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Bayview Referendum Invalidated City Attorney rules petition gatherers must carry huge legal volume in addition to a pen......
Posted: Tue, Sep 19, 2006 5:04pm PDT
California Propositions: Billions For Special Interest When Governor Schwarzenegger ran for office in 2003 he promised to work for the people of California and not for the special interest, now in 2006 Arnold Schwarzenegger has become the champion of special interest groups. The 2006 bond and tax package, presented by the governor and the state legislature, is the worst package ever offered to California voters in the state’s history....
Posted: Fri, Sep 15, 2006 7:01pm PDT
Poll shows voters want Peter Camejo in upcoming debates A poll released today revealed that 44 percent of those voters polled responded "yes" when they were asked if Camejo, the Green Party gubernational candidate, should be in upcoming debates....
Posted: Thu, Sep 14, 2006 2:11pm PDT
Berkeley Director Determined to Bring Light to Voting Rights Once Screening at a Time Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and hailed as "powerful" and "engrossing," director Ian Inaba's searing documentary feature American Blackout will open September 15 for engagements in San Francisco at the Landmark Opera Plaza Cinemas and in Larkspur at The Lark Theater....
Posted: Thu, Sep 14, 2006 11:28am PDT
Update on the Santa Cruz City Council Race 
If you haven't found it yet, you should really check Bruce Bratton's online newsletter every week. He always has his ear to the ground and does a great job covering local politics. His website is: http://www.brattononline.com...
Posted: Thu, Sep 14, 2006 10:51am PDT
American Blackout Opens In San Francisco American Blackout, directed by Berkeley filmmaker Ian Inaba and produced by the Guerrilla News Network, is one of the must see documentaries of this year. The film, which won the Special Jury Prize at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival opens at the San Francisco Landmark Opera Plaza Cinema and the Larkspur Lark Theater on Friday September 15th 2006....
Posted: Thu, Sep 14, 2006 10:30am PDT
Sundance Award- Winning Documentary American Blackout Opens In SF Friday Sept. 8th "Engrossing, fast-paced, stylish... a powerful examination of voting
rights in America." -Sura Wood, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"…a provocative look at black disenfranchisement in the 2004
election." -David Halbfinger, NY TIMES
"…a muckraking indictment of … the systematic disenfranchisement of
African American voters…" -Kenneth Turan, LA TIMES
American Blackout gains unprecedented access to one of the most controversial and dangerous politicians in
America and examines the contempor...
Posted: Wed, Sep 13, 2006 1:45pm PDT
Protest two-party monopoly on debate On October 7th, the California Broadcasters Association will sponsor the
one and *only* debate in the California gubernatorial election. Featured
will be the two wings of corporate poltiics, Schwarzenegger and Angelides.
All other views will be excluded, including that of Janice Jordan, the only
woman in the race....
Posted: Wed, Sep 13, 2006 10:35am PDT
Many November Ballot Measures Unlikely to Spark Controversy Yesterday, Beyond Chron detailed the ballot arguments submitted for half the measures for this year’s election cycle, revealing a strong effort by progressives to push forward their agenda. While there appears little opposition to this effort, some major players are sidling up to the table, and fights will take place. The second half of the ballot measures, however, could be a long list of snoozers. With the exception of an attempt to get the Mayor to appear regularly before the Board of Supe...
Posted: Wed, Sep 13, 2006 6:42am PDT
Community Leaders Play “Arena Roulette” To Determine Proposed Arena’s Actual Location Want to play "Arena Roulette?" Anyway you spin, this game amounts to a "Wheel of Misfortune!"...
Posted: Tue, Sep 12, 2006 4:34pm PDT
Newsom –Chronicle Relations Have Frayed After going all-out for Gavin Newsom during the 2003 mayoral race, and providing fawning coverage of the Mayor in 2004, the San Francisco Chronicle’s honeymoon with Mayor Newsom appears over. After two years of uncritical coverage, the Chronicle claimed on August 28 that Newsom was “missing in action.” The paper has also blamed the Mayor for Chronicle-invented problems at the Department of Building Inspection. Why has the Chronicle changed its tune? One reason is that the Newsom press office ...
Posted: Tue, Sep 12, 2006 8:17am PDT
A Uniform Voting System for California: Ending Private Control of our Elections 
Hill (writing about the Republican and Democratic Party candidates running for California Secretary of State): "...putting the integrity of our votes into the hands of a 'network' of private corporations is really a recipe for disaster."
Forrest Hill is the Green Parety candidate running for California Secretary of State....
Posted: Tue, Sep 12, 2006 5:03am PDT
National Latino Congreso Endorses Public Campaign Financing The National Latino Congreso is meeting in Los Angeles for the comprehensive Latino political gathering since 1977. Today, delegates unanimously endorsed a resolution specifically calling for public financing of election campaigns in California....
Posted: Thu, Sep 7, 2006 12:35pm PDT
Dan Ellsberg, Chris Daly, and others... speaking tonight 7-9pm at the LGBT Center! The World Can't Wait -- Drive Out the Bush Regime! Thurs. Sept. 7th planning meeting for the Oct. 5th day of resistence....
Posted: Thu, Sep 7, 2006 11:01am PDT
Berkeley Mayor’s Race Reflects a City in Twilight Berkeley, California has long been America’s leading municipal incubator of progressive social change. Berkeley was the home of the nation’s first alternative, listener sponsored radio show (Pacifica), and was the first city to ban Styrofoam and disinvest from South Africa. Berkeley was the first city west of New York to enact rent control (in 1973), it is the home of the visionary and politically powerful MoveOn.org, had the first gourmet coffee house in Peets, and its Chez Panise invented w...
Posted: Thu, Sep 7, 2006 7:36am PDT
Tommi Avicolli Mecca: Why I Didn’t Run I didn’t run for supervisor in District 8 because in the end my heart just wasn’t in it. I’ve always been more of an outside agitator than an inside kind of guy. That should come as a surprise to no one....
Posted: Thu, Sep 7, 2006 7:35am PDT
Diverse Group of Local Elected Officials Announce Opposition to Arena Tax A diverse group of local elected officials opposed to the Arena Tax held a press conference, well attended by the media, today at 1:30 pm at Sacramento City Hall....
Posted: Wed, Sep 6, 2006 4:11pm PDT
African-American City Council Contender Simba Kenyatta on FRSC Simba Kenyatta, black City Council candidate, will co-host Bathrobespierre's Broadsides on Free Radio Santa Cruz Thursday Evening 6-8 PM....
Posted: Tue, Sep 5, 2006 9:50pm PDT
Reformers Happily Join the San Francisco Democratic Party Machine Last Thursday, the Bay Area Reporter revealed that Supervisor Tom Ammiano was running for Assembly in 2008. Mark Leno, the current incumbent, is said be heading up Ammiano’s campaign, and John Burton is allegedly on board. The former School Board member and longtime progressive supervisor is already an electoral lock for the November 2008 race, adding to San Francisco’s trend of virtually uncontested races for major offices. The San Francisco Bay Guardian and many San Francisco progressives o...
Posted: Tue, Sep 5, 2006 7:34am PDT
CA's SB1056 Fails, Communities Retain Right to Shape their Food Systems ATTEMPT TO STRIP LOCAL AUTHORITY OVER SEEDS AND PLANTS
FAILS IN CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE...
Posted: Fri, Sep 1, 2006 8:06pm PDT
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