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Police arrest live streammer from NYC at SF Protest
Photos coming in from the weekend show that the protests went well, but police in San Fransisco couldn't stomach the anticapitalist protest on Friday....
Posted: Mon, Oct 8, 2012 6:22am PDT
Individual communiqué from Oakland 10/07/12
The only tears tonight will be for the countless lives that have been stolen....
Posted: Mon, Oct 8, 2012 4:10am PDT
Feminist Vigilante Gangs March, Oakland, 10/5/12: photos
With a call out to women, queers, gender rebels, and allies, Feminist Vigilante Gangs organized a march through downtown Oakland on October 5th to coincide with the broader West Coast Anti-Colonial, Anti-Capitalist actions and First Friday's Art Murmur locally. After participants in groups of 10-15 practiced protecting themselves from aggressors, well over 100 marchers left 19th Street and Telegraph and wound throughout downtown for two hours, crossing the several-block long Art Murmur event...
Posted: Mon, Oct 8, 2012 12:55am PDT
Mitt Romney Didn’t Rationally Win the First Debate At All
From an intellectual and rational position Romney lost. The debate was too much on technical matters most Americans don’t much understand that well; and therefore were left groping to look for whatever impressions they could muster. Most people came to this debate to have their prejudices confirmed. Many venues of media, including alternative media, have played both candidate as sinner and saint—to be either hated or loved. What we got instead was a somewhat collegial discussion on issues ...
Posted: Sun, Oct 7, 2012 9:35pm PDT
The Good Guy won an election in the Americas
In a hotly-contested presidential election last night, the progressive candidate won by a 54-45 percentage. Voters were ecstatic that a government of, by and for the people won in spite of foreign-financed destabilization efforts to try to undermine the socialist-leaning rulling party. Of course, this particular election didn't take place in Washington, D.C.(because the Wall Street banksters wouldn't allow it), but it did happen in Venezuela....
Posted: Sun, Oct 7, 2012 9:16pm PDT
Palo Alto "Honk and Wave" Rally and March to Stanford
Embarcadero & El Camino Real
Palo Alto, CA 94306...
Event Date: Wed, Oct 24, 2012 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Oct 7, 2012 8:35pm PDT
Obama Visit Rally - "Fight Crime Not Cannabis"
San Francisco Civic Plaza
Across from the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium...
Event Date: Mon, Oct 8, 2012 4:30pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Oct 7, 2012 7:43pm PDT
Animal Rights Workers Praise New Children's Book on "Feral Cats"
In her new children’s book, Fairminded Fran and the Three Small Black Community Cats, author Dr. Linda Elder introduces young readers and their parents to an underserved theme in the children’s literary canon… the plight of feral or “community” cats....
Posted: Sun, Oct 7, 2012 6:43pm PDT
Happy birthday Joe Hill, R.I.P.
Today is Joe Hill's birthday. He was born October 7, 1879....
Posted: Sun, Oct 7, 2012 5:13pm PDT
Justice for Appalachia- Stopping Mountaintop Removal
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists’ Hall
1924 Cedar (@Bonita), Berkeley www.bfuu.org...
Event Date: Thu, Oct 25, 2012 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Oct 7, 2012 4:17pm PDT
US Wars – Are they Lawful?
Koret Auditorium, Main Library Lower Level
30 Grove St. (between Hyde & Larkin)
½ block from Civic Center BART/Metro...
Event Date: Sun, Nov 11, 2012 1:30pm PST
Posted: Sun, Oct 7, 2012 2:06pm PDT
Animal Abuser, Insider Trader, War Profiteer Dianne Feinstein
Dianne Feinstein with her husband Richard Blum helped the FBI pass the unconstitutional AETA
which criminalized certain nonviolent animal rights protests....
Posted: Sun, Oct 7, 2012 1:51pm PDT
Romney Ryan Record Of Animal Abuse From Rodeos & Bowhunting To Vivisection &Cattle Ranches
In 1997 Romney bought German animal torture company Behring and expanded its animal research to Miami, Florida renaming it Dade Behring. He invested in
slaughterhouse products, brought brutal rodeo into the nonviolent Olympics, had an aggressive promotion of toxic animal flesh ads on Clear Channel, refused to sign a bill acknowledging the right of students to refuse to dissect animals in biology classes, filled the state wildlife agency with that 4.5% of the population which hunts,
treated ...
Posted: Sun, Oct 7, 2012 1:47pm PDT
La Playa Carmel Boycott Rally
Camino Real & 8th Ave, Carmel, CA...
Event Date: Wed, Oct 17, 2012 4:30pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Oct 7, 2012 1:19pm PDT
Ross's due process? San Francisco Board readies for vote on Sheriff Mirkarimi (audio/x-wav 10.5MB)
On Tuesday, 10.09.2012, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote on whether to overturn the popular election of San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi. What is due process, also known as fairness, in this case? KPFA spoke to Mirkarimi attorney David Waggoner....
Posted: Sun, Oct 7, 2012 11:57am PDT
Free Documentary: Into the Abyss, Followed by Discussion
Niles Discovery Church
255 H Street at 3rd
Fremont CA 94536
510-797-0895...
Event Date: Sat, Oct 13, 2012 1:30pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Oct 7, 2012 10:36am PDT
Senior & Disability Action Launch Party-Celebration
LGBT Center
1800 Market Street, (at Octavia)
Map at http://goo.gl/maps/cGqmV...
Event Date: Thu, Nov 8, 2012 6:00pm PST
Posted: Sun, Oct 7, 2012 7:20am PDT
The Future of Medicare
Mechanics Institute
57 Post Street (betw. Market & Kearny)
# 6, 9, 71, 2, and 3 buses, 2 doors from Montgomery BART/Metro
map at http://tinyurl.com/9jn7gcf...
Event Date: Sat, Oct 20, 2012 10:00am PDT
Posted: Sun, Oct 7, 2012 5:24am PDT