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Massive Barack Obama Campaign Appearance in Oakland, 3/17/07: photos and video 
A month after declaring his entry into the 2008 presidential race, Illinois Senator Barack Obama, the fast-rising phenom of the Democratic Party, appeared in Oakland for a massive campaign rally on St. Patrick's Day. Well over 10,000 people packed into Frank Ogawa Plaza to hear him make his case for why he should be elected President of the United States. While the first democratic primary isn't until January 2008 and the general election isn't until November later that year, the diverse cr...
Posted: Sun, Mar 18, 2007 4:13am PDT
French elections—Olivier Besancenot: “I was never a Trotskyist” On the evening of Tuesday, March 13, Olivier Besancenot, the presidential candidate of the Revolutionary Communist League (Ligue communiste révolutionnaire—LCR), spoke to about 200 supporters in Amiens....
Posted: Sat, Mar 17, 2007 8:50am PDT
If elected, Hillary Clinton vows to keep US troops in Iraq In a calculated bid to position herself for the 2008 Democratic nomination, Senator Hillary Clinton told the New York Times Wednesday that, if elected president, she would keep significant US military forces in Iraq for the foreseeable future....
Posted: Sat, Mar 17, 2007 8:48am PDT
Satur Ocampo's petition at Supreme Court 
Full text of the petition for certiori filed at the Supreme Court by Bayan Muna Congressman Satur C. Ocampo...
Posted: Fri, Mar 16, 2007 9:17pm PDT
KPFA Promote Pro-War, Pro-Israel, Pro-Torture Democrat Obama The two year campaign for chairperson of the capitalist board, namely the US president, is being carried out on KPFA, 94.1 FM, with open promotion of the pro-war, pro-Israel, pro-torture, pro-death penalty Democrats, just as despicable as the Republicans. Their latest darling is the vicious Senator from Illinois, Barack Obama. It should be as unthinkable to promote the Democrats on KPFA as it is to promote the Republicans as they are one war, death penalty, pro-torture, pro-Israel party....
Posted: Fri, Mar 16, 2007 7:48am PDT
Blair exit timetable to be agreed A timetable for elections to find a new leader when Tony Blair quits is expected to be agreed next week by Labour's National Executive Committee....
Posted: Fri, Mar 16, 2007 7:36am PDT
Clashes erupt near Pakistan court Qazi Hussain Ahmad, chief of the Islamist coalition, and at least seven other politicians from the coalition have been arrested during protests outside Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday....
Posted: Fri, Mar 16, 2007 7:34am PDT
The significance of the World Court ruling on genocide in Bosnia The World Court has found no evidence directly linking Serbia and its former president Slobodan Milosevic to genocide against Muslims in the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on February 26 that there was no proof that Serbia or its leaders planned to wipe out the non-Serbian peoples of the Balkans, or that a chain of command existed linking them to the atrocities committed in Bosnia....
Posted: Fri, Mar 16, 2007 7:19am PDT
Supervisors Scrutinize Ethics Commission Budget After a record number of independent hit-pieces were waged in the last election, Supervisors on the receiving end of such an avalanche want to help the Ethics Commission monitor these excesses. Yesterday, the Rules Committee held a hearing about the department’s finances – in preparation of setting up the City’s annual budget....
Posted: Fri, Mar 16, 2007 7:16am PDT
Meetings held with Barbara Lee and Pete Stark Staff on case impeachment of Bush and Cheney Just this Wednesday, 3 /14 Members of a Bay Area Impeachment coalition met with Sandra Andrews of Barbara Lee's staff and Jo Casenave of Pete Stark's staff to lay out our position on impeachment....
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 9:07pm PDT
Mauritania: New beginning, hopefully Mauritania's presidential elections, while inconclusive yet, show that the country is moving positively towards political democracy, writes James Martin in Nouakchott...
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 6:11pm PDT
Egypt: Before the vote Controversy over constitutional amendments proposed by President Mubarak, reports Gamal Essam El-Din, has centred on civil liberties being under threat...
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 6:09pm PDT
"The Real Scandal: Who Gavin Newsom is Screwing Over." Balazo Gallery 2183 Mission (at 18th St.)...
Event Date: Thu, Mar 22, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 3:43pm PDT
"The Real Scandal: Who Gavin Newsom is Screwing Over." Balazo Gallery
2183 Mission (at 18th St.)...
Event Date: Thu, Mar 22, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 3:41pm PDT
Demands mount for Gonzales’s resignation over US attorneys purge Mounting revelations concerning the political purge of eight US attorneys have led to demands by Democratic politicians and the editorial boards of a number of major American dailies to demand the resignation of US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales....
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 7:23am PDT
Presidential election contest in France: Panic grips the Socialist Party On the evening of March 12, Ségolène Royal, the presidential candidate of the French Socialist Party (Parti Socialiste—PS), spoke in the Japy sports hall in the 11th district of Paris to artists, scientists and intellectuals supporting her candidacy....
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 7:21am PDT
Sarkozy stigmatises immigrants and glorifies the French nation In a TV interview last Thursday and at a rally before 10,000 supporters in Caen in Normandy the following Friday, Nicolas Sarkozy, presidential candidate for the ruling Gaullist UMP (Union for a Popular Movement), announced his intention, if elected, to set up a new ministry of immigration and national identity and to further strengthen immigration restrictions....
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 7:20am PDT
Barack Obama Rally Oakland City Hall Plaza, One Frank Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, California...
Event Date: Sat, Mar 17, 2007 3:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Mar 14, 2007 7:41pm PDT
All I Need to Know About the Democratic Party I Learned From the Grateful Dead The more I thought about it, the more I realized "Hell, who needs analysts? Who needs pundits, when everything I need to know about the Democrats can be summed up with a few choice verses from the Good Ol' Grateful Dead?"...
Posted: Wed, Mar 14, 2007 5:57pm PDT
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