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"The lead author, John Yoo, a conservative law professor and expert on international law who was at the time deputy assistant attorney general in the office, also crafted a series of related memos—including one putting a highly restrictive interpretation on an international torture convention—that became the legal framework for many of the Bush administration’s post-9/11 policies. Yoo also coauthored another OLC memo entitled “Possible Habeas Jurisdiction Over Aliens Held in Guantanamo B...
Posted: Mon, Nov 14, 2005 12:41pm PST
The Uhuru Solidarity Movement study and meeting will include a discussion about how to organize a response from the white community against the Oakland Police Department's killing of Patrick Gaston on last Thursday....
Posted: Sun, Nov 13, 2005 4:26pm PST
A candlelight vigil will be held tonight at 5 pm in honor of Patrick Gaston who died at the hands of Oakland Police Thursday evening. Please join members of the family and the local community to speak out against police violence and call for justice....
Posted: Sat, Nov 12, 2005 2:34pm PST
MANNEQUIN, THE VILLAGE YIDDIOTS, I YEARN FOR MAIDEN, AND HARBINGER are scheduled to play a free show at Peoples Park in Berkeley today, Saturday (11/12), from 12-4:30PM. This is an effort to draw a large crowd to restore the historic Free Box after repeated UC Berkeley cop vandalism. The show may also be an unpermitted event since the UC has said that a free show can only be 60 decibels loud....
Posted: Sat, Nov 12, 2005 9:59am PST
Berkeley - California
Saturday
November 19
2-5 P.M.
Anna's Jazz Island
2120 Allston Way...
Posted: Sat, Nov 12, 2005 9:59am PST
Questions asked in the Democrats' opinion survey reflect their centrist politics and refusal to face issues such as the war in Iraq....
Posted: Fri, Nov 11, 2005 4:36pm PST
Date: Wednesday, November 16
Time: Noon
Place: Doctors Medical Center, 2000 Vale Road San Pablo...
Posted: Fri, Nov 11, 2005 1:19pm PST
(1) Tuesday, Nov 15, 7:30pm: Join Global Exchange and partners at La Pena for a film screening of WalMart: The High Cost of Low Price.
(2) Saturday, Nov 19, 12 noon: Take action at WalMart in Oakland to demand that they respect workers rights!
(3) Tuesday, Nov 15, 12 noon: Help make UC Sweatfree – build the demand for the alternative to WalMart!...
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 9:38pm PST
> Prof. John Yoo is scheduled to speak at an event sponsored by Black Oak
> Books on Monday, November 14, at 7:30 p.m., at the Berkeley-Richmond
> Jewish Community Center, 1414 Walnut Street, between Rose and Vine in
> Berkeley....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 8:53pm PST
When: Tuesday, November 15, 2005
9:30 a.m. -12:00 p.m.
Where: Richmond High School Little Theater
1250 23rd Street, Richmond...
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 8:17pm PST
The Transport Workers Solidarity Committee will be meeting on Wed Nov 16 to discuss a recent
international labor rally in Tokyo and the upcoming general strike action....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 2:14pm PST
Alameda County union activists gave Arnold Schwarzenegger the
worst reviews of his career yesterday, meeting the goal of a 70%
NO vote on Prop 75 and contributing to the termination of his
phony reform initiatives....
Posted: Wed, Nov 9, 2005 1:09pm PST
At the request of Rob 'Los Ricos' Thaxton, a prisoner who has spent nearly 7 years incarcerated as a result of a Reclaim the Streets protest against capitalist globalization in Eugene, OR, in June of 1999, we have answered the call for a new holiday in honor of the Haymarket Martyrs....
Posted: Tue, Nov 8, 2005 12:06pm PST
It has been on year since my family and 400 others were removed from the Harbor Island Apartments in Alameda. The apartments were 70% African American and across from a new development with homes beginning at $800,000. MESSAGE...
Posted: Mon, Nov 7, 2005 7:36pm PST
What: Candlelight vigil to remember the victims of the South Asia earthquake
Where: Corner of Mowry & Fremont Blvd, Fremont CA
Date: November 8th, 2005
Time: 6:00 PM...
Posted: Mon, Nov 7, 2005 5:19pm PST
Meet at 11:00am Friday at 16th St BART station to go
to Oaktown and hand out our lavishly decorated and
versed new zine at the Creating Change Conference at
the blessed worker friendly, just as Ronnie Raygun was
to AID patients, the Marriot in Oaktown....
Posted: Mon, Nov 7, 2005 4:19pm PST
We are a collective of 8 radical activists and folk musicians who write, perform, and distribute radical folk music at no-to-low costs. We are anti-profit and exist to further the struggle against capitalism and oppression. All our shows are FREE or donation-optional benefits....
Posted: Mon, Nov 7, 2005 1:55pm PST
An Evening of Hip Hop Poetry, Gospel and Soul Music
Calling for Racial Justice from Oakland to New Orleans
Thursday, December 15, 2005...
Posted: Sat, Nov 5, 2005 9:36pm PST
Please come out tonight and celebrate creating community
and raising funds for grassroots relief....
grassroots working for grassroots, yeah!...
Posted: Sat, Nov 5, 2005 10:09am PST
First Congregational Church of Oakland
2501 Harrison Street @ 27th street
Oakland, CA 94612
In the Gallery; enter from parking lot off Harrison Street
Tuesday Nov. 8th 6:30pm...
Posted: Fri, Nov 4, 2005 12:53pm PST