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Court to refine medical-marijuana law
The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to consider whether being a primary caregiver can be a defense against criminal charges of cultivating marijuana under the state's 1996 medical marijuana law....
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 11:30am PST
AJLPP-USA Condemns Philippine Government’s Anti-Terrorist Bill.
The Alliance for A just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines (AJLPP) –USA and its allied organizations in the United States vehemently condemn in the strongest term the passage of the Anti-Terrorism Bill (ATB) in the Philippine Senate yesterday. AJLPP National Coordinator Mario Santos said: The Senate and Arroyo’s action proved that the Philippine government’s brazen puppetry ( kakapalan ng mukha)and lackyism (pagpapakatuta) knows no bounds. It does not only order the killing of Filipinos but...
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 9:03am PST
The Value of Homeless Outreach
My article establishes how outreach to our homeless communities will allow us as concerned community members to combat homelessness and poverty that is prevalent in our communities. I speak of three pockets of the homeless that we have to outreach to in different ways if we are to encourage social mobility in our social mobility among the poor and homeless of our communities. Our poor and homeless are struggling all over the state of California and we have to outreach to them....
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 12:32am PST
Woodfin Town Hall Meeting
Emeryville Senior Center
4321 Salem St.
Emeryville, California 94608...
Event Date: Tue, Feb 20, 2007 7:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Feb 7, 2007 11:18am PST
Senate Votes on Funding for Public Housing: Call Today!
Our Senators will vote this week on a joint funding resolution which could help fill the $1 billion shortfall for Public Housing. Now is the time to call to urge Senators Boxer and Feinstein to increase funding levels!...
Posted: Wed, Feb 7, 2007 10:44am PST
STATEMENT ON THE POLITICAL KILLINGS IN THE PHILIPPINES
We Filipino-American students call for an end to the murder of activists in the Philippines and to a Philippine government that works against rather in the national interest....
Posted: Tue, Feb 6, 2007 8:01pm PST
Jim Fetterley's "Charged in the Name of Terror"
Artists' Television Access Gallery
992 Valencia Street (@21st Street)
San Francisco, CA 94110...
Event Date: Sat, Mar 24, 2007 8:30pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Feb 6, 2007 4:28pm PST
US-Arroyo regime is culpable and accountable for assassinations under Bantay Laya I & II
The survivors and families of victims of political assassinations and other violations of human rights cannot expect justice under the regime of GRP President Gloria M. Arroyo for the plain reason that it is culpable and accountable for these under Bantay Laya I and II. The fact that Mrs. Arroyo has refused to disclose the full report of the so-called Melo Commission confirming to some small extent military involvement in the killings shows a fear for the truth and a desperate effort to hide ...
Posted: Tue, Feb 6, 2007 4:28pm PST
Melinda Stone Presents Bill Brown
Artists' Television Access Gallery
992 Valencia Street (@ 21st Street)
San Francisco, CA 94110...
Event Date: Sat, Mar 17, 2007 8:30pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Feb 6, 2007 4:23pm PST
Stoney Burke's DVD Release Celebration
Artists' Television Access Gallery
992 Valencia Street (@21st Street)
San Francisco, CA 94110...
Event Date: Sat, Mar 3, 2007 8:30pm PST
Posted: Tue, Feb 6, 2007 4:20pm PST
Top priority-Do not Cut AB. 2034
AB. 2034 currently funded by the state of California is at risk of being cut. Such a program allows social service workers in California to outreach to the homeless of our state. The California Governors office intends to force California counties to fund the AB. 2034 program through Proposition 63 dollars that have been provided to fund mental health outreach for our most marginalized and mentally ill. After reading my piece call the Governors Office and convince the governor to fully fund t...
Posted: Tue, Feb 6, 2007 3:25pm PST
Protest arrests of former Black Panthers (letter)
Text of letter from Partisan Defense Committee to Attorney General Brown protests recent arrests of former Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army members, a continuation of decades-long government vendetta....
Posted: Mon, Feb 5, 2007 8:18pm PST
HINGGIL SA KOMISYONG MELO AT HALALAN SA 2007
Panloloko sa bayan at panibagong inhustisya sa mga biktima ng paglabag sa mga karapatang tao ang kawalang lubos na liwanag tungkol sa nilalaman ng ulat ng Komisyong Melo. Pinapaugong ng Malakanyang na inaakusahan ng ulat ang militar at Heneral Palparan tungkol sa ilang pamamaslang. Kasabay nito, sinasabi rin nila na hindi lamang ang militar at pulis ang gumagawa ng mga krimen. Sa gayon, pinagtatakpan nila ang kriminal na pananagutan ni Gloria M. Arroyo at mga alipuris niyang militar at pulis ...
Posted: Mon, Feb 5, 2007 4:34pm PST
Bay Area events - Internat'l Day in Solidarity with Haiti
Bay Area events as part of the Feb. 7th International Day in Solidarity with the Haitian People...
Posted: Mon, Feb 5, 2007 3:30pm PST
San Diego Superior Court upholds 215
A San Diego Superior Court today handed a critical victory to medical
marijuana patients nationwide, affirming the ability of states to exempt
qualified patients from criminal penalties, despite federal policy that
prohibits all marijuana use....
Posted: Mon, Feb 5, 2007 12:55pm PST
The Privilege of Privacy and Homelessness
When I’ve been homeless, the hardest part has been the lack of privacy. The *privilege of privacy* is something many take for granted, but for those of us who have experienced homelessness firsthand, privacy becomes a mindset, rather than a physical reality. And that fortress of privacy within one’s *mind* adds to the wide chasm between the housed and the homeless, often making homeless people seem “crazy” to housed folks. And when one has been forced to make *mental* doors that shut, since p...
Posted: Mon, Feb 5, 2007 2:44am PST
150th Anniversary of Black Sacramento (1840 - 1865)
Leidesdorff Project Director, curates a Folsom History Museum, Black History Month Exhibit and co-hosts a free community reception, 150th Anniversary of Black Sacramento, Saturday, February 24, 2007, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., 823 Sutter Street, Folsom, California....
Posted: Sun, Feb 4, 2007 9:38pm PST
'Mission of a Generation' CAMPUS TOUR
GET INVOLVED with the "Mission of a Generation: Stop the War Now! Drive Out the Bush Regime!" speaking tour putting out the challenge directly to youth and students:
“Will we be remembered as the generation who sat back and allowed illegal wars to spread throughout the Middle East, torture legalized, the rights of women and gays eviscerated, and a fascistic police-state constructed? Or will we refuse to go along with this? Will we lead millions to erupt in political protest and defiant tr...
Posted: Sun, Feb 4, 2007 9:02pm PST
War Profiteering & War Criminal-Feinstein's Husband's Firm URS/Perini Getting Billions
US Democratic Senator Feinstein is not only a war criminal but a war profiteer. Her husband
Dick Blum's companies have received billions in contracts for US wars in the Middle East.
Her votes for the war machine are personally benefiting her family and earn her the title
War Criminal and War Profiteer...
Posted: Sun, Feb 4, 2007 3:34pm PST
S.D. Caregiver Eddie Lugan Pleads
Eddie Lugan, a San Diego medical marijuana caregiver who was
arrested in Oceanside while carrying 2 ounces of medicine in his car,
agreed to accept a plea bargain rather than go to trial for felony
distribution. Here is his story.
- D. Gieringer, Cal NORML...
Posted: Sun, Feb 4, 2007 1:44pm PST