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FOUR MORE YEARSCronyism and Money Beat a Grassroots Electoral Campaign James Ross:One of Newsom's grassroots volunteers, a well-known high budget political shark. Angela Alioto: Ran for mayor on anti-Newsom rhetoric, then endorsed him when he offered her a city job. David Pottruck:Newsom's grass-roots support, the CEO of Charles Schwab, under scrutiny for white collar crime. Street protests have dogged Newsom every time he tried to pull one over on the public. Mat...

11/28/2003: Nine days away from the most important San Francisco election in recent history, Willie Brown's handpicked successor Gavin Newsom has been caught forging a mass email, also posted to this site, which calls for supporters of candidate Matt Gonzalez to protest a Tuesday campaign appearance by Mr. Newsom, where he will be accompanied by former Vice President Al Gore. The protest announcement, which Green Party spokeswoman Susan King has publicly repudiated, was circulated anonymousl...

The Industrial Workers of the World is convinced Management at the East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse is engaged in union busting. Considering that the Depot relies upon the financial support of the community, this is particularly unacceptable anti-worker behavior. Read More...

On Thursday, Nov. 19 2003, students, teachers, parents and concerned community members protested to demand a reduction in the number of people behind bars. Reducing prison populations could save the state millions of dollars that could then be restored to education. They visited lawmakers’ district offices with letters, poems, spoken-word, drawings and stories of how budget cuts have impacted their schools. Also on that day, students held a rally outside the UC Regents meeting at UCLA and ano...

Oakland CA--Profiteers from the real estate industry and Councilwoman Desley Brooks have united in the targeting of Oakland renters for displacement and are pushing for de-regulation of Oaklands condo-conversion laws. Leading the charge to ultimately dismantle Oaklands condo-conversion regulations, Brooks who recently abstained from voting for Oaklands Affordable Housing Week has firmly established herself as the instrument of the profiteers that are seeking to maintain an opulent lifesty...

11/21:Massive demonstrations have taken place in and around Trafalgar Square in London. A 17 feet-high statue of George Bush was toppled to huge cheers from the crowd at 17:22 GMT. Estimates of today's attendance range from AP syndicating around the world the number of 50,000 (later amended), over the Metropolitan Police's official estimate of 70,000 (later updated to 110,000) to the Stop the War Coalition ever increasing estimate of up to 300,000 (a number to which Indymedia reporters on the...

Video Reportback From Bay Area Activists: 1   2   3 Bay Area Activists In Miami:1  2 Miami Activist Defense (MAD), the legal support group for those arrested during the Free Trade Area of the Americas protests, reported a total of 282 arrests over the period from November 11-22. There were dozens of reports of injuries sustained from the vast array of weaponry, which included batons, tear gas, pepper spray, plastic and rubber bullets, concussion grenades, tasers ...

11/22: 500 workers picketed the Rockridge Safeway in Oakland Saturday to protest Safeway's attacks on employee health insurance.Photos Should you have to wait 37 months to qualify for health insurance at your job? That’s what Safeway wants supermarket workers to do. More than 70,000 workers went on strike or were locked out because they believe workers shouldn’t have to wait 37 months for healthcare. Meanwhile, corporate Safeway CEO Steve Burd dumped more than $24 million in compan...

11/20: As Bill O'Reilly spoke at the Masonic Auditorium, protesters gathered outside to denounce Fox News' distorted news coverage. O'Reilly said he would apologize to the nation and never trust the Bush administration again if weapons of mass destruction were not found in Iraq. Why has O'Reilly not apologized yet? Perhaps it's because people who watch Fox News have been led to believe that weapons of mass destruction have been found. 80% of people whose primary news source is Fox News bel...

Video Reportback From Bay Area Activists: 1   2   3 Miami Activist Defense (MAD), the legal support group for those arrested during the Free Trade Area of the Americas protests, reported a total of 282 arrests over the period from November 11-22. There were dozens of reports of injuries sustained from the vast array of weaponry, which included batons, tear gas, pepper spray, plastic and rubber bullets, concussion grenades, tasers and electric shields. Over thirty people we...

