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How do you run a ruthless social cleansing war without faithful propagandroids? Not a problem in San Francisco. The SF Bay Guardian has revealed that SFPD and the SF Examiner have a cozier relationship than previously thought. But it comes as no surprise, since the Examiner's Mess on Market series has propagandized for increasing police brutality and enforcement in an area being aggressively gentrified. The city's plans, based on well-documented Giuliani-style social cleansing, has already ...

9/14: As the Bush Regime sounds its drums of war at the UN, rallies across Northern California today confronted the policies of violence and repression. Fresno: Over 100 protesters marched over 10 miles to deliver letters to their congressional representatives. Photos SF: A combined rally of the ILWU and IAC marched from UN Plaza to Jefferson Square to protest Bush's union-busting and war-mongering. Photos Emergency protests have been called for in San Francisco at the first sign of an esc...

"If I wanted to lie, or if we wanted to lie, if we wanted to exaggerate, I wouldn't use my daughter to do so. I could easily buy other people to do it." --Saud Nasir al-Sabah, Kuwait's Ambassador to the United States and Canada The Iraq Public Diplomacy Group, composed of staff from the upper echelons of the US government, is prepared to lead the charge in the battle for the world's mind and opinion. The group is apparently going to produce anti-Saddam Hussein propaganda and provide "expert"...

10/16: Students and community converged on UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza to say: “We will not be silent. We will not be complicit in the UC's funding of the Apartheid State of Israel, and we will not be complicit in the UC's persecution of students and community members who exercise their rights of free speech and free assembly to criticize the policies of the Israeli government.” Specifically, protestors demanded that charges be dropped against the Wheeler 32, the 32 students who sat-in to dema...

The People's Strike and anti-IMF/World Bank protests in Washington, DC reminded the White House and the international ruling elite exactly what kind of threat is represented by a vast international network of dissidents who want to off with their new world order. Police have counterattacked, with at least 600 arrests and an undetermined number of injuries reported -- including one protester pushed by riots cops into a Citibank window hard enough to break it. Events started on 9/23, while st...

How do you run a ruthless social cleansing war without faithful propagandroids? Not a problem in San Francisco. The SF Bay Guardian has revealed that SFPD and the SF Examiner have a cozier relationship than previously thought. But it comes as no surprise, since the Examiner's Mess on Market series has propagandized for increasing police brutality and enforcement in an area being aggressively gentrified. The city's plans, based on well-documented Giuliani-style social cleansing, has already ...

Friday, 9/27 is the tenth anniversary of the Critical Mass bike ride that started in San Francisco. 10 years later, it's still going strong and has spread to over 300 cities. People are meeting on Friday at 5:45pm at the foot of Market St. in downtown for the anniversary ride, ending at Church and 20th. The anniversary is fortunately during the last half of September, which the excellent folks at Car Busters have declared as World Car-Free Days. The city of San Francisco has sort of announced...

9/24: From the newswire: The City of Fresno has a “campaign” to make the poor and homeless go away. This campaign includes increased harassment of the poor and homeless downtown, a TV advertising campaign asking people not to give money to the poor, the relocation of services for homeless people to a location South of downtown, and an ordinance that will make panhandling illegal. Full story Fresno Community Alliance | Fresno Food Not Bombs...

On 9/18, a protest to commemorate the Sabra and Shatila massacres of 1982 took place and demanded that the UC System cease funding Israeli occupation of Palestine as well as a system of apartheid within Israel. The UC Regents meetings this year take place during the 20th anniversary of the massacre of innocent Palestinian civilians at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. Israel IMC | Palestine IMC...

On 10/6, the anniversary eve of the bombing of Afghanistan, Not In Our Name organized nationwide protests against the "war on the world", detentions and police state restrictions. Thousands joined the mass action that was held at Union Square, SF to remember Afghanistan and stop in its tracks an imperialistic war on the people of Iraq. NION's Pledge of Resistance (video) calls for resistance against the blood-for-oil mantra and US policies of racism, repression, and collateral damage. P...