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As Easter Sunday approached, a day that also marks the beginning of spring and the rebirth of life in nature, a number of activists used the occasion to remind the public that the holiday is meant to be a celebration of life by demonstrating and distributing information against the Easter-related exploitation of animals, from pigs and ducks to rabbits and baby chicks. On Saturday March 26, members of Bakersfield Alliance for Animals protested Honey-Baked Ham sales in the Central Valley....

Saturday March 26th was the 10th annual San Francisco Anarchist Bookfair. Thousands of people from all over the United States flocked to the edge of Golden Gate Park to browse indoor tables with books, zines, t-shirts, patches, and more; to listen to speakers; and to hang out outside, where more merchandise was on display. Speakers included writer and professor Ward Churchill, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (author of Red Dirt and Outlaw Woman), Peter Werbe (of Fifth Estate), artist Eric Drooker, pr...

On the last Friday of the month, the Critical Mass Radio Network airs a coordinated broadcast by member stations — Free Radio Dallas, Free Radio Santa Cruz, RadioActive San Diego, ASC New York City, Enemy Combatant Radio, Kill Radio Los Angeles, Indymedia Portland, and Radio Volta Philadelphia.The ECR broadcast from San Francisco will be on tonight from 8–9 p.m. PST. Listen | Read more...

Eyes Wide Open is a traveling memorial that exhibits a pair of empty combat boots for each of the over 1500 American soldiers who have died in combat in the Iraq war. The boots are tagged with the names of the soldiers. There is also a wall of names to memorialize the Iraqis who have been killed. The Eyes Wide Open Exhibit is a project of the American Friends Service Committee and many co-sponsors. Photos from Saturday 3/26: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 San Francisco dates: March 25th (F...

On March 19, 2005, hundreds of Bay Area trade unionists and workers joined together in San Francisco for a rally and march against the war. In their rally that gathered in Dolores Park before the march began, labor organizers spoke about the connection between the war and the attack on workers at home. The local International Longshore and Warehouse Union protested the war in Iraq and the deadly cuts it has forced locally and nationally by holding a stop-work meeting and shutting down all B...

4/7/2005: Ibrahim Jaafari has been named prime minister. 4/6/2005: Iraq's parliament has chosen Jalal Talabani as the country's new president. Both Adil Abdel-Mahdi and Ghazi Al-Yawar have been named as vice presidents. Talabani: Ally of CIA, Iranian Intelligence and Saddam Hussein | Wikipedia: Jalal Talabani | Washington's Trojan Horse in the New Iraqi Government: Vice President Abdel Mahdi | Iraq ends deadlock 4/3/2005: Iraq's new parliament has elected Sunni Arab cand...

Saturday March 26th was the 10th annual San Francisco Anarchist Bookfair. Photos, Video and Audio: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 Other events during Anarchy Week: On Friday March 25th, the 8th Annual Anarchist Cafe was held at The Kitchen at 225 Potrero Ave. Hundreds attended, watching performances by spoken word artists and punk bands, eating vegan food, meeting new friends and old, and dancing to 80's and 90's music outside. Additional events on Saturday March 26...

According to Forbes' latest list of the "World's Richest People," Silicon Valley execs Lawrence Ellison of Oracle, Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, and Jeffrey Skoll of Ebay top the Bay Area's billionaire roster. Over the past year alone, the net worth of the Bay Area's billionaires increased by a whopping 33%, from 85 billion to 112.9 billion dollars. At this rate of increase, the Bay Area's billionaires will be worth over 1.1 trillion dollars within eight years. More on San Francisc...

The Lark Creek Inn Restaurant in Larkspur has not returned activists calls for a meeting to discuss the end of the sale of foie gras at their restaurant with local activists. Activists have hand delivered letters, packages of facts and video tape footage of the cruel process of producing foie gras to the restaurant. The Marin Peace and Justice Animal Rights Committee is now officially calling for a boycott of The Lark Creek Inn restaurant until they stop buying and selling foie gras. Foie ...

3/21/2005: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom called today for a moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries in the city after he learned that one of these clinics, called the Holistic Center, planned to open this week on the ground floor of the All-Star Hotel, which is a city-funded SRO hotel that is home to a number of recovering drug addicts. San Francisco has become home to more than 30 percent of the state's 125-plus dispensaries that have opened since 1996, Newsom said. However, it's ...

On March 23rd, Bayview Hunters Point residents delivered a 30-day eviction notice for the Hunters Point Power Plant to PG&E Headquarters on Beale Street in downtown San Francisco. The mothers, residents and allies demanded a meeting with CEO Peter Darvey but were not allowed inside corporate headquarters. PG&E instead sent its Sr. Public Relations director, Guillermo Rodriguez, to accept the 30 day notice—but did not comment. Photos | Video The power plant, situated adjacent to resi...

In 1985, the first Great American Meatout was called for in reaction to the U.S. Senate's attempt at the time to endorse a National Meat Week. Starting from a single event that year, it has grown into an international action observed in all 50 states and 21 countries. It is now the world's largest and oldest annual grassroots diet education campaign. Activities include street theater, lectures, public dinners, food samplings, leafleting, and information tables called "steakouts." It is a ...

