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Groups With more than 8 Million California Members Launch “It’s OUR Healthcare!” Campaign Seniors, Consumer Advocates, Health Advocates, Communities of Faith, and Labor Unite to Ensure That the People of California Have a Strong Voice to Shape Healthcare Reform...
Posted: Tue, Feb 13, 2007 2:11pm PST
Court Decisison Devastates Community Oversight: Copwatch Calls for Community Input! On February 9, Judge Smith's ruling against the City of Berkeley's Police Review Commission (PRC), in a lawsuit filed by the Berkeley Police Association (BPA), essentially banned open hearings about police officers and blocked public access to records of police misconduct. The community must come together and take action against this blow to public safety and police accountability! Join Berkeley Copwatch in creating strategies for countering police repression. Defend the community's right to...
Posted: Tue, Feb 13, 2007 1:15pm PST
Student Strikes Against War - Feb15 
On February 15, 2007, students at UC Santa Barbara, Columbia University, and Columbia College in Chicago will be on strike against the war. Solidarity actions are planned at a dozen other schools - including 5 in the Bay Area: San Francisco State, Lowell High School, Mills College, UC Berkeley, and UC Santa Cruz. Thousands are expected to attend nation-wide....
Posted: Tue, Feb 13, 2007 2:46am PST
On Valentine's Day Tell Nancy Pelosi to Stop Funding War! Join the Occupation Project - No More Broken Hearts!
Stop the Funding - End the War Now!...
Posted: Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:44pm PST
UCSF Study: Medical Marijuana Effective in HIV Neuropathy UCSF Study Shows Medical Marijuana Effective in HIV-Associated Neuropathy
First FDA-approved clinical trial since passage of Prop. 215...
Posted: Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:04pm PST
Death Penalty Focus Upcoming Events lots of events all over the Bay Area...
Posted: Mon, Feb 12, 2007 5:46pm PST
Open Letter to the San Francisco Bay Area and Monterey Bay Area 
We would also be interested in finding out if there are any other groups working on this particular issue, as not to "reinvent the wheel." So if someone from a group working on the Livermore issue can contact Kyoko, that would be great....
Posted: Mon, Feb 12, 2007 11:57am PST
Take Action During Medical Marijuana Week, February 12-18, 2007 Celebrate Medical Marijuana Week with us by educating your community, urging Congress to protect medical cannabis patients, writing letters to the editor, and more!...
Posted: Sun, Feb 11, 2007 9:14pm PST
new mailing address for Stephanie Landa I wanted to let everyone know that today's mail from Stephanie Landa carries
the good news that she has gotten out of solitary and has been given a bed!...
Posted: Sun, Feb 11, 2007 12:45pm PST
3/21: Take a Stand for Reproductive Freedom! join the ACLU-NC at the California Coalition for
Reproductive Freedom's Reproductive Freedom Day 2007 to educate
your legislators about important reproductive freedom issues, network
with other women's health activists, and learn about emerging
issues....
Posted: Sun, Feb 11, 2007 12:24pm PST
Black History Month~California State Capitol 
Sacramento is the Capitol of the State of California, yet very briefly during Black History Month does any mention of early California History in context of Black Sacramento ever get shared. There is no "Black" self shown in the vast majority of era museums, libraries or schools. How do you teach California children self-esteem when self is an "open secret?"...
Posted: Sun, Feb 11, 2007 5:59am PST
Tell Governor Schwarzenegger to Stop the MMJ ID Card Fee Increase Please take a few minutes today to contact Governor Schwarzenegger and CDHS Director, Sandra Shewry to express your outrage over the proposed fee-hike on California's sick and dying patients....
Posted: Sat, Feb 10, 2007 9:31pm PST
Little Hoover Commission releases report on California corrections crisis 
Calls for immediate action by Governor, Legislature to muster political will for prison reform or give the task to an independent commission...
Posted: Fri, Feb 9, 2007 9:20pm PST
Ella's Voice: February 2007 Welcome to Ella's Voice, Ella Baker Center's new bi-monthly E-Newsletter. Here's the
latest news about our four campaigns for justice, opportunity and peace in urban
America....
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 7:18pm PST
February/March Critical Resistance organizing! Upcoming CR Oakland Organizing Opportunities and Allied Events...
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 5:23pm PST
California Food & Justice Coalition February Newsletter > :: Farm Bill News
> :: Internships with CFJC
> :: New Resources and Reports
> :: Funding Opportunities
> :: Roots of Change Fund Information & Outreach Meeting
> :: World Hunger & Food Price Protest (from Hunger Action Los Angeles)
> :: ACTION: Stop Amendments That Would Cut Farm Workers from the Minimum Wage
> (from UFW via Hunger Action Los Angeles)
> :: Member Announcements jobs, events, alerts and more.......
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 5:14pm PST
Contact Your Congress Member to support this legislation to assist Black Farmers 
California Black Farmers represent less than 1/4th of 1% of all California Farmers.
Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association remains optimistic of a new relationship with the USDA and Congress can provide equal opportunity and equity throughout the upcoming 2007 Farm Bill debate.
9th Annual National Black Land Loss Summit
Returning Black Farmers to the Land “A Gathering of Minds to Develop a New Strategy”
Saturday, February 17, 2007, Franklinton Center, North Carolina...
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 2:53pm PST
Top priority-Do not Cut AB. 2034 AB. 2034 currently funded by the state of California is at risk of being cut. Such a program allows social service workers in California to outreach to the homeless of our state. The California Governors office intends to force California counties to fund the AB. 2034 program through Proposition 63 dollars that have been provided to fund mental health outreach for our most marginalized and mentally ill. After reading my piece call the Governors Office and convince the governor to fully fund t...
Posted: Tue, Feb 6, 2007 3:25pm PST
Protest arrests of former Black Panthers (letter) Text of letter from Partisan Defense Committee to Attorney General Brown protests recent arrests of former Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army members, a continuation of decades-long government vendetta....
Posted: Mon, Feb 5, 2007 8:18pm PST
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