Newsitem List
358 of 395
Rubber Bullets at Close Range
Buenos Aires 10/26: Greenpeace Argentina demonstrated at the doors of the National Congress to repudiate a treaty that would allow the entrance of nuclear waste into the country. Shortly after the protest began, police began repressing the protests and arrested 30 activists. In a brutal attack, the police chased down, beat, and shot with rubber bullets protesters that had gathered outside the police station. 2 members of Indymedia Argentina and 1 member of Indymedia Italia were hurt in the a...
Posted: Sat, Oct 26, 2002 12:00am PDT
60 Baton-Wielding Police Hit, Traumatize Thurgood Marshall Student
A student fistfight escalated into a violent confrontation with police at Thurgood Marshall Academic High School in the Bayview district Friday, 10/11. Over 60 police officers came into the school wielding batons, and hitting students. Channing Hale said the police hit her with a baton as she was standing in the hallway, trying to get around the fight on her way to class. "I was told to move by an officer, and then I was hit in the face," said Hale. She said she fell to the ground after bein...
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2002 12:00am PDT
Bay Area Solidarity Against FTAA Meetings in Ecuador
IMC Ecuador: More than 10,000 people demonstrated in the streets as the trade ministers of all the countries of the Americas (except Cuba) gather in Quito, Ecuador to further the negotiations of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). In their usual fashion, police lofted tear gas, beat protesters, and shot lead bullets in the air, even though the thrust of the protests was aimed at getting "a seat at the table" with the government and corporate crooks -- who at best would allow them in t...
Posted: Fri, Nov 1, 2002 12:00am PST
Go Giants!
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers and anti-war activists showed up in kayaks at McCovey Cove at PacBell Park during game 5 of the World Series, where Taco Bell had a floating target with a promise of a free taco for the entire country if a home run ball hit it. CIW has called for a Taco Bell boycott to combat the exploitative working conditions they face as Taco Bell suppliers. Confounded by the flagrant free speech exercise in a public waterway, SFPD crimefighters attempted to enforce a qu...
Posted: Fri, Oct 25, 2002 12:00am PDT
Plan Colombia promises to increase violence; activists stage
11/1: Activists staged a "die-in" at the Colombian consulate in San Francisco on 10/30 in protest of Plan Colombia and US intervention in Colombia. Four demonstrators were arrested after they blocked the building's entrances, hoping to call attention to the paramilitary death squads that the $1.3 billion plan would likely fund, though the US and Colombian government's public relations flaks are working overtime to disguise under the banner of the "War on Terrorism." Video & report | IMC Colom...
Posted: Fri, Nov 1, 2002 12:00am PST
SF: Gay Shame derides Newsom's poverty plan
10/16: When you're a wealthy public official who feigns compassion for poor people like Gavin Newsom, you've got to have good public relations to convince people that you're not a baldfaced liar. Newsom's bid for mayor in San Francisco is riding on the backs of the poor and homeless, using the rhetoric of compassion to mask reality. Gay Shame organized a demonstration in the Marina to expose Newsom's lies where he feels most comfortable, the wealthy Marina District. Photos: 1 | 2...
Posted: Wed, Oct 16, 2002 12:00am PDT
San Francisco Disrupted by Anti-War Militancy
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of San Francisco on October 26 to demand an end to Bush's wars. Estimates of the crowd size varied from forty thousand to over one hundred thousand.
After the main march to City Hall, an unpermitted break-away march continued the resistance in the streets while blaring music from the Coup on a mobile soundsystem.
An anti-war march with over 100,000 took place Saturday in Washington, DC and demonstrations were also held
in Berlin, Rott...
Posted: Sat, Oct 26, 2002 12:00am PDT
5-day vigil against torture and abuse in California prisons
11/1: If you're one of California's elected representatives, you gotta love prisons. They add "tough on crime" and "committed to the rule of law" to your political platform. The guards' unions donate millions to your political campaigns. And, generally speaking, they provide an adequate tool the in struggle to control those elements of society that you despise, namely the lower-class and people of color. From 11/1 to 11/5, a vigil is being held at Powell and Market Streets to call attention t...
Posted: Fri, Nov 1, 2002 12:00am PST
Elections Synopsis
Record breaking voter turn-out lows were recorded across the nation, as voting results came in for various contentious measures around the Bay Area. Some of these include:
Proposition N Wins: 59% of voters supported this measure to slash city checks to homeless people in San Francisco.
Proposition FF Wins, 3 Supporting Measures Lose: A proposition to encourage Oakland PD to add 100 more police to the force wins, but is nullified by a lack of funding caused by the loss of three required ta...
Posted: Wed, Nov 6, 2002 12:00am PST
Bay Area Solidarity Against FTAA Meetings in Ecuador
IMC Ecuador: More than 10,000 people demonstrated in the streets as the trade ministers of all the countries of the Americas (except Cuba) gather in Quito, Ecuador to further the negotiations of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). In their usual fashion, police lofted tear gas, beat protesters, and shot lead bullets in the air, even though the thrust of the protests was aimed at getting "a seat at the table" with the government and corporate crooks -- who at best would allow them in t...
