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Mattole Blockade Raided
--1 Arrested--
Neutral Observers Still Needed...
Posted: Tue, Jul 9, 2002 3:28pm PDT
Green Gov candidate Camejo at 5%; Nader in Berkeley, Friday...
Posted: Tue, Jul 9, 2002 11:36am PDT
Muni continues to put off the decision to replace diesel buses with natural gas buses...
Posted: Tue, Jul 9, 2002 11:32am PDT
Richard Becker and ten others speak at the June 28th rally at Powell & Market in San Francisco.
5 min. 18MB....
Posted: Tue, Jul 9, 2002 9:27am PDT
Another neo-liberal lawyer advocates pushing Berkeley one step closer towards a militant left-wing police state where even coffee is regulated by the government....
Posted: Tue, Jul 9, 2002 1:43am PDT
Announcing the formation of an organizing collective for an SF Anti-Capitalist Conference and reportback from Anti-Capitalist Conference in Toronto...
Posted: Mon, Jul 8, 2002 2:58pm PDT
Early this morning, activists blockaded a road entering the old-growth ecosystem that is the headwaters of the Mattole River in an attempt to halt logging of Timber Harvest Plan(THP) 1-01-413, a THP that includes fifty acres of old growth slated to be clear cut....
Posted: Mon, Jul 8, 2002 1:27pm PDT
OAKLAND – Leaders of unions representing transport workers from around the world locked arms at a Solidarity Day rally here on June 27 in support of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). The ILWU is in the battle of its life, faced with a threatened lockout by the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) – and the danger that President Bush will invoke the Taft-Hartley Act in the event of a strike or slowdown....
Posted: Mon, Jul 8, 2002 11:46am PDT
Oakland activists have collected over 36,000 signatures for a Just Cause Initiative which now needs the vote of an uncertain City Council before it may become a Ballot Measure....
Posted: Mon, Jul 8, 2002 1:05am PDT
On May 30, 2002, Senator Don Perata (D-Oakland) introduced State Constitutional Amendment (SCA) 17. The bill calls for the people of California to be given the opportunity to vote on passage of the
Heritage Tree Preservation Act....
Posted: Sun, Jul 7, 2002 9:57pm PDT
A report on the July Campaign for Renters Rights Meeting in Oakland...
Posted: Sun, Jul 7, 2002 7:12pm PDT
Last Friday's Sacto CM ride was a complete disaster!!! We had bottles thrown at us, one driver repeatedly tried to 'door' the riders, one rider had his video camera smashed, and another had his bicycle crushed....
Posted: Sun, Jul 7, 2002 11:44am PDT
New York (and elsewhere) monitors every move the City Council makes - now they're even writing about stuff before it passes! What is their agenda here, I wonder....
Posted: Sun, Jul 7, 2002 8:31am PDT
Flashpoints Radio July 4 and 5:
- live broadcasts from Jim Hightower's Rolling Thunder Downhome Democracy Tour - SomArts Center 934 Brannon Street San Francisco
- segments with Navaho women Weaving for Resistance, Steve Zeltzer and Labor Fest, Medea Benjamin of Global Exchange, SF Mime Troop - Mr. Smith goes to Obscuristan, Michael Franti, more
Celebration continues until midnight Saturday...
Posted: Sat, Jul 6, 2002 1:44pm PDT
Rolling Peace Party @ SOMARTS.org 934 Brannan @ 8th!...
Posted: Fri, Jul 5, 2002 4:24pm PDT
Please come to the rally and press conference on Wednesday, July 10 at 12 noon in front of the Chinese Consulate (1450 Laguna @ Geary Blvd. - near Japantown) to protest the jailing of the Liaoyang 5, five Chinese union representatives....
Posted: Fri, Jul 5, 2002 2:48pm PDT
A Call for West Coast Solidarity
A call to action and organization for all activists and anarchists in the West. - Phoenix Anarchist Coalition...
Posted: Fri, Jul 5, 2002 3:53am PDT
Stop Fascism in America! Come to a support rally for Lynne Stewart, an attorney falsely accused under the "Patriot" Act and threatened with 40 years in jail; for a class action lawsuit for 2000 detainees of Middle East origin and to oppose the biggest attempt at silencing dissent since the Fascist Era of the 1950s in the US....
Posted: Thu, Jul 4, 2002 7:02pm PDT