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Just Cause: Oakland Wal-Mart Picket Reminder
Don't forget the picket this weekend at Wal-Mart. This is Oakland residents' chance to let the biggest corporation in the world know that their poverty wages, lack of benefits, and sweatshop products are not welcome here....
Posted: Thu, Aug 25, 2005 7:44pm PDT
Anarchy Action Camp update
We have updated our site about the Anarchy Action Camp that we are hosting August 26th-28th....
Posted: Mon, Aug 22, 2005 1:00am PDT
Aug 25: Report Back from India and the 75th Anniversary Salt March
Thursday, August 25 at 7 PM - Report Back from India and the 75th Anniversary Salt March. Revaz Farok Ardesher and Francesca Rosa, participants in the Anniversary Salt March, will show slides and discuss their experience from the March/April 2005 event. New College Theater, 777 Valencia St., San Francisco...
Posted: Sun, Aug 21, 2005 12:44pm PDT
Two videos about the MST
will be shown on Friday, August 26 at 8:00 PM, at:...
Posted: Sun, Aug 21, 2005 9:15am PDT
SF Sweatshop-Free Ordinance passes unanimously
The legislation will be the strongest of its kind in the country...
Posted: Wed, Aug 17, 2005 1:46pm PDT
Recall of Alameda Mayor? City Council Ignores Hundreds Opposing Megaplex
This was an amazing meeting . . . the description below is well done. When we walked in the to beautiful City Hall building and toward the table with speakers sheets I was surprised to see that there were fliers for an upcoming talk by Norman Solomon against war, fliers for a Cindy Sheehan vigil, cards for Green Design, etc. It was as though the peave movement had taken over . . . We had to go to an overflow room in a building next door to see the meeting on TV. Person after person after p...
Posted: Wed, Aug 17, 2005 11:18am PDT
Social Strike forum - 8/18
A forum and discussion on the fare strike that starts on September 1st to combat the city's continued attacks on the living conditions of poor and working class people....
Posted: Tue, Aug 16, 2005 3:24pm PDT
MUNI Social Strike is coming. Spread the word.
Hundreds of thousands of us rely on MUNI for transportation and jobs, but the city wants to raise fares, layoff workers, and cut service. The city expects us - working class people - to pay more for less. But this time we plan to fight back!...
Posted: Tue, Aug 16, 2005 3:10pm PDT
HEARING ON ALAMEDA MEGAPLEX TONIGHT - PLEASE ATTEND! (Tues 7:30pm)
The business leaders providing comments and pushing for the
project in its early stages before designs were revealed to the public
have a vested interest in the development....
Posted: Tue, Aug 16, 2005 7:52am PDT
Local showing of "The Great Conspiracy" a big success
As an indication that more and more people are beginning to accept a differing point of view to the official narrative on 911, last night at Straw Hat Pizza in Castro Valley, the movie "The Great Conspiracy" a film produced by Barrie Zwicker was played to an approving audience....
Posted: Sat, Aug 13, 2005 10:19am PDT
Corporate Globalization: The Fourth World War? (audio/mpeg 32.7MB)
Subcommandante Marcos announced 8 years ago that "the Fourth World War has begun"—the war between the global corporations that are redefining nation states, and the world’s poor, working and indomitable masses... This panel discussion at the Center for Political Education, San Francisco, on August 10th, 2005, examines how far the onslaught of corporations has progressed, how corporations have weakened the sovereignty of nations, and how people are fighting back. 139 minutes....
Posted: Fri, Aug 12, 2005 9:02pm PDT
Friday: Berkeley Critical Mass and Long Haul Infoshop Birthday Party
That's right folks, it's the Berkeley Critical Mass!!!
gather 5:30 on, leave after 6 pm
The Infoshop's 12th birthday party will be this Friday, with a party starting at 8 p.m....
Posted: Thu, Aug 11, 2005 10:45pm PDT
Photos of Berkeley Free Market Held on August 6th
Free Markets are now held in Berkeley from 12-4pm on the first Saturday of the month, at MLK Park, next to the Farmers' Market, at Martin Luther King Way and Allston Way....
Posted: Sun, Aug 7, 2005 11:45pm PDT
Sweatfree Public Hearing Thur! 8/4
The hearing starts at 1pm sharp in
Room 263, City Hall. We will meet at 12:30 on the front steps to update all
participants on where the legislation currently stands and messaging for the
hearing....
Posted: Tue, Aug 2, 2005 1:39pm PDT
Anti-G8 Legal Update 8/1
A legal update on those arrested at July 8th's G8 solidarity march.
Updated - August 1
The court process continues slowly. Please call 415-285-1011 with questions or if you were a witness....
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 11:45pm PDT
Bohemian Grove & the 25th Vigil
Report from the Saturday, July 16, 2005 demonstration at Bohemian Grove on the Russian River...
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 9:31pm PDT
Reclaim the Parks Video (video/x-ms-wmv 46.2MB)
Vidoe I made from the Modesto RTP 12:30...
Posted: Sat, Jul 30, 2005 10:44am PDT
Palo Alto and San Jose Activists Can Stop CAFTA
The Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) is being voted on TONIGHT, and two South Bay Democrats, Zoe Lofgren and Anna Eshoo, are important swing votes. Neither of them has taken a position yet on CAFTA, because the tech industry supports CAFTA and both of them depend on tech industry campaign contributions. Please call them right now....
Posted: Wed, Jul 27, 2005 2:38pm PDT