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Sending the message via creative culture jam...Break up with your big bank! How to start: FIRST Move your money by starting with a small deposit at a local bank... Next: Cut up that big bank credit card! Photos available to use under Creative Commons License by Eunice Wentworth and E. Moran. Top photo: a tiger at Wells Fargo by E. Moran...

Miraculously no one was injured in a daycare center shortly after 8 a.m. this morning when three Tesla employees, apparently headed to southern California on company business, crashed their plane into a house in an East Palo Alto neighborhood. Corporate media reports indicate that the private plane that took off from the tiny Palo Alto Airport in heavy fog was owned by a Tesla employee and that at least one high level executive may have been among the three who died in the crash. Last D...

Bob King, the likely new president of the UAW was interviewed at a rally for NUMMI workers at the UAW 2244 NUMMI plant on 2/12/2010. He supported the cancellation of union membership meetings and also said that the International had offered the GM-Chrysler concession deal to Toyota....

Activists forced the hand of the County Clerk's Office of San Mateo County, California on National Freedom to Marry Day, February 12, 2010. Same sex couples tried to register for marriage licenses and were turned away. But far from being upset at the demonstration, San Mateo County workers were part of the event as well. They welcomed the rally on the steps of their office and with obvious sadness refused to grant licenses to same sex sex couples. Photos by Justin Miel are copyrighted....

Same-sex couples requesting marriage licenses today were joined by members of supporting organizations, guest speakers, and the Raging Grannies on the front steps of the San Mateo County Clerk’s office. Their requests for marriage licenses was symbolic of the struggle that continues for full equality for gays and lesbians. San Mateo County Deputy Assessor County Clerk-Recorder Theresa Rabe spoke out in support of full marriage rights. She said that the short period in which gays and lesbia...

The matter of what will become of half of East Palo Alto's rental housing is a very urgent one. It is imperative that tenants, advocates, elected officials, and the foreclosing lender, Wells Fargo Bank, work together to make certain that safe, affordable housing is preserved in the City of East Palo Alto....

January 22, 2010 marked the 37th Anniversary of the momentous decision known as Roe v. Wade. The AAUW organized an event, co-sponsored by Mar Monte Planned Parenthood, that included spoken word, singing and a march to counter the anti-choice group that marched through Los Altos. Linda Williams, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, adressed about 100 people, then all walked and marched through downtown Los Altos. They outnumbered their Catholic Church opponents on the opposit...

Idealist.org, founded by Action without Borders, has allowed a job advertisement for the racist Jewish National Fund on their page....

When cutting edge company Tesla Motors introduced its all-electric car in 2006, much excitement was generated in environmentalist camps. The base line price of the Tesla Roadster exceeds $100,000 putting it out of reach for the vast majority of consumers, but Tesla vows to bring the price down with new production facilities. Can Tesla do justice to the needs of both environment and labor with its selection of a manufacturing site? Photo: Demonstrators in front of Tesla showroom in Menl...

The Raging Grannies of the Peninsula joined with the California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day www.workersmemorialday to protest plans by Tesla Motors Inc. to build a green auto assembly plant on the Downey toxic dump site....