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Oakland Public Library will celebrate it's 15th annual Native American Culture Day on Saturday, November 4, 2006 from Noon-5pm. The theme is "Without Borders/Sin fronteras: Natives Across the Americas". Arnoldo García of the National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights. will be the keynote speaker. Culture Day will also include a documentary film entitled, "Nosotros Somos Uno - We are One", Native dancing and drumming, flute music, a speaker from the 2006 Shellmound Walk, and a Balle...

It’s the all too familiar fracture in the American Left: the rich want parks and open space, the poor want decent jobs and housing, both all too often unwilling to compromise one for the other. Granted it’s not that black and white, but looking at the various community groups and organizations that have mobilized around the controversial Oak to Ninth project it seems that those archetypes fit....

the Judge Breyer stated that he would be dismissing the primary charges against Watts for being in violation of the Speedy Trial Act; he indicated his strong inclination was to dismiss with prejudice -- meaning he could not be charged again....

Gabriel Meyers walked out of court angry today after superior court judge ruled against him and allowed the SF district attorney's office to proceed with a felony criminal charge that Meyers attempted to lynch himself at the now infamous anti- G8 demonstration in July of 2005. Meyers made a statement to the court before he left today that he feels that the government is "railroading and scapegoating" him. He and his supporters have alleged from the beginning that the charges against him are ...

i removed some of the addresses since you have to rsvp anyhow With just 13 days until the election, we need your help more than ever to turn voters. Please sign up for whatever volunteer shifts you can do. Thank you!...

On October 23, 2006 candidates who are campaigning in the KFPA elections for the Local Station Board held a press conference to discuss election violations. This is a video of the press conference....

New independent tests of dust fallout from the West Berkeley neighborhood surrounding Pacific Steel Casting Company (PSC) point to the known toxic fingerprint of the troubled facility. Frustrated by the company's failure to release a legally mandated Health Risk Assessment, which required tests of pollution sources at PSC, community members decided to do their own tests....

Every couple of years, progressives are faced with the terrifying possibility that we might actually win. I didn't live in San Francisco when Matt Gonzalez almost won his race for Mayor, but I know that across the country good lefties indulged in a guilty game of "what if." What if we actually had the opportunity to lead? For Gonzalez, the help came too little, too late. He fell just short, and the race begged the question: If the next opportunity was right in our own backyard, would we know ...

KFPA candidates for the local station board will outline charges of election violations and efforts to prevent equal treatement for all candidates at a press conference at 12:00 noon at KFPA Radio which is located at 1929 Martin Luther King Drive, Berkeley....

"JUST SAY NO TO DIANNE FEINSTEIN (Etc.)!" With Green Party candidates: Todd Chretien (U.S. Senate), Laura Wells (State Controller), and Forrest Hill (Secretary of State)....