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Sacramento: Protest at Congresswoman Doris Matsui's home!
on the sidewalk in front of ****** ****...
Event Date: Fri, Jan 12, 2007 3:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Jan 10, 2007 2:20pm PST
Compulsory Patronage of Private Insurance Business?
Massachusetts and now Calif will require patronage of private, for-profit insurance firms that have opportunity, motive, and corporate duty to offer as few services as possible and to charge as much as possible....
Posted: Wed, Jan 10, 2007 12:52pm PST
Orlando Patterson -- Enabler of the Neocons
Something extraordinary happened over the weekend:Harvard Professor Orlando Patterson, writing in the New York Times, in effect, confessed to being a participant in what could arguably be described as one of the founding meetings of that strange phenomenon commonly referred to as "neoconservatism." When the definitive history is written about these tragic times and the role played by certain celebrity intellectuals, history will not be kind....
Posted: Wed, Jan 10, 2007 9:21am PST
State Imposes 1000% Fee Hike on Medical Mariuana ID Cards
The California Dept of Health Services has announced a major fee hike for the state medical marijuana ID cards, from $13 to $142. This is the state's share; counties charge an additional fee. On behalf of thousands of San Francisco cannabis patients I am writing to ask if you have heard about this new outrageous policy. Patients need your help NOW more than ever. With the new local laws requiring patients to get the State I.D. card to enter MCD's and now this drastic increase in the card prog...
Posted: Wed, Jan 10, 2007 6:34am PST
Mountain View: No Escalation!
Mountain View Voices for Peace will meet at the corner of El Camino Real & Castro in Mountain View at 6 p.m. on Thursday, January 11....
Event Date: Thu, Jan 11, 2007 6:00pm PST
Posted: Tue, Jan 9, 2007 11:21pm PST
Peter Camejo diagnosed with cancer
Some sad news... but Peter Camejo says his cancer was caught in the early stages and is treatable....
Posted: Tue, Jan 9, 2007 9:53pm PST
Millions Struggling to Survive On Low Wages
The 110th Congress is now in session and congressional leaders are expected to move on a broad range of critical matters that are a vital concern to the entire nation; topping the list is the Iraq War, the national debt, the balance of trade, affordable health care, immigration, solving the nation’s energy crisis, the environment, and minimum wage. Congress is expected to move quickly to raise the federal minimum wage from the present rate of $5.15 to $7.25 per hour by 2009; it will be the f...
Posted: Tue, Jan 9, 2007 7:58pm PST
Sacramento: Emergency Protest Of Bush's Plan To Escalate "War"
all four corners of the intersection of 16th & Broadway, IN SACRAMENTO...
Event Date: Sat, Jan 13, 2007 3:30pm PST
Posted: Tue, Jan 9, 2007 6:14pm PST
Bay area anti-war protests Thursday
Anti-war protests times and places on Thursday...
Posted: Tue, Jan 9, 2007 5:39pm PST
Compulsory Patronage of Private Insurance Business
Massachusetts and now California will require patronage of private, for-profit insurance firms that have motive, opportunity, and corporate duty to provide as little service as possible for the most possible money. That is just one dark side....
Posted: Tue, Jan 9, 2007 4:14pm PST
Compulsory Patronage of Private Insurance Business
Massachusetts and now California will require patronage of private, for-profit insurance firms that have motive and corporate duty to provide as few services as possible for as much money as possible.
That is just one dark side....
Posted: Tue, Jan 9, 2007 4:02pm PST
AFP: Peace pact with MILF by April
A peace agreement with the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is expected early this year, Armed Forces chief Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr. disclosed yesterday. "A final peace agreement with the MILF would be signed by March or April," Esperon told a press conference held at the AFP Eastern Mindanao Command headquarters here. The contentious issues affecting the peace negotiations, particularly disputes over ancestral domain, are now being discussed by both panels, said Esperon, wh...
Posted: Tue, Jan 9, 2007 11:29am PST
Toxic School Buses: Stop Your Idling!
Children riding on school buses are exposed to high levels of cancer-causing pollutants, due to the old diesel buses. Many scientific organizations, activists, etc., have joined the push to clean up school buses...The first steps in this cleaner school bus awareness campaign are: 1) Replacement of the oldest fleet buses, 2) Retrofitting of the older models, and 3) Anti-idling policies. These 3 steps can help reduce pollution *while* improving kids' health......
Posted: Mon, Jan 8, 2007 5:17pm PST
Know Your Rights & Resist the Police State
In a police encounter these rules will help protect your civil rights and improve your chances of driving or walking away safely. From here on out, we are talking about your legal "rights" guaranteed by law....
Posted: Mon, Jan 8, 2007 12:10pm PST
US- RP Balikatan( Shoulder to Shoulder) War Exercises to resume in February
The BALIKATAN (Shoulder to Shoulder) joint war exercises between Filipino and American troops will resume in February, an official of the US Embassy in Manila said Monday. "In February we will start again the Balikatan, US " Charges d'Affaires Paul Jones told reporters here after attending a military command conference presided over by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in Jolo, Sulu....
Posted: Mon, Jan 8, 2007 10:08am PST
Without reproductive rights, women are factory farmed
Without reproductive rights, women are treated like farmed animals- who also are forced to bear young against their will. Reproductive rights are human rights. To deny women reproductive rights is to treat them as less than human....
Posted: Sat, Jan 6, 2007 6:41pm PST
ASA CA Weekly Alert
2)Saturday, January 6th, Modesto: Central Valley Patients Coalition Meeting
4) Tuesday, January 9th, San Francisco: SF ASA Meeting
5) Thursday, January 11th, Sacramento: Sac ASA Meeting
6) Wednesday, January 17th, Oakland: East Bay ASA Meeting
9) Thursday, January 18th, Guerneville: Sonoma ASA Meeting...
Posted: Fri, Jan 5, 2007 10:22pm PST
Luna Lounge:: A New Party for Women feat: DJ Black, Syra, & JB RAP
House of Stormz
1439 105th Avenue
@ International
Oakland, CA 94603...
Event Date: Fri, Jan 26, 2007 10:00pm PST
Posted: Fri, Jan 5, 2007 11:30am PST
4th Tuesday Films - In Debt We Trust
909 12th Street, Sacramento...
Event Date: Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:00pm PST
Posted: Fri, Jan 5, 2007 8:20am PST