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Liberation News California Voter Recommendations
While the system is stacked against working people and the poor through rampant electoral fraud and the corrupt corporate buying and selling of candidates to the American people, Liberation News suggests people vote as one part of a broader struggle for change....
Posted: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 8:59pm PST
Vote for Your Future
Stand up for equality. Protect your rights. Vote on Election Day, November 7.
Starting on November 8, California's newly-elected and re-elected political leaders will have
the power to decide your future rights. Let them know you stand for equality and justice for the
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community by voting on November 7....
Posted: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 3:07pm PST
Guard your Vote
(i think i found the right link to the case, see the end of the post...i am pretty sure that i never got this from the aclu list that i am on)...
Posted: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 2:46pm PST
25th Encuentro del Canto Popular
Annual Latin Music Festival in San Francisco, CA....
Posted: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 1:22pm PST
Proposition 90 is NOT leading in the polls; Proposition 87 IS leading.
Proposition 90 is NOT leading in the polls.
Proposition 87 IS. . ....
Posted: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 1:01pm PST
google: PETER CAMEJO WEATHER MODIFICATION
google: Peter Camejo Weather Modification...
Posted: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 10:41am PST
Green Party gubernatorial candidate visits Vallejo church
This recent report about the Camejo campaign comes from the Vallejo Times Herald....
Posted: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 6:59am PST
Proposition 90: The Destroy California Initiative
Proposition 90 is being marketed as a way to stop Big Brother from taking your home. It might actually destroy everything that makes California livable...
Posted: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 6:42am PST
Schwarzenegger claims to be an environmentalist, but his choice of vehicles and his his endorsements out him as a hypocrite
f there is a single symbol of American wastefulness, military fetishism, and willful ignorance about what it means to be heating up the planet at the end of the age of oil, it is the Hummer. And if there is one American who is most closely associated with the Hummer, it is Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger....
Posted: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 6:41am PST
LSB: the listeners' voice at KPFA
Descent into the gnarly tangle: the epidemiology of advanced parliamentarianism at KPFA--a yearlong empirical study in causes and possible treatments...
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2006 10:05pm PST
Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica to Vote on MMJ LLEP Initiatives on 11/7
it was hard for me to find the most recent article about this to post to indybay, but this article has links to the group that organized the initiative in each town....
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2006 12:31pm PST
District 10 Candidate Forum on POOR Magazine Radio on KPFA
POOR Magazine's Monthly Radio Broadcast on KPFA's Morning Show on 94.1 fm...
Event Date: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 7:30am PST
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2006 11:26am PST
California/Los Angeles
Thanks to Rick's Prelinger's KEYNOTE PRESENTATION/COLLAGE: REMIX OR ROLLOVER: ARCHIVAL PARADOXES IN CENTURY 21 as part of USC's TransFormations I: Remixing the Archive (believe it or not, events are open to the public!!! It's a strange new USC, actually affliated with USC, which is why they can do it), I came across the Lord of the Rings Free Trade mash-up. Wonderful work.
Hope it's not too late to spread to folks down South.
Here's Sunday's list of free events for anyone interested...
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2006 11:14am PST
Percy Schmeiser tour
Join Cal GE-Free coalition partner CCOF for GE-Free Education and Dialogue with Percy Schmeiser, the Canadian farmer whose canola fields were contaminated with GE seed, and in turn was sued by Monsanto.
Speaking at five locations around the Bay Area in November!...
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2006 2:45am PST
KPFA LSB Candidates Forum
The Creamery
New College
780 Valencia
San Francisco CA...
Event Date: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 6:30pm PST
Posted: Sat, Nov 4, 2006 11:47pm PST
Events, Information and ALERT: hivers & mmjers must reapply for medicare part d by dec 8th
Events, Information and ALERT: hivers & mmjers must reapply for medicare part d by dec 8th...
Posted: Sat, Nov 4, 2006 8:44pm PST
Measure H in Los Angeles is not a Magic Bullet
If I could wave my magic wand, Proposition H—the billion-dollar “affordable” housing bond measure--would disappear from the November 7th stage, and the Prop H supporters would be revealed as illusionists....
Posted: Sat, Nov 4, 2006 2:15pm PST
Will a Democratic Congress Change Anything?
This is Todd Chretien's "last blog" before election day.
Todd Chretien is the Green Party candidate running for the U.S. Senate against Dianne Feinstein....
Posted: Sat, Nov 4, 2006 9:31am PST
10 Years of Legalized Medical Marijuana in California
Tod Mikuriya, MD (Berkeley), was the first California doctor to monitor patients' use of cannabis systematically. In the early 1990s his interviews with members of the San Francisco Cannabis Buyers Club documented Dennis Peron's observation that people were self-medicating for an extremely wide range of problems....
Posted: Sat, Nov 4, 2006 9:21am PST
10th Anniversary of Prop. 215
The years since passage of Prop. 215 have seen growing acceptance of medical marijuana. An ever-growing population of physicians and patients are finding marijuana useful for a wide range of conditions, including chronic pain and spasticity due to injury or disease, nausea and appetite loss from HIV and cancer therapy, migraines, arthritis, post-traumatic stress, and as a harm reduction substitute for more dangerous prescription drugs....
Posted: Sat, Nov 4, 2006 8:40am PST