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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
CRiSis Of The California Commons. Conference THIS Weekend! FREE! 
Crisis of The California Commons will gather active community voices likes Peter Linebaugh ( Midnight Notes Collective and author of The Magna Carta Manifesto) , Sarah Olson (FSRN and SF Liberation Radio ) and Maria Gilardin ( TUC Radio), Chris Carlsson ( Shaping SF ), Ignacio Chapela, and perspectives from as far as Hungary, with Bodo Balazs, University of Budapest … all under the curatorial navigations of Iain Boal ( The Commons Group, and author of The Long Theft... )...
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 11:36am PDT
Hundreds Rally for Hayward Teachers 
Hundreds of striking teachers, parents and students rallied today in downtown Hayward demonstrating their militancy once again....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 10:31pm PDT
Solidarity Action with Hayward Teachers 4/27 Several carpools are going to Hayward High School this Friday, April 27, at 8:00 a.m. to walk the picket line with striking Hayward teachers....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 9:34pm PDT
Crisis of the California Commons conference this weekend in Berkeley 
What exactly are commons? How do they work? How can we protect them? Join scholars, activists, scientists and writers from around the state to examine the crises of California’s commons, recover their history and imagine their possible futures.
Friday, April 27, 2007 - Sunday, April 29, 2007 at Berkeley City College, 2050 Center St., Berkeley, CA...
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 2:39pm PDT
4-25 rally by Parents and other supporters of H.E.A. strike Parents and other supporters of the Hayward Teachers strike will be gathering at 5 pm at the Hayward Main LIbrary then marching to attend en masse the School B...
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 9:15am PDT
Partial recording of UC Berkeley academic senate deliberation on proposed BP deal. (audio/mpeg 37.3MB) This is a partial recording of the historic UC Berkeley Academic Senate meeting of April 19, 2007, in which pro-corporate faculty packed the room and voted down a proposal for faculty oversight of huge corporate sponsorship deals like the $500 million BP-funded research institute that is currently being negotiated....
Posted: Tue, Apr 24, 2007 1:53pm PDT
Anti-Occupation Vigil Join us at an anti-Occupation rally at the Oakland Grand Lake theater, each Saturday through May...
Posted: Tue, Apr 24, 2007 9:37am PDT
K'iche' Maya leader speaks on "Justice for Genocide in Guatemala" Department of Ethnic Studies
554 Barrows Hall, U.C. Berkeley...
Event Date: Tue, Apr 24, 2007 4:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Apr 23, 2007 6:25pm PDT
The Circus of (Im)Migration is coming to the bay area! C.I.R.C.A. BOREDOM PATROL AND THE CIRCUS OF (IM)MIGRATION!
April 30th to May 13th
Join us for stories, ridicule of fascism, creative resistance, tearing down walls and building community!
...including Fantastical feats of Fire, Lion Taming, Tight Rope Walking, Knife Throwing, Burlesque, Theater of the Oppressed, Videos, oh yeah and clowns too!
Mon, May 7, 12pm, Berkeley, Circus Performance,
UC Berkeley Promenade...
Posted: Mon, Apr 23, 2007 2:59pm PDT
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