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Rallying for Suzanne Swift Spc Suzanne Swift, now in a military brig in Oregon, inspired a rally at the Oakland Military Recruitment Center at Broadway and 21st Streets on Friday, June 23rd. Here's a report from the rally....
Posted: Fri, Jun 23, 2006 8:34pm PDT
Supervisor implicated in Oakland Housing Authority corruption An investigation into corruption at the Oakland Housing Authority continues to shed light on OHA’s East District Office, which is accusing 34 families of wrongdoing and threatening to evict them from their homes at Lockwood Gardens, a Hope Vl project....
Posted: Fri, Jun 23, 2006 6:51am PDT
Forum on Why to Lock More Oakland Youth in Cages Oakland Citycouncilwoman Jane Brunner and Councilman Larry Reid
are planning a forum to address this issue of "youth
criminal activity", asking "Does it seem to you that when young
people are picked up for illegal activity, they
are back on the streets within hours? Are young people
treated less seriously by the police and the criminal
justice system?"...
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 10:12pm PDT
Structural Change Needed at Oakland Animal Shelter Structural Change Needed at Oakland Animal Shelter...
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 9:08pm PDT
BAY AREA Summer Organizing Internship – UNITE! HERE UNITE! HERE International Union is accepting applications for a Bay Area summer paid internship program ($550/wk stipend)....
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 6:42pm PDT
CRITICAL MASS IN HAYWARD CA! this is an alert of the critical mass hosted in hayward, all information is included below...
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 11:23am PDT
Today at 12 Protest Social Security Paying for War Tuesday, noon, Oakland Federal Building,
1301 Clay Street,
two short blocks from the 12th Street BART Station....
Posted: Tue, Jun 20, 2006 9:56am PDT
From Prison to Priesthood, By Terry Messman With a little help from his friends, Rev. James Tramel makes the journey from darkness to light... from prison to priesthood. Feature article and full length interview included....
Posted: Sun, Jun 18, 2006 9:19pm PDT
Capitalism--not People's Park--killed Cody's Books (Part 2) Bottom Line, Cody's is a casualty in the struggles between businesses in their will to power under the logic of capitalist market discipline, not People's Park or the downtrodden masses. To argue otherwise is to ignore reality.
Based on deductive reasoning, its the only conclusion that best fits the facts....
Posted: Sun, Jun 18, 2006 4:31pm PDT
Capitalism--not People's Park--killed Cody's Books (Part 1) Since the announcement that the original Cody's Books in Berkeley is going out of business, local pundits, politicians, capitalists, and scissorbills have created a shit-storm. As happens so many times when influential businesses close, the capitalist class and its enablers have predictably placed the blame for this tragedy upon the shoulders of the usual suspects: the homeless, young punks, holdovers from the 1960s counterculture, and the city of Berkeley itself. As usual, the real truth goe...
Posted: Sun, Jun 18, 2006 12:43pm PDT
Juneteenth in Berkeley on Sunday Juneteenth (see the article for a short synopsis of the history) will be celebrated in Berkeley on Sunday June 18th, 2006. Below i have reprinted a posting including schedule about it from the city of Berkeley's website....
Posted: Sat, Jun 17, 2006 2:48pm PDT
Union Wins Landslide Victory - Shattuck Cinema Workers Pull Through with Vote for The IWW This afternoon workers at Landmark Shattuck Cinemas voted an outstanding 22 to 2 in favor of unionization. Despite new promises by Landmark and an attempt by CEO Bill Banowsky to thwart the union attempt, workers at the Shattuck say they've never really been worried about the vote....
Posted: Sat, Jun 17, 2006 12:17am PDT
Contra Costa unions plan June 27 strike Thousands of Contra Costa County workers plan to walk off the job June 27 to protest gridlocked talks between the county and its bargaining units....
Posted: Fri, Jun 16, 2006 11:10pm PDT
Investigation Of Oakland Housing Authority Underway Corruption At Oakland's Housing Authority Exposed...
Posted: Fri, Jun 16, 2006 12:31pm PDT
Confront the Minutemen demonstration against minutemen today...
Posted: Fri, Jun 16, 2006 11:18am PDT
Announcement - KPFA Local Board Elections 2006 KPFA ELECTIONS COMMITTEE STARTING UP 6-21-06 : LOOKING FOR EAST BAY VOLUNTEERS TO ASSIST...
Posted: Mon, Jun 12, 2006 10:59pm PDT
Demo Today in Oakland in Solidarity with Security Workers Noble Tower Apartments at 1515 Lakeside Drive, Downtown Oakland. Between 4:45 and 5pm, the action will move over to the Park Bellevue Towers at the Corner of Perkins and Bellevue.
also, a meeting:
Thursday, June 14, 7:00 pm
CWA Local 9415 Union Hall...
Posted: Thu, Jun 8, 2006 2:51pm PDT
Dellums Reaches 50.2%, Runoff may be Avoided Supporters of Oakland mayoral candidates Ron Dellums and Ignacio De La Fuente did not let Alameda County’s archaic vote counting system stem their enthusiasm as they waited for election results Tuesday night....
Posted: Thu, Jun 8, 2006 6:21am PDT
The enemies of science need to be made to feel the pain of their ideas ...
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 2:03pm PDT
Who Asked Us? Preschool Laid a Foundation A recent high school graduate remembers the base that his preschool years established for his academic career. John Springer is 18 years old and will be attending UCSD in the fall....
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 9:01am PDT
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