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Why Aimee Allison Matters 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 ...
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 7:44am PDT
Hope VI Project Double-Crosses Oakland Renters Low-Income Oakland Renters Are Being Displaced By Hope VI Projects!...
Posted: Sun, Oct 22, 2006 11:50pm PDT
10/23 Press Conference At KPFA To Outline Election Violations-Play The Radio Carts 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....
Posted: Sun, Oct 22, 2006 10:10pm PDT
10/27 - Attend the first-ever FCC Public Hearing in Oakland Congratulations, you asked for it and we got it! Hundreds of you signed our petition urging the FCC to hold a public hearing in Oakland to get the Bay Area's input on the crisis in our media system and their (re)proposed changes to long-standing media ownership limits....
Now the FCC Commissioners are coming to town and we're counting on you to show up and share your wisdom!...
Posted: Sat, Oct 21, 2006 7:11pm PDT
"JUST SAY NO TO DIANNE FEINSTEIN!" this Sun: Green Party candidates Chretien, Wells & Hill "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)....
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 7:41pm PDT
Volunteer/ Intern with Education Not Incarceration PLEASE VOLUNTEER OR INTERN WITH EDUCATION NOT INCARCERATION
(www.ednotinc.org)!...
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 8:23am PDT
10/21: Our Voices Within: Out of the Shadows 
Please join Free Battered Women on Saturday, October 21st, 2006, at the Humanist Hall in Oakland (390-27th Street, between Telegraph & Broadway) for an amazing community event!...
Posted: Thu, Oct 19, 2006 1:42pm PDT
Berkeley coucilmember arrested at U.C. Berkeley labor protest 
Berkeley Councilmember Max Anderson arrested the cited at U.C. Berkeley demonstation...
Posted: Thu, Oct 19, 2006 11:21am PDT
Berkeley Bike Bridge Protest Draws attention to Global Warming 
Members of the Berkeley group Friends For A Healthy Planet draw attention to Global Warming with Bike Bridge Banner...
Posted: Thu, Oct 19, 2006 11:06am PDT
"JUST SAY NO TO DIANNE FEINSTEIN!" this Sun: Green Party candidates Chretien, Wells & Hill "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)....
Posted: Wed, Oct 18, 2006 9:01am PDT
Youth for Aimee on Sunday 10/22 Join youth from throughout Oakland to mobilize to
elect Aimee Allison (www.aimeeallison.org) this
Sunday, October 22 (and every Sunday until the
election) beginning at noon at the Aimee Allison
campaign headquarters, 3208 Grand Ave (2 doors down
from Grand Lake Theater)....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 6:55pm PDT
Measure O is Good for the Asian Community This November, Oakland voters will have an opportunity to vote on Measure O, which will greatly improve Oakland elections. Measure O will increase voter turnout, save taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars, and improve the quality of political campaigns. Asian communities in Oakland will greatly benefit from the passage of Measure O....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 5:50pm PDT
Oct 18-6pm: Save Oakland's Condo-Conversion Protections! The Profiteers Are Out To Weaken Oakland's Rent Laws, By Weakening The Current Condo-Conversion Protections! Thousands Of Oakland Renters Will Face Eviction If The Greedy Profiteers/Landlords Are Allowed To Convert 1,500 Rental Units Per Year Into Condominiums, As They Are Demanding! Only You Can Stop Them!...
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 12:56am PDT
Rosenthal update Both defendants present pleaded not guilty. The issue of bail was
continued until later in the week due to confusion around the original
bonds in the case and whether they are still standing....
Posted: Mon, Oct 16, 2006 2:14pm PDT
Berkeley Critical Mass (video/quicktime 48.9MB) Berkeley Critical Mass rolled through Berkeley on its regular East Bay Ride. Highlights included costumes in anticipation of Halloween Critical Mass in San Francisco (Oct. 27); a festive and jubilant rolling rendition of "Fuck tha Police" on Telegraph (site of recent police abuses), replete with dancing pedestrians; and an echoing velodrome in the Unsafeway Parking Garage....
Posted: Mon, Oct 16, 2006 10:21am PDT
Class War Lessons: The Bay Area General Strikes 10/21 Oakland 
October 21 at 2:00 p.m.
Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library
6501 Telegraph Ave. (at Alcatraz)
Oakland
510-595-7417
A class on the 1934 San Francisco & 1946 Oakland General Strikes with multi-media presentation of original newsreel footage and photos....
Posted: Sun, Oct 15, 2006 6:42pm PDT
Black Panther 40th Anniversary: Group Photo at the Alameda County Court House, 10/15/06 
Black Panther 40th Anniversary Reunion in Oakland...
Posted: Sun, Oct 15, 2006 1:46pm PDT
Berkeley: Rally for Police Accountability--NO SECRET POLICE! MEET at Berkeley Public Safety Building (Martin Luther King at Center St) at 6 pm,
MARCH to North Berkeley Senior Center (Hearst and Martin Luther King) for Public Hearing on "The Future of Civilian Review in Berkeley," beginning at 7:30 pm...
Event Date: Wed, Oct 25, 2006 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Oct 14, 2006 8:04pm PDT
Indepth Look: Privatizing Our (Oakland's) Public Housing [[[The HOPE VI program enabled the Oakland Housing Authority to expand its collaboration with the Mayor’s office, which began with the City’s 1991 campaign to reduce violence and drug trafficking within and around the Coliseum and Lockwood communities.]]]
---Police Action Under Disguise Of Being A Gentrification Project---
Massive Gentrification Projects Have Been Displacing Oakland's Communities Of Color In Easte & West Oakland. Read How A Local Nonprofit Housing Developer (EBALDC) Is...
Posted: Fri, Oct 13, 2006 6:35pm PDT
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