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textUpdate from Hearing on Constitutionality of California Marriage Law by Equality California
Legal argument has just ended in the historic litigation challenging California’s discriminatory marriage laws brought by 12 couples, Equality California and our Families Coalition. Lead counsel Shannon Minter, Legal Director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, urged the Court to put an end to the irrational and discriminatory exclusion of lesbian and gay couples from civil marriage....
Posted: Thu, Dec 23, 2004 6:52pm PST
textOutsourcing Reform by Fault Lines Article - Sakura Saunders
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Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 12:42pm PST
textStop Cross-Gender Pat Searches! - Ca Prison Focus Launches Dignity for Women Prisoners by Fault Lines Article
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Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 12:38pm PST
textAppeals Court Rejects Stay on AB 205 by Equality California
A California appeals court today denied a request by antigay activists to prevent California’s comprehensive domestic partnership law from becoming operative on January 1, 2005....
Posted: Tue, Dec 21, 2004 10:55pm PST
textAfghan success? by Devil's Ad
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Posted: Tue, Dec 21, 2004 6:05pm PST
text Gay Marriage Heads To California Court by 365gay.com (repost)
Lawyers for both sides in the gay marriage issue will present oral arguments Wednesday in Superior Court in San Francisco. Ultimately the state Supreme Court will decide whether California's Constitution is violated by a law barring same-sex marriage....
Posted: Mon, Dec 20, 2004 6:45pm PST
textCA Mass Protest Of Injured&Disabled Workers Called by Injured Workers Coalition
The San Francisco Labor Council and other injured workers and health and safety groups have called for a mass protest on Workers Memorial Day April 28, 2005 in Sacramento to protest the attack on injured and disabled workers and to demand single payer healthcare....
Posted: Mon, Dec 20, 2004 2:42am PST
textWireless World: Local taxes at issue by Gene Koprowski
Great story about how local taxes drive up the cost of wireless phone usage....
Posted: Sun, Dec 19, 2004 6:41pm PST
textUrgent! Execution date set for Donald Beardslee by Campaign to End the Death Penalty
The State of California has set an execution date of January 19th for death row inmate Donald Beardslee. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has granted him one more hearing, and there is a chance he could be saved from execution there....
Posted: Sun, Dec 19, 2004 12:52am PST
textASA Legal Campaign Update by Americans for Safe Access
Americans for Safe Access (ASA) has had a very active legal campaign in 2004. In addition to training over 400 public defenders in California on current medical marijuana law, and providing critical legal information to hundreds of patients, caregivers, public officials and attorneys, ASA is assisting in and working on many pending cases related to medical marijuana....
Posted: Fri, Dec 17, 2004 11:51pm PST
textGary Webb: Do What He Did by Al Giordano
Dammit, he was our surfboard. He carried us through the first wave and kept us all from plunging into the undertow. Now, we must surf this dangerous sea of lies and liars without him. The next wave is coming....
Posted: Thu, Dec 16, 2004 9:08pm PST
textCalifornia Healthcare Workers Form New Statewide Union by SEIU
The National Leadership of Service Employees International Union and Locals 250 and 399 today announced the results of a membership vote by both locals, approving a new constitution uniting them into a new statewide union with more than 130,000 members...
Posted: Wed, Dec 15, 2004 9:30pm PST
textSCAN - the Secure Cops Alert Network . . . Will Turn Profit Next Year! Buy Stock Now! by repost
There is nothing to buy and no commitment. At the end of one year, if you take no action to continue the service, it will simply be discontinued at no cost to you....
Posted: Wed, Dec 15, 2004 4:47pm PST
textThe Web: Transforming online shopping by Gene Koprowski
Great story about holiday online shopping....
Posted: Wed, Dec 15, 2004 12:56pm PST
textMeasure Z and Beyond: Planning Medical Marijuana Activism in CA, 2/19 by Dale
What's Next in California with regards to marijuana policy? Join us for a Statewide Strategy Meeting to discuss legalizing, taxing and regulating cannabis in California, and what's next for medical marijuana....
Posted: Wed, Dec 15, 2004 9:36am PST
textSalmon River: New Sales Reignite Timber Battles by Klamath-Salmon Action Network
New sales reignite timber battles Bush allows harvest of larger, older trees in northern counties...
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 1:48pm PST
textNO WAR! 4 A Petrochemical corporation free Holidays by luna moth
Becoming independant from petroleum corporations will help save the environment, end the US occupation of Iraq and increase local community sustainability.....
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 12:14am PST
textMerry Christmas by Craig Stehr
Jesus wants me to receive support from the American experiment in freedom and democracy....
Posted: Mon, Dec 13, 2004 8:16pm PST
textLowering the bar yet again: Taser hits 78 by junya (AP repost)
Like some macabre parody of Barry Bonds chasing the home run record, police everywhere seem to be frantically seeking their 15 minutes of fame by sinking below yesterday's moral nadir. Or maybe it's all just part of Taser International's "field testing"?...
Posted: Sat, Dec 11, 2004 1:05am PST
text500 Animals in Need of Urgent Rescue by Farm Sanctuary
Authorities recently responded to a cruelty case in Southern California involving nearly 500 animals, including hundreds of farm animals, living in miserable conditions on one acre of property, and Farm Sanctuary needs your help to resuce these animals......
Posted: Fri, Dec 10, 2004 4:04pm PST
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