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rattlesnake creek (08 march 01) March 8, 2001, Rattlesnake Creek: A new treesit complete with a billboard-sized banner was unveiled on Maxxam/Palco's timber harvesting plan (THP) 1-00-309 along this tributary of the Mattole River. Twelve miles to the northwest at Rainbow Ridge, forest defenders gathered to celebrate the hundredth day of the mass blockade that has halted clearcut logging of old-growth Douglas Fir since November on THP 1-99-475. Full Report from the Mattole...
Posted: Thu, Mar 8, 2001 12:00am PST
d16 2000 gap 
Santas protest against old growth deforestation by Gap: Dec 16, 2000 - Video & ArticleOct 1, 2000 - Video & ArticleLinks:GapSucks.org (protest organizing site) | Mendocino Redwood Company...
Posted: Sat, Dec 16, 2000 12:00am PST
La Tigresa blockade picture Jan 29: Residents blockade a Mendocino logging site with help from poet La Tigresa...
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2001 12:00am PST
mattole/maxxam intro State-sanctioned, potentially illegal clearcutting continues in northern California's dwindling old-growth forests, some of the most endangered natural habitat in North America. In the Mattole watershed, roadblocks, treesits, and lawsuits have slowed Maxxam timber harvests significantly since September 2000. Ongoing direct action - and legal action - continues....
Posted: Thu, Feb 22, 2001 12:00am PST
Culprits The chief culprits of clearcutting in northern California include Pacific Lumber Company (owned by Maxxam), Sierra Pacific Industries, Mendocino Redwood Company (a division of the Fisher family's Gap empire), and the California Dept. of Forestry itself, which approves Timber Harvesting Plans (THPs) after reviewing them for compliance with the Forest Practice Act and other state and federal laws....
Posted: Thu, Mar 1, 2001 12:00am PST
Voices of the Mattole Forest Defenders Voices of the Mattole Forest Defenders: RealAudio MP3...
Posted: Wed, Apr 4, 2001 12:00am PDT
Brian Watson Speaking on Nuclear Weapons Resistance (video/x-pn-realvideo 13.1MB) Brian Watson, from the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action, spoke at the Diablo Peace Center in Walnut Creek last Tuesday about their actions against the Trident Submarine Base in Kitsap County, WA. He also spoke about the legal strategies he used to defend his actions in court, which is a must listen for anyone involved for this type of Direct Action....
Posted: Sat, Oct 21, 2000 3:19pm PDT
10 april 2001 mattole update April 10, Rainbow Ridge:
Residents and activists in the Mattole, now faced with a Pacific Lumber Co. lawsuit, are maintaining their struggle against logging plans that threaten to level endangered old-growth forests and despoil sensitive watersheds. On April 10, Humboldt County Sheriffs again stormed the Mattole Free State; blockades were dismantled and burned along with plastic tarps, buckets and sleeping bags. One activist had to be jackhammered out of her cemented lockbox to be taken into...
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2001 12:00am PDT
May 1st SF Rent Board Hearing On Pro-Eviction Legislation A proposal that would allow landlords to bypass the existing Ellis Act, which prohibits rent increases on the units of evicted tenants, was discussed at a rent board hearing. By allowing just one original renter to remain in the building, the owner would be permitted to raise rents on all other units. This is an important opportunity to oppose legislation that will do everything to increase the number of evictions for profit. Details...
Posted: Wed, May 2, 2001 12:00am PDT
Nader Super Rally Oakland Tonight Super Rally for Ralph Nader 6:30 tonight in Oakland
At Henry Kaiser auditorium on Laney College campus. $15 admission. Speakers include Jello Biafra, Medea Benjamin, and more. See website for the details....
Posted: Sat, Oct 21, 2000 12:31pm PDT
May 2001 Reclaims the Streets in San Francisco 
A large protest and party marched through downtown SF from Justin Herman Plaza to the intersection of Mission & Fourth, where they danced to a live marching band and a mobile sound system. A tall maypole was constructed, and televisions were smashed. A protest in solidarity with Jaggi Singh and other Quebec City political prisoners joined the party. People hung out all night, dancing, juggling, and breathing fire peacefully as police began to face the fact that these street parties are legiti...
Posted: Tue, May 1, 2001 12:00am PDT
Globalization, Unions and the FTAA teach-in at SEIU 250 A teach-in for union members was held on May 2nd at the healthcare workers union in downtown Oakland. A panel compromised mostly of academics spoke of the importance of educating ourselves and others about the impact of the Free Trades of the Americas Agreement, and stressed the need for global union solidarity and organizing. Watch video of the presentation about child labor in Latin America...
Posted: Wed, May 2, 2001 12:00am PDT
May 5 Annual Protest Against the Drug War's Failed Policies On May 5th, there were over one hundred marches, rallies, & forums planned internationally to contest the on-going destruction of the "Drug War". Global contacts...
Posted: Sat, May 5, 2001 12:00am PDT
War on Palestine -- Latest News Israeli settler militias massacre Palestinian farm workers...
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2000 3:21pm PDT
May 8 APC Summit in Seattle - Protests Against Privatization And Biotech Groups opposed to the privatization of education and public services will protest the APC (Asian Pacific Cities) Summit in Seattle this week. More details...
