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Bay Area activists joined tens of thousands to protest at the RNC in St. Paul, Minn. last week. For these two actions, Courage to Resist, Global Exchange, Oil Change USA, Rainforest Action Network, Codepink and the Ronald Reagan Home for the Criminally Insane hosted “rallies” in “support” of Big Oil’s in-bed relationship with the Republicans. The first street theater production took place outside a GOP party at Epic Entertainment, sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute. For the second,...

The federal agency charged with advising the President and Congress on historic preservation has taken the rare step of requesting the Secretary of the Interior prepare a report on controversial proposals to build a contemporary art museum, large hotel and movie multiplex in the Presidio of San Francisco, a national historic park. (ACHP letter dated 8/19/08 attached)...

In solidarity and support of all peaceful protesters and those people within and outside of the US who have suffered violence from police, military and tyrannical forces, we will be gathering, speaking, singing for truth, peace, justice. As an antidote to the Democratic and Republican Conventions, join us in a celebration of the endurance of the human spiritual quest for truth, peace, justice for all....

Nora Barrows-Friedman challenges the programming done during the recent Democratic Party Convention. Charging that the programming is becoming more like corporatized NPR and this is supported by KPFA management and their supporters within the station....

As the UFW holds its convention in Fresno this weekend, Al Rojas, Rodrigo Ibarra and other longtime labor and human rights activists are challenging the union to stop its collaboration with the growers and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and other anti-union and anti-immigrant politicians. This article is reprinted from a special supplement of El Organizador that is being distributed to UFW delegates at the convention....

Here's a list of DNC Delegates, Delegate Shuttle Bus Schedules and Delegate Hotel assignments. Have fun and give the spineless Corporate whores hell....

This is a repost of antiwar activist Brad Newsham's newsletter sent out to friends and supporters this morning....

After four years of legal review, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the Veterans Administration policy barring voter registration drives inside its hospitals. The VA's policy is seen by many as being in clear violation of the First Amendment and may still be appealed. Veterans for Peace member Lennox Sweeney, who fought for the right to register veterans of any party at VA hospitals, died while the case was being reviewed. Photo by Jeff Paterson: Sweeney at an Oakland, CA Pea...

Here are some more maps to assist those planning on being in St. Paul, MN on September 1st....

Monday, August 4, 2008, at 7 pm, The Reflecting Pool will premiere at the Pacific Film Archive with the film makers, and actors, Jarek Kupsc and Joseph Culp. Their film challenges the official version of 9/11, the corporate media, "the war on terror". It looks at how propaganda and censorship work, and shows how the media can effectively kill the messenger to obliterate the message. This article includes Jarek Kupsc's response to a New York Times review of the film....