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Argentina 12/20/2003: A bomb went off in a demonstration of around 50,000 people remembering the Argentine popular uprising of 2001. The bomb was placed in a metal rubbish bin in the centre of the plaza as the demonstration passed. 23 people were injured, two seriously. The march was one of many throughout the country over the days of the 19th and 20th involving an array of groups called to remember the more than 30 people killed during the rebellion and the fall of President Fernando De La R...

Resistance Lounge II : New Year's Eve Benefit Party for DASW El Rio, San Francisco 8PM - 2AM Words to inspire, music to make you perspire. Conscious spoken word will set the stage for Aphrodesia's unbeatable live Afro-Cuban funk grooves. Proceeds benefit Direct Action to Stop the War (DASW). Join with your activist community in celebrating the victories of the past year and ushering in a better world! DASW was one of the groups that helped shut down San Francisco when the Iraq war...

Saturday 12/20/03 8PM 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... 8pm till ? (not all night)  $5-10 sliding scale, All ages, Benefiting Indybay.org read more...

12/20/2003: On Saturday, several hundred people braved the San Francisco rain to protest in front of the Castro Safeway in support of the striking UFCW workers. Southern California grocery store workers have been on strike for affordable health insurance at Safeway/Pak-n-Save since October 11th, 2003 and locked out at Altertson's and Ralph's. 70,000 people are without paychecks this holiday season. Strikers from Southern California are extending their strike picket lines to Saf...

A woman's right to choose whether or not to end a pregnancy continues to be a big issue in the US. A young woman in the Bay Area recently died of septic shock after taking RU-486, near the end of the recommended period in which one can safely use the so-called "abortion pill." Holly Patterson, the young woman in question, took RU-486 two weeks after her 18th birthday, and her father thinks that she waited until she turned 18 to seek treatment. Mr. Patterson is calli...

12/16/2003: Angel McClary Raich, her caregivers, and Diane Monson won in an historic Ninth Circuit court decision in their injunction against Ashcroft, the DEA Chief, and the Federal Gov 't. In a decision with far-reaching implications, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sent the case of Raich v. Ashcroft (see pdf) back to the district court for the issuing of an injunction against any further arrests or prosecutions of medical marijuana patients and their providers. ...

12/14/2003: Two thousand people attended the memorial service for Father Bill O'Donnell Sunday night at the Berkeley Community Theater. Afterwards, the procession made it's way to St. Joseph the Worker Church. Arrested nearly 230 times for civil disobedience, walking picket lines, and protesting injustice near and far, Father Bill O’Donnell was memorialized this evening by friends. Those who addressed the two thousand people who gathered in the Berkeley Community Theater Sunday included Ma...

10/26/02: 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 ...

12/1/2003: John Ross is an author, journalist, poet, activist and human shield. He read new poetry on December 1, 2003 at the Universalist Unitarian Church in Berkeley. He has reported recently from Chiapas, Iraq, and Palestine. He travelled to Iraq to stand in solidarity with the people there, before the United States began its bombing campaign there, he was in Cancun for the WTO ministerial, and he recently travelled to Palestine to harvest olives. Ross began his reading by talking a...

Special Coverage: The US and Israel withdrew from the UN World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (UNWCAR) in Durban, South Africa, 8/31-9/7. This marks the third WCAR conference that the US has boycotted. The non-participation by the US in the WCAR is disturbingly telling, as Arab-Americans now face dangerous tides of racism; One man has been murdered in AZ, and Palestinian and Jewish children face taunts and threats in Bay Area schools. Rea...

12/12/2003: On Friday, Latino workers statewide went on strike and boycotted state businesses in protest over Governor Schwarzenegger's repeal of SB 60. SB 60, would have gaven ‘undocumented immigrants’ the right to a driver's license. It was passed by Gray Davis in an attempt to gather support late in the recall campaign. When Arnold Schwarzenegger became Governor, he quickly repealed the law. The Mexican American Political Association (MAPA) has created SAVE SB 60 / Citizens for Public and...

Independent Media Centers (IMC), since their inception in late 1999, have attracted much attention from the corporate media. Most reports fail to recognize the legitimacy of the grassroots journalism that gives the IMC network its vitality, and tend to lump IMCs into a big mass of anti-war or so-called anti-globalization demonstrators. Often reporters have focused on the use of technology in organizing demonstrations, with a local collective at the center of the discussion ...

In November, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that Massachusetts should allow same-sex marriages. Gay Marriage will clearly be an issue in the 2004 US presidential campaign, but it has already been a hotly debated topic for years in the United States. The Defense of Marriage Act would state that marriage is a union between a man and a woman. Mayor Willie Brown hosted several same sex weddings in San Francisco. The Freedom to Marry site is an example of the many...

The Wall blockade along MAXXAM/Pacific Lumber logging road leading to threatened ancient forest....

Forest Defender resupplies another activist occupying The Spatula....

On March 8 2001, students and teachers from all around the Bay Area rallied at Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley and then marched through town to urge a reinstatement of affirmative action programs in the UC system. Apparently some looting occurred; the majority peacefully demonstrated. Some stores locked their doors. Watch a video of the rally, read the list of speakers and planned events....

On March 8 2001, students and teachers from all around the Bay Area rallied at Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley and then marched through town to urge a reinstatement of affirmative action programs in the UC system. Apparently some looting occurred; the majority peacefully demonstrated. Some stores locked their doors. Watch a video of the rally, read the list of speakers and planned events....

April 2001:A series of hate letters, the murder of an unidentified black man and an unresponsive university administration have created an uproar at Penn State University. Read an account of what's happening....

On April 5, the new Indymedia TV program Newsreal premiered on Free Speech TV. Local shorts featured on the pilot include "MAC Attack on Big Step" and "On Toxic Ground: Midway Village" by Sleeping Giant, "BOOM!" by Whispered Media, "SF J20 Reclaim The Streets" by Wingnut Flag Productions, and "Report from Behind the Redwood Curtain" by HAVC. See satellite.indymedia.org for more info....

On May 11 2001, police raided a Cairo dance club and arrested the Egyptian nationals who were inside on suspicion of being gay. The 52 men were reportedly tortured and beaten following their arrest and are still being held awaiting trial in the Emergency State Security Court on August 15. Demonstrations will be held in San Francisco and other cities around the world on August 15 to let the Egyptian government know that the oppression of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people is not ...

11/30/2001:As the US military buildup continues around and in Afghanistan, some recent enlistees in the US armed forces are now applying for conscientious objector status, and one retired army officer questions the so-called "war on terrorism." Read an excellent interview with a former drill instructor on the military, propaganda and social control from 1988. Meanwhile, hundreds of hate crimes have been committed in this country against Arabs, Muslims, Sikhs and anyone seen as resembling ...

News from the Fresno Bee about the protest/memorial for better healthcare for women inmates at CCWF....