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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
Santa Monica Police Raid Homes of Two Animal Liberation Press Officers
Police Refuse to Delineate Reason for Search Warrant; Similar Raid Last Year Resulted in Costly Lawsuit by Activists...
Posted: Fri, Nov 3, 2006 5:10pm PST
SF: Danny Schechter: In Debt We Trust
Roxie Film Center at New College
3117 16th St.
San Francisco, CA 94110...
Event Date: Fri, Nov 10, 2006 7:00pm PST
Posted: Fri, Nov 3, 2006 4:04pm PST
LUNAFEST Film Festival!!!
Rio Theater
1207 Soquel Avenue
Santa Cruz, Ca 95060...
Event Date: Sat, Jan 27, 2007 7:00pm PST
Posted: Fri, Nov 3, 2006 3:48pm PST
Saddam convicted....so?
If the long awaited October Surprise is rather the November Surprise of saddam's verdict, who is going to be surprised?...
Posted: Fri, Nov 3, 2006 11:48am PST
Support the Courage of Peter Phillips Tonight!
Tonight, Peter Phillips has shown incredible courage to feature as his keynote speaker at the Project Censored Media Accountibility Conference, Dr. Steven Jones, a physicist who believes the WTC towers were destroyed by explosives on 9/11. Phillips is taking a lot heat for going out on a limb like this, as you can imagine, and he needs a lot of support for taking this stand....
Posted: Fri, Nov 3, 2006 11:07am PST
Search warrants served to Jerry Vlasak and other animal activists in LA, Orange, Ventura
Detectives Search Homes Of Animal Rights Activists:
Police Decline To Reveal Motive Behind Raids...
Posted: Fri, Nov 3, 2006 10:36am PST
Webb, Tester and Angelides: The Best and Worst Campaigns of 2006
Thanks to dailykos.com, mydd.com, and youtube.com, political junkies can now closely assess the campaign strategies of key state and national races. When Virginia Senator George Allen uses a racial slur, or his staff assaults a Webb campaign volunteer, the event can be seen on the Internet within hours. These and other sites also enable us to get activists’ up to the minute campaign reports, rather than having news about breaking campaign events filtered and distorted by the media. Based on m...
Posted: Fri, Nov 3, 2006 7:00am PST
Oaxaca Solidarity Demonstrations in the US on Friday, November 3rd
"Afuera Ulises Ruiz. El pueblo de Oaxaca pide justicia no la policia. ¡No estan solos! Nosotros apoyamos en su lucha como E.Z.L.N."
please add more events as a comment
Letter in Support of the People of Oaxaca
http://friendsofbradwill.org/supportletter
Global Solidarity with Oaxaca
http://vientos.info/cml/?q=node/5842...
Posted: Fri, Nov 3, 2006 3:07am PST
Take a Journey with Jane
Watch Jane as she tries in vain to wade through the complicated
judicial maze that scared and vulnerable teens will have to navigate
if Prop 85 passes. See what it's like for her, coming from a home
where abuse, violence, incest or rape means she can't possibly tell
her parents about a pregnancy......
Posted: Thu, Nov 2, 2006 9:38pm PST
Schwarzenegger, Rove, Bush, and Fascism
Thinking about voting for Schwarzenegger--or not voting at all for Governor? Please refresh your memory about Schwarzenegger's family heritage, and please consider Schwarzenegger's own words: "I was always dreaming about very powerful people - dictators and things like that...people who could be remembered for hundreds of years."...
Posted: Thu, Nov 2, 2006 3:31pm PST