Posted: Sat, Nov 2, 2002 12:00am PST
5-day vigil against torture and abuse in California prisons
11/1: If you're one of California's elected representatives, you gotta love prisons. They add "tough on crime" and "committed to the rule of law" to your political platform. The guards' unions donate millions to your political campaigns. And, generally speaking, they provide an adequate tool the in struggle to control those elements of society that you despise, namely the lower-class and people of color. From 11/1 to 11/5, a vigil is being held at Powell and Market Streets to call attention t...
Posted: Fri, Nov 1, 2002 12:00am PST
Plan Colombia promises to increase violence; activists stage "die-in" at consulate in SF
11/1: Activists staged a "die-in" at the Colombian consulate in San Francisco on 10/30 in protest of Plan Colombia and US intervention in Colombia. Four demonstrators were arrested after they blocked the building's entrances, hoping to call attention to the paramilitary death squads that the $1.3 billion plan would likely fund, though the US and Colombian government's public relations flaks are working overtime to disguise under the banner of the "War on Terrorism." Video & report | IMC C...
Posted: Fri, Nov 1, 2002 12:00am PST
Rubber Bullets at Close Range
Buenos Aires 10/26: Greenpeace Argentina demonstrated at the doors of the National Congress to repudiate a treaty that would allow the entrance of nuclear waste into the country. Shortly after the protest began, police began repressing the protests and arrested 30 activists. In a brutal attack, the police chased down, beat, and shot with rubber bullets protesters that had gathered outside the police station. 2 members of Indymedia Argentina and 1 member of Indymedia Italia were hurt in the a...
Posted: Wed, Oct 30, 2002 12:00am PST
Argentina Police Brutality
Buenos Aires 10/26: Greenpeace Argentina demonstrated at the doors of the National Congress to repudiate a treaty that would allow the entrance of nuclear waste into the country. Shortly after the protest began, police began repressing the protests and arrested 30 activists. In a brutal attack, the police chased down, beat, and shot with rubber bullets protesters that had gathered outside the police station. 2 members of Indymedia Argentina and 1 member of Indymedia Italia were hurt in the a...
Posted: Wed, Oct 30, 2002 12:00am PST
Poor People's March
Rich People Are Not the Victims of Homelessness
On 11/2, a coalition of activist groups held a Poor People's March for Justice to up the level of resistance against the attacks that we are facing in the form of ballot propositions in San Francisco this fall. Propositions N and R target homeless people and tenants for elimination. Prop N has been justified through the broad use of racist attacks and stereotypes that characterize homeless or poor people as all drug addicts or lazy bums. Prop R...
Posted: Sat, Nov 2, 2002 12:00am PST
Spoiled Rich Kid Likes Social Cleansing
Stop Newsom! No on Prop N
October 19th, 2002 was a day of shame for San Francisco as self-proclaimed liberals lined up to support two of the most right-wing leaders SF has ever produced. An event titled SOS San Francisco, featured Feinstein spewing her anti-union and pro-war rhetoric while Gavin Newsom worked to build his own career off the lives of the least fortunate by pushing Proposition N. Newsom's Prop N would cut homeless workers wages from $350 to $59 a month and requires people to ...
Posted: Tue, Oct 29, 2002 12:00am PST
CPF Demand Investigation on HIV+ Care
Based on recent deaths of prisoners with HIV/AIDS, California Prison Focus (CPF) demanded that Corcoran Warden A.K. Scribner and California Department of Corrections Director Edward Alameida launch an immediate investigation. CPF, along with other prisoners¹ rights and community organizations, will demonstrate in front of Corcoran prison’s front gate, 4001 King Avenue, on 10/19 at 2:30PM to expose continued human rights abuses at Corcoran prison. Details...
Posted: Tue, Oct 29, 2002 12:00am PST
Hunger Strike Ends on Day 52
11-20-2002 - Sue succesfully gets hearings to be held on January 28th, 2003. The head of the California Senate apparently met with Sue and agreed to set hearings on the old-growth issue. CA Governor Davis has still refused to meet with Sue.
11-19-2002 - Friends and colleagues of Susan Moloney have become concerned about her weakened condition as she enters her 7th week without solid food. Sue, who conducted the petition drive this spring to get a ban on logging of old growth trees on Ca...
Posted: Mon, Feb 10, 2003 1:59pm PST
SF IMC Reporting from the Frontlines
5:13pm Demonstrators have dispersed
4:51pm Crowd is still in the hundreds, but perhaps dwindling. No arrests.
4:43pm Reports say riot cops are beginning to close in on crowd.
4:32pm Around 300 demonstrators have stopped in front of the army recruiting station - Audio interviews | Report
4:15pm Two groups of riot cops following on opposite sides of the march; march still 5-600 strong
4:11pm March headed up Embarcadero. Van full of riot cops present
4:03pm: Demonstrators headed toward the...
Posted: Sat, Oct 26, 2002 12:00am PDT
SF: Gay Shame derides Newsom's poverty plan
10/16: Newsom's bid for mayor in San Francisco is riding on the backs of the poor and homeless, using the rhetoric of compassion to mask reality. Gay Shame organized a demonstration in the Marina to expose Newsom's lies where he feels most comfortable, the wealthy Marina District. Photos: 1 | 2...
Posted: Sat, Oct 26, 2002 12:00am PDT