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Cops, Condoms and Handcuffs: How the Bush Administration Spends Taxpayer Dollars
Cops, Condoms and Handcuffs: How the Bush Administration Spends Taxpayer Dollars
Arresting Prostitutes Under the Guise of Fighting Terrorism
May 6th, 8 PM Roxie Cinema, 16th and Valencia, San Francisco...
Posted: Wed, May 4, 2005 10:09pm PDT
Protest Sexual Violence
Bay Area activists will be protesting male circumcision at the upcoming ACOG convention. Circumcision amputates the most sensitive nerves in the male body and is performed without consent....
Posted: Wed, May 4, 2005 8:20pm PDT
Right now: Celebrate Good Books with Amazing Panel of Activists and Thinkers
Swedish American Music Hall
2174 Market St. @ Church in SF
WHEN:
Wednesday, May 4th, 2005
Panel starts at 7:00; Party at 9:00 / Doors @ 6:30...
Posted: Wed, May 4, 2005 7:18pm PDT
SF Hotel Workers March & Rally
Local 2 of UNITE HERE and its many allies marched from Union Square through downtown San Francisco ending up at the Hilton Hotel on May 3rd.
Forty activists entered the Hilton lobby and brought business to a stand-still for several hours until arrested and cited by police....
Posted: Wed, May 4, 2005 3:54pm PDT
Cots Not Cash!?
Homeless folks forgotten by the lies of Care Not Cash Speak truth to power!...
Posted: Wed, May 4, 2005 3:25pm PDT
M 15, SF- express your views at B2B
Express your progressive ideas at SF's Bay2breakers, 15 May 2005! Same-sex couples in wedding costumes can get their message across without words. Animal-rights activists can show how they'd "rather be naked than wear fur." Or you can join "nudes4peace" at Octavia & Hayes....
Posted: Wed, May 4, 2005 1:40pm PDT
5/22 Gunn memorial in SF
> Community activists Tommi Avicolli Mecca and Peter Wong will hold a
> ceremony at Harvey Milk Plaza on May 22, 2005 at 2 PM to mark the
> second anniversary of the murder of Sakia Gunn....
Posted: Wed, May 4, 2005 9:57am PDT
Picketers needed for Badlands Protests
> Hi
> Last week's three-hour picket of Badlands was incredible. We turned a
> lot of customers away. We had some great discussions with bar-goers.
> We energized 18th street with our chants....
Posted: Wed, May 4, 2005 9:56am PDT
Shall we? Fare strike that is
The public transportation system in San Francisco has deteriorated. MUNI is a mess and the managers fail to realize they are the problem....
Posted: Tue, May 3, 2005 8:55pm PDT
"The Forgotten" Rally at City Hall (audio/mpeg 4.1MB)
Budget cuts for this year have severely effected the homeless. Interview with Jesus Medellin of the Coalition on Homelessness....
Posted: Tue, May 3, 2005 5:02pm PDT
Activists Protest Institutionalized Sexual Violence
As activists, ethicists, and anarchists seek to end all forms of sexual violence, intactivists stress that male circumcision in the United States cannot be condoned....
Posted: Tue, May 3, 2005 12:56am PDT
Christa Sommerer on Different Bits (audio/mpeg 25.6MB)
Internationally renowned media artist Christa Sommerer joins us remotely from Austria. Working with her collaborator Laurent Mignonneau since 1992 the duo have produced numerous installations, pioneering the use of natural interfaces to create a new language of interactivity based on artificial life and evolutionary image processes. We will discuss their most recent endeavour "Mobile Feelings II" as well as past work and the relationship between art and science....
Posted: Mon, May 2, 2005 10:53pm PDT
1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY COMMUNITY RALLY AND MARCH
Thursday, May 5, 2005
Rally at 5:00 p.m.
Press Conference at 5:15 p.m.
March at 8:05 p.m....
Posted: Mon, May 2, 2005 9:07pm PDT
Newsom's "Plumbers" to Evict Poor Tenants at Civic Center Hotel
The Plumbers Union of San Francisco, friends of anti-tenant "mayor" Newsom, is doing its best to attack the workingclass with their proposed eviction of tenants in 156 low cost units at the Civic Center Hotel owned by this gang of landlord thugs....
Posted: Mon, May 2, 2005 7:16pm PDT
Anti-War Organizers Unite to Support GI Resisters on May 10
Organizers from across the anti-war, peace and justice movement unite to call for actions in support of GI resisters on May 10, 2005....
Posted: Mon, May 2, 2005 3:31pm PDT
Transit Justice Coalition needs your help!
The Transit Justice Coalition needs your help! We're a coalition of over 30 San Francisco community groups working to stop MUNI from raising fares and cutting services, and we're going into high gear in the next month. Come out to brainstorm strategies and plan creative actions to defend affordable public transit and stop this back-door tax on low-income people....
Posted: Mon, May 2, 2005 11:10am PDT
5/7: San Francisco Cannabis Day!
Get ready for San Francisco's 6th Annual Cannabis Day at Civic Center Plaza!
Saturday May 7, 2005
12noon-6pm...
Posted: Sun, May 1, 2005 10:05pm PDT
Hackers attacks on IMCs Spreading
New York City, Austin, Atlanta and several other local IMC websites have been defaced by enemies exploiting a security flaw in the DadaIMC code....
Posted: Sun, May 1, 2005 10:03pm PDT
Thursday: Cammerin Boyd 1-year memorial
Thurs 5/5
Rally, press conference, candlelight vigil, march to city hall
5pm, starting at Jefferson Square Park at Laguna and Eddy St. in SF...
Posted: Sun, May 1, 2005 10:00pm PDT
Mon May 2 1pm SF Board Mtg re: Section 8 Cuts by Bush and Consequences
What's happening right now is that the feds have lowered the payment standard so that for example, with a $1600 one-bedroom, HUD will only pay $1300 for it now. The tenant HAS TO MAKE UP THE $300 DIFFERENCE. Every tenant with a voucher in SF (over 7,300 vouchers!) will get a rent increase this year, anywhere from about $100-400/mo. People on Section 8 canNOT afford these increases. If landlords do not agree to lower the rent down to the new standard or the tenant does not find another place t...
Posted: Sun, May 1, 2005 8:57pm PDT