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berkeley bowl vote 
10/30:
On Thursday, Berkeley Bowl employees voted 119 to 70 against unionization. While 127 employees had earlier signed cards saying they would be interested in unionizing, a last minute anti-union campaign full of disinformation by managers seems to have resulted in the change.
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Posted: Fri, Oct 31, 2003 12:00am PST
BUSH ST. --> PUPPET ST. Photo2 
Bush St. becomes puppet St. - photo #2...
Posted: Mon, Jan 22, 2001 12:04pm PST
No Union for Berkeley Bowl With a last minute anti-union drive, Glenn Yosuda, owner of Berkeley Bowl, and notorious union buster firm Jackson and Lewis managed to destroy Berkeley's hopes of having a locally owned unionized grocery store. Berkeley Bowl employees today voted 119 to 70 against unionization. While 127 employees had earlier signed cards saying they would be interested in unioning, a last minute anti-union campaign seems to have resulted in the change. Photos from last unionization rally...
Posted: Thu, Oct 30, 2003 12:00am PST
A Corporate Halloween Everyone's favorite radio monopolizer, Clear Channel, is sponsoring Halloween in the Castro this year. Clear Channel are the same folks who brought us this spring's pro-war rallies and own over 1200 radio stations; Along with Wells Fargo and a host of other companies, they are officially sponsoring the event, which will include 14 gated entryways, a search upon entrance, and a three dollar "donation." A resolution introduced by Supervisor Bevan Dufty on July 1, 2003, was adopted by the Board ...
Posted: Thu, Oct 30, 2003 12:00am PST
Revolutionary Soccer Tournament 10/26: Kronstadt FC defeated the Left Wing FC 3-1 in the final game to win the Bay Area's first Revolutionary Soccer Tournament Cup. Report Kronstadt FC may split up the current roster to form multiple teams and create a local league. Left Wing plans to continue playing together and will hold a benefit party to help them rent their practice field. There are plans underway for an anarchist soccer tournament to take place during the week of the SF Anarchist Bookfair in March 2004. More inf...
Posted: Wed, Oct 29, 2003 12:00am PST
WTO 
Legal Update: Charges have been dropped and the one person left in custody at Martinez County jail has been released, after initially being charged with 2 felonies.
Saturday's peaceful Anti-WTO march through Richmond, CA, featuring colorful props and festive music, turned ominous as police brutally arrested the seven demonstrators outside the Chevron refinery. Approx. 300-500 people braved the toxic drizzle to hear speakers detail the atrocities of multinational corporations and the World T...
Posted: Wed, Nov 14, 2001 12:00am PST
G8 Demos 
Two intensely moving Bay Area demonstrations were held in the days following the death of Carlo Giuliani, the man martyred by police during the G8 demo. The first, was a spontaneous coming together of people in the streets of Berkeley on July 20. The second was a memorial for Carlo Giuliani at the Italian Consulate in SF. Worldwide protests have raged across the world since Genoa. A website has been set up to document these solidarity protests: G8Solidarity.Protest.net
Activists returned t...
Posted: Mon, Aug 6, 2001 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: Sat, Nov 2, 2002 12:00am PST
Berkeley Bowl Unionization Drive 
10/27: After 4 months of struggling to unionize the Berkeley Bowl, workers have been faced with an onslaught of anti-union flyers from management and a few brown nosing employees. The owners of the Berkeley Bowl hired a Human Resources person last month, and she has been leading the charge against the union. Their have mainly been strange rumors started by management about layoffs and not being able to call in sick anymore if we vote for the union.
It would be very helpful over these last...
Posted: Mon, Oct 27, 2003 12:00am PST
j20 police rescue cable car turn-around 
protestes just want to play on the cable car turn-around, but cops don't like that idea....
Posted: Mon, Jan 22, 2001 2:13am PST
Fresno SEIU Protest 
10/17: Hundreds of home care workers and their allies marched in downtown Fresno demanding a living wage. There are over 10,000 home care workers in Fresno County who voted overwhelmingly to join Service Employee International Union local 250. They have been bargaining with the County so workers here will have what home care workers have throughout the state - a living wage with health benefits.