A vigil was held Monday, March 21st, at the home of Senator Diane Feinstein. People gathered at 4:00 pm at Centro del Pueblo (474 Valencia Street at 16th). They planned to carpool to the vigil at Diane Feinstein's house, which is located at 30 Presidio Terrace, near Arguello. The vigil included speakers, music, candles, and a public display of driver's licenses on Feinstein's front lawn. People who are in favor of the issuance of driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants planned to...

3/19/05: The Rally in the Valley" was a focal point of anti-war activity in the Central Valley. Participants at the Rally in the Valley, which was held in downtown Fresno, came from Modesto, Merced, Madera, Fresno, Visalia, Reedley, Porterville, and many other Central California communities. One creative fundraiser at the rally, Crushing Bush Lies", was a smashing success. Earlier this week Students at CSU-Fresno students drummed for peace at an event in the free speech area. There was a...

On March 20th in San Jose, there was a Peace March and Rally to Bring the Troops Home, beginning at 1:30pm. Photos | More info March 19, 2005 was an International Day of Protest on the second anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. In San Francisco, ANSWER organized a rally that took place in Dolores Park. A stage was set up near 19th and Dolores with speakers (including Tom Ammiano) beginning around 11am. A student contingent gathered at the 16th St BART station at 10AM before m...

On Tuesday, March 15, In Defense of Animals (IDA) joined dozens of animal and environmental protection groups in a massive worldwide protest of the annual Canadian seal slaughter scheduled to begin just days from now. Every year, the Canadian Government sanctions the killing of 350,000 seals off the country's eastern shores, most of whom are just days or weeks old, and are shot, beaten, stabbed and often skinned alive. Many eyewitnesses have even seen hunters sadistically torturing seals with...

Cultural Links sponsored the 8th annual Radical Performance Festival on March 18th and 19th at the SomArts Cultural Center in San Francisco. The show on Friday night included Sparlha Swa, Shailja Patel, the Brass Liberation Orchestra, Ashley Brockington, SoulOgraphy, Julia Butterfly, the Vietnamese Artists Collective, Arts in Action poets, and others. Saturday night's performance included Sistas in the Pit, Copper Women, Colored Ink, Matt Gonzalez, Kreatibo, Blue Buddha, Samsara, Deep Dick ...

Enemy Combatant Radio will be live in studio and at the demonstration. Phone in reports, interviews, etc. to (415) 864-1006 BREAKING NEWS: 3/19 4:45pmNLG Legal Support reports that a total of nine protesters were arrested at 14th and Valencia. Witnesses of this incident with photo or video have been asked to contact the NLG at (415) 285-1011. 3/19 4:05pmNine of those who were sitting in the intersection have now been arrested by a combination of SFPD, and CHP. Since the protesters w...

A critical hearing that was scheduled for the San Francisco Superior Court on January 28th was again rescheduled to Friday, March 18th at 9:30am. The San Francisco Police Officers Association has been trying to get officer Gregory Breslin, who is widely believed to have been the officer who fatally shot Detoy in the head, off on a technicality. In 2003 the San Francisco Police Commission decided they wanted to file charges against the officers, but things seem to be moving very slowly... Sh...

Z, who is also known as Ellen, is an Indymedia reporter from Oregon. She reports that this past weekend, she went to Southern Oregon to interview women from the Sisiyou. These women conducted an action on Monday, March 16th in which they took over the only bridge that can be used by log trucks to get to the forest to cut the old growth at the Biscuit. She said, "... women all over the world collaborating to take back the earth...Wow! I went to Southern Oregon this weekend and interv...

March 17th: The Berkeley Biodiesel Collective presents a night of films at La Peña Cultural Center, showcasing what it calls "the country's fastest growing alternative fuel." The evening will include educational and entertaining films about the uses, history and culture of biodiesel. Biodiesel is a renewable, vegetable-based, non-toxic, domestically-produced fuel that can be used in diesel engines with little or no modification. Donations at the door will benefit the Berkeley B...

On Wednesday, March 23, 2005, there will be a protest at the PG&E Headquarters to say, "Shut Down the Hunters Point Power Plant Now!" The demonstration will take place at 12 Noon, at the PG&E Corporate Headquarters - 77 Beale Street, San Francisco (Market Street near Embarcadero BART). The event will be sponsored by the Coalition to Shut Down the PG&E Hunters Point Power Plant, the Huntersview Tenants Association, All Hallows Garden Residents Association, Greenaction for Health and Environm...

On March 16 Kevin J. Martin was selected by Bush as the new head of the FCC. Kevin Martin, was one of the first national Bush-Cheney people to arrive in Miami from Washington, on Nov. 8 2000. He had been a deputy general counsel for the Bush campaign and before that worked for Ken Starr, the independent counsel in the Monica Lewinsky affair. On March 14, Karen Huges was nominated for the Under Secretary of State for public diplomacy with the rank of Ambassador — a job focused on changin...