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3/27: Mayor Willie Brown has officially terminated city funding to the Day Labor Program. Despite the fact that La Raza Centro Legal has had demonstrated success in running the Program for the last three years, the contract was awarded to Volunteers of America (VOA). VOA, the only other bidder and an organization with no connection to the day labor community, has entirely failed to address the needs of the workers at its Oakland program, where it has been collaborating with the police in th...

3/27: Mayor Willie Brown has officially terminated city funding to the Day Labor Program. Despite the fact that La Raza Centro Legal has had demonstrated success in running the Program for the last three years, the contract was awarded to Volunteers of America (VOA). VOA, the only other bidder and an organization with no connection to the day labor community, has entirely failed to address the needs of the workers at its Oakland program, where it has been collaborating with the police in th...

Clear Channel, the gargantuan corporation that controls much of the airwaves in the US, has been using its clout to promote what it describes as "patriotic" rallies. Spearheaded by syndicated talk radio host Glenn Beck, the rallies have their advertisements and musicians paid for by the corporation, fostering the illusion that they've sprung forth from a groundswell of pro-war activism. Read more Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting | ClearChannelSucks.org Reports From SF Rally For Nation...

3/24: Hundreds of protesters from Direct Action to Stop the War, Not In Our Name and International ANSWER blockaded the Carlyle Group (Transamerica Pyramid) and the Federal Building starting at 7am this morning; over 120 were arrested. Also today, SFSU students staged a sit-in at the administration building after the administration refused to take a stand against the war on Iraq.The students demanded: 1) the administration pass a resolution against the war on Iraq, 2) the FBI and police do no...

Over the last few weeks Willie Brown and the SFPD have shown their true colors with arbitrary arrests of dissidents: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 brutalization of peaceful protesters: 1| 2| 3| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 theft of property (1) and open prowar activities by on-duty police officers. Street sweeps resulting in arrests of journalists h...

Legal Update Here | Info for class action suit Here Emergencies protests in San Francisco have been going on since Wednesday night with no sign of slowing down. People gathered on the streets as soon as news reached us that Iraq was being bombed. Resistance and outrage is growing against the capitalist system that keeps many people in this country homeless and without basic needs like health care and food, while attacking other countries to amass power and resources for the wealthy. Bay Ar...

A confidential police memo, part of a dossier obtained under the Sunshine Ordinance, acknowledges the SF Police Department has been monitoring this web site, using undercover officers to spy on antiwar protesters, and apparently collecting personal information about political dissidents, the Bay Guardian has learned. The internal SFPD documents and a new audit performed by the city's police watchdog agency, the Office of Citizen Complaints, indicate the department has been gathering intellig...

3/22: 75,000 people marched in San Francisco today, marking the fourth day of emergency protests in the Bay Area. There were many breakaway marches lasting late into the night. Reports came in of people being picked out of the crowd for questioning or dragged out of the crowd and beaten by police. One small boy was snatched by police off his father's shoulders, while the police arrested his father. There were estimated 30-40 arrests. An outside video screening took place in Dolores Park, incl...

Legal Update Here | Info for class action suit Here Emergencies protests in San Francisco have been going on since Wednesday night with no sign of slowing down. People gathered on the streets as soon as news reached us that Iraq was being bombed. Resistance and outrage is growing against the capitalist system that keeps many people in this country homeless and without basic needs like health care and food, while attacking other countries to amass power and resources for the wealthy. Bay Ar...

03/19/03 MAXXAM / Pacific Lumber illegally sealed off a public road all day on March 17, in order to extract marathon tree sitters, "Remedy" and "Wren," who had been up for 12 and 10 months, respectively. Late in the night on the 17th after the arrests took place, new sitters re-ascended those same trees with platforms and re-established both tree sits. On Tuesday, March 18, in the lower village, more roadside arrests took place, one sitter was lowered down to her arrest and the girthing of ...