otherwise opposed to his pro-downtown agenda. Yet in the face of these obstacles, a promising light could be at the end of the tunne...
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 8:07pm PDT
Local Activist Joins Fast For Economic Justice in Iraq
Leisa Faulkner of Progressive Democrats of America and School of Americas Watch will join an international fast for economic justice in Iraq being held in Geneva, Switzerland....
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 12:06am PDT
July 6-8: West Coast Anti-Capitalist Mobilization Against the G8
All Empires Must Fall!
West Coast Anti-Capitalist Mobilization Against the G8
July 6-8, San Francisco
Call for a West Coast anti-war and anti-capitalist mass convergence, July 6-8 of 2005 in San Francisco, in solidarity with the mobilization against the Group of Eight (G8) summit in Scotland....
Posted: Mon, Jun 6, 2005 5:28pm PDT
Picketers Demand "Hands Off Assata, Hand Over Posada!"
Photo by Scott Braley,
Copyright Epicenter News Service
2005...
Posted: Mon, Jun 6, 2005 5:14pm PDT
More Rev Billy Pics From Vallejo
Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping preaches in front of an obscene "Wall of Coke"...
Posted: Thu, Jun 2, 2005 7:13am PDT
Reverend Billy at Vallejo Wal-Mart
Reverend Billy visits the Vallejo Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart is targeting Solano County with 5 new stores....
Posted: Wed, Jun 1, 2005 7:55pm PDT
How Do We Uproot the System and Build a Better World?
Note; Corrected from Indybay calendar
An evening of ideas and inspiration with Marina Sitrin, Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez, Patrick Reinsborough, Ramsey Kanaan, Rachel Neumann, Chris Crass, Jennifer Whitney, and David Solnit
A benefit to distribute "Horizontalism: Popular Power in Argentina" to social movements in Argentina and Latin America...
Posted: Mon, May 30, 2005 2:27pm PDT
Free Jeff Luers Film Showing in Modesto During Anarchist Cafe!
The "Jeff Luers Story" will be shown, along with other films relating to the case of imprisoned earth liberation activist Jeff "Free" Luers. Free food and literature will also be on hand....
Posted: Mon, May 30, 2005 1:39am PDT
Come Declare CAFTA dead!
On the anniversary of its signing, join the Bay Area Stop-CAFTA Coalition for a Celebratory Rally, Commemorating the “Death of CAFTA and the Birth of a New Era in U.S. Trade Policy.”
May 26
12 Noon
Federal Building
450 Golden Gate Avenue, S.F....
Posted: Wed, May 25, 2005 5:22am PDT
Grassroots Events for Environmental Justice during United Nations World Environment Week!
Grassroots Events for Environmental Justice during United Nations World
Environment Week:...
Posted: Tue, May 24, 2005 12:45pm PDT
Suburban Insurrection: Palo Alto Finds the Beach Beneath the Streets
Not sense newspaper boxes broke through the windows of the INS building in San Francisco have I felt this re-energized and uplifted in regards to militant, illegal street protest in the aftermath of the Reclaim the Streets action in Palo Alto. The event was organized by Anarchist Action, an ad hoc group of various anarchist collectives and affinity groups throughout the bay area, and was billed as a “revolutionary street party”, and “suburban inserrection”....
Posted: Mon, May 23, 2005 12:48am PDT
Reportback: Palo Alto Reclaim the Streets! - May 20
A Revolutionary Streetparty, a Suburban Insurrection...
On May 20th, hundreds of rebellious youth, students, and workers converged on downtown
Palo Alto. United by an effective critique of global capitalism - weaving
together the dominance of the G8, the monotony of modern urbanism, and
alienated suburban boredom - local youth, joined by a small number from around the Bay Area and Central Valley, successfully reclaimed the
streets. Marching behind banners exclaiming "Reclaim the S...
Posted: Sat, May 21, 2005 8:45pm PDT
UC Bioengineering/Chapela awareness week
All week from Monday May 16-May 20th, a low-key demo is being carried out at UC Berkeley with the purpose of creating awareness about the new 12-storey bioengineering building under construction at the mining circle, awareness about the changing source of funding for the university away from taxpayer funds towards higher student tuition and private research funds with an incentive for patent generating choices of research, and awareness about Professor Ignacio Chapela's lawsuit against the un...
Posted: Tue, May 17, 2005 8:07pm PDT
Anti-G8 Reclaim the Streets! - Live Without Dead Time! - May 20
Resist the G8!   -     Destroy Boredom!    -    Reclaim the Streets!
Streetparty/Protest Against the G8, Global Capitalism, and Boredom!
Meet 8pm, Friday, May 20th
Lytton Plaza in Palo Alto        -2 Blocks from
University Ave. at Emerson      Palo Alto Caltrain...
Posted: Mon, May 16, 2005 3:55pm PDT
May 29th Benefit for Political Prisoners in Guadalajara
Upcoming benefit for prisoners from last year's actions in Guadalajara, Mexico...
Posted: Sun, May 15, 2005 7:49pm PDT
2005 World Social Forum Report Back by Global Exchange
Another world is happening!...
Posted: Sun, May 15, 2005 4:14pm PDT
Arnold's top 100 Contributors
And these aren't special interests?
Found this list on arnoldwatch.org and wanted to share it with everyone. Boycott these companies!...
Posted: Sun, May 15, 2005 2:20pm PDT
Moises Montoya speaks to activists' role in stopping CAFTA (audio/mpeg 13.5MB)
Freedom Socialist Party activist Moises Montoya, a recent visitor to El Salvador, debunks myths about CAFTA, along with U.S. activists' role in stopping ratification at the May 7th "Battling the 'Conquistadors' of Free Trade in Central America" event in SF. (15min)...
Posted: Sat, May 14, 2005 8:15pm PDT