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Wells Fargo Disrepects East Palo Alto Rent Control (video/quicktime 32.8MB) 30 second video: Chants in English and Spanish at demonstration in front of Wells Fargo....
Posted: Mon, Aug 22, 2011 9:15pm PDT
Wells Fargo Breaks Promise to East Palo Alto Tenants 
Tenants and community supporters said that despite assurances that the bank would consider renters' needs, Wells Fargo is poised to sell rent-controlled housing to “Vulture Investor” Sam Zell. A protest that included a march from E. Palo Alto to downtown Palo Alto ended with a raucous rally at a Wells Fargo Bank branch on Hamilton Ave....
Posted: Mon, Aug 22, 2011 8:49pm PDT
BART Protest in Menlo Park Addresses UK Privacy Issues 
There is an important parallel with the proposed social network restrictions in the UK and what is going on in San Francisco....
Posted: Mon, Aug 15, 2011 3:53pm PDT
DEMO: Solidarity with Anger behind London Riots/Protest Crackdown on Social Media Use in the UK 
Public Plaza Adjacent to the British Bankers Club
1090 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA (x-street Santa Cruz Ave.)...
Event Date: Mon, Aug 15, 2011 11:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, Aug 12, 2011 2:43pm PDT
Don't Touch My Medicare! 
Medicare's 46th birthday is July 30th. Members of the Raging Grannies and community members celebrated and at the same time expressed deep concern about threatened cuts. KTSF-TV aired a lengthy segment of the protest. Videos by R. Stevens for indybay 0:19 and 0:21 in length. Photos by Elano Tool and R. Stevens....
Posted: Fri, Jul 29, 2011 8:27pm PDT
Social Security has Not Contributed a Penny to Nation's Budget Problem 
The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform is determined to cut Social Security in an attempt to "fix" the deficit, but the fact of the matter is that Social Security has NOT contributed a penny to the nation's budget problems....
Posted: Wed, Jul 20, 2011 5:06pm PDT
Only Pieces Remain: the Juana Briones House 
The Juana Briones House, parts of which were built in 1844, has been completely torn down by property owner Jaim Nulman, who fought off historic preservationists, latino activists, and descendants of Briones for years. Feminists joined in the struggle for the home's preservation as well. Jeanne McDonnell, biographer of Juana Briones, stated that historic buildings associated with women are more likely to be demolished than those associated with men....
Posted: Wed, Jun 29, 2011 6:23pm PDT
The Truth About Social Security Told 
Republicans are twisting the facts to make it appear as if Social Security is the cause of our large federal deficit. In fact, Social Security has NOTHING to do with the national deficit. This and other truths about Social Security were presented at a forum in San Mateo, California on June 11th....
Posted: Mon, Jun 13, 2011 2:25am PDT
Famed Juana Briones House under Demolition: There goes much of our California history--por qué? 
The Juana Briones House in the hills of Palo Alto is famous for being a rare reminder of California’s early Mexican heritage. After more than a decade of legal battles with the people who bought the house in 1998, preservationists lost their last legal battle, and the historic abode is under demolition at this time.
Some of the descendants of Juana Briones live in Santa Clara County and visited the old house this week to say their good-byes. One of them wrote, "The house is being dismantl...
Posted: Wed, Jun 1, 2011 11:26pm PDT
SlutWalk on Stanford Campus 
The term ‘slut’ is usually used to verbally attack women. Whether dished out as a serious indictment of one’s character or merely as a flippant insult, the intent behind the word is always to wound.
Today Stanford students rallied to TAKE BACK the term SLUT. Reclaim the name, and it loses the power to hurt!...
Posted: Fri, May 27, 2011 4:21pm PDT
Demolition Has Begun at Historic Juana Briones House 
After more than a decade of legal battles, in which owner Jaim Nulman faced off against preservationists, a decision by a final court ruled against the group Friends of Juana Briones House. It was hoped that Nulman would let archeologists enter the property before any demolition of the house on his property began, so that experts might salvage some of the historic parts of the pioneer latina's original home, the oldest house in Palo Alto. Nulman told local papers that "only dismantling", not...
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2011 4:51am PDT
Raging Grannies Speak Out on 25th Anniversary of Chernobyl (video/mp4 17.6MB) Introduction to performance at Cafe Borrone in Menlo Park, CA on the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl, April 26, 2011.
0:40 video...
Posted: Sun, May 15, 2011 6:21pm PDT
Mark Zuckerberg buys home at 1456 Edgewood Dr, Palo Alto, for $7 million Mainstream media reports that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has just bought his first home. Reports left out the address of the home, even though it's listed publicly throughout the internet....
Posted: Fri, May 6, 2011 3:37pm PDT
"No Nukes" Street Theater/Fashion Show on Anniversary of Chernobyl 
All photos: copyright retained by Justin Miel. For permission to reproduce contact justin [at] gotmiel [dot] com....
Posted: Wed, Apr 27, 2011 1:19am PDT
25th Anniversary of Chernobyl: No More Nukes Demo in Menlo Park, CA 
As of today, it has been a quarter century since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The Raging Grannies, in solidarity with Abalone Alliance in San Francisco and other activists around the world, remembered the victims of that man-made catastrophe. They demonstrated against nuclear energy along the El Camino Real in Menlo Park, California, and performed for a lunch crowd in front of nearby Cafe Borrone....
Posted: Tue, Apr 26, 2011 4:09pm PDT
Stanford Students launch campaign to divest from Israeli Apartheid (audio/mpeg 41.8MB) This is an audio recording of the event held last Thursday April 14, 2011 at Stanford University to launch the campaign to divest from Israeli apartheid! Sponsored by the Stanford student group 'Students Confronting Apartheid by Israel'...
Posted: Sun, Apr 17, 2011 10:14pm PDT
Stanford's KZSU 90.1FM Launches Campaign To Protect Its Bay Area Signal Application to move KUSF-FM 90.3 broadcast transmitter threatens interference...
Posted: Sun, Apr 17, 2011 8:24am PDT
Stop Smart Meters! Disrupts FCC Talk in Silicon Valley 
Stop Smart Meters! and friends held a successful protest both outside and inside the Computer History Museum in Mountain View on Thursday as Julius Genachowski, Chair of the Federal Communications Commission, spoke about the need to increase wireless capacity, ignoring the millions who are suffering ill health as electrosmog pervades nearly every last corner of our nation....
Posted: Fri, Apr 15, 2011 11:54am PDT
Pics and Video from protest of FCC chair (video/x-ms-wmv 54.3MB) Pics and video from protest in Mountain View of FCC chair Julius Genchowski...
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2011 9:00pm PDT
Demo: Bank of America Needs to Pay Taxes! 
Demonstrators in front of the Bank of America branch in San Mateo on El Camino took advantage of cars stalled in traffic due to heavy construction in the downtown area today. They waved signs and passed out fliers saying, "Change Your Bank Now!" and "We pay taxes, why doesn't BofA?"
Top photo by DeeCoz. Protesters wave at drivers along the El Camino Real outside the branch....
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2011 5:11pm PDT
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