Former City Council member Les Kimber asked the crowd of about 300 outside the Fresno County H...
Posted: Fri, Oct 17, 2003 12:00am PDT
Power to the peaceful The 5th annual 911 Power to the Peaceful Festival drew
over 30,000 to Speedway Meadow in Golden Gate Park on
Saturday, September 6. Originally called 911 because
of the emergency nature of the case of Mumia
Abu-Jamal, Power to the Peaceful now reflects the
desire to be rid of "terrorism and the war on
terrorism," in the words of organizer and musician
Michael Franti. Over 100 social and political
organizations were represented at the Festival, and a
good time was had by all. Photos...
Posted: Mon, Sep 8, 2003 12:00am PDT
WTO Cancún Update 
On Tuesday 9/30 in SF, representatives from Food First, Via Campesina and UNORCA, the largest Mexican peasant federation, will answer questions on the collapse of the WTO ministerial in Cancún and the future of the global justice movement. Details
9/15: Talks have collapsed as developing countries walked out of negotiations in Cancún. Press conference
9/10: Militant activists at the forefront of a march of thousands of farmers, anarchists, environmentalists and others battled police in an ...
Posted: Tue, Sep 30, 2003 12:00am PDT
Corporate Elections 
A string of leaked e-mails has created panic amongst the executives of Diebold Election Systems. Diebold is the second largest, and fastest growing electronic voting corporation in the world, and produces touch screen voting stations used in 37 states in the country. These same machines were used throughout the state of California during the 10/7 Recall Election.
Recently this IMC came under attack from Diebold for an anonymous post on
our newswire which included links to the memos. Our w...
Posted: Sun, Oct 26, 2003 12:00am PDT
puppet power 
The puppet artists worked hard and walked far to rally us together. Thanks, everyone....
Posted: Sun, Jan 21, 2001 8:50pm PST
Dance and Drum Circle 
Demonstrators formed a dance and drum circle near the Jefferson Park rally January 20....
Posted: Sun, Jan 21, 2001 4:44pm PST
9/28: SF Against the Occupation 
The San Francisco Bay Area, which came out with strength
and vigor during the invasion last March, is bustling with a renewed sense
of urgency as the occupation trudges on. Around 5000 people took to the streets on 9/28 for a rally and march that wound up a series of marches across the globe. Photos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
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After an invasion justified
by lies and forged documents, cheered on by profiteering media conglomerates, accompanied...
Posted: Sun, Oct 26, 2003 12:00am PDT
Marching Against Bush 
A diverse group of marchers walked to protest the inauguration January 20th....
Posted: Sun, Jan 21, 2001 4:43pm PST
A Review of 9-11 rallies, marches, events 
"While the number of 9-11 skeptics continues to grow worldwide, in the Bay Area, efforts to draw attention to the failures in the official narrative and to reveal the truth about 9-11 have become more diffuse than concentrated." Full story | CommunityCurrency.org...
Posted: Mon, Sep 15, 2003 12:00am PDT
Old Glory 
A young man burned an image of Old Glory at the Civic Center, protesting the new presidency of George W. Bush...
Posted: Sun, Jan 21, 2001 4:41pm PST
70,000 Grocery Workers Strike 
10/11:For the first time in 25 years, supermarket workers have gone on strike. Workers started picketing Vons and Pavillions (part of the Safeway empire) on 10/11; in response, Ralphs and Albertsons locked their workers out and brought in scabs to keep the stores open.
Read more | A radical perspective | IMC Los Angeles...
Posted: Sun, Oct 26, 2003 12:00am PDT
Rally at Civic Center 
KPFA's Miguel "Gavilán" Molina (right) exhorted the crowd protesting the inauguration at SF's Civic Center....
