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Schwarzenegger Lies About Prop. 66 - 3 Strikes Amendment Prop.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger lies about Proposition 66 when he says 'violent prisoners will get out of prison and roam the streets.'...
Posted: Fri, Oct 22, 2004 10:32am PDT
Stop the Wall Tour coming to the Bay Area!
See a full scale model of the Wall and learn about what you can do to pressure Israel to comply with international law and tear down the wall!...
Posted: Fri, Oct 22, 2004 1:00am PDT
Prop 64 Will Stop Public from Protecting Against Pesticide Drift
Prop 64 Will Stop Public from Protecting Against Pesticide Drift; 'Public Health Warning: No On 64' Say Public Health Advocates...
Posted: Fri, Oct 22, 2004 12:31am PDT
Marsha Feinland, candidate for US Senate on broadcast tv.
To their credit, local fox affiliates (2 & 36) create, "meet the candidates". Marsha Feinland gets 5 minutes on broadcast tv to say why she should represent California in the US Senate....
Posted: Thu, Oct 21, 2004 7:08pm PDT
Labor Strife in Northern California on KDVS Davis 90.3 FM, Friday, 10/22, 5pm to 6pm
Labor strife involving locked out hotel workers in San Francisco and UC service workers in Berkeley, Davis and throughout the UC system will be featured on the KDVS Davis 90.3 FM public affairs program "Speaking in Tongues" tomorrow, Friday, 10/22, from 5pm to 6pm...
Posted: Thu, Oct 21, 2004 4:50pm PDT
Bay Area Readers Speak Out Against Chronicle's Endorsement of Misleading 'Open Primaries'
They know that campaigns with the most money almost always win, and they know that their corporate backers have the most money to give. They know that Prop. 62 virtually guarantees that only their fat cat-backed candidates will be elected and that no grassroots challengers may ever again appear on the ballot....
Posted: Thu, Oct 21, 2004 11:54am PDT
"thetruthaboutiraq" - They try to cover it up!
Steven Moore tries a cover- up, but he is incapable to achieve his intention...
Posted: Thu, Oct 21, 2004 6:43am PDT
KPFA: Closed Door General Manager Hire Continues
NEW statement from Mike Alcalay, Lincoln Bergman, Jeffrey Blankfort, Riva Enteen, Maria Gilardin, Bill Mandel, Henry Norr, Les Radke...
Posted: Wed, Oct 20, 2004 7:54am PDT
Anti Bush song
Please spread the word about my new anti-bush song! Listen to the lyrics and rally the anti-bush supporters.....http://www.blockpartyrecords.com/antibush.htm...
Posted: Tue, Oct 19, 2004 4:05pm PDT
I Need Cooperation
I need cooperation to get back to California, and I need a place to go to when I get there. Thank you....
Posted: Tue, Oct 19, 2004 10:25am PDT
Anti-gay groups get into Calif. marriage suit
On Friday, Judge Richard Kramer of the California Superior Court
in San Francisco agreed to let two conservative groups revive
their lawsuit against San Francisco, effectively allowing the
organizations to keep making the case that same-sex couples
should not be allowed to wed....
Posted: Tue, Oct 19, 2004 12:27am PDT
CFL Alert: More U.S. double standards in the Middle East
The current rhetoric coming out of Washington is demanding that Syria end its "occupation" of Lebanon. However, not a single word is being said about the decades-long illegal and immoral occupation of the Palestinian people....
Posted: Mon, Oct 18, 2004 11:00am PDT
Medical Marijuana Prisoners Seek New Federal Trial, Bail
Hollywood Actor One of Three Alleging Entrapment by San Francisco
Police...
Posted: Mon, Oct 18, 2004 9:08am PDT
List of people killed by law enforcement in Northern California
This is a list that the Stolen Lives Project in the Bay Area has compiled of people who were killed by police or other law enforcement in Northern California, from 2001-2004. I left some names out because I was unable to find more details about their deaths,a nd I am sure that there are others who have been killed. Please email me if you know of other people who were killed, or if you have corrections about any of these entries. We are also seeking longer entries that will go into the next...
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 2:09pm PDT
Leonard Peltier for President
Leonard Peltier is the Presidential candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party in California. This article gives an overview and update of his case and his campaign for a presidential pardon....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 11:20am PDT
Rope a Dope
Gee, what might be the key to salvaging the U.S. economy (other than simply ridding the government of conservatives)?...
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 9:26am PDT
3 Strikes locks up Blacks at 13 times the rate of whites
Washington, D.C. - New data released Wednesday by the Justice Policy Institute revealed that California’s Three Strikes law disproportionately locks up African Americans and Latinos compared to whites. According to this first-of-its-kind analysis of the racial and ethnic makeup of Three Strikes defendants, African Americans are given life sentences under Three Strikes at nearly 13 times the rate of whites and the Latinos are incarcerated under Three Strikes a staggering 82 percent more than w...
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 9:09pm PDT
Wintu Unhappy with CALFED about Shasta dam raising
Government boreocratic failures decades old failed to recognize Wintu tribal status, refuse to correct their mistake. Now the lack of tribal status could prevent the Wintu from effective opposition to the proposed CAL-FED raising of Shasta dam that would flood sacred spiritual sites along the McCloud River.....
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 11:24am PDT
Consider the Internet an Electronic Voting Machine -- vote swap
California has about 1 million 'spare' votes for Kerry. Use VotePair to swap them with third party supporters in swing states....
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 12:41am PDT