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LBAM Takes San Francisco (video/x-flv 6.9MB) Starring: headRush (Rosa Esperanza Gonzáles, Xago Juárez and Simón Hanukai)
Written/directed/edited by: Patrick Wilkinson
Special thanks to: La Peña Cultural Center, Destiny Arts Center, and Centro Legal de la Raza...
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2008 12:08am PDT
CASS releases economic impact report on LBAM pesticide spray program. On May 5th, 2008, Foster Gamble and the Economic Action Team of the 'California Alliance to Stop the Spray' released a forty page report on the negative economic impact to the state of California if the CDFA wet dream to spray millions of California residents with a micronized chemical soup goes forward. Despite numerous press releases, the corporate media remains silent on the grave implications to the State’s economy and continues to parrot CDFA disinformation and propaganda....
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2008 10:53pm PDT
East Timor: Rice rations for internal refugees cut off Wednesday, May 14, 2008 :Tens of thousands of East Timorese refugees, known as internally displaced persons, are threatened with starvation as international relief agencies cease provision of food aid to camps in the nations capital, Dili. Last month the World Food Program (WFP), a UN agency, cut off its regular rice rations to the refugee centres....
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2008 10:14pm PDT
"Chango" Recognized with "Marciano Cruz Day" on May 12 in Santa Cruz 
Marciano Cruz was born in Oaxaca, Mexico. For over 20 years, Marciano, also known as Chango, has been working to improve the lives of people in the greater Santa Cruz community. He is currently a staff member at the Resource Center for Nonviolence (RCNV). On May 11th, Marciano received the “Most Caring Coach Award” by USA Weekend, a magazine with distribution in 600 newspapers to 23 million households each week. He is being honored for his work as founder, chief organizer and president of La ...
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2008 9:59pm PDT
New Orleans Photography Exhibit Firefly Coffee Shop
131 Front Street Santa Cruz, CA 95060 (Next to the Hide Gallery)...
Event Date: Fri, May 30, 2008 6:00am PDT
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2008 9:53pm PDT
Designs for a Green Future - The Transportation-Land Use Connection 
Live Oak Grange
1900 17th Ave (near Capitola Rd)...
Event Date: Thu, May 22, 2008 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2008 2:17pm PDT
Sgt. LeMoss #114 Santa Cruz PD breaks arm of 60 year old disabled woman without cause 
At Santa Cruz parking lot A on West Cliff Drive, on Friday May 9, 2008, Sgt. C LeMoss twisted and broke the right humurus arm bone of a 60 year old disabled woman for entering her RV and attempting to close the door....
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2008 11:19am PDT
Death toll, economic consequences mount from China earthquake Wednesday, May 14, 2008 :The official death toll from the massive May 12 earthquake in Chinas Sichuan province continued to mount yesterday, even though reports from the most heavily devastated regions have not yet emerged. The quake, centered in a mountainous area near Sichuans borders with Tibet and Qinghai province, registered 7.9 on the Richter scale and was felt as far away as the Thai capital of Bangkok, 1,900 kilometers to the south....
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2008 7:39am PDT
The tsunami in Sri Lanka: A case study in US humanitarian missions Wednesday, May 14, 2008 :Since the cyclone engulfed Burma on May 3, there has been an incessant campaign in the international media to push for foreign militaries, along with aid officials, to be allowed into the country. Article after article contrasts the paranoia, incompetence and callousness of the Burmese junta with the supposed willingness of the US and other major powers to generously provide humanitarian assistance....
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2008 7:38am PDT
Australia: Rudd Labor's budget delivers for business and the wealthy Wednesday, May 14, 2008 :Handing down the Rudd Labor governments first annual financial budget last night, Treasurer Wayne Swan claimed that its centrepiece was a support package for working families worth $55 billion over three years. Sections of the media have likewise portrayed it as a Robin Hood exercise, taking from the rich to give to the poor....
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2008 7:37am PDT
Welfare State and Inner Security The punitive side of welfare state reform is read as a success. Problerms result because firstly there is not enough work and secondly those integrated in work can often hardly live from that. Massive exclusion and precariusness exist everywhere. Workfare policy supplements supply-side policy by means of flexicurity....
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2008 5:50am PDT
Federal Judge Rules City of Fresno Violated the Rights of Homeless Residents 
A summary judgment was issued on May 12, 2008 in the lawsuit by homeless people against the City of Fresno. The statement below is from the American Civil Liberties Union and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, two of the law firms representing the plaintiffs in this case. The trial is scheduled to begin on June 10. The photo below is Pam Kincaid, speaking at the Press Conference at Fresno City Hall, announcing the filing of the lawsuit (October 17, 2006)....
Posted: Tue, May 13, 2008 6:06pm PDT
Open House at Institute of Classical Homoeopathy The ICH offers training options for classical homoeopathy, a natural, environmentally safe and fully effective medical science. We offer the only free homeopathic clinic in the country. The Open House will include info. on our programs, an introduction to homeopathy, and stories from students and alumni in the field. Come learn how to gently cure mental and physical disease....
Posted: Tue, May 13, 2008 10:15am PDT
China and Burma: When The Best In The West Get It Wrong From a Tuesday, May 13, 2008 entry on Informed Comment Global Affairs, a group blog run by Juan Cole, Manan Ahmed, Farideh Farhi, and Barnett R. Rubin...
Posted: Tue, May 13, 2008 8:02am PDT
Massive earthquake in China kills at least 10,000 Tuesday, May 13, 2008 :At least 10,000 people were killed when an earthquake of 7.8 magnitude on the Richter scale hit the south-western Chinese province of Sichuan at 2:28 p.m. on Monday. The death toll is climbing continuously as bodies are pulled from the rubble of buildings and rescue workers arrive at new scenes of devastation....
Posted: Tue, May 13, 2008 7:51am PDT
POLK STREET SEANCE 
summon the ghosts of polk street's past!...
Event Date: Tue, Jun 3, 2008 6:30pm PDT
Posted: Tue, May 13, 2008 12:03am PDT
Free Food and Music at the River Arts Festival (5/18) Free Food and Music at the River Arts Festival starting 11:30 Sunday...
Posted: Mon, May 12, 2008 9:42pm PDT
Portland City Hall Homeless Protest 
Yesterday 7 people were arrested when the Portland Police came to post 72 hour "Illegal Campsite" notices and alert us that our homeless encampment at City Hall was not within lawful compliance. We have been camping on the sidewalks for 15 days to protest the unconstitutionality of the sit/lie ordinance and to demand the repeal of the anti-camping law that makes being without a home a crime. Long term solutions to the affordable housing/greed crisis in downtown Portland however is the primary...
Posted: Mon, May 12, 2008 2:38pm PDT
We need something new to find a solution in Darfur Sunday, May 11, 2008 : As the crisis in Sudan's Darfur region worsens and negotiations to end it drag on, an international consensus is emerging around a "muscular" policy based on public denunciation, severe economic sanctions, and, increasingly, threats of military force. But none of these steps, taken alone or together....
Posted: Mon, May 12, 2008 6:35am PDT
Cyclone disaster worsens in Burma Monday, May 12, 2008 :The cyclone disaster in Burma is continuing to worsen. The official death toll announced yesterday stands at 28,458 dead and 33,416 missing, but unofficial estimates put the figure much higher. Up to 2 million people have been left homeless and struggling to survive without access to food, clean water, shelter and medicine....
Posted: Mon, May 12, 2008 6:30am PDT
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