Posted: Sun, Jan 21, 2001 4:39pm PST
Bowl Workers Clock Out in Protest 
In yet another anti-union move on the part of the "respectable, family-owned" Berkeley Bowl, a union organizer was fired last Sunday, ostensibly for "stealing" marked-down bags of garbanzo beans. Arturo Perez had worked at the store for close to two years, and had been a very active and vocal leader in the unionization effort, which has been staunchly opposed by Bowl owners, the Yasuda family. Photos: 1 | 2 | Daily Planet article...
Posted: Sun, Oct 26, 2003 12:00am PDT
(S)elected by Racism, Big Money, & Greed 
(S)elected by Racism, Big Money & Greed
No to Bush's Racist, Anti-Worker, Pro-War Agenda...
Posted: Sun, Jan 21, 2001 4:00pm PST
Oakland Riders Walk 
After what was the broadest case of police corruption cases in Oakland's history of a mostly corrupt police department , jurors acquitted the Oakland Riders on eight counts, while a mistrial was declared on the other 27. Three of four cops (one of whom is believed to have fled to Mexico) stood accused of fabricating evidence, assaulting innocent people, and falsifying reports while they drove the streets of West Oakland in 2000. A new trial on the 27 charges is possible in the future.
A rall...
Posted: Tue, Sep 30, 2003 12:00am PDT
Fresno Activist Group Infiltrated 
The Fresno-based activist group Peace Fresno was infiltrated by an agent working for the Fresno Sheriff’s Department. Aaron Kilner, known by Peace Fresno activists as Aaron Stokes, died in a motorcycle accident on August 30, 2003. Kilner's obituary in The Fresno Bee identified him as a member of the Fresno County Sheriff’s department and went on to say that he was “assigned to the anti-terrorist team.” Fresno activists believe that this “anti-terrorist team” is the recently formed Joint Terro...
Posted: Tue, Oct 7, 2003 12:00am PDT
protest against gavin newsom 
10/24 Gay Shame and others gathered at Geary and Mason Streets at 5pm October 24th to protest in front of a Gavin Newsom fundraiser.
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Gavin Newsom’s brutal Proposition M, the “Aggressive Solicitation Ban,” would put people in jail for panhandling. In effect, this punishes poor people for trying to satisfy their basic needs and violates basic rights to free speech. Like last year’s Prop N, “Care Not Cash,” Prop M criminalizes homeless people rather than providing despe...
Posted: Sun, Oct 26, 2003 12:00am PDT
25Oct03 Demo 
10/25:
More than 15,000 people marched in San Francisco today, chanting: "$87 Billion for Jobs and Education, Not for War and Occupation," and "Bring the Troops Home Now!" National marches in San Francisco and Washington, DC were the largest show of opposition to the U.S. war and occupation of Iraq since the anti-war protests this Spring. Buses from all over the country brought 100,000 to the national march in Washington, DC. The San Francisco demonstration marched from Civic Center to Jeff...
Posted: Fri, Oct 24, 2003 12:00am PDT
protest against gavin newsom 
10/24 Gay Shame and others gathered at Geary and Mason Streets at 5pm October 24th to protest in front of a Gavin Newsom fundraiser.
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Press Release
Gavin Newsom’s brutal Proposition M, the “Aggressive Solicitation Ban,” would put people in jail for panhandling. In effect, this punishes poor people for trying to satisfy their basic needs and violates basic rights to free speech. Like last year’s Prop N, “Care Not Cash,” Prop M criminalizes home...
Posted: Fri, Oct 24, 2003 12:00am PDT
Oct. 22nd 
October 22nd is the annual day to remember those brutalized or killed by law enforcement. In San Francisco, people gathered at 24th and Mission, where family members of people who were killed, people who have been harassed or beaten by police, and people who do activism related to police accountability told their stories; protesters then chanted and marched to the music of Loco Bloco and the Brass Liberation Orchestra. The march ended at Civic Center Plaza, across from City Hall, where the ...
