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Sheriff Richard Pierce of Fresno County, California, has finally admitted that one of his deputies infiltrated Peace Fresno, an antiwar organization featured in filmmaker Michael Moore’s 2004 documentary Fahrenheit 9/11....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 8:39am PST
Death penalty Democrat Attorney General Lockyer has finally admtited the Fresno Sheriff was spying on Peace Fresno, but he is not going to do anything about it. Clearly, it is Lockyer, the Fresno Sheriff and their Democrat/Republican Parties who are the terrorists, not Peace Fresno. This is the old anti-Communist bogeyman game; now replacing the word "communist" with "terrorist." It is the capitalist class and their thugs who are always the terrorists....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 6:41am PST
The Auburn City Council approved a new ordinance Monday night disallowing facilities that distribute medical marijuana within city limits...
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 11:05am PST
Tue Feb 28, 7:41 AM ET
GHAZNI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - More than 7,000 Afghans protested on Tuesday against cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in European newspapers and condemned an attack on a Shi'ite Muslim shrine in
Iraq as a "plot by infidels."...
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 8:18am PST
Don't miss this special appearance by Pablo Paredes and Aidan Delgado, conscientious objectors against the U.S. War on Iraq....
Posted: Sat, Feb 25, 2006 5:38pm PST
What: Auburn City Council Meeting
When: Monday February 27th, at 6:00 PM.
Where: City Hall, Council Chambers, 1225 Lincoln Way, Auburn, CA 95603...
Posted: Sat, Feb 25, 2006 12:01pm PST
February 23, 2005
Updates on Zachary Jenson and Eric McDavid
Sacramento Prisoner Support
sacprisonersupport[at]riseup[dot]net...
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 10:15am PST
This is an interesting story from the corporate media here in Fresno about a copwatch project in Reedley where the police are trying to get an injunction to keep this guy 100 yards away from police officers, their relatives, homes and workplaces. The police say that the guy and the copwatch program is irritating.
Fresno Copwatch held a press conference before the court hearing referred to in The Fresno Bee story. That statement is also below....
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2006 4:24pm PST
Here is the Peace and Justice Calendar from Feb. 19 to March 4, courtesy of Sacramento Area Peace Action....
Posted: Sun, Feb 19, 2006 10:34am PST
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Posted: Sat, Feb 18, 2006 11:23pm PST
Federal medical marijuana prisoner Vern Rylee remains
incarcerated in the Sacramento Main Jail. There he is suffering the
customary indignities and abuses of the prison medical system, as
described in the following message from his daughter Angelena. - DG...
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 11:15pm PST
A recent series of Los Angeles Times articles critical of the United Farmworkers Union and its leadership is sparking a re-examination of the revered union's historical inheritance, writes Eduardo Stanley (nuestroforo@kfcf.org), host of the bilingual "Nuestro Foro" weekly radio program on KFCF in Fresno, Calif....
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 6:53pm PST
Counter demonstration planned at Fresno State on Monday, February 13th at 1 p.m....
Posted: Sat, Feb 11, 2006 9:00am PST
The basic lie in the controversy over the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published by Danish and European newspapers is the claim that the conflict is between free speech and religious censorship, or between Western enlightenment and Islamic bigotry....
Posted: Thu, Feb 9, 2006 10:24pm PST
Independent journalists Dahr Jamail and Jeremy Scahill will appear in Sacramento at the First Methodist Church at 21st & J Street in Sacramento at 7 pm on March 14 to tell the real story about the Iraq War, the story that the state-controlled corporate media refuses to tell. Don't miss this fantastic event!...
Posted: Wed, Feb 8, 2006 9:07am PST
The March for Migrants will stop in Sacramento at the South Steps of the State Capitol on Monday, February 6. Be there to support the marchers!...
Posted: Sun, Feb 5, 2006 10:09am PST
From the Panthers to the Zapatistas
Featuring Ashanti Alston, former Black Panther
Saturday, Febrary 11th 7:00 - 9:00 pm
K.I.N.K.S. International, 629 15th St. (corner of 15th and G Sts.)
Admission is free, but donations will be requested to support the work of Estacion Libre, a people of color collective that takes people-of-color delegations to Chiapas to learn first-hand about the Zapatista movement....
Posted: Sat, Feb 4, 2006 1:27am PST
After 3 weeks of being denied vegan meals, Eric McDavid is now on hunger strike. Please call the Jail persistently and request he be given meals he can eat....
Posted: Fri, Feb 3, 2006 10:16pm PST
Zach is facing 20 years in prison based on the unreliable word of an informant paid by the FBI. He needs an attorney with the proper experience andpolitical orientation who can devote enough time to this difficult case....
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 8:19pm PST
Paradiso was paralyzed in a 1998 car crash. He hurts. He suffers muscle
spasms. Marijuana eases them, he says. So he grew it....
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 3:36pm PST