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California Propositions: Billions For Special Interest When Governor Schwarzenegger ran for office in 2003 he promised to work for the people of California and not for the special interest, now in 2006 Arnold Schwarzenegger has become the champion of special interest groups. The 2006 bond and tax package, presented by the governor and the state legislature, is the worst package ever offered to California voters in the state’s history....
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2006 9:44pm PDT
Universal Health Care Passed:Schwarzenegger Promises Veto Senate Bill 840 was passed by California Legislature and would give all Californians health care, but Gov. Schwarzenegger has vowed to veto the bill....
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2006 10:46pm PDT
DPF Action Alert The issue of lethal injection will be a hot topic in the media next week because U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel will be holding public hearings on the issue of lethal injection on Sept. 26th-29th in San Jose, CA....
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2006 10:08pm PDT
California Supermarket Posts Foster Farms Cruelty Notice Foster Farms spends approximately $11 million on company marketing annually, TNS Media Intelligence reports. Over the last decade, courtesy of Foster Farms, Californians have come to know two madcap chicken characters, known ironically as the “Foster Imposters”. While the California poultry producer wastes money on frivolous advertising, animal welfare is unswervingly compromised. After a two-year hiatus, the “Foster Imposters” campaign is returning to television at the end of September....
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2006 5:35pm PDT
Governor Schwarzenegger May Act Today on Bill to Restrict Chaining of Dogs! As you know, keeping dogs chained — or "tethering," as it's sometimes called (http://www.helpinganimals.com/ga_chained.asp) — is cruel because it deprives these highly social pack animals of proper socialization and often leaves them unable to reach whatever shelter, food, and water they've been provided. The dogs grow aggressively protective of their tiny spaces and often attack children (http://www.helpinganimals.com/ga_chained_summaries.asp) and other people who come near them. A piece of ...
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2006 1:28pm PDT
Declaration of Peace Actions, Sept. 21 - 28 
The Declaration of Peace is a nationwide campaign to establish a concrete and rapid plan for peace in Iraq. Join the movement to Declare Peace!...
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2006 12:40pm PDT
EBAA Joins Lawsuit Against Cruel Pork Producer In kids’ movies and cartoons, and in our popular imagination, piglets scamper on green grass under blue skies and, like all the animals “down on the farm,” share tender moments frolicking with their mothers and siblings....
Posted: Mon, Sep 18, 2006 5:00pm PDT
ASA CA Weekly Alert 5) Tuesday, September 26th, San Francisco: SF ASA Meeting
6) Wednesday, September 27th, Oakland: East Bay ASA Meeting
7) Thursday, September 28th, Sacramento: Sac ASA Meeting
19) Thursday, September 21st, Oakland: The San Francisco Bay Area
Premiere of /Waiting to Inhale/...
Posted: Mon, Sep 18, 2006 12:51am PDT
SUPERPOWER PRINCIPLES... US TERRORISM AGAINST CUBA 
JOIN Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Michael Parenti, James Petras, William Blum, Saul Landau, Michael Steven Smith, Leonard Weinglass, Nadine Gordimer, Wayne S. Smith, Piero Gleijeses, and others, in the presentation of the book Superpower Principles published by Common Courage Press....
Posted: Sun, Sep 17, 2006 1:09pm PDT
Lively Protest and Street Theater Outside Wall Street Investor Conference in SF; 9/18 at WHAT: Lively Protest and Street Theater Outside a Wall Street Conference featuring over 200 CEO’s including Wells Fargo, Kimberly Clark and ConocoPhillips
WHERE: San Francisco Ritz Carleton; Stockton and Pine
WHEN: Monday September 18 at 8am
CONTACT: Scott; 415-398-4404 x 359...
Posted: Sat, Sep 16, 2006 3:38pm PDT
California Propositions: Billions For Special Interest When Governor Schwarzenegger ran for office in 2003 he promised to work for the people of California and not for the special interest, now in 2006 Arnold Schwarzenegger has become the champion of special interest groups. The 2006 bond and tax package, presented by the governor and the state legislature, is the worst package ever offered to California voters in the state’s history....
Posted: Fri, Sep 15, 2006 7:01pm PDT
9/4/06 Video of KFPA Labor Collective Protest Over Banning By KPFA PC & Management (video/quicktime 41.2MB) On Labor Day September 4, 2006 fourty to fifty trade unionists and KPFA listeners
picketed KPFA to protest the banning of labor collective programming proposals by the
KFPA Program Council and supported by KFPA management. This one year ban is unheard of
at Free Speech Radio and was done without a hearing providing both sides to present their
views. The web site of the KFPA Labor Collective is at www.kpfalaborcollective.org
42 MB
29 Minutes...
Posted: Thu, Sep 14, 2006 5:02pm PDT
Berkeley Director Determined to Bring Light to Voting Rights Once Screening at a Time Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and hailed as "powerful" and "engrossing," director Ian Inaba's searing documentary feature American Blackout will open September 15 for engagements in San Francisco at the Landmark Opera Plaza Cinemas and in Larkspur at The Lark Theater....
Posted: Thu, Sep 14, 2006 11:28am PDT
Prisons Are Genocide 
Protest in front of Solano State Prison, Sat., Sept. 30th at 12:00 noon, 2100 Peabody Rd., Vacaville, CA...
Posted: Wed, Sep 13, 2006 2:32pm PDT
Terrorism, The 7th Day Adventists and Placer County Courthouse 9/11 Connection 
The terror campaign to silence injured nurse practitioner Barbara Clark took on another new turn on 9/11/2006 at the Placer County Court House in Auburn, California. The Courthouse is seen by millions of people on their way to Reno when passing Auburn on I80. The courthouse was now the scene of an effort to terrorize her by the illegal use of 8 temporary restraining orders accusing her of threatening the staff of the hospital chain. Nurse practitioner Barbara Clark www.barbaraclark.org has...
Posted: Wed, Sep 13, 2006 10:56am PDT
Urgent Action Needed- Call the Governor! Urge the Governor to Sign SB 1544 and SB 171...
Posted: Wed, Sep 13, 2006 10:39am PDT
Protest two-party monopoly on debate On October 7th, the California Broadcasters Association will sponsor the
one and *only* debate in the California gubernatorial election. Featured
will be the two wings of corporate poltiics, Schwarzenegger and Angelides.
All other views will be excluded, including that of Janice Jordan, the only
woman in the race....
Posted: Wed, Sep 13, 2006 10:35am PDT
Scholars discuss recent Israeli-Lebanon conflict to packed house at UC Berkeley More than 300 attendants packed UC Berkeley’s Dwinelle Hall Thursday to hear a panel discussion on the history and context of the recent military conflict in Israel and Lebanon....
Posted: Tue, Sep 12, 2006 5:30pm PDT
Sept. 15 Solidarity Demonstration in Support of Rape Victim Sept. 15, 2006 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Members of the Filipino/American Coalition for Environmental Solidarity (FACES) and Women for Genuine Security (WGS) will lay in symbolic protest around the Dewey Statue in Union Square Park, San Francisco in support of Filipina raped by US Marines at the former US military base....
Posted: Tue, Sep 12, 2006 4:09pm PDT
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