Posted: Tue, May 8, 2001 12:00am PDT
Support MAC! Speak Out for Environmental Justice & Democracy for the Mission On May 9th the SF Board of Appeals will rule on whether or not the community is entitled to a Discretionary Review Hearing since the Planning Department supposedly lost the Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition's application last November. Details...
Posted: Wed, May 9, 2001 12:00am PDT
May 10 Hearing on Moratorium on Cellular Antennas On Thursday, May 10th, the Board of Supervisors' Housing, Transportation and Land Use Committee will hear testimony to consider a one-year moratorium on cellular base station antennas in San Francisco. Hearing details & background...
Posted: Thu, May 10, 2001 12:00am PDT
FREE THOUGHT Forum On-line public interest forum
Wed evening, Oct.25, 8 pm ET Info: freethought@mediaone.net
Join: http://bulletin.lwc.edu/
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Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2000 9:34am PDT
Forum on Democracy, Censorship & Labor Rights on 5/14 Join the Labor Video Project for a discussion on how the increasing media concentration impacts workers' rights to free speech and dissenting perspectives. Guest speakers include Ray Quan, SEIU 790 member and BART corruption whistleblower; Jan Molacek, a reporter with Czech National Television battling censorship; and filmmaker Patrick Watkins. More details...
Posted: Mon, May 14, 2001 12:00am PDT
Israel-Palestine Peace Agreement Why the latest "peace agreement" between Israel and Palestine should not be taken seriously...
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2000 4:38am PDT
Rally for Environmental Justice in Hunter's Point - 5/16 Join Youth on Fire! for a march and rally to coincide with the PG&E
shareholder’s meeting on Wednesday, May 16. Residents and activists are
calling for the closure of this aging, polluting PG&E plant in Hunters
Point. Details...
Posted: Wed, May 16, 2001 12:00am PDT
Edison Promises to Appeal SF School Board Ruling In the latest episode of the Republicrat war on education, Edison
Schools, Inc. may appeal to the State Board of Education the SF school
board's decision to place Edison on probation and give the company 90 days
to fix problems reported at the Edison Charter Academy. Newly-appointed
State Board of Education member Donald Fisher, better known as founder of
The Gap, owns stock in Edison. Read more...
Posted: Tue, May 15, 2001 12:00am PDT
2600 Sued by Ford Motor Company In another crackdown regarding free speech on the internet, the international hacker group 2600 is being sued by General Motor Company for pointing the domain www.fuckgeneralmotors.com to the ford.com website. Details...
Posted: Fri, Jan 5, 2001 12:00am PST
Taco Bell Protest, 5/22 A student coalition has organized a protest to take
place in front of the downtown Berkeley Taco Bell at
12pm. Farm workers from South East Florida have been
traveling the country informing people about the abuse
they have experienced working for one of the nations
leading tomato growers, a contractor for Taco Bell,
their largest client....
Posted: Tue, May 22, 2001 12:00am PDT
Hundreds Demand Release of Mumia Abu-Jamal 
On Saturday, May 12, hundreds of activists gathered in Dolores Park and marched to demand Mumia's release from Pennsylvania's death row. Photos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4, Poetry, Audio, Recent Statement of Innocence...
Posted: Sat, May 12, 2001 12:00am PDT
Amy Goodman and Democracy Now A leaked memo documenting the crackdown by Pacifica Foundation managers on Democracy Now and Amy Goodman. Media Alliance and FAIR are organizing protests. More info. soon at www.mediademocracynow.org....
Posted: Thu, Oct 19, 2000 4:07pm PDT
Vigil for Palestine, 5/19 
Vigil to commemorate the 53rd Anniversary of Al-Nakba of 1948. Meet at Powell & Market at 2pm and march in solidarity with Palestinians. Read an article written by a woman who was handcuffed and arrested for handing out flyers about the atrocities
she had witnessed in Palestine at an exhibition and
lecture series entitled "Silent Voices Speak." Rabbi
Michael Lerner gets a death threat over his stand that Israel should end the occupation. Background
information on Israel/Palestinian confl...
Posted: Sat, May 19, 2001 12:00am PDT
May Day 2001 Explodes Around the World May Day celebrations worldwide shook the foundations of the corporation-state. May Day is a historical holiday for anarchist resistance and worker power. In San Francisco, a large protest marched and partied through downtown. Read more I...
Posted: Tue, May 1, 2001 12:00am PDT
Nader 2000 Super Rally On Saturday there will be a massive Bay Area rally to support Green Party candidate, Ralph Nader and running mate Winona LaDuke....
Posted: Thu, Oct 19, 2000 3:27pm PDT
Stop Evictions Rally, 5/24 There is legislation before the SF Board of
Supervisors that will stop evictions of immigrants
from public housing and the real estate industry is
trying to kill it. There was a rally on May 24th to support the tenants....
Posted: Thu, May 24, 2001 12:00am PDT
Voter Rights March on Saturday, 5/19 
Over 700 demonstrators marched from the Embarcadero to
Civic Center in San Francisco May 19 to protest the
Bush presidential victory. The protest was organized
by Votermarch, a grassroots organization for voter's
rights that organized just after the stolen election.Pictures:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4...
