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Lawsuit Challenges Permit to Drill New Oil Wells in Monterey County
MONTEREY Calif., May 3, 2018 — The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit today against the Monterey County Board of Supervisors over a permit that allows drilling oil and gas wells in an undeveloped oilfield in Hames Valley....
Posted: Thu, May 3, 2018 6:40pm PDT
730 Stanyan - Community Coalition for Affordable Housing and Interim Uses
Waller Center, 1525 Waller in San Francisco...
Event Date: Wed, May 9, 2018 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, May 3, 2018 6:39pm PDT
The Shortwave Report 05/04/18 Listen Globally!
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. NHK Japan, Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, and Sputnik Radio....
Posted: Thu, May 3, 2018 5:00pm PDT
Tim Redmond on the SF June 5, 2018 Election: “What’s at Stake?”
Unitarian Universalist Center San Francisco, 1187 Franklin St @ Geary, in the MLK Jr Room....
Event Date: Sun, May 6, 2018 9:30am PDT
Posted: Thu, May 3, 2018 3:07pm PDT
AFSCME 3299 UC Statewide Strike
All UC Campuses...
Event Date: Mon, May 7, 2018 6:00am PDT
Posted: Thu, May 3, 2018 2:55pm PDT
Really Really Free Market: No Money. No Trades. Everything Is Free
SubRosa Community Space
703 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, California 95060...
Event Date: Sat, May 5, 2018 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, May 3, 2018 12:38pm PDT
No-Bid Contracts, Toxic Waste and Drakes Estero
What do Drakes Estero, Hunter’s Point, and the Sonoma Fires have in common?...
Posted: Thu, May 3, 2018 9:28am PDT
Santa Clara Valley Water District Board Postpones Vote on Delta Tunnels
“Regardless of the SCVWD’s decision next week, this fight is far from over," said Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Executive Director of Restore the Delta. "We will pack up our picket signs and head home when Governor Brown, or the future Governor of California puts a stop to MWD’s relentless process to see this project through at any cost."
Photo - Left to right: Tony Estremera, District 6; Richard Santos, District 3; John L. Varela, District 1; Gary Kremen, District 7; Barbara Keegan, District...
Posted: Thu, May 3, 2018 8:42am PDT
Building Power Against Systemic State Violence in California
We launched Justice Teams Network today to build power against systemic State Violence in all its forms. We launched today in Los Angeles at an event hosted by Black Lives Matter Los Angeles and Dignity and Power Now. On May 4, the Anti Police-Terror Project in Oakland will launch their 21st Century Survival Program at Santa Rita Jail and May 5 we will launch at the State Capital with a rally hosted by Black Lives Matter Sacramento....
Posted: Wed, May 2, 2018 11:24pm PDT
‘Please Give Us Justice’: New California Law Aims to Hold Police Accountable
A “first of its kind” bill would raise use-of-force guidelines for police from “reasonable” to “necessary”—a higher standard that could save lives....
Posted: Wed, May 2, 2018 10:54pm PDT
Help Mail slingshot issue #127
Long Haul Infoshop - 3124 Shattuck Ave Berkeley - corner of Woolsey and Shattuck - 2 blocks from Ashby BART...
Event Date: Sun, May 6, 2018 3:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, May 2, 2018 3:39pm PDT
The Homeless Youth Epidemic is Growing: What are the Solutions to End it?
This article is about how not having adequate housing affects students in the classroom and how California needs more low-income housing so that students have an adequate space to live and complete homework assignments....
Posted: Wed, May 2, 2018 1:32pm PDT
Bay Area Workers Rally And Speak Out On May Day 2018-Stop Union Busting And Racist Attacks
ILWU Local 10 longshore workers shutdown the port of Oakland on May 1, 2018 and marched with other workers and community members to Oscar Grant Plaza. Trade unionists talk about why they are rallying on May Day 2018. Also a May Day rally was held at SF City Hall to protest privatization of neighborhood health centers and racist discrimination policies at the DPH and PD. Speakers also talked about the contamination of Hunters Point Shipyard and the poisoning of workers, children and all member...
Posted: Wed, May 2, 2018 1:02pm PDT
Art Talk + Geology Walk
Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd in Oakland...
Event Date: Mon, May 7, 2018 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, May 2, 2018 11:55am PDT
Justice for Jerome Aba!
UCSC Quarry, UC Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Thu, May 3, 2018 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, May 2, 2018 12:38am PDT
Once again... People's Park needs your support
The foliage in People's Park is thinner this year. Another tree is gone, and various bushes and shrubs have disappeared. UC Berkeley has further whittled away at the park, and a new press release from the UC states that development plans are to be revealed after this academic year ends....
Posted: Tue, May 1, 2018 10:03pm PDT
People's Park 49th, Mumia Rally...5-1-18 Mouse Report (audio/mpeg 102.7MB)
Sunday featured both Peoples Park's 49th birthday and my Q and A to Ervand Abrahamian 10 points down the dial from 104.1 FM...berkeleyliberationradio(dot)info...about Reagan, Bush and Thatcher's 1978 meeting in Tehran...setting up their hostage taking counterparts in Iran...Saturday was rally for Mumia befor Monday hearing...continued to August 30...and the Mother of All Talk Shows looks at David Kelly murder...(1:53:39)...
Posted: Tue, May 1, 2018 8:59pm PDT
Hearing to Drop Charges Against Anti-Fascists in Sacramento
Lorenzo Patino Hall of Justice
651 i-St.
Judge Savage's Courtroom
Sacramento, CA...
Event Date: Fri, May 4, 2018 12:30pm PDT
Posted: Tue, May 1, 2018 8:31pm PDT
2018 California Farm Bill must embrace Inclusion, Equity and Civil Rights
The proposed mission of a CDFA Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights is to provide leadership and direction for the fair and
equitable treatment of CDFA customers and employees while ensuring the delivery of quality programs and enforcement of civil rights....
Posted: Tue, May 1, 2018 6:53pm PDT
California's Love Affair with Big Oil: from marine 'protection' to cap-and-trade
There is no doubt that Brown’s support of increased offshore and onshore drilling in California occurs within the larger context of the capture of the state’s regulatory apparatus by Big Oil, Big Gas and other Big Money interests....
Posted: Tue, May 1, 2018 6:24pm PDT