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“This Is Your Future”
Global Exchange trip to Argentina provides insights into privatization both there and at home in the Central Valley. For a related story about privatization in Fresno, see: http://sfbay.indymedia.org/news/2004/06/1686399.php...
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 3:19pm PDT
CYA crisis in Chino facility! Black youth face death threats and families denied visits!
CYA authorities minimize the seriousness of threats to incarcerated youth at the Chino facility! Situation grave!...
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 2:36pm PDT
We tortured animals drum circus protest
We tortured animals drum circus protest. 1 minute video...
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 1:05pm PDT
Anti-war march photos
90 photos from the June 5, 2004 anti-war march in San Francisco have been posted on my website: www.telepoetic.com. Sorry for the delay....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 1:02pm PDT
Hundreds of Macy's workers strike
Hundreds of Macy's workers went on a one-day strike on Saturday, marching and chanting "Don't Shop Macy's" in front of all entrances to the two Macy's stores on Union Square....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 12:47pm PDT
Fault Lines Issue 2: Deported, but not Demoralized
Brooke Atherton is a Bay Area activist dedicated to fighting Israel’s repression of Palestine. On June 24, six days after Brooke was deported from Israel, Fault Lines talked to her via e-mail. Writing from Beirut, Brooke wanted to stress that this situation is not about her; it is about the movement for a free Palestine…...
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:48am PDT
Fault Lines Issue 2: Hung Jury in Araujo Murder Trial
On June 22, after nine days of deliberations, Judge Harry Shepard declared a mistrial in the case of three men accused of murdering Gwen Araujo, a transgendered teen from Newark, CA, because the jury failed to reach a unanimous decision. Community outrage over the hung jury resulted in a march for “tranny” rights through the streets of San Francisco on June 26, marking the beginning of a series of rallies to celebrate Pride Week....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:40am PDT
Tenants speak up for a fair and balanced Rent Board
"The San Francisco Rent Board has become controlled by landlords – 65 percent of the time the Rent Board rules in favor of landlords, and only 16 percent of the time do they even hear cases brought before them by tenants,” said Ted Gullickson of the San Francisco Tenants Union, citing a Tenants Union study....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:33am PDT
Israel, Iran and the IAEA: Nuclear Ambiguity or Hypocrisy?
Last week, Mohamad ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), paid a visit to Israel. The visit was prompted mostly by the charge of duplicity that is often levied against the agency by the indigenous people of the Middle East, who perceive the IAEA as one among many instruments in the US-Israeli (USraeli) arsenal of colonial domination....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:31am PDT
San Francisco families protest Bush’s Section 8 de-funding
San Francisco families protest Bush’s Section 8 de-funding...
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:30am PDT
Message From Nancy Nadel - Come Speak on Tuesday July 20th
Glad that Nancy puts these out. She is a lone voice for the people - 90% of the time - on the Oakland City Council. Her attempts to dialog with people and her efforts to make time to hear people are clear to me. A good sign. We must get her in as mayor....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 9:48am PDT
Thirteen killed in US Falluja attack
A US air strike on a house in Falluja has killed 13 Iraqis, including women and children, Aljazeera has reported....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 9:05am PDT
More photos from Cardenas and Tran Memorial
Photos from rally at Cesar Chavez Plaza...
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 12:12am PDT
Photos from 7/17 memorial service for CB Tran and R Cardenas
Dozens of family members of Cau Bich Tran and Rudy Cardenas attended the memorial service at St Joseph's Church in downtown San Jose....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 12:06am PDT
7/17 UFCW 101 Mass Picketline at SF Macy's
The sleeping giant, labor, is finally waking up, and the unthinkable just happened, a picketline today, July 17, 2004 at San Francisco's Macy's department store, with hundreds of people at all entrances picketing for a union contract....
Posted: Sat, Jul 17, 2004 5:31pm PDT
Protest in San Jose Over Police Killings
A small demonstration took place in Cesar Chavez Plaza in San Jose Saturday, July 17 to commemorate the unnecessary deaths of victims of police violence....
Posted: Sat, Jul 17, 2004 3:42pm PDT
San Francisco: 1,000 rally for Nader-Camejo (report, audio and video)
Written report, video and audio files. Over 1,000 Greens, Socialists and Indies rally for Nader/Camejo in San Francisco...
Posted: Sat, Jul 17, 2004 2:29pm PDT
Democratic ABB Strategy Failure: they think we are idiots?
The Democrats held the towels and kept quiet while America and the hopes of people all over the world were raped, beaten and robbed. And now they expect to be elected Sheriffs?...
Posted: Sat, Jul 17, 2004 2:00pm PDT
Rally to Stop the Violence: Money for Prevention not Police
Education not Incarceration (www.ednotinc.org) Rally
to Stop the Violence- Money for Prevention, not
Police
Tuesday, July 20th
5PM Oakland City Hall (14th and Broadway)...
Posted: Sat, Jul 17, 2004 12:08pm PDT