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Government files reponses to AETA4 motion to dismiss 
The government has filed their response to the motion to dismiss the AETA4 case....
Posted: Tue, Jun 16, 2009 12:52am PDT
Laid-Off Janitors Protest Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers in San Jose, End Their 7-Day Fas On Tuesday, June 9, a hundred janitors, community supporters, and faith leaders gathered in downtown San Jose, ending their 7-day hunger fast protesting high-tech company Cisco Systems for the layoffs of more than 40 percent of the company’s janitorial workforce.
Following the service, the janitors and supporters marched two blocks down South Market Street to the Fairmount Hotel, where Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers was being honored by the Silicon Valley Education Foundation....
Posted: Wed, Jun 10, 2009 11:33am PDT
San Jose City Council Members Take Police to Task for Targeting Activists The San Jose Police Officers Association's attempts at intimidating police critics have not gone unnoticed in the South Bay. Two San Jose city council members wrote to the police union calling for a halt to the "rhetorical posturing and name-calling" on the association's website. A recent video that makes fun of one of the department's most vocal critics, plus official statements referring to activists as "thugs" are just a couple of the ways police are targeting community members who dare ...
Posted: Tue, Jun 9, 2009 2:18am PDT
March and Rally To Demand Accountability for Jeppesen’s Role in Torture Flights meet at Diridon Caltrain Station, 65 Cahill St. at 11:30. March to Jeppesen office at 225 West Santa Clara St., San Jose...
Event Date: Fri, Jun 26, 2009 11:30am PDT
Posted: Mon, Jun 8, 2009 1:47pm PDT
San Jose Police Attempt To Quash Public Debate with Hostile Video 
The San Jose Police Department thinks it has found a way to deal with accusations of racial profiling. They've posted on their website a doctored up video of recorded public testimony of one of their most outspoken critics.
Top photo: Raj Jayadev speaks in front of San Jose City Hall at a May 5 anti-police brutality action organized by BASTA....
Posted: Fri, Jun 5, 2009 8:21pm PDT
Vietnamese Man Killed by San Jose Police, City Policies Questioned The Death of a Vietnamese Man Calls Out to a Vietnamese Woman, and the City Policies That May Have Failed Them Both...
Posted: Fri, May 29, 2009 2:19am PDT
Laid-Off Cisco Systems Janitors Reach Out to San Jose City Council 
A delegation of janitors appealed to San Jose City Council members to reach out to profitable high-tech company Cisco Systems on behalf of the more than 75 vulnerable, low-wage janitors – more than 40% of the total workforce - who were recently laid off by Cisco’s contractor. Over the past several months, the janitors and hundreds of Silicon Valley community supporters have participated in a series of escalating mobilizations pointing to Cisco’s enormous profitability, including than $34 b...
Posted: Wed, May 27, 2009 2:38pm PDT
Psycho Donuts' Mockery of Mental Illness is Not Funny The United Advocates for Children and Families (UACF) is calling on Psycho Donuts to stop using mental health terms and themes to market their donuts. UACF sent the following letter to the San Jose Mercury News....
Posted: Wed, May 27, 2009 12:19pm PDT
Silicon Valley Proclaims May 15th Palestinian Cultural Day 
Palestinian Cultural Day was officially proclaimed by the cities of San José, Sunnyvale, and Milpitas, and by Santa Clara County in a ceremony on May 15, 2009. The day celebrates Palestinian heritage and remembers the Palestinian Catastrophe in the hope that it will never be repeated....
Posted: Mon, May 25, 2009 10:42pm PDT
Memorial Day: Counting Lives Lost to Stop Inflicting Grief upon Others 
Memorial Day honors war dead. Unlike most U.S. war memorials, a stunning exhibit at De Anza College dramatizes not only American lives lost in the war in Iraq, but Iraqi lives lost as well. There is one figure for each confirmed fatality. But the ratio of 1:22 American to Iraqi deaths is extremely conservative....