Posted: Sat, May 19, 2001 12:00am PDT
Youth Protest SFPD Brutality 
A youth-led protest against brutality by the SFPD was held outside the Mission Police Department on Saturday, May 19. Relatives of people who were murdered by police spoke passionately about the unaccountable brutality of police everywhere and especially in San Francisco. Detailed Report...
Posted: Sat, May 19, 2001 12:00am PDT
Quebec City: FTAA Protest Coverage • Read an article comparing IMC coverage to corporate news coverage of the FTAA protests.
More coverage - Global IMC | Quebec IMC | Vermont IMC | IMC publication: Issues 1 | 2 | FTAA zine with photos and text | Stopftaa.org I Video I IMC Audio Documentary...
Posted: Mon, Apr 30, 2001 12:00am PDT
Community Protests Murder by Oakland PD 
Hundreds of people rallied in Oakland on Tuesday, May 22 against
the Oakland Police Department’s murder of Jamil Wheatfall. While the cops
charge that Jamil "resisted arrest" and was "high on cocaine," family and
community members have heard this rap before and are demanding to know why the unarmed 36 year old was murdered. Activist groups PUEBLO and Uhuru joined the demonstration. Video: 1 | 2...
Posted: Tue, May 22, 2001 12:00am PDT
Rally Held to Mark 11th Anniversary of the Bombing of Two Earth First!ers 
There was a Justice for Judi Bari rally outside the Oakland Federal Courthouse on Thursday, May 24, to remember the bombing of Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney, two Earth First! activists involved in Redwood Summer, over 11 years ago. Listen to two speakers (1) Gerald Sanders on COINTELPRO and (2) Julia "Butterfly" Hill. Maxxam shareholders were greeted by protesters in Houston on Wednesday, May 23. Read an account of the events. Photos: 1 | 2...
Posted: Thu, May 24, 2001 12:00am PDT
Finding a Breathing Space for Artists Finding A Breathing Space for Artists:
Our Local Arts Community Needs Support, Not Police Confrontation...
Posted: Wed, Oct 18, 2000 3:43pm PDT
po'lice commishion HP Community Meeting on police brutality 4/3 | Police Commission Hearing 4/10 | Full story>>...
Posted: Wed, Mar 20, 2002 12:00am PST
April Fool's Day Anti-FTAA Actions On a sunny April Fool's Day, revelers gathered in downtown San
Francisco to demand the release of the proposed text for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). Groups assembled simultaneously at both Yerba Buena Gardens and 16th & Mission Sts, converging in front of the Gap at Market & Powell Sts. The procession continued through the streets of downtown, stopped at the Union Square Levi's store for a rally and dance party, and finally wound its way to UN plaza. Photos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 ...
Posted: Sun, Apr 1, 2001 12:00am PST
Join Food Not Bombs At Oakland City Hall On Tuesday April 10th at noon, East Bay Food Not Bombs serves a
delicious community meal on the corner of 14th & Broadway in downtown
Oakland, protesting the continued gentrification of the city, while
celebrating community by cooking and sharing in public space....
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2001 12:00am PDT
USF Student Labor Day of Action Students rallied at the University of San Francisco on April 4 for the Student Labor Day of Action. This year's Day of Action focused on living wages and fair working conditions for sweatshop workers around the world. United Students Against Sweatshops members are seeking support for their appeal to USF food service contractors Sodexho-Marriott to rethink their reliance on prison labor. Read about how students at American University dumped Sodexho. United Students Against Sweatshops members ...
Posted: Wed, Apr 4, 2001 12:00am PDT
Cesar Chavez Holiday Parade and Festival 
Saturday, march 31 was the first official state holiday for cesar estrada chavez, the american labor organizer who founded the national farm workers association in 1962. video of san francisco parade and festival. labor coverage...
Posted: Sat, Mar 31, 2001 12:00am PST
ELF Press Office Raided Again On April 5th, Indiana pre-trial hearings were to begin for Frank Ambrose over his alleged involvement in Earth Liberation Front (ELF) tree spiking, and the ELF called for a "National Day of Action Against State Repression." In an ironic twist, however, the FBI, ATF, and state police chose the same day to raid the ELF North American spokesperson's home, vehicles, and bakery in Portland. Rosebraugh was also subpoenaed to testify before yet another federal grand jury....
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2001 12:00am PDT
Local Documentaries Featured on <i>Newsreal</i> 
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....
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2001 12:00am PDT
Shut Down the FTAA: Protesters Occupy Pacific Stock Exchange Special Coverage The FTAA meetings in Quebec City this week, which will expand NAFTA throughout the western hemisphere, continue to be massively opposed by people everywhere. More details - interview On April 2, protesters occupied the Pacific Stock Exchange in San Francisco while others blockaded the entrance. SFPD brutally attacked non-violent, unarmed protesters. Video of occupation, police violence in front of the building, and some of the arrests, as well as Wingnut Flag's Secret T...
Posted: Tue, Apr 3, 2001 12:00am PDT
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