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Charges dropped against Oakland port protesters
Over a year since Oakland police opened fire with wooden bullets and metal-shot bags against protesters at the Oakland docks, even though video demonstrated that they had been nonviolent, charges were dropped against 24 arrestees....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 1:03pm PDT
Guerrilla Media in Action
Cascadia Media Collective is in the bay with our newest video from the front lines of struggle against free trade, environmental exploitation and colonization.
Showings are:
Friday, April 23rd at the AK Press Warehouse, 674-A, 23rd St., Oakland, 7pm
Saturday, April 24th, Long Haul Infoshop, 3124 Shattuck Ave., Oakland, 8pm...
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 1:03pm PDT
SAT: Art-Making & Preparation for Days Of Mourning And Resistance
This Saturday will be a major day of preparation for the days of mourning and resistance. There will be art making, affinity group formation, trainings and planning happening from 11 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 24th at the Redstone Building, 2940 16th st. (capp st.) in SF, and another space a couple blocks away...
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 12:12pm PDT
Golden Gate Park News: Warren Hellman's MCCP Destroys Northeast Pedestrian Tunnel
The Golden Gate Park Concourse Authority assured all that no harm would come to the pedestrian tunnels while the issue is before Superior Court. This morning, the renegade non-profit Music Concourse Community Partnership and Warren Hellman decided to take out the Tunnel. They are accountable to no one. Time's Up for these corporate thugs. Time to kick them out of the Park. Come to the JFK Bridge at 9th Avenue and see the damage they've done to our park....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 10:48am PDT
Sewage in Golden Gate Park
Sewage line hit by demolition crew in Golden Gate Park Thursday morning....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 9:43am PDT
THURS AM Speak Out Against Police Abuse of 3/20 Anti-War Protestors SF Supervisors Hearing
The hearing will be in City Services Room 263. Between Van Ness and Polk, Grove and McAllister. The meeting begins at 9:30am. However, the item is #6 on the agenda with a special order at 10am. It is hard to see how this could happen any sooner than 11am....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 9:30am PDT
Santa Cruz Medical MJ Collective Protected from DEA Raids, Court Says
Landmark Judgment Today: Seriously Ill Patients of Santa Cruz Medical Marijuana
Collective Protected From Federal DEA Raids...
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 10:08pm PDT
4/30, Burlingame - "March Through Main Street" anti-war action
Come help us bring the reality of the people's discontent with war and empire to the wealthy oasis of BURLINGAME....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 7:04pm PDT
MUNI cuts postponed/cancelled
Proposed MUNI cuts postponed, cancelled...
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 6:14pm PDT
RIDERS BACK IN ACTION--Oakland Pigs Caught Setting Up Local Priest!
OAKLAND PIGS ENSNARED IN THEIR OWN POLITICAL HIT AGAINST ST.PATRICKS ABBEY & FATHER DONALD WEEKS!
Iggy The Pig (Ignacio De La Fuente) & His Henchmen In The Oakland Police Department Are Caught Red Handed In Their Own Slimey Efforts To Set Up A Local Priest!
Not Content With The Harm Done To Destroy The Abbey & Make 28 Men Homeless In The Process, Now The (PIGS) Accuse Their Hit Victim (The Priest) Of Being A Parasite After All The Charges Had To Be Dropped!...
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 6:07pm PDT
Taking Care in a Toxic Time
Free Conference this Saturaday! Learn to become a breast cancer activist at BCA's Town Meeting. Workshops on the Precautionary Principle, environmental links to cancer, cause-marketing, and breast cancer....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 4:42pm PDT
SF events 4.21
stop the underground garage in Golden Gate Park
Alliance for Golden Gate Park info: http://www.sfpix.com/
Trees Not Cars: http://www.scorcher.org/tnc/
http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/04/1677955.php
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2004/04/1691145.php...
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 3:37pm PDT
Earth Day Hummer protests . . . more info
Earth Day
Hummer protests...
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 3:25pm PDT
Through 4/25: KDVS 90.3 FM Fundraiser and "Speaking in Tongues"
fundraiser week for UC Davis alternative radio station KDVS 90.3 FM, known for its eclectic mix of music and public affairs programming; KDVS, with its 9000 watt signal, covers much of the Interstate 80 corridor east of the Coast Range, from Fairfield to Auburn...
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 10:46am PDT
Media Monopoly Forum 4/22
Don't miss this public forum on media monopolies at CSUS on Thursday....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 9:48am PDT
US Nuclear Weapons Proliferation - Public Hearings / Written Comments
The Department of Energy In February 2004, released a draft "Site Wide Environmental Impact Statement" on Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab's planned operations for the coming ten years. The law requires DOE to seek public input before moving forward. Let's bring our friends and neighbors, write letters and pack the public hearings. This is a once in a decade chance to make our voices heard!...
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 8:51am PDT
4/22: Ghada Karmi "In Search of Fatima" author, Thursday, UC Berkeley
Special Book Reading:
APRIL 22 THURS 7:00pm @ 2050 VLSB (Valley Life Sciences Building), UCB
Book sales and signing available....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 12:44am PDT
'Compromise' Nondiscrimination Policy Valid, State Says
Westminster, California) A California school district the balked at the state's nondiscrimination policy for schools because it covered the transgendered will be allowed to keep a "compromise" policy.
State law requires the small school district like all others in California to have a written anti-discrimination policy that includes protections for all LGBT students....
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 11:07pm PDT
Landmark Gay Marriage Vote in California
For the first time in US history, a state legislative body has voted in favor of issuing marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples....
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 10:55pm PDT