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Cannabis Freedom Day, San Francisco -- photos 
May Day was Jay Day at the S.F. Civic Center Plaza when a diverse crowd of thousands celebrated the healing herb and organized to the end prohibition of this relatively benign plant....
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 10:07pm PDT
Activists arrested for civil disobedience at mayor's office As the Coalition on Homelessness' rally was finishing up, 11 of us casually walked into Mayor Gavin Newsom's office, sat down, locked arms, and began chanting......
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 7:07pm PDT
Sea Turtle Protest At Sacramento Safeway! The Sea Turtles are coming to Sacramento! I encourage everybody to participate in this lunch time protest to protest Safeway Stores' selling of swordfish and failure to post mercury warnings. Sacramento activists - let's give the Sea Turtle Restoration Project a big and spirited welcome!...
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 6:43pm PDT
Independent Truckers Strike! Independent owner/operators on the West Coast carry their strike through the weekend. Signs of growing solidarity felt in the Oakland area and up and down the Coast....
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 6:35pm PDT
5/16 Socialist Pres Candidate Speaks in Sacramento The Socialist Equality Party's presidential candidate Bill Van Auken will speak on May 16, 2004 at 2:30 p.m. in Sacramento at McGeorge School of Law, 3200 5th Ave., Courtroom of the Future....
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 6:31pm PDT
SF Housing Activists Take Over Mayor's Office as Care Not Cash Implemented May 3: As Care Not Cash went into almost-full effect following a ruling by the state appeals court, a group of housing activists working with the Coalition on Homelessness took over Mayor Gavin Newsom's office....
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 4:35pm PDT
Gropernator Aides Refuse to Identify People Who Helped Governor Draft “I suspect that Schwarzenegger is doing what politicians do,” Heller said. “Get advice from the donors and interests that support him and don’t tell anyone about it. The fallout is that he is putting forward an agenda to force small business and consumers to pay high interest rates and setting the stage for the next set of blackouts and energy company gouging.”...
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 4:05pm PDT
Workers News from the Central Valley 
19 farm workers exposed to deadly nerve-gas pesticide, three workers still hospitalized in guarded condition...
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 3:36pm PDT
"SAVE THE BOOKS" LAWSUIT Taxpayers suit designed to force San Francisco City Hall to account for up to $316 million in taxpayers money....
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 1:59pm PDT
SF QUEER CENTER SPLATTERED On May 1 The SF LGBT Community Center is splattered with red paint...
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 1:48pm PDT
Fresno Earth Day honors activists 
Fresno Earthy Day 2004 — activists honored, dragon dances, brass band blares. 2 videos under 1.5 minutes each....
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 12:36pm PDT
PUEBLO Re-Builds: Statement from the Interim Board Walter Riley, Grover Dye, Anne Weills, the Interim Board of PUEBLO (People United for a Better Oakland) describe the situation at PUEBLO and the critical tasks they have identified to rebuild PUEBLO....
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 12:22pm PDT
Announcing: A Radical Films Series at El Rio: Televising the Revolution! Please join us for summer Tuesdays of radical films, discussions, and support local organizing while we're at it! Each film will benefit a different local organization, but donations are appreciated, not required. Our first feature will benefit the San Francisco Day Labor Program of La Raza Centro Legal (http://www.lrcl.org)....
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 11:55am PDT
New Shadow Commission Will Form to Urge State to CURB prison use “We are encouraged by the Governor's willingness to study prison closures, but if he truly wants ‘action, action, action,' he is going to have to hear from more than the people who built and are invested in this $5.3 billion prison system,' says Sitara Nieves Kapoor of CURB....
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 11:00am PDT
Can the People Who Built California Prisons Be Trusted to Close them? Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB),
a broad based coalition of 38 organizations, seeks to CURB prison spending by reducing the number of people in prison and the number of prisons in the state....
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 10:55am PDT
Education not Incarceration Teach-in - Speak-out a Huge Success The Education not Incarceration Teach-in - Speak-out on May Day was a huge success. Here is some of our media coverage. More personal coverage and pictures to follow....
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 11:42pm PDT
MTC Raids Bike Funds On April 28th, the MTC voted to shift Regional Bike monies to freeway spending. Particularly hard hit will be Alameda County....
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 10:05pm PDT
May 5: "Media Regime Change" with McChesney, Nichols, Mander & Chideya Wednesday, May 5, 7PM at Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley -- An evening with Bob McChesney, John Nichols and Jerry Mander -- "Media Regime Change - Obstacles & Opportunities" -- Moderated by Farai Chideya, host of “It’s Your Call” on KALW 91.7 fm / Information Radio...
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 8:53pm PDT
Guerrilla Media in Action Tour: Modesto The Guerrilla Media in Action Tour
is coming your way!...
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 4:22pm PDT
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