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Court Allows Calif. Women to Use Medical Marijuana "We find that the appellants' class of activities -- the intrastate noncommercial cultivation, possession, and use of marijuana for personal medical purposes on the advice of a physician -- is, in fact, different in kind from drug trafficking. Further, the limited medical use of marijuana as recommended by a physician arguably does not raise the same policy concerns regarding the spread of drug abuse."...
Posted: Sat, Dec 20, 2003 8:41am PST
Workers hold the line for health care LOS ANGELES – “Empty Safeway’s stores and cash drawers” by taking action to cut them off from the source of their money – consumers and communities, United Food and Commercial Workers President Doug Dority told a massive rally and march here Dec. 16. He appealed to workers and consumers in the U.S. and Canada to use their buying power to support striking Southern California grocery workers’ battle to defend health care for working families. “Shut down Safeway’s profits,” Dority said. They onl...
Posted: Sat, Dec 20, 2003 8:25am PST
Injunction Against California Domestic Partnership Law Denied The law, which will take effect in January 2005, offers same-sex couples many of the state-level rights and protections that married couples enjoy....
Posted: Sat, Dec 20, 2003 8:18am PST
Report From Oakland : On the picket line at Safeway OAKLAND, Calif. – “I’m here to fight for my benefits,” said Teresa Gonzales. Gonzales is a picket captain for the United Food and Commercial Workers union from Hawaiian Gardens in Southern California. She has been here for weeks leading a team of Southern California grocery workers who are informing shoppers of the issues in their strike....
Posted: Fri, Dec 19, 2003 10:25pm PST
Sex workers organize towards legalization of prostitution Civics Lesson in Leopardskin:
Robyn Few believes the recent Supreme Court ruling on sodomy paves the way for prostitution to be legalized....
Posted: Fri, Dec 19, 2003 10:18pm PST
School Teacher Arrested for Prostitution Speaks Out update on case of teacher charged with sexwork, statement from Shanon Williams, 12/11/2003...
Posted: Fri, Dec 19, 2003 9:46pm PST
Citizen's Lawsuit Filed Against the Bechtel-designed Garage in Golden Gate Park Deep within the City's ground lease/stealth revenue bond for the Music Concourse Community Partnership ( approved 11/21/03) , there is a clause that halts the garage project upon the filing of major legal action. Interestingly, the City Attorney attempted to file a pre-emptive lawsuit against "ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE MATTER," on December 10, to do an end run around our CEQA/Prop J lawsuit. Attorneys Herrera, Schwartz and Greenman filed a COMPLAINT FOR VALIDATION of all actio...
Posted: Fri, Dec 19, 2003 5:23pm PST
Anti-Mili Campaign, Rod Coronado to Speak Anti-Militarization campaign to kick off to shut down Bush & Company Incorporated....
Posted: Fri, Dec 19, 2003 12:21pm PST
Raise the Freakquency, Indybay benefit Saturday, Winter Solstice eve, get your groove on, meet cool people, help this new and improved awesome collective.
Liberate your ass, free your mind, the rest will come......
Posted: Fri, Dec 19, 2003 11:57am PST
REMINDER - Picket & Rally 12/20, 11am in SF: Support SoCal Grocery Strikers Picket & Rally in Support of the 70,000 Striking UFCW
workers in Southern California (please forward to
everyone you can think of!)
Saturday, Demcember 20 at 11am
Safeway store at Market & Church Streets
San Francisco...
Posted: Fri, Dec 19, 2003 12:41am PST
Stop racist harassment of black workers I'm reprinting an important piece about a demonstration against racist harassment of Black workers....
Posted: Thu, Dec 18, 2003 9:13pm PST
Website Back Up: Sorry For the Inconvenience The site should now be functional but some of the images and uploads may take a few hours to be viewable....
Posted: Thu, Dec 18, 2003 8:23pm PST
THE HIGH COST OF POLICE BRUTALITY 
Why does Fresno need an Independent Police Auditor?...
Posted: Thu, Dec 18, 2003 8:05pm PST
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS WHEN CONFRONTED BY THE POLICE 
Report back from workshop on police violence...
Posted: Thu, Dec 18, 2003 8:01pm PST
END THE BRUTALITY EPIDEMIC IN FRESNO! 
This is why we need an Independent Police Auditor in Fresno...
Posted: Thu, Dec 18, 2003 7:53pm PST
WE NEED AN INDEPENDENT POLICE AUDITOR NOW 
In January 2004 a proposal for an Independent Police Auditor for the City of Fresno will come before the city council....
Posted: Thu, Dec 18, 2003 7:45pm PST
Report back from 7th Rachel Corrie Banner Project Demo 
It was a chilly day for a demo, but then again, it is winter!...
Posted: Wed, Dec 17, 2003 1:35pm PST
We Can Do This: Direct Action against Global Capitalism and US Imperialism; Ingrid Chapman We Can Do This: Direct Action against Global Capitalism and US Imperialism
An interview with Ingrid Chapman
By Chris Crass
Ingrid Chapman has been involved in direct action organizing for the past 4 years. At 23, she has helped pull off successful mass actions, worked with thousands of activists around the country and bases her work in the question, "How do we build broad based movements capable of challenging global capitalism and US imperialism?" While it is easy to get de...
Posted: Wed, Dec 17, 2003 1:14pm PST
Fri Dec 19th: Guerrilla Queer Bar escapes from rehab to bring you... 
Guerrilla Queer Bar escapes from rehab to bring you...
I'm Dreaming of a White Necklace
A Festive, Throbbing Slander to the Season
Friday, December 19 at Club 220 (nee Campus Theater)
with
John Cameron Mitchell: Special Guest DJ
Peaches Christ: Brave Emcee...
Posted: Wed, Dec 17, 2003 12:28pm PST
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