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KPFA Board Meeting LIVE In conjunction with indybay.org, we will once again attempt to bring you a live KPFA Board meeting, this Saturday from Berkeley's Freight and Salvage...
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 6:32pm PDT
Tent U Santa Cruz: a chance to win in the face of repression 
Activist networks in the U.S. and around the world were buzzing on the morning of April 19 with the news that 19 people were brutally arrested the night before at Tent University Santa Cruz. Tent U, an experiment in "liberated education," has captured the interest of thousands of students while creating fright and paranoia among UC administrators who, in the words of one well-connected UCSC faculty member, are afraid that "the torch-carrying hordes are coming to raze UCSC to th...
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 6:20pm PDT
Hyatt West Hollywood Workers on Strike Demand Hotels Return Healthcare Money Hundreds of workers at the Hyatt West Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles went on strike today for two weeks in protest of the hotel’s refusal to return the thousands of dollars in healthcare co-pays the hotel collected from the workers over a period of eight months after their contract expired in April....
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 10:41am PDT
ASA: Campaign Update Despite a disappointing ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court earlier
this week, medical marijuana advocacy marches on....
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 10:47pm PDT
Round Two Begins in the Tree-sitter Lawsuit Against Pacific Lumber Activists fortify case that Maxxam climbers acted as cops...
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 9:50pm PDT
Animals and Us: Impossible to maintain moral blindness to the way we treat them DawnWatch: New Scientist huge spread "Animals and Us" 6/4/05-6/10/05...
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 5:53pm PDT
ON-AIR DEBATE WED 6/8: JEFFREY BLANKFORT: The Role of the Pro-Israel Lobby in US Politics Anti-Zionist Jewish-American veteran photo-journalist, radio journalist, political essayist, and anti-war and human rights activist, JEFFREY BLANKFORT will debate University of San Francisco (USF) Prof. Stephen Zunes TONIGHT, Wed, 7:pm PT, on KPFA-FM (94.1 or listen at kpfa.org), in Berkeley, CA, regarding the role of the pro-Israel lobby in U.S. politics and related issues....
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 3:12pm PDT
Sacramento Gets It - Kids & Teachers Are Not Lab Rats ! Author Assemblymember Cindy Montanez (D., 39th District), stands up for the health of kids, teachers, and school employees with AB 405...
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 1:35am PDT
Court Declares Schwarzenegger Violated Law in Attack on RN-to-Patient Ratios In a final judgment issued today, Superior Court Judge Judy Hersher ruled that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger acted illegally in seeking to overturn key portions of the state’s landmark law requiring safe registered nurse-to-patient hospital ratios....
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 6:04pm PDT
UC Regents Ignore Massive Resistance, Vote to Build Nukes 
On May 25, a passionate display of concern and anger erupted from Berkeley students and anti-nuke warriors at the decision that the University of California will bid with corporate war profiteer, Bechtel, for the nuclear labs at Los Alamos....
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 4:45pm PDT
RESISTANT CULTURE TRIBAL AUTONOMY TOUR AUGUST 2005 Please support the Tribal Autonomy West Coast Tour August 2005. RESISTANT CULTURE will be touring with punk/grind bands and representatives of indigenous first nations who will be sharing news of their struggles for autonomy....
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 2:50pm PDT
Governor of California to give commencement speech at Santa Monica College. Governor of California to give commencement speech at Santa Monica College. After months of protest and pleas from both students and faculty not to schedule the governator. The president and the board of trustees of SMC have gone ahead despite the objections....
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 2:28pm PDT
Claws come out in fights over zoos. DawnWatch: USA Today (and AZ Repub) on zoos and Hawthorn elephants -- 6/3/05...
Posted: Mon, Jun 6, 2005 9:52am PDT
Rolling Stone: The Girl Who Tried to Save the World On the afternoon of Saturday, April 16th, Marla Ruzicka sat in her unarmored Mercedes, talking on the phone with her friend Colin McMahon, a reporter in the Baghdad bureau of the Chicago Tribune. She'd had a "great" round of meetings in the Green Zone, she told McMahon, and was just leaving the fortified compound in the hopes of squeezing in one last meeting before the end of the day. The Green Zone, which sits on the west bank of the Tigris River, used to be the heart of Saddam's e...
Posted: Sun, Jun 5, 2005 12:53pm PDT
Will the Euro's "Crisis of Confidence" Affect Amerika? Last week's shocking decline in the Euro may impact Amerika. Opportunities and Dangers lie ahead!...
Posted: Sat, Jun 4, 2005 12:21pm PDT
Military Service for Jail Sentence Forgiveness With recruitment for the US Army and Marines now at only 57% of target, it may be time to look at a form of policy that existed in the 50s and 60s--miliary service an option to jail time...
Posted: Sat, Jun 4, 2005 10:28am PDT
FIGHT FOR MARRIAGE EQUALITY IN CALIFORNIA WILL CONTINUE "We will continue to fight for equal rights and responsibilities for
all
California families," said HRC President Joe Solmonese....
Posted: Fri, Jun 3, 2005 10:57am PDT
CALIFORNNIA ASSEMBLY DOES NOT PASS MARRIAGE EQUALITY BILL "Today, we saw the true colors of a handful of Democrats and all Republican members
who have deserted the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community and voted
for discrimination,"...
Posted: Thu, Jun 2, 2005 10:21pm PDT
World Environment Day Interview (audio/mpeg 5.0MB) Interview on deforestation of Medocino County by GAP and the Fisher family....
Posted: Thu, Jun 2, 2005 1:59pm PDT
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