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The 23rd annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr march was held in downtown Fresno today. More than 1,000 people attended the event that started at St. John’s Cathedral and proceeded to the Fresno Convention Center. At the front of the march were many elected officials from the Fresno area. Most of the peace groups, like the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Peace Fresno, the Peace and Freedom Party, and the Central Valley Progressive PAC...

(Photo: Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier) Native Americans have been in the United States from the beginning, yet according to health and employment statistics, they, like other people of color, still have not achieved equality. For example, between 1998 and 2000 Native American infants in the United States were 1.7 times more likely to die than white infants in their first year of life (Tomashek et al.). The Lakota, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in North Dakota, who supported the cu...

On the eve of the United States premiere of In Prison My Whole Life at the Sundance Festival on January 20-25, the battle for the life and freedom of Mumia Abu-Jamal heats up in the news media and the streets of far-flung cities while he awaits a crucial appellate court ruling and prepares to publish his sixth book from death row. Media activists present photographic evidence disproving the case against him....

Louden Nelson Community Center 301 Center St. Downtown Santa Cruz...

The Longest Walk 2 is walking to create awareness about the environment. We are walking to protect sacred sites in our country. We are walking to commemorate the successful efforts of the 1978 Longest Walk. We are walking to promote positive change in our world....

The Hoopa Valley Tribe rejected the latest draft of the Klamath River Basin Restoration Agreement (KRBRA) released today because the agreement lacks adequate water assurances for fish. "Hoopa will retain its rights to defend the Klamath," said Clifford Lyle Marshall, Tribal Chairman. "We will work with any and all parties to remove the dams and assure a restored healthy river."...

Lennar BVHP LLC simply does not get it. Lennar BVHP LLC will NOT succeed and will be buried if it does not learn some basic principles. Again and again it uses "thugs" to intimidate innocent folks at meetings. Yesterday, at the Land Use Meeting - Black sellouts came to the meeting - all invited by Lennar BVHP LLC and all on Lennar's payroll. It is this type of "thug" operations - that will come to bite Lennar BVHP LLC in the butt. The real community does not want Lennar in our community of Ba...

Services for Andrew will be held January 10th, Thursday at 10 am at Colonial Chapel, followed by a memorial gathering at IFH (Intertribal Friendship House) around 2 pm. We send our condolences to the family for their loss....

It is hype to talk about reducing particulates in San Francisco - when all the time in certain areas - in San Francisco - the opposite is true. Mayor Gavin Newsom should take one more look at the Precautionary Principle, read it or have some else read it to him - before he opens his mouth about making San Francisco Carbon neutral by 2020. If this statement is not a joke - I do not know what is. Under Gavin Newsom nothing much has changed - and one has just to review the data from the Bay Area...

You have a unique chance to help right an historic wrong by supporting Assemblyman Jared Huffman's bill, AJR 39, to restore recognition of the Winnemem Wintu (McCloud River) Tribe. The bill will codify the State's de facto recognition of the Winnemem Wintu as a California tribe and encourage the Federal Government to correct their administrative error and restore the tribe's Federal recognition. I encourage you or the organization you represent to send a letter ASAP to support the tribe. ...