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Police Beating Caught on Tape in LA
(Los Angeles-KABC, June 23, 2004) — Police in Los Angeles chased a man suspected of driving a stolen car. The arrest, caught on tape, shows an officer hitting the man repeatedly with a flashlight after he appeared to surrender....
Posted: Wed, Jun 23, 2004 6:02pm PDT
Santa Barbara County Supervisors Support Drivers License Bill
At 12pm on Tuesday, June 22nd, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted to support SB 1160, the new drivers bill that will ensure that all drivers have access to proper training and insurance....
Posted: Tue, Jun 22, 2004 7:41pm PDT
Forest Service Issues Permit to Person in DC
Forest Service issues Rainbow Gathering a Permit - application made in violation of federal law - applicant in Washington DC...
Posted: Tue, Jun 22, 2004 6:42am PDT
The Scapegoats of Torture in Iraq and California
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld set up the torture of prisoners in Iraq. Bush knew in January '03. Like with the torture and murder of prisoners in California, it is unlikely that the abuse planners will ever be held accountable for their crimes....
Posted: Fri, Jun 18, 2004 2:11pm PDT
Israel deports 20 US Citizens
Israel deports 20 US Citizens who enrolled in an Arabic language course being offered by Holy Land Trust in Bethlehem. Two resisting deportation!...
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 3:45pm PDT
ACTION ALERT HR 3722: Requires Emergency Rooms to Report Undocumented Immigrants
US House of Representatives to vote on HR 3722, requiring emergency
room health workers to fingerprint or photograph undocumented
immigrant patients and then call Homeland Security to begin
deportation proceedings...
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 7:01pm PDT
Celebs Lend Support to save Pasadena's Historic Raymond Theatre
Celebrities lend support to save Pasadena's Historic Raymond Theatre. Members of band Oingo Boingo to attend City Council meeting on May 17...
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 6:23pm PDT
Nader Supports Industrial Hemp as a Renewable Resource
In October, 2001, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued a rule banning the sale of foods produced from industrial hemp. The Hemp Industries Association (HIA) sued to force the DEA to rescind its rule, and last February they won their case in a unanimous 3-0 decision by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In a continuing waste of taxpayer money, however, the U.S. Department of Justice has petitioned for a rehearing of the HIA v. DEA decision by the full Ninth Circuit, asse...
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 11:11pm PDT
Who Will Stop CAFTA Contest
Quest for Peace of the Quixote Center will run a full-page, New York Times signature ad in opposition to CAFTA- the Central American Free Trade Agreement. The 44,000 dollars and 2,500 signatures it takes is being raised from engaged citizens like you, who wish to proudly and publicly say "No" to CAFTA. The state with the highest number of signers (as a percentage of the state's total population) will be specifically acknowledged in the New York Times Ad. Show the country and Mr. B...
Posted: Fri, May 7, 2004 7:46am PDT
Separated from Wife and Kids by Dept. of Homland Security
Separated from Wife and Kids by Dept. of Homland Security...
Posted: Thu, May 6, 2004 10:57pm PDT
1992 LA REBELLION REVISITED AFTER 12 YEARS
Today marks 12 years after LA--and lots of other cities--exploded in the aftermath of the aquital of the all-white cops who beat Rodney King. Things aren't much better for those in South Central LA, nor are they for the rest of the US working class. And they're getting worse, so we might see more of these rebellions--hopefully this time they can take on a more consciously anti-capitalist perspective....
Posted: Thu, Apr 29, 2004 4:14pm PDT
10/11: DC, Here We Come! The National Marriage Equality Express
Help us keep the Constitution sacred. Come-out for equality on National Coming Out Day at the Marriage Equality/Don't Amend Rally in DC at the US Capitol!
When: October 11th, 2004 from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Where: West Steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington DC
What: Rally for Marriage Equality with the Leaders of the Freedom to Marry Movement...
Posted: Thu, Apr 29, 2004 12:00am PDT
GLAAD JOINS CLAIMING THE BLESSING TO SPONSOR "IT¹S ABOUT LOVE,"5/2
Event honors the Right Reverend V. Gene Robinson, Bishop of New
Hampshire Features celebrities Brooke Adams, Dr. Maya Angelou, Jane
Kaczmarek, Norman Lear, Tony Shalhoub, Dionne Warwick, Bradley Whitford...
Posted: Sun, Apr 25, 2004 11:30pm PDT
Hydrogen HUMvee Highway 2 martial law
Arnold's recent visit 2 UC Davis heralded his hydrogen highway HUMvee plan 4 CA. The water needed 4 the hydrogen fuel cells no doubt diverted from the local rivers?...
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 8:44pm PDT
California, Decertify Paperless Voting Machines
California, Decertify Paperless Voting Machines
Contributed by Electronic Frontier Foundation
On April 21 & 22, the California Secretary of State's Voting Systems and Procedures Panel will decide whether to decertify paperless electronic voting systems before the November election. The call for decertification arose in California following the disenfranchisement of thousands of California voters during the Marc...
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 3:47pm PDT
4/17 on, Remaining Book Tour Dates for Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman, host of the national daily radio/TV program Democracy Now!
is on a national tour to mark the launch of her first book,
"The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War
Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them" (co-written with her brother,
journalist David Goodman.) The tour includes fundraisers for Pacifica
radio stations and affiliates that carry Democracy Now!...
Posted: Sat, Apr 17, 2004 1:55pm PDT
Labor Study Is Alone Under Gov.'s Budget Ax
Of the hundreds of research institutes in California's public university system, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has targeted just one for elimination: a think tank dedicated to organized labor....
Posted: Sat, Apr 17, 2004 11:54am PDT
Anti-Gay Amendment Less Popular Among Conservatives Than Believed
Pushing an anti-gay agenda may be less successful for Republicans than they had imagined. A new poll of white evangelical Christians shows that nearly half of the nation's fundamentalists do not support amending the US Constitution to ban same-sex marriage....
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2004 10:48am PDT
Redemption on FX this Sunday
Redemption, the made for TV movie about Stan "Tookie" Williams is
premiering on FX, Sunday, April 11 at 8:00 p.m. We have organized two
group showings of the movie, one in San Francisco and one in Berkeley....
Posted: Sat, Apr 10, 2004 11:23am PDT
4/20+4/28: Call for Action at the Supreme Court - About People's Rights
Call for Action at the Supreme Court - Can the Rights of People
Simply Disappear by Presidential Order...
Posted: Thu, Apr 8, 2004 9:59pm PDT