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Tell Barbara Lee to Impeach! 
Here is Brad Newsham's latest newsletter.
Brad is running for Congress after working very hard to put impeachment "on the table"-- especially with his news-making Beach Impeach actions....
Posted: Tue, May 20, 2008 1:09pm PDT
Harvey Milk Statue Set to be Unveiled on Thursday May 22, 2008, 6-9 PM at SF City Hall Harvey Milk statue unveiling on May 22 at SF City Hall, 6-9 PM...
Posted: Fri, May 16, 2008 5:12pm PDT
Bikers in Santa Cruz Take the Lane for Safety and Awareness 
On May 13th, 2008, a huge mob of cyclists rolled peacefully through the streets of Santa Cruz after a 6pm convergence at the Clock Tower. Bikers spanned city blocks in the right lane of Mission Street to raise awareness about California Vehicle Code Section 21202, cyclists may use the full right lane when the lane "is too narrow for a bicycle to safely ride to the side of a motor vehicle." Many people wore yellow shirts with a figure of a bike and the words "MAY USE FULL LANE cvc 21202" as th...
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2008 11:56pm PDT
Nader calls U. S. "corporate fascism" 
"What's wrong with us? Are we the biggest suckers? Are we super-suckers?" He exhorted his audience at the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian-Universalists to find their "constructive anger."
- Ralph Nader...
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2008 6:37pm PDT
Ahhnuld sez NO to yacht tax, YES to GOP fundraiser at Yacht Club in SF May 16 This week the Gropinator released his new budget. The budget refuses to close the loophole that lets those poor oppressed yacht owners off the hook for CA sales tax. And this Friday the Gropinator is the headliner for a GOP fundraiser at the St Francis Yacht Club in SF.
This must have been planned by the same people who thought SF was a good place to bring the Torch.
The public parkland that surrounds the St. Francis Yacht Club is a great place to give the steroid-addled serial sexual as...
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2008 1:30pm PDT
SAME SEX MARRIAGE NOW LEGAL IN CALIFORNIA!!! Sorry, for the ALL-CAPS, but the CA Supreme Court just overturned the same sex marriage ban. I wish I had more info to link to but just heard it on TV....
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2008 10:12am PDT
Parents, Kids, and Bike-riders Against Budget Cuts 
Who Supports Education Budget Cuts in California?
WE DON'T!
Who says NO to Schwarzenegger's proposed cuts?
Parents, Kids, and Bike-riders!...
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2008 3:07am PDT
Grannies Against Education Cuts! 
Many, if not most, of the Raging Grannies are retired teachers, nurses, and social workers. We support teachers and nurses unions in a big way~!
Wednesday, May 14 found us scurrying around the intersection of El Camino Real and San Antonio Rd. where Mtn. View and Los Altos meet. We were part of a peninsula length demonstration against Education Budget Cuts....
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2008 2:39am PDT
Gov's Proposed Education Cuts draw Demos 
San Francisco peninsula teachers, parents, principals, school aides, students and board members joined education advocates statewide in protesting state budget cuts yesterday.
Demonstrators rallied along a 40-mile stretch of the historic El Camino Real.
Protests were timed to coincide with Governor Schwarzenegger's release of his revised state budget proposal....
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2008 1:53am PDT
DEBUNKING MOTH MYTHS - UC Scientists Speak Out (video/x-flv 35.6MB) According to two UC scientists, not only can the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM) not be 'eradicated' by the forced aerial pesticide spraying of the San Francisco Bay Area planned for this summer by a state agency, but it poses no real threat to agriculture in the first place....
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2008 12:53am PDT
LBAM Takes San Francisco (video/x-flv 6.9MB) Starring: headRush (Rosa Esperanza Gonzáles, Xago Juárez and Simón Hanukai)
Written/directed/edited by: Patrick Wilkinson
Special thanks to: La Peña Cultural Center, Destiny Arts Center, and Centro Legal de la Raza...
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2008 12:08am PDT
CASS releases economic impact report on LBAM pesticide spray program. On May 5th, 2008, Foster Gamble and the Economic Action Team of the 'California Alliance to Stop the Spray' released a forty page report on the negative economic impact to the state of California if the CDFA wet dream to spray millions of California residents with a micronized chemical soup goes forward. Despite numerous press releases, the corporate media remains silent on the grave implications to the State’s economy and continues to parrot CDFA disinformation and propaganda....
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2008 10:53pm PDT
'Stealth' Wal-Mart Supercenter suspected in Oakley development plan, groups claim Community and political organizations will hold a major news conference in Oakley today at 6:30 p.m. to announce their opposition to an Oakley development plan - which may include a "stealth" Wal-Mart Supercenter they say will harm the environment and put Oakley merchants out of business....
Posted: Tue, May 13, 2008 12:27pm PDT
California Water Politics - the Water Buffaloes are back! 
California Governor Schwarzenegger wants to build two new dams. They are being sold as necessary to cope with the reduction in Sierra Nevada, Cascade and Klamath Mountains snowpack expected as a result of climate change. The governor and his backers are ignoring the role upland forest management play as the states largest reservoir. State officials are also ignoring the water savings possible if irrigation interests implement modern irrigation technology and management. A look at history reve...
Posted: Tue, May 13, 2008 10:13am PDT
Changing the Political Landscape If members of the progressive community want to change the political landscape in Fresno, they need to play a larger role in local electoral politics....
Posted: Sun, May 11, 2008 4:59pm PDT
Willie Brown co-chairs Prop G-2d 49er Stadium Swindle; 3 weeks to June 3 election Millionaire Democrat Willie Brown, former crooked mayor and crooked Speaker of the Assembly, who became rich representing the racist, gentrification anti-rent control real estate interests and the gambling gangs, of which professional football is a part, is co-chair of the second 49er Stadium Swindle on the San Francisco ballot on June 3, 2008, the first being on the June 3, 1997 ballot....
Posted: Sun, May 11, 2008 8:47am PDT
CVPPAC Redefines Progressivism The Central Valley Progressive Political Action Committee's endorsement of Nathan Magsig - along with some other questionable endorsements - raises a serious question....
Posted: Fri, May 9, 2008 7:45pm PDT
No Spray Forces Converge In SF For Town Hall Meeting Bay Area Stop the Spray forces held a Town Hall Meeting in San Francisco Thursday night to share information and develop ways to keep the crop dusters grounded in the light brown apple moth controversy....
Posted: Fri, May 9, 2008 2:48pm PDT
Cyclists Allowed (Use of Full Lane) 
Ten years ago the process for designing Mission Street was drawing to a close. Lines were drawn and plans were printed up. Task force members, City Council members, and engineers congratulated themselves. Caltrans and the city council agreed to widen the street to allow four lanes of automobile traffic. Everyone was happy with the design, except for bicyclists. People Power's then-director, Ron Goodman, had lobbied for a three-lane street with bike lanes and a center turn lane—a configuration...
Posted: Thu, May 8, 2008 7:58pm PDT
No on 98, Yes on 99 Rally At Civic Center Opponents of Proposition 98 rallied at Civic Center Park in San Francisco today to urge people to vote against the measure, which would outlaw rent control and other tenant protections statewide. Today is the first day voters can cast their ballots in the June 3 state election....
Posted: Wed, May 7, 2008 5:36pm PDT
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