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Why I left the Democratic Party 
Barbara Becnel who fought valiantly to save anti-gang advocate Stanley "Tookie" Williams from being executed explains here why she left the Democratic Party.
Today she is endorsing Green Party candidates including Peter Miguel Camejo who is running against Arnold Schwarzenegger who could have pardoned Williams but didn't.
Becnel wrote the Forward to Camejo's book, California Under Corporate Rule....
Posted: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 10:02pm PDT
FROM HOLLYWOOD TO THE BAY: JAMAICAN COMEDY FINDS ITS WAY TO CENTER STAGE! The Caribbean American Repertory Theatre presents Trevor Rhone’s SMILE ORANGE, directed by Jeffrey Anderson-Gunter is playing at the Chabot College Performing Arts Center on November 18, 2006. A delightfully playful, hilarious comedy, that will entertain the whole family, SMILE ORANGE, is the Caribbean American Repertory Theatre, West’s second offering for 2006....
Posted: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 6:10pm PDT
Keep Indybay and the California Community Colocation Project online 
CCCP is raising funds to stay online and continue providing service to thousands of non-profit orgs and individuals....
Posted: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 4:55pm PDT
EBAA Hatches New Chicken Campaign East Bay Animal Advocates
October 24, 2006 Issue...
Posted: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 3:28pm PDT
Rally for a Clean Klamath: Oct 25 in Sacramento 12:30 
Help us turn in a letter on toxic algae for over 35 groups and Senator Chesbro.
1001 I st. Sacramento at 12:30pm
Join Klamath tribal members, the Klamath Riverkeeper, fishermen, and other Klamath residents on October 25th at 12:30 p.m. to ask the State Water Resource Board (SWRB) to CLEAN UP THE KLAMATH AND SAVE THE KLAMATH SALMON.
The opportunity to ask state officials to deal with pollution through the Clean Water Act comes as a triennial review every three years. We will get a Klam...
Posted: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 11:17am PDT
California Propositions: Voters Beware Today voters need to beware when going to the polls to vote because much is at stake. Voters need to study the propositions and read their Official Voter Information Guide; and for those who will not, they need to vote no to spending their hard earn dollars and the future savings of our children. Voters should not be persuaded by expensive TV commercials because those commercials are more expensive than what we can realize....
Posted: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 8:50am PDT
Why I’m Voting NO on Prop 86 Proposition 86, the Tax on Cigarettes Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute, deserves a vote of NO on November 7. And here’s why I’m urging a NO vote....
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 7:38am PDT
The Real Truth Behind the Berkeley Honda Workers Resolution Want the truth? Read on and learn about democratic process......
Posted: Sun, Oct 22, 2006 3:23am PDT
KPFA's Election & Green Sunday Ballots for KPFA's Local Station Board (LSB) election have been sent to listeners....
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 6:25pm PDT
Saturday Action Against the Diamond Trade Watch the Public Service Announcement to learn about the National Day of Action Against the Genocidal Diamond....
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 12:31am PDT
All Out for October 28! 
As more and more people die in Iraq the U.S. threatens to open a new pre emptive war on the Korean Peninsula....
Posted: Thu, Oct 19, 2006 9:10pm PDT
Building a Radical and Strong KPFA The candidates of the Concerned Listeners for KPFA -- who have been endorsed by Angela Davis, Krissy Keefer, Kevin Danaher, Pratap Chatterjee, Michael Eisenscher, Aimee Allison, Sharon Cornu, and many other activists and leaders -- pledge to bring civility and consensus-building to the board, and will work hard to expand KPFA's signal in Northern and Central California, increase its audience, and strengthen its community ties....
Posted: Thu, Oct 19, 2006 8:25pm PDT
Vote For Working Class Party On California Ballot-It Stands Up Against Imperial War Peace and Freedom Party is the only working class socialist party on the ballot in California.
One of it's candidates needs to get at least 2% in this election cycle to stay on the ballot.
Make sure you vote for P&F to keep this alternative on the ballot and to have a voice
for working people and against imperial war....
Posted: Thu, Oct 19, 2006 12:11pm PDT
News Updates, Action Alerts, and Patient Meeting Hello again medical marijuana supporters, there's a lot going on right
now in the movement, so here's your chance to catch up!...
Posted: Thu, Oct 19, 2006 11:04am PDT
10/21 Statewide CA Peace&Freedom Party Labor Conference Labor and the trade unions will be the focus of a state wide meeting of the Labor Committee
of the Peace and Freedom Party. It will be held in San Francsico on 455 Golden Gate St on
Saturday October 21...
Posted: Thu, Oct 19, 2006 6:55am PDT
New database on money and politics MAPLight.org launches today! (11/17/2006)....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 11:45pm PDT
URGENT NEWS ADVISORY: LET FORREST HILL DEBATE! 
Protest Forrest's exclusion from SF Debates!
Dr. Forrest Hill has called a press conference for tomorrow (Wednesday October 18, 2006) at 1 pm to protest his exclusion from the San Francisco Chronicle's debate. Dr. Hill has asked that everyone let the media know that it is no longer acceptable to discriminate against third party candidates.
People living in the Bay Area plan to go to KPIX-TV to 855 Battery St. in downtown San Francisco at 1 pm tomorrow, October 18th, to carry signs and...
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:05pm PDT
California Governor in Trouble With Latinos A new poll of California Latinos shows a deep dislike of Governor Schwarzenegger. In this poll of 600 Spanish-dominant likely voters, the governor has higher disapproval ratings than President Bush, and is losing to his opponent Phil Angelides by 64 percent to 21 percent. Spanish-dominant Latino voters make up about 10 percent of the California electorate, with all Latinos now representing about 18 percent of the electorate as a whole....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 5:48pm PDT
KPFA Elections Debate Issue #2 - Program Director or Not What should be the appropriate program management structure for a listener-sponsored public radio station?...
Posted: Mon, Oct 16, 2006 4:45pm PDT
DPA Wins Fight on Medical Marijuana Expenses in California The decision, written on behalf of the California Department of Health and Human Services (DHS), made clear that DHS policy is to permit reimbursement of medical marijuana claims for patients who receive public assistance from that agency....
Posted: Sun, Oct 15, 2006 11:13pm PDT
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