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Activists' Cry: 'Military Recruiters Lie! Our Children Die!' Over 15,000 signatures submitted to end military recruiting at San Francisco schools....
Posted: Tue, Jul 12, 2005 11:00am PDT
America Awakens to Redevelopment Nightmare On June 23, millions of middle-class Americans learned from the Supreme Court what the nation's poor have long known : Redevelopment Agencies have virtually total power over property within their jurisdiction. The ruling upholding New London, Conn's right to demolish people's homes to enrich private developers has led progressives like Congressmembers Maxine Waters and John Conyers to join conservatives in demanding that Redevelopment's power be curtailed. But as any former property owner vic...
Posted: Thu, Jul 7, 2005 12:40pm PDT
Veterans Group Issues "Declaration ofImpeachment" VFP issues call for impeachment and online petition....
Posted: Wed, Jul 6, 2005 6:53pm PDT
South Mountain Company Interview on 'In The Meantime' (21.JUN.05) (audio/mpeg 15.1MB) Interview on June 21, 2005 with John Abrams, Co-founder and co-owner of South Mountain Company (SoMoCo), an employee owned, resource conscious design/build firm located on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. John's book about the company, "The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community and Place," was recently published by Chelsea Green Publishing. SoMoCo provides a wide range of services including development, planning, architecture, building, ca...
Posted: Sat, Jul 2, 2005 11:30pm PDT
Eggplant Active Media on "In The Meantime' (17.MAY.05) (audio/mpeg 12.3MB) Interview on May 17, 2005 with Jason Lemieux and Arthur Folsha of Eggplant Active Media in Vermont, a worker run collective which provides new media and communication services to businesses, communities, organizations and individuals. Eggplant supports grassroots organizations, social and political movements, and individuals working for social change through donations of time, money, and services. They also promote and participate in open-source software communities through development, imple...
Posted: Sat, Jul 2, 2005 10:57pm PDT
Fast for Ecomic Justice in Iraq 
In Solidarity with Activist fasting in protest in Geneva, local activists fasted in San Francisco and Palo Alto. Here are photos from the Palo Alto Solidarity Fast and an update from Geneva....
Posted: Sat, Jul 2, 2005 2:26am PDT
Pharmaceutical industry coverup responsible for increased rates of incarceration Physician behavior influenced by the pharmaceutical industry involves more than just the wrong drug. It can cause the wrong diagnosis. Without accurate diagnosis of sleep apnea , patients are inappropriately diagnosed and medicated. This leads to economic loss and, potentially, behavior leading to incarceration....
Posted: Wed, Jun 29, 2005 1:36pm PDT
Earth First! Rendezvous - NEW DIRECTIONS! Due to moist condidtions, the RRR has been moved... but not very far. Check here for the new directions (the old ones will get you there too since we will have signs) and to find out what to bring!...
Posted: Wed, Jun 29, 2005 10:30am PDT
Bay Area's Own Tom Lantos Votes To Ammend The Bill Of Rights 
Three Bay Area members of Congress voted Wednesday for a perennial proposed constitutional amendment to outlaw the burning of the Stars and Stripes.
Rep. Tom Lantos, D-San Mateo; Rep. Richard Pombo,
R-Tracy; and Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-Atwater, were among the 286 yea votes, which was eight more than the amendment needed to pass the House....
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 6:12am PDT
KPFA hosts Pacifica National Board (video/quicktime 12.5MB) Go to
http://kpfa.org/lsb/
to listen online. Public comment is supposed to start at 2pm today: Sunday, June 19th. Before that the agenda
http://pacifica.org/about/pnb/meeting.php?mtg_id=150&
calls for an executive session.
See highlights of the Wednesday, June 15th, demo at
http://www.johnsheridanart.com/pacifica_6-15-05.htm
Three-minute QT movie. 13MB....
Posted: Sun, Jun 19, 2005 11:27am PDT
Who’s to blame for the deplorable and abusive medical care in California prisons? by Corey Weinstein, MD, CCHP...
Posted: Sat, Jun 18, 2005 9:27am PDT
CAIR-CA: FOIA Request Filed Over Lodi ‘Harassment' SACRAMENTO - Prompted by reports from the Council on American-Islamic Relations of Sacramento Valley (CAIR-SV) and the Muslim community, civil rights groups are filing a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) seeking FBI records of the procedures and policies used during the questioning and detention of dozens of Muslims in the Central Valley town of Lodi. Lodi has become the center of a FBI investigation that has led to the arrests of five Muslims, two of whom are U.S. citizens. They were...
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 9:48am PDT
Urgent Alert/ Justice4JulioAyala International Campaign Please distribute widely to your links &lists ! / Justice4JulioAyala International Campaign / Sign the petition ! END PD WAR ON BLACK &BROWN NOW!
http://www.petitiononline.com/Just4J/petition.html...
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 12:11am PDT
Call for Demonstrations After Republicans Squelch Downing St Memo Hearings by Conyers Republicans have shut Conyers out of Capitol and forced him to hold his hearings in the Democratic National Committee. A protest will take place in DC at 5pm. Local demos are being planned now all over the country....
Posted: Tue, Jun 14, 2005 11:07pm PDT
Angel's update and link to decision I will be going to Washington DC to lobby Congress from June 12-June 14. I
will try to post when I get back. I will tell you more about my next plans
in the next week or so. I hope everyone is doing
well....
Posted: Sat, Jun 11, 2005 3:22pm PDT
Weekend of Resistance in Solidarity with Jeffrey "Free" Luers (audio/mpeg 17.3MB) Weekend of events to remember environmentalist and political prisoner, June 10th-12th, 2005 -- special feature on Enemy Combatant Radio, 37 minutes, including an interview with "Free" from our archives....
Posted: Fri, Jun 10, 2005 5:56pm PDT
Premier Diamond Dave and the C.A. Insurgency (audio/mpeg 23.7MB) Premier Poetry Politics What Ever, Smoken Word, WORD!!!...
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 10:10pm PDT
ASA: Campaign Update Despite a disappointing ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court earlier
this week, medical marijuana advocacy marches on....
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 10:47pm PDT
Sacramento Gets It - Kids & Teachers Are Not Lab Rats ! Author Assemblymember Cindy Montanez (D., 39th District), stands up for the health of kids, teachers, and school employees with AB 405...
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 1:35am PDT
Grand Jury Teach-In (audio/mpeg 15.7MB) Audio of Grand Jury Teach-in conducted that took place on May 31st...
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 6:08pm PDT
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