Posted: Mon, May 25, 2009 5:16pm PDT
Hilton San José: Scene of Community-Supported Employee Demo 
Employees demonstrating directly in front of the Hilton San José on May 20 included janitorial staff, restaurant workers, and housekeepers.
Hotel guests and management heard employees' message loud and clear...with plenty of support for the cause from concerned community members....
Posted: Thu, May 21, 2009 5:42pm PDT
San José Police Department Targets Latinos, Photo Survey Shows 
Photographic documentation of 14 daytime vehicle stops per hour within a 4-block section of Santa Clara Street during Cinco de Mayo celebrations substantiates a deliberate policy of targeting Latinos by the San José Police Department. Only a citizen police review board can represent a broad range of community interests and ensure police accountability....
Posted: Tue, May 19, 2009 12:50am PDT
Basta Means Stop! San José Says No to ICE Raids, Police Brutality 
The voice of the people cried out in the early days of May: No more ICE raids! No more Police Brutality!
The May 5 event was organized by BASTA, a group that despises the round ups and lock ups of ALL Latinos, be they Immigrants or just plain victims of police brutality.
Top photo: T-shirts with Basta stop sign theme were sold at Rally of May 5 in City Hall Plaza....
Posted: Wed, May 6, 2009 4:38pm PDT
Naysaying City Officials try to Silence the Outcry Against Police Brutality 
Which side are you on? Naysaying city officials tried to silence the outcry against police abuse by insisting that demonstrators on Cinco de Mayo stick to the strict limit of one handheld megaphone in City Hall Plaza. Suited up and telling demonstrators how it has to be, a voice from the office of City Council member Nora Campos in one Ryan Ford, was joined by a security guard and city event planner.
Photo: Ryan Ford tells demonstrators they have to nix their plans for any equipment la...
Posted: Wed, May 6, 2009 3:24pm PDT
Cops Watch Copwatchers in San Jose 
Victims of police violence and activists came together to share and hear stories of San Jose Police Department abuse and misuse of authority. They demonstrated under the watchful eye of mounted police in front of San Jose City Hall on Cinco de Mayo 2009.
The event was organized by BASTA, a group standing up against police brutality, against Latinos specifically and all communities at large.
Photo: Mounted police in background behind banner keep an eye on the demo....
Posted: Tue, May 5, 2009 11:24pm PDT
"IPA-gate" -- Making the Case for Actual Inclusion and Transparency in the IPA Selection In an effort to move the city out of the debacle of the IPA selection of Chris Constantin, the Mayor and several Councilmembers have been trading memos regarding the next attempt to hire an IPA, leading up to a potential Cinco de Mayo vote. While efforts to problem-solve around an urgent issue is appreciated, rushing forward with another hiring process until a full investigation has been done on “IPA-gate” would do San Jose a disservice....
Posted: Mon, May 4, 2009 7:19pm PDT
Grannies Get Down at May 1 Rally 
After-party on the streets of San Jose included a horn band and Las Abuelitas Enojadas....
Posted: Sat, May 2, 2009 9:09pm PDT
Crowd Size in San Jose on International Workers Day 
Corporate Media variously reported hundreds to a thousand.
Reporters for the Spartan Daily (San Jose State newspaper) estimated 2,000.
Photos by R.S./K. Kinoshita...
Posted: Sat, May 2, 2009 2:02pm PDT
Signs Seen in San Jose on May Day 
International Workers Day saw not only signs for immigrant rights, but for workers rights internationally, a free Palestine, and justice for Oscar Grant....
Posted: Sat, May 2, 2009 2:07am PDT
San Jose: A Thousand Plus March on May Day 
Las Abuelitas Enojadas (Raging Grannies) greeted a thousand plus marchers who arrived after an hour long march.
Photos by: R. Robertson and Kim Kinoshita...
Posted: Sat, May 2, 2009 1:35am PDT
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