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California Legislature passes outpatient commitment bill 
With bipartisan super-majority votes that stunned and dismayed mental health clients and advocates, the California Senate and Assembly passed involuntary outpatient commitment (IOC) bill AB 2357, sending the bill to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign or veto. The bill would extend Laura's Law, California's existing outpatient commitment law, by five years. Opponents, including the California Network of Mental Health Clients, plan to launch a letter-writing campaign to urge the Governor to...
Posted: Thu, Aug 24, 2006 3:13am PDT
SUPPORT THE UNITED FARM WORKERS -- BOYCOTT CHARLES KRUG AND MONDAVI WINES! ASK BEVERAGES AND MORE (BEVMO), the largest California wine superstore chain with 54 locations, to remain neutral in this dispute and not carry Charles Krug wines until a fair contract is renegotiated....
Posted: Wed, Aug 23, 2006 11:37pm PDT
Achieving Legislative Success, One Bill at a Time. Including SB 1441, the Nondiscrimination in State Programs and Activities Act
(Keuhl, D-Santa Monica), the governor now has three EQCA-sponsored bills on his
desk. We need you to urge him to sign these bills into law....
Posted: Tue, Aug 22, 2006 10:45pm PDT
The Hidden Draft in Our Schools With a vast majority of the US public disapproving of the quicksand war in Iraq, how can American educators continue to allow unchecked and unscrupulous recruiting in our high schools? A former Army officer takes a look at the problem of gutless school leaders who let their students be turned into Bush League cannon fodder -- then offers some suggestions on how to change things....
Posted: Tue, Aug 22, 2006 4:23pm PDT
Urge Gov. Schwarzenegger to Sign Hemp Bill Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is
now the only person standing between farmers and
their future hemp crops!...
Posted: Tue, Aug 22, 2006 3:08pm PDT
KPOO Black August hour rebroadcast TODAY at 4pm + other programs scheduled KPOO, 89.5 fm. (www.kpoo.com) will rebroadcast Black August Commemoration today, August 22, from 4 - 5 p.m. (PST)....
Posted: Tue, Aug 22, 2006 12:44pm PDT
CA Hemp Bill Goes to the Governor's Desk We are very pleased to report that AB 1147, the
California Industrial Hemp Farming Act passed in
the Assembly yesterday with a bipartisan
concurrence vote of
44-29...the bill now heads to the desk of
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for his signature...
Posted: Tue, Aug 22, 2006 12:43pm PDT
CALIFORNIA INDEPENDENTS DRIVE REFORM AGENDA INTO GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION 
San Francisco, CA … IndependentVoice.org, a California organization which promotes the power of the state’s 3.6 million independent voters, launched the next stage of a campaign today to directly involve independent voters in the upcoming California gubernatorial election by introducing their agenda for political reform and challenging all candidates to endorse it....
Posted: Tue, Aug 22, 2006 12:14pm PDT
Take five minutes NOW to shape Air America Radio's program lineup The Bay Area's Air America Radio affiliate, KQKE "Quake Radio," wants our input as it considers changing its programming lineup for this fall. If you value Mike Malloy, Randi Rhodes, or Air America's other bold, progressive voices of reason, now's the time to say so....
Posted: Tue, Aug 22, 2006 11:31am PDT
ASA CA Weekly Alert ****9) Monday, August 21st, Sacramento: Evidentiary Hearing for Bryan Epis
*Special Events*
10) Friday, August 25th, San Jose: Protest San Jose State University's
Arrests of Medical Marijuana Patients
11) Friday, August 25th: 420 Report Radio Show Hosted by Ed Rosenthal...
Posted: Fri, Aug 18, 2006 10:23pm PDT
Action Alert: 8/21-25 Week of Action for Safer Schools!!! A youth-led week of action will take place next week (August 21-25) to help ensure the passage of SB 1437 and AB 606. Please do your part to create safer schools and protect LGBT students from harassment and discrimination in schools!!!...
Posted: Fri, Aug 18, 2006 7:05pm PDT
MetroPCS Customers Not Paying Their Fair Share? "San Francisco users utility tax is too expensive" says MetroPCS store managers in the San Francisco Bay Area. Which is why for years most MetroPCS cell phone users simply havent been charged. Just opt out of a paper billing and your automatically approved....
Posted: Fri, Aug 18, 2006 12:08pm PDT
CA Legislature Passes Federal Shield Law Resolution 
A California Assembly Joint Resolution was passed by the State Senate this Wednesday, having passed in the Assembly last year, calling on the federal government to enact a federal shield law protecting journalists and their sources....
Posted: Fri, Aug 18, 2006 12:51am PDT
Alexander Wants Student Tips Tax Exempted Stewart Alexander, Candidate for California Lieutenant Governor, want college students to be tax exempted for tips received in service related jobs; such as restaurants, food delivery, pet grooming, and other services where tips are traditionally paid. Many college students work minimum wage jobs and rely on tips as an additional source of income to pay there way through college....
Posted: Thu, Aug 17, 2006 9:30am PDT
Protest Salinas Valley Prison & Ca. Treatment Facility enter this address into mapquest.com. The protest will be in the public area out front of the prisons, two prisons on the same property. Just off Highway 101
31625 Highway 101
Soledad, CA 93960...
Event Date: Sun, Aug 27, 2006 6:00am PDT
Posted: Wed, Aug 16, 2006 4:17am PDT
SolFest 2006 - Coming Right Up! (audio/mpeg 5.4MB) Interview with Doron Amiran, Programs Director of the Solar Living Institute...
Posted: Tue, Aug 15, 2006 4:38pm PDT
Anti-Prison Expansion Mobilization on Tuesday TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2006
9:30 am
Room 4203
State Capitol...
Posted: Mon, Aug 14, 2006 4:35pm PDT
PRESS ADVISORY; A Grieving Mother believes Guards Killed Her SON This grieving mother believes that the guards hog-tied, gagged and then hung her son in disciplinary at CSATF Corcoran. He suffered from bi-polar disorder. ...Someone needs to care enough to write about this one. The treatment of these families in these darkest hour is just totally unacceptable....
Posted: Mon, Aug 14, 2006 10:53am PDT
85 Days to Stop Prop 85 Prop 85 would amend our
state constitution to prohibit young women from obtaining
abortion care without government-mandated parental notification.
With only 85 days to "re-defeat" Prop 85, there's no time to
waste....
Posted: Mon, Aug 14, 2006 10:52am PDT
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