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A Campaign to Shut Down Guantánamo.
San Francisco - Part 1
Thirty-second QT movie. 9MB....
Posted: Sat, Jan 12, 2008 8:42pm PST
Shut down Guantanamo!!! Stop legalizing torture!!!
http://www.worldcantwait.net/...
Posted: Sat, Jan 12, 2008 2:26pm PST
Shut down Guantanamo!!! Stop legalizing torture!!!
http://www.worldcantwait.net/...
Posted: Sat, Jan 12, 2008 2:17pm PST
JANUARY 11, 2008 -- On the day six years ago that the first prisoners began arriving at the U.S. torture camp at Guantánamo, protests were staged across the country and around the world demanding that Guantanamo be shut down. Prisoners are kept in Guantanamo under horrific conditions for years without trial.
In San Francisco over 150 people marched from the U.S. Court of Appeals through downtown San Francisco demanding that Gitmo – the U.S. run concentration camp at Guantamo Bay be close...
Posted: Sat, Jan 12, 2008 1:57pm PST
Act Against Torture Candlelight March to Shut Down Guantanamo on the 6th year anniversary of the prison's existence....
Posted: Sat, Jan 12, 2008 10:34am PST
On January 10th, a tree-sitter on Science Hill at UC Santa Cruz dangled a lime green shopping bag from a platform high up in a redwood, presumably with the desire of receiving food, dry clothing and other supplies for occupying the crown of a coastal redwood during a stormy winter. UC police officers stood below the trees to prevent people from sharing with tree-sitters. A security guard also confiscated a backpack from under a tree and then turned it over to the police. UCSC has resorted to ...
Posted: Fri, Jan 11, 2008 2:56am PST
Judge Moscone officially accepted an amended
complaint by the prosecution in the San Francisco
8 trial today in effect completely dropping
charges against Richard O’Neal who was only
charged with conspiracy....
Posted: Thu, Jan 10, 2008 2:42pm PST
Any witness to the senseless assault on Mrs Sandra Tompsen, from Belise, accompanied by her son Puleiaava Basil Thomsen on 1--4-08, at 12: 40 pm at the SF Hall of Justice, 850 Bryant Street, first floor,
perpetrated by Sheriff Cadet Brandy Marie Montgommery (AKA Brandy Bradford), Mrs. Thomsen daughter-in-law, please come forward !...
Posted: Wed, Jan 9, 2008 2:57am PST
José Padilla is suing John Yoo, former Dept. of Justice attorney. Here is the text of the complaint...
Posted: Tue, Jan 8, 2008 6:35pm PST
DeBug - 701 Lenzen(corner of Lenzen and
Stockton) San Jose, CA...
Event Date: Sat, Jan 12, 2008 10:00am PST
Posted: Tue, Jan 8, 2008 5:00pm PST
Breaking news: California's youth prison system will shut down prisons for the first
time in 4 years! The Division of Juvenile Justice announced last week that El Paso
de Robles and Dewitt Nelson Youth Correctional Facilities will close by July 31 this
year....
Posted: Tue, Jan 8, 2008 4:04pm PST
Hearings moved, letters to the judge, and more......
Posted: Tue, Jan 8, 2008 2:15pm PST
For the last two weeks police have evicted the market drum circle using the new 15-minute parking lot law. Join us in direct action against oppressive local laws and reclaim public space!...
Posted: Tue, Jan 8, 2008 12:02pm PST
This is a list of events and actions supporting the 9/11 Truth Movement in the Sacramento and Davis areas in the coming weeks, courtesy of Dave Kimball of Sacramento 9/11 Truth....
Posted: Tue, Jan 8, 2008 11:40am PST
Fireside Room, Unitarian-Universalist Center
1187 Franklin St, betw. Geary and O'Farrell...
Event Date: Tue, Jan 15, 2008 1:00pm PST
Posted: Tue, Jan 8, 2008 8:54am PST
Prosecutors in the San Francisco 8 case announced that they are
filing an amended complaint in effect dropping the conspiracy count
against 5 of the brothers because the statute of limitations (of 3
years on conspiracy) has expired....
Posted: Sat, Jan 5, 2008 6:43pm PST
Craig Canada, a homeless blogger [http://www.palmspringsbum.com/blog/], reported yesterday by phone that during the heavy rain two SCPD officers drove him out from under the eaves of the flower shop on Cathcart between Pacific and Cedar Sts into the foul weather....
Posted: Sat, Jan 5, 2008 1:59pm PST
On two successive Wednesdays, police have ordered the peaceful drum circle to leave their traditional spot in the public parking lot behind Tacqueria Vallarta and Logos using Mayor Coonerty's Ban on Public Assemblies in parking lots. The new merchant-backed law prohibits lingering in a parking lot or garage unless you have a vehicle there (and then only for fifteen minutes). It removed ten blocks of public space from public use....
Posted: Thu, Jan 3, 2008 10:37am PST
Last year, 2007, began with the arrest of six Black elders, Panthers and community activists from the 1960s, on 36-year-old charges and the extradition from New York of two more Panthers already imprisoned for 34 and 36 years, respectively. I’m referring of course to the brothers known as the San Francisco 8....
Posted: Wed, Jan 2, 2008 10:23pm PST
Gather 7th & Mission (US Court of Appeals) march to Justin Hermann Plaza (foot of Market)...
Event Date: Fri, Jan 11, 2008 4:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Jan 2, 2008 10:44am PST