Posted: Mon, Oct 13, 2003 12:00am PDT
Oct. 22nd 
October 22nd is the annual day to remember those brutalized or killed by law enforcement. In San Francisco, people gathered at 24th and Mission, where family members of people who were killed, people who have been harassed or beaten by police, and people who do activism related to police accountability told their stories; protesters then chanted and marched to the music of Loco Bloco and the Brass Liberation Orchestra. The march ended at Civic Center Plaza, across from City Hall, where the ...
Posted: Wed, Oct 22, 2003 12:00am PDT
25Oct03 Demo 
10/25:
More than 15,000 people marched in San Francisco today, chanting: "$87 Billion for Jobs and Education, Not for War and Occupation," and "Bring the Troops Home Now!" National marches in San Francisco and Washington, DC were the largest show of opposition to the U.S. war and occupation of Iraq since the anti-war protests this Spring. Buses from all over the country brought 100,000 to the national march in Washington, DC. The San Francisco demonstration marched from Civic Center to Jeff...
Posted: Thu, Oct 16, 2003 12:00am PDT
Bolivian Uprising 
10/17: After a 5th straight day of rioting and protests by more than 100,000 in Bolivia's capital, president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada is expected to issue a statement of resignation late Friday afternoon. Sanchez de Lozada, a U.S. educated millionaire, saw his governing coalition shattered when the head of the centre-right New Republican Force party, Manfred Reyes Villa, withdrew from the government. The death toll from the month-long Bolivian uprising has risen to 74.
Photos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4...
Posted: Thu, Oct 16, 2003 12:00am PDT
SFLR Raided Around 11am, upwards of 25 FCC agents, federal marshalls and the SFPD brought a warrant to the studio of San Francisco Liberation Radio, the micropower radio station that has broadcast in SF since 1993. Reports have stated that no arrests have been made, though the station's equipment and antenna have been seized. Call to Free Radio Santa Cruz from studio | Benefits and things you can do to help...
Posted: Wed, Oct 15, 2003 12:00am PDT
70,000 Grocery Workers Strike For the first time in 25 years, supermarket workers have gone on strike. Workers started picketing Vons and Pavillions (part of the Safeway empire) on 10/11; in response, Ralphs and Albertsons locked their workers out and brought in scabs to keep the stores open. Read more | A radical perspective | IMC Los Angeles...
Posted: Wed, Oct 15, 2003 12:00am PDT
Fresno Activist Group Infiltrated The Fresno-based activist group Peace Fresno was infiltrated by an agent working for the Fresno Sheriff’s Department. Aaron Kilner, known by Peace Fresno activists as Aaron Stokes, died in a motorcycle accident on August 30, 2003. Kilner's obituary in The Fresno Bee identified him as a member of the Fresno County Sheriff’s department and went on to say that he was “assigned to the anti-terrorist team.” Fresno activists believe that this “anti-terrorist team” is the recently formed Joint Terro...
Posted: Tue, Oct 7, 2003 12:00am PDT
Oakland Riders Walk After what was the broadest case of police corruption cases in Oakland's history of a mostly corrupt police department , jurors acquitted the Oakland Riders on eight counts, while a mistrial was declared on the other 27. Three of four cops (one of whom is believed to have fled to Mexico) stood accused of fabricating evidence, assaulting innocent people, and falsifying reports while they drove the streets of West Oakland in 2000. A new trial on the 27 charges is possible in the future.
A rall...
Posted: Tue, Sep 30, 2003 12:00am PDT
9/28: SF Against the Occupation 
The San Francisco Bay Area, which came out with strength
and vigor during the invasion last March, is bustling with a renewed sense
of urgency as the occupation trudges on. Around 5000 people took to the streets on 9/28 for a rally and march that wound up a series of marches across the globe. Photos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
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9 Videos:
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After an invasion justified
by lies and forged documents, cheered on by profiteering media conglomerates, accompanied...
Posted: Sat, Sep 27, 2003 12:00am PDT
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