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Audio: Save Kevin Cooper PSA Mixes
Audio mp3 infomixs featuring Mumia abu Jamal and music by Presidents Breakfast on Kevin Cooper's pending execution set for Febuary 10, 2004 in San Quentin, CA....
Posted: Tue, Feb 3, 2004 12:04am PST
‘Neo-Nazis' begin campaign
"At first look these flyers looked like mild-mannered hate, but if you look at their Web site you can see they are in fact neo-Nazi's," said Sutter Creek United Methodist Church Pastor Andrew Bear, who received the flyers at his home....
Posted: Mon, Feb 2, 2004 7:18pm PST
Kevin Cooper posiblemente será ejecutado el 10 de febrero
Está previsto que Kevin Cooper sea ejecutado en California el 10 de febrero de 2004. Fue condenado a la muerte en 1985 por un cuádruple asesinato cometido en 1983. Él siempre ha asegurado ser inocente de esos crímenes....
Posted: Mon, Feb 2, 2004 5:08pm PST
Central American Activists Available to Speak in CA
WHEN: March - April, 2004
WHERE: New England region & California, USA
WHO: Gilberto Flores and Jennipher Petullo, who collaborated with Rights Action in Guatemala and Honduras....
Posted: Mon, Feb 2, 2004 10:11am PST
Union March sees 20,000+ in LA
Yesterday in the Los Angeles area, from 12 PM to 2 PM, more than twenty thousands people marched in the streets of Inglewood, California, to support the striking workers from Vons/Pavilions and the locked out workers from Albertsons and Ralphs supermarkets.
At the rally, union leaders vowed actions from Seattle to Baltimore, to support the Californien supermarket working strikers.
Read this excellent article about the strike.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/jan2004/groc-j31.shtml...
Posted: Sun, Feb 1, 2004 10:43am PST
State to sue grocery chains : Antitrust Law Broken In Strike, Lockyer Charges
The California Attorney General's Office is expected to file a lawsuit Monday against three major supermarket chains locked in a labor dispute with 70,000 workers in Southern California, alleging the companies broke antitrust laws and hurt consumers by forming a financial pact to protect grocery profits during the strike....
Posted: Sat, Jan 31, 2004 12:41pm PST
Solidarity with Striking and Locked-Out Grocery Workers- For a Class Union
Solidarity with Striking and Locked-Out Grocery Workers- For a Class Union - February 2004...
Posted: Sat, Jan 31, 2004 2:40am PST
Hardship, Dissent, and Questions about Union Strategy Supermarket War
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Posted: Fri, Jan 30, 2004 12:40pm PST
3/2 Election: Cal & SF Props, Absentee Voting
The Presidential Primary in California is March 2, 2004, with Absentee (Vote by Mail) starting February 2, 2004, Groundhog Day. For those of you who hibernate from politics in the winter, now is the time to come out of your burrow and vote absentee, or at least sign up to do the same, and avoid those crowded polls on a Tuesday....
Posted: Thu, Jan 29, 2004 7:12pm PST
Thousands of Janitors Abused by Albertson's, Safeway and other Supermarkets
Thousands of janitors who were abused by Vons and other supermarket chains are being sought for a massive class action suit. Trabajadores de limpieza en California: Los que eran abusados por ciertas cadenas de supermercados tienen hasta el 19 de abril para juntarse con la demanda: llame al 1-888-LIMPIEZA....
Posted: Thu, Jan 29, 2004 3:10am PST
Impact of budget cuts on UC Sustainable Agriculture Programs- Your input needed
More than ever, California growers need farming systems that are environmentally sustainable and economically viable. They need a University system that produces this knowledge and quickly transfers it to the field....
Posted: Wed, Jan 28, 2004 5:33pm PST
Racism On The California Bar Exam : Teach Your Lawyers Well
The following is an actual excerpt from a California Bar Exam practice test, kindly smuggled to me by an alert minion. You may not find it as humorous and f'd up as I do, but then your name probably isn't Ziad....
Posted: Sun, Jan 25, 2004 7:02pm PST
Militant Picketers not Intimidated by Police Tactics (video/quicktime 5.0MB)
Saturday, January 17th, 2004, between 9 AM and 12 PM, at Hermosa Beach in the Los Angeles area, militant confront the unlawful police tactics of intimidating the picketers from talking to people crossing the picket line at Vons supermarker....
Posted: Sun, Jan 25, 2004 10:31am PST
Protest dismantling of home health care
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – More than 1,000 home health care providers and recipients gathered Jan. 13 outside the State Capitol to answer the call to battle against Gov. Arnold Schwartzenegger and the vicious cuts he proposes as a part of solving California’s budget problems. The protest was organized by SEIU Local 250 and the AFSCME home care workers department....
Posted: Sat, Jan 24, 2004 8:24am PST
Don’t execute Kevin Cooper!
OAKLAND, Calif.--With a February 10 execution date looming, the Committee to Save Kevin Cooper and other activist coalitions in California are in high gear to stop the execution of this innocent man. Because Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is an open supporter of capital punishment, it’s critical to build a loud and high-profile movement to put pressure on him. Will the "Governator" kill a Black man during Black History Month, while also gutting the budget for education and social servic...
Posted: Fri, Jan 23, 2004 4:28pm PST
Arnold's War On Schools Continues With Closures Proposed In San Jose
San Jose Schools in Line for Closure...
Posted: Thu, Jan 22, 2004 6:41pm PST
Safeway STRIKE solidarity action: shop and Awe
SUPPORT THE STRIKE with DIRECT ACTION.
Creative support action can take solidarity beyond the boycott!!...
Posted: Thu, Jan 22, 2004 10:40am PST
Vons Strike Continues -- Pacific Coast Highway
On January 16, employees on strike from Vons and Ralphs were picketing in front of the Vons on Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades....
Posted: Wed, Jan 21, 2004 10:44pm PST
Jackson State Forest Needs Help!
California state law now says that Jackson State Forest shall be logged for maximum timber production! This must be changed if our public forest is to be saved for our children!...
Posted: Wed, Jan 21, 2004 7:17pm PST
"We Will Win for all California Families:" Vow Supermarket Strikers
Standing united to save affordable health care, workers, community members, public officials and leaders in the faith community came together throughout California this weekend, on the 100th day of the strike/lock out of the 70,000 Safeway/Vons, Kroger/Ralphs and Albertsons workers, to show their resolve and to commemorate the memory of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr....
Posted: Wed, Jan 21, 2004 2:20pm PST