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Results of Day 2: Blitz Week OVER 200 MORE SIGNATURES COLLECTED, TOTALING IN OVER 400 IN JUST 2 DAYS!
OVER 200 INFORMATIONAL FLYERS GIVEN OUT TO CAL STUDENTS...
Posted: Tue, May 1, 2007 11:12pm PDT
5/3: Woodfin struggle continues... Email I received this morning....
Posted: Tue, May 1, 2007 10:32pm PDT
Tens of thousands march in Oakland for immigrant rights 
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA (May 1, 2007) – Tens of thousands marched for immigrant rights today. The march was organized by the Labor Council, Oakland Community Organizations, ACORN, Centro Legal de La Raza/Lucha Unida, and many others, in support of “pro-worker immigration reform.” Many chants and signs expressed the radical idea that no human being is “illegal.” Many marchers set off at 9am from 100th Ave, but most joined the march as it made its way down International Blvd, past Lake Merritt, on ...
Posted: Tue, May 1, 2007 10:19pm PDT
Photos From May Day Immigrant Rights Rally In Berkeley 
Here are some photos from the 2007 May Day immigrant rights protest in Berkeley...
Posted: Tue, May 1, 2007 5:47pm PDT
Iraq war resisters, Agustín Aguayo and Camilo Mejía, speak out against war in Bay Area Iraq combat veterans, Agustín Aguayo and Camilo Mejía, will be joined by fellow war resisters Pablo Paredes and Robert Zabala for a series of Northern California events May 9-18....
Posted: Tue, May 1, 2007 12:35am PDT
Resuls of Day 1: Blitz Week OVER 200 SIGNATURES OF SUPPORT COLLECTED!!
OVER 150 FLYERS PASSED OUT TO STUDENTS!!...
Posted: Mon, Apr 30, 2007 11:26pm PDT
510 truth movement Just a quick question on the East Bay freeway roast…..
Has anyone commented on the sinister placement of the gasoline tanker at the intersection of two Interstate ramps……...
Posted: Mon, Apr 30, 2007 11:00pm PDT
No more Firings -- May 3rd Action on Woodfin Suites Hotel ! 
When: Thursday, May 3, 5:00pm
Where: 5800 Shellmound St, Woodfin Suites Hotel, Emeryville...
Posted: Mon, Apr 30, 2007 10:18pm PDT
Emergency Action to Reinstate Woodfin Workers Woodfin Hotel
5800 Shellmound St.
Emeryville, CA 94608...
Event Date: Thu, May 3, 2007 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Apr 30, 2007 3:37pm PDT
Why not make mass transit always free? In the age of global warming, increasing gasoline prices, and (though I am personally a skeptic) the concerns about "peak oil", the supposedly progressive San Francisco Bay Area is living in the virtual mass transit dark ages. The damage to the MacArthur Maze in west Oakland will only make that more obvious to everyone....
Posted: Mon, Apr 30, 2007 10:48am PDT
Day 1 Student Worker Blitz Week Student workers and their supporters will be holding an informational picket outside Foothill Dining Commons (Hearst Ave and Gayley Rd/ La Loma Ave) to bring attention to their struggle. Other student workers and supporters will be enacting a 20% at the Crossroads Dining Commons, to make up for the 20% difference in pay....
Posted: Mon, Apr 30, 2007 9:02am PDT
I-580 Accident Underscores Importance of Vehicle and Passenger Ferries on the Bay Sunday morning’s crash of a tanker-trailer carrying thousands of gallons of gasoline that resulted in the collapse of a McArthur Maze overpass to the Bay Bridge should encourage Bay Area transit and emergency officials to seriously consider the purchase vehicular ferries, particularly for the transport of hazardous materials during non- commute hours....
Posted: Mon, Apr 30, 2007 6:31am PDT
CAL Student Worker Blitz Week Student Worker Action Group (SWAG), an organization formed by UC Berkeley student food services workers, is having a series of public events bring attention the fact that Cal students working for Cal Dining are paid over $2 less per hour than their coworkers, and to call for pay equity at UC Berkeley....
Posted: Sun, Apr 29, 2007 10:51pm PDT
Hayward Teachers Post Big Win Teachers end their 10-day-long strike after forcing substantial concessions from the school district...
Posted: Sun, Apr 29, 2007 1:03pm PDT
Is The Pacifica Foundation Partying Like It's 1999? This is a commentary I sent to the Berkeley Daily Planet in response to one I read last week. With fundraiser time upon us again, it's time to ask where the money people give to KPFA is really going....
Posted: Sat, Apr 28, 2007 10:57pm PDT
Between the Minutes at KPFA's Board Mtg This Saturday (4/28) there will be a monthly meeting of KPFA's board at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley at 11 a.m. Below is a report from the 3/24 session....
Posted: Fri, Apr 27, 2007 4:16pm PDT
Hayward Teachers Settle; The Task That Still Remains On 4/26/07, KPFA's evening news, 6 p.m., reported the Hayward teachers voted overwhelmingly (some 890 to 106 or so) for the union contract giving teachers an 11% raise over 2 years plus a 1% bonus. The teachers wanted 17% in 1 or 2 years originally. The basic funding problems remain because Democrats & Republicans in Sacamento are not taxing the rich....
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 10:37pm PDT
Free The UC Banners 
Two UC Berkeley students descended from the heights of a redwood tree near Sproul Plaza Wednesday and submitted themselves for arrest by the UCPD after one week of tree-sitting....
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 5:24pm PDT
East Bay Animal Advocates April 26, 2007 eNews East Bay Animal Advocates
P.O. Box 1406
Martinez, CA 94553
(925) 487-4419
info@eastbayanimaladvocates.org
http://www.eastbayanimaladvocates.org...
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 5:07pm PDT
Student tree-sitters descend from redwood tree to accept arrest by UCPD Wednesday April 25th, 2007 – At 12:30pm, UC Berkeley students Jason Ahmadi and Mike Schuck plan to return their feet to the ground after a one-week occupation of a Redwood Tree on Sproul Plaza on behalf of The Phoenix Coalition to Free the UC. After UC Police threatened them with arrest yesterday, the two students decided to ‘turn themselves in’ to the police and accept arrrest on behalf of the Coalition and its mission to democratize and demilitarize the University, and divest it from unethi...
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 1:49pm PDT
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