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We won! Mark Leno's office Announce's Fee Decrease for State Medical Marijuana Cards Axis of Love SF, a patients advocacy group called for and won a fee decrease, down from $142 in State Medical Marijuana Cards which will become mandatory for entrance to any medical marijuana dispensary in SF starting in June, and protect the holder from arrest while doctors recommendation are being verified by law enforcement (if they are not crossed deputized by the DEA)....
Posted: Thu, Mar 1, 2007 1:26pm PST
We Won! Medical Marijuana Cards Go from $142 down to $66 Bucks! With a $125 increase in the cost of a mandatory state card (soon to be nessacary to get into any dispensary in SF) Axis of Love worked with Legislator Mark Leno's office to find a way to keep medical marijuana cards affordable for the sickest of the sick and the poorest of the poor...
Posted: Thu, Mar 1, 2007 1:13pm PST
Mark Leno Launches 2008 State Senate Run 
Hundreds of supporters join Mark Leno at three events on Friday, March 2 as he announces his candidacy for State Senate, District 3, representing Marin County, the eastern half of San Francisco and southern Sonoma County. Leno will discuss his plans for reinventing the office of State Senate that he says will encourage greater public participation and redefine how people look at problems and how we come up with solutions....
Posted: Thu, Mar 1, 2007 12:20pm PST
YouTube Yanks Anti-War Video 
After 48 hours on its site, YouTube, purchased by Google in 10/06 for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction, yanked a powerful anti-war video. Jamie Cavenaugh's 4-minute video combines footage of the Beach Impeach action which took place on Saturday, January 6, 2007, with gut-wrenching footage of the war in Iraq with the soundtrack of Nina Simone singing "O Sinnerman."...
Posted: Thu, Mar 1, 2007 10:00am PST
California Cramming the Slammer The Golden State faces a prison overcrowding crisis that stretches the imagination. And yet, studies show that greater incarceration rates can increase crime in communities, not dampen it. It's time for Gov. Schwarzenegger to reform the state's destructive sentencing laws. Nell Bernstein is an editor at New America Media, and the author of "All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated" (New Press, 2005)....
Posted: Thu, Mar 1, 2007 9:11am PST
Weekly IBU/ILWU & MMP Alcatraz Cruises Picket Line Pier 33 at the Alcatraz Cruises dock on the Embarcadero...
Event Date: Sun, Mar 4, 2007 10:00am PST
Posted: Wed, Feb 28, 2007 4:23pm PST
Thursday, March 8th is International Women's Day Thursday, March 8th is International Women's Day - a day on which women on all continents to come together to celebrate their various struggles for equality, justice, and peace. Many events are planned for March 8th in the Bay Area and the Central Valley....
Posted: Tue, Feb 27, 2007 10:56pm PST
Action Alert: Food and Farm Protection Act ACTION ALERT ON GENETIC ENGINEERING
— SUPPORT AB 541 —
Assemblymember Jared Huffman (6th AD) has introduced AB 541, The Food and Farm Protection Act. The bill would establish California’s only state laws related to genetic engineering (GE) in agriculture and protect California farmers, consumers, and the food supply. AB 541 already has the support of many agricultural, environmental, health, faith and business organizations....
Posted: Tue, Feb 27, 2007 7:00pm PST
2/27: BUTTE COUNTY SUPERVISORS MEETING Adoption of an ordinance amending Chapter 43 of the Butte county code...
Posted: Mon, Feb 26, 2007 1:25pm PST
Call for Nonviolent Civil Disobedience! 
The Declaration of Peace Calls for Nationwide Nonviolent Civil Disobedience to stop the occupation of Iraq....
Posted: Mon, Feb 26, 2007 11:27am PST
UFCW Local 648 to San Francisco: Don't shop at Bristol Farms! 
Just as I was leaving Bloomingdales this afternoon I couldn't help noticing some strikers on Mission Street holding picket signs. My own experience is that striking is mostly a tedious experience whose most immediate rewards are a sore throat and tired feet. Even in a famous "union town" like San Francisco passerbies will more often than not walk by as if you are invisible. How many people even bother to read a sign or accept a leaflet?
I asked two of the strikers what the strike was a...
Posted: Sat, Feb 24, 2007 7:58pm PST
Berkeley Seminarian Paves Way for Gay Christians Amidst Turmoil in the Episcopal Church 
Justin R. Cannon, 22 years old, is a first-year student at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California, and is one of several openly gay seminarians who find themselves troubled by a recent communiqué issued by the leaders of the Anglican Church this month....
Posted: Sat, Feb 24, 2007 6:50pm PST
1st Annual Homeless Awareness Day at UC Davis 
Dear Readers,
This article is about an event activists and college students are planning at UC Davis for Feb 27th, 2007 at noon at the MU on the quad. Students and anti-poverty allies are putting together the 1st annual Homelessness and Hunger Awareness Day. The day has the goal of educating students at the UC Davis campus as well as community members about the needs of the homeless population as well as those who are impoverished in the Davis community. At the event we will have a rally co...
Posted: Sat, Feb 24, 2007 1:44am PST
ASA CA Weekly Alert /Following Ballot Initiative Calling on City to Allow Dispensary, Albany
Passes Dispensary Regulations/...
Posted: Fri, Feb 23, 2007 10:27pm PST
Industrial Hemp Bill Introduced in California Two California lawmakers have launched a new campaign to legalize
hemp....
Posted: Fri, Feb 23, 2007 10:25pm PST
Take Action for Health Care in California! 1. Day of Action for SB 840 – Universal Health Care Act of 2007
2. San Francisco Forum on Health Care, February 23, 2007
3. Women LEAD – Women’s Voices in the Health Care Reform Debate...
Posted: Fri, Feb 23, 2007 10:23pm PST
Dates for Tour of Lynne Stewart, Michael Ratner, Pam Africa, et al Below you will find the complete schedule of Lynne Stewart's 21-event, six-day Northern California tour. Michael Ratner, Jeff Mackler and Pam Africa will accompany Lynne for the first three days, February 23-25, during which time the tour will include major meetings and receptions in San Francisco, Berkeley, Marin and Palo Alto, all listed below....
Posted: Thu, Feb 22, 2007 11:45pm PST
Davis Media Access new name for Davis media center Davis Community Television, which has existed since 1988 and runs a public access channel and LPFM station KDRT 101.5 FM, has announced an organizational name change....
Posted: Thu, Feb 22, 2007 6:45pm PST
Butte County Action Alert for 2/27 Next Tuesday, February 27, the Butte County Board of
Supervisors will be conducting a hearing on the
implementation of the statewide medical marijuana ID
card program....
Posted: Thu, Feb 22, 2007 1:07pm PST
School Beat: NCLB and Civil Rights No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is very clearly another masterful sleight of hand by George Bush and Co. Like his many other tricks (remember the “Clear Skies” program that actually weakened the Clean Air Act), NCLB is full of seemingly lofty goals and requirements ostensibly focused on improving education for all children, while actually attacking the entire project of public education. Most strikingly, its supporters have positioned it as an unshrinking effort to address the racial and class in...
Posted: Thu, Feb 22, 2007 9:27am PST
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