As delegates and heads of state from around the western hemisphere arrive in Miami to move forward on the FTAA agreements, so are tens of thousands of protesters who will oppose the expansion of treaties that expand capitalist power. Many protests, direct actions and convergences are taking place leading up to an enormous collective action on Thursday. The largest contingent of protesters comes from labor's AFL-CIO, relying heavily on steelworkers, whose livelihoods were destroyed during the ...

As delegates and heads of state from around the western hemisphere arrive in Miami to move forward on the FTAA agreements, so are tens of thousands of protesters who will oppose the expansion of treaties that expand capitalist power. Many protests, direct actions and convergences are taking place leading up to an enormous collective action on Thursday. The largest contingent of protesters comes from labor's AFL-CIO, relying heavily on steelworkers, whose livelihoods were destroyed during the ...

11/18: U.C. Berkeley Dean of Students Karen Kenney turned the clock back decades by approving sanctions against three Berkeley students for their part in a peaceful on campus sit-in. Rachel Odes and Snehal Shingavi face 20 hours of community service and a letter of reprimand permanently placed on their academic record. Michael Smith faces 30 hours of community service, plus a stayed suspension for one semester. Interview -- part 1 Interview -- part 2 The March 20th protest was ...

Jan. 20th, After a stand off at the door for an hour or so the cops apparently figured out that the protesters weren't in the mood for property destruction and......

The un-permited inauguration day protest march ended at Market and Powell and turned into a spontaneous anti-sweatshop anti-GAP protest....

San Francisco, January 20th - Inauguration Protest March: After the permited march of 15,000 ended a smaller group made up mostly of young people kept going (followed by riot cops and mounted police). The most often heard chant from this group was "FUCK BUSH!" and onlookers seemed to enjoy it....

11/9: As part of an International Day of Action Against Israel's "Apartheid Wall," several hundred people turned out to SF's Washington Square Park to tear down a mock version of the wall. Photos The Apartheid Wall, known in Israel as the "security fence," is projected to reach a length of 650 kilometers, and will allow the IDF to control some one-half of the West Bank. The wall stands between 6 and 16 kilometers inside the West Bank to provide space for future settlement annexation and full ...

11/9: As part of an International Day of Action Against Israel's "Apartheid Wall," several hundred people turned out to SF's Washington Square Park to tear down a mock version of the wall. Photos The Apartheid Wall, known in Israel as the "security fence," is projected to reach a length of 650 kilometers, and will allow the IDF to control some one-half of the West Bank. The wall stands between 6 and 16 kilometers inside the West Bank to provide space for future settlement annexation and full ...

11/4/03:  North Coast Earth First! activist Naomi Wagner was sentenced by Judge Dale A. Reinholtsen, on Thursday, October 30th, to 40 days in Humboldt County jail, following her conviction last June for resisting arrest. Wagner was arrested on March 17th, 2003 at the beginning of three weeks of mass public protests against Maxxam/Pacific Lumber's destructive logging practices in Freshwater, near Eureka, California. The protest began when the company hired climbers to extract the ...

As the FTAA ministerial summit in Miami approaches, the Free Radio Area of the Americas is relaying reports from Miami and across Latin America, including a special report today from Guatemala on the presidential elections. Tune in: FRAA Read more at Chiapas Indymedia. Trade ministers from most of the Western Hemisphere will meet in Miami from November 19-21 to chart the future of neoliberalism; meanwhile the hemisphere's top CEOs will gather for the parallel Americas Business Forum, and eve...

Trade ministers from most of the Western Hemisphere will meet in Miami from November 19-21 to chart the future of neoliberalism; meanwhile the hemisphere's top CEOs will gather for the parallel Americas Business Forum, and even the Republican Governors will meet in nearby Boca Raton. Popular resistance from the streets to the airwaves is planned, despite severe new "public protection" ordinances to criminalize dissent. Tune in on the radio: Free Radio Area of the Americas | FTAA resistance ...

In spite of a threatened veto from the White House, on September 10th, the Senate voted to block Bush's plans to reduce the number of American workers eligible for overtime pay. In another dose of presidential doublespeak, the administration is trying to convince America that his plans to eliminate time and a half for millions are "family friendly." full story...