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Open Statement for California Anarchist Gathering
“Occupied Territory 2004”, in Fresno CA. Centrally located in California, we are calling on all anarchist and anti-authoritarian anti-capitalist groups to converge and create the world that we so desperately need...
Posted: Sun, Dec 21, 2003 6:03pm PST
UC Berkeley To Fire Ignacio Chapela For Criticism of the University's Deal With Novartis
Ignacio Chapela, an outspoken biotechnology critic, has been denied tenure by the University of California, Berkeley and will be let go when his employment contract expires in June....
Posted: Sun, Dec 21, 2003 5:53pm PST
Talk At SF LGBT Community Center On The LGBT Movement in China
December 23, 2003
7:00pm
San Francisco LGBT Community Center...
Posted: Sun, Dec 21, 2003 10:43am PST
SF Strippers Say Lax City Oversight Is Forcing Them Into Prostitution
AMONG THE MANY unseemly legacies left behind by the outgoing administration at City Hall is the lack of enforcement of labor laws and city codes in San Francisco's strip clubs....
Posted: Sun, Dec 21, 2003 9:47am PST
Power Outage in San Francisco Leaves 120,000 Customers in the Dark
Wow, just found out the SF Bay area lost electrical power on the busiest shopping night of the year......
Posted: Sun, Dec 21, 2003 5:53am PST
More Pictures From Rally At Castro Safeway
More than 70,000 UFCW members in Southern California are taking a stand against corporate greed. Forced to fight by supermarket giants demanding wholesale cuts in health benefits that would leave current workers unable to pay for their care—and effectively leave future employees without any health care coverage at all--workers from seven locals voted over 90% to reject the offer by three of the largest supermarket operators in the country, Von's (Safeway-owned), Ralph's (Kroger-owned) and Alb...
Posted: Sat, Dec 20, 2003 5:47pm PST
Arena waste of earthen resources: Martin anthropologists
Sports arena waste of joint earthen resources...
Posted: Sat, Dec 20, 2003 5:40pm PST
We immigrants have a dream of respect and safety
We protest Arnie killing of drivers license bill. Video clip 1 minute....
Posted: Sat, Dec 20, 2003 5:23pm PST
Indian casino stiffs workers
Indian casino stiffs construction workers for $16 million. video clip 1 minute....
Posted: Sat, Dec 20, 2003 5:08pm PST
9 is our healthy number
Check numbers to see how fruit is grown...
Posted: Sat, Dec 20, 2003 4:54pm PST
Pictures Of Speakers At Safeway Labor Rally
Hundreds gathered in the rain to protest Safeway's antiworker policies....
Posted: Sat, Dec 20, 2003 4:38pm PST
Even dogs know —bring troops home
Conscience of our community we march to bring ourtroops home now!...
Posted: Sat, Dec 20, 2003 3:11pm PST
Images From Rally At Castro Safeway
Several hundred people braved the San Francisco rain to protest in front of the Castro Safeway...
Posted: Sat, Dec 20, 2003 3:04pm PST
We take back the night
In the darkness we speak out against the violence against women. Clip 1 minute....
Posted: Sat, Dec 20, 2003 2:11pm PST
Female 2
ArtSF is holding its annual All-Women Art show. Please come!...
Posted: Sat, Dec 20, 2003 1:26pm PST
ArtSF Women's Show
ArtSF is organizing its Annual All-Women's art show. It's our 2nd Annual show....
Posted: Sat, Dec 20, 2003 1:20pm PST
Talks Break Off in California Grocery Strike
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Labor talks broke off Friday night between negotiators for three supermarket operators and their grocery workers' union, after resuming for just one day. No new talks to end the 10-week old strike-lockout were scheduled....
Posted: Sat, Dec 20, 2003 8:55am PST
Court Allows Calif. Women to Use Medical Marijuana
"We find that the appellants' class of activities -- the intrastate noncommercial cultivation, possession, and use of marijuana for personal medical purposes on the advice of a physician -- is, in fact, different in kind from drug trafficking. Further, the limited medical use of marijuana as recommended by a physician arguably does not raise the same policy concerns regarding the spread of drug abuse."...
Posted: Sat, Dec 20, 2003 8:41am PST
Workers hold the line for health care
LOS ANGELES – “Empty Safeway’s stores and cash drawers” by taking action to cut them off from the source of their money – consumers and communities, United Food and Commercial Workers President Doug Dority told a massive rally and march here Dec. 16. He appealed to workers and consumers in the U.S. and Canada to use their buying power to support striking Southern California grocery workers’ battle to defend health care for working families. “Shut down Safeway’s profits,” Dority said. They onl...
Posted: Sat, Dec 20, 2003 8:25am PST
Injunction Against California Domestic Partnership Law Denied
The law, which will take effect in January 2005, offers same-sex couples many of the state-level rights and protections that married couples enjoy....
Posted: Sat, Dec 20, 2003 8:18am PST