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CALIFORNIA INDEPENDENTS DRIVE REFORM AGENDA INTO GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION
San Francisco, CA … IndependentVoice.org, a California organization which promotes the power of the state’s 3.6 million independent voters, launched the next stage of a campaign today to directly involve independent voters in the upcoming California gubernatorial election by introducing their agenda for political reform and challenging all candidates to endorse it....
Posted: Tue, Aug 22, 2006 12:14pm PDT
Take five minutes NOW to shape Air America Radio's program lineup
The Bay Area's Air America Radio affiliate, KQKE "Quake Radio," wants our input as it considers changing its programming lineup for this fall. If you value Mike Malloy, Randi Rhodes, or Air America's other bold, progressive voices of reason, now's the time to say so....
Posted: Tue, Aug 22, 2006 11:31am PDT
LAPD raids Hollywood dispensary, but leaves without incident
Last night, LAPD officers arrived at the Earth Collective medical cannabis
dispensary in Hollywood claiming to be in search of a young kidnapping
victim....
Posted: Tue, Aug 22, 2006 11:05am PDT
MAN CALLING FOR AN AMBULANCE SLAIN BY DEPUTY
MY BROTHER, SAM RODRIGUEZ WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY A ROOKIE DEPUTY SHERIFF ON 12-19-05 CALLING OUT FOR HELP...
Posted: Sat, Aug 19, 2006 8:28pm PDT
UFCW Members Assaulted
(Warning,: Reading this may be offensive to some, please continue at your own risk).
The Irony Of It All...
In the fall of 2005, UFCW 588 candidate for local union president Doug Slaydon was terminated by his employer Safeway. In Doug's words: I found myself suspended for saying the word crap on the way out to the sales floor. The company found Doug's use of the word crap so offensive they fired him. Seems a customer (more coming on that story as well), overheard the word and was so off...
Posted: Sat, Aug 19, 2006 8:01am PDT
420 Report Radio Show Hosted by Ed Rosenthal
The 420 Report airs on KPFA - 94.1 FM and kpfa.org online, usually the last friday of the month...
Event Date: Fri, Aug 25, 2006 12:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, Aug 18, 2006 11:16pm PDT
ASA CA Weekly Alert
****9) Monday, August 21st, Sacramento: Evidentiary Hearing for Bryan Epis
*Special Events*
10) Friday, August 25th, San Jose: Protest San Jose State University's
Arrests of Medical Marijuana Patients
11) Friday, August 25th: 420 Report Radio Show Hosted by Ed Rosenthal...
Posted: Fri, Aug 18, 2006 10:23pm PDT
Run Forrest Run!
Dr. Forrest Hill is the Green Party candidate running for California Secretary of State.
Here is a link to a first-ever TV ad for a statewide Green Party candidate, In the ad, Forrest has to talk fast because he will not tap in to corporate dollars like his opponents....
Posted: Fri, Aug 18, 2006 9:51pm PDT
Action Alert: 8/21-25 Week of Action for Safer Schools!!!
A youth-led week of action will take place next week (August 21-25) to help ensure the passage of SB 1437 and AB 606. Please do your part to create safer schools and protect LGBT students from harassment and discrimination in schools!!!...
Posted: Fri, Aug 18, 2006 7:05pm PDT
MetroPCS Customers Not Paying Their Fair Share?
"San Francisco users utility tax is too expensive" says MetroPCS store managers in the San Francisco Bay Area. Which is why for years most MetroPCS cell phone users simply havent been charged. Just opt out of a paper billing and your automatically approved....
Posted: Fri, Aug 18, 2006 12:08pm PDT
CA Legislature Passes Federal Shield Law Resolution
A California Assembly Joint Resolution was passed by the State Senate this Wednesday, having passed in the Assembly last year, calling on the federal government to enact a federal shield law protecting journalists and their sources....
Posted: Fri, Aug 18, 2006 12:51am PDT
Medical Cannabis Outreach Event- Tuesday, Aug 22nd
Over 20,000 patients have been cutoff from a
safe supply of medical cannabis since the county and city authorities allowed the
federal authorities to forcibly close ALL medical cannabis dispensaries in
the San Diego region. This number dwarfs the 12,000 that were affected during
the federal raids in San Francisco during the 1990's....
Posted: Thu, Aug 17, 2006 11:50pm PDT
Alexander Wants Student Tips Tax Exempted
Stewart Alexander, Candidate for California Lieutenant Governor, want college students to be tax exempted for tips received in service related jobs; such as restaurants, food delivery, pet grooming, and other services where tips are traditionally paid. Many college students work minimum wage jobs and rely on tips as an additional source of income to pay there way through college....
Posted: Thu, Aug 17, 2006 9:30am PDT
Protest Salinas Valley Prison & Ca. Treatment Facility
enter this address into mapquest.com. The protest will be in the public area out front of the prisons, two prisons on the same property. Just off Highway 101
31625 Highway 101
Soledad, CA 93960...
Event Date: Sun, Aug 27, 2006 6:00am PDT
Posted: Wed, Aug 16, 2006 4:17am PDT
SolFest 2006 - Coming Right Up! (audio/mpeg 5.4MB)
Interview with Doron Amiran, Programs Director of the Solar Living Institute...
Posted: Tue, Aug 15, 2006 4:38pm PDT
Friscophillia
Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia Street (at 21st)
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415)824-3890...
Event Date: Fri, Sep 8, 2006 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Aug 15, 2006 4:30pm PDT
Anti-Prison Expansion Mobilization on Tuesday
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2006
9:30 am
Room 4203
State Capitol...
Posted: Mon, Aug 14, 2006 4:35pm PDT
PRESS ADVISORY; A Grieving Mother believes Guards Killed Her SON
This grieving mother believes that the guards hog-tied, gagged and then hung her son in disciplinary at CSATF Corcoran. He suffered from bi-polar disorder. ...Someone needs to care enough to write about this one. The treatment of these families in these darkest hour is just totally unacceptable....
Posted: Mon, Aug 14, 2006 10:53am PDT
85 Days to Stop Prop 85
Prop 85 would amend our
state constitution to prohibit young women from obtaining
abortion care without government-mandated parental notification.
With only 85 days to "re-defeat" Prop 85, there's no time to
waste....
Posted: Mon, Aug 14, 2006 10:52am PDT