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Caravan for Justice on Thursday for Oscar Grant and more There will be caravan of cars and buses this Thursday, February 19, to lobby legislators in Sacramento on the issues of Oscar Grant and police killings (revising the "Police Bill of Rights" that shields their misconduct records from the public), repressive gang laws, reforming Three Strikes, and the San Francisco 8, former Black Panthers and associates being retried by Attorney General Jerry Brown for a 1971 police killing based on evidence extracted by torture in 1973....
Event Date: Thu, Feb 19, 2009 7:30am PST
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2009 1:20pm PST
E. Palo Alto Landlord Hits Rock Bottom with Extreme Tactics 
Could it get any worse than this? Page Mill Properties has hired an active police officer to work for them in his off-duty hours. He is easily recognized by tenants as both a body guard for the company and an intimidator of tenants, yet his full time job is as a lieutenant in the Palo Alto Police Dept. Page Mill also sent an employee on more than one occasion to tear down "tenants' rights" flyers from the East Palo Alto neighborhood where the overbearing landlord owns apartment complexes.....
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2009 12:30am PST
Questionable Police Practices Continue After Palo Alto Police Chief Forced to Retire 
Palo Alto Police Officer On Payroll of Harassing Landlord
Former police chief Lynne Johnson, who retired in December amidst allegations of racial profiling, authorized an officer to do contract work for Page Mill Properties early in 2008 despite a department policy that regulates off-duty employment to avoid conflict of interest. The officer went to the apartment of an outspoken advocate of tenant rights, loitered near his residence, and photographed the tenant and his car.
Photo: East P...
Posted: Sat, Feb 7, 2009 3:45am PST
Mega-Landlord Offers Tenant Activist $20,000, then Twists Bribe into Extortion Charge 
Last November East Palo Alto's biggest landlord tried to bribe community organizer Christopher Lund with a large sum of money to make him cease his efforts on behalf of renters in low-income East Palo Alto. This week it was revealed that the mega-landlord twisted the story around, calling the bribe an act of extortion committed by the activist. Palo Alto police launched an investigation, going so far as to record Lund's phone coversations with the landlord; the District Attoney's Office decl...
Posted: Sat, Feb 7, 2009 2:45am PST
CodePink & Raging Grannies Go Tell it in Mountain View 
The Raging Grannies bar-hopped through downtown Mountain View, then joined up with San Jose CodePink at St. Stephen's Pub to educate Obama-manic celebrants with songs and chants....
Posted: Fri, Jan 23, 2009 11:20pm PST
Pro-Choice Action Counters Catholic Church in Los Altos 
AAUW Leading the Charge!
The American Association of University Women, Los Altos-Mountain View Branch, has held the reigns of a vigorous counter-protest to Catholic Church anti-choice marches for the last seven years. They are ready to turn the mantle over to other pro-choice organizers starting with next year's action. Interested in joining this yearly event? Contact AAUW Los Altos-Mountain View or Planned Parenthood Mar Monte.
Photos: Action of January 22, 2009 on the anniversary o...
Posted: Thu, Jan 22, 2009 5:32pm PST
MLK Jr Day in Palo Alto 
High school students invited to speak in the Palo Alto City Council Chamber said they hoped for freedom from police brutality, amongst other things, and a Raging Granny wore a "Oscar Grant is my Son" sign on her chest. The ceremony recognized community volunteers and remembered Martin Luther King, Jr. for his message of hope....
Posted: Mon, Jan 19, 2009 4:46pm PST
Raging Grannies Return to Facebook HQ 
On our second visit to protest Facebook's discrimination against breastfeeding moms, we were greeted by many Facebook employees who wanted to pose with us for photos. They encouraged us to get a Facebook page...we tried to explain to them that we won't play into the hands of corporations... that drew some blank looks, so we sang them our song about Riseup.net....
Posted: Fri, Jan 16, 2009 7:16pm PST
East Palo Alto Accidental Shooting Investigation Takes 24 Hours The Alameda County district attorney said it would take two weeks to complete an investigation into the shooting death of Oscar Grant by a BART cop. But it took police in East Palo Alto only 24 hours to make an arrest in an accidental shooting that happened there. What's up with that?...
Posted: Sat, Jan 10, 2009 9:28pm PST
Stanford Peace Vigil: What's that Spell? 
A message spelled out in candlelight lit up the evening in Stanford University's White Plaza....
Posted: Thu, Jan 8, 2009 11:08pm PST
San Mateo Protest Draws Disparate Demonstrators 
This morning the call went out from San Mateo Peace Action for an emergency rally to stop Israeli bombing of Gaza. By early evening the protest included participants from high school through Raging Granny ages. A representative of World Can't Wait stood side by side with a lone Republican, both on the side of Palestine resistance. All called for a Free Gaza and immediate halt to the reign of Israeli terror!...
Posted: Mon, Dec 29, 2008 7:54pm PST
Mothers Breastfeed and Protest at Facebook's HQ in Palo Alto 
M.I.L.C. (Mothers International Lactation Campaign) reports that recently, Facebook has started 'pulling a myspace' by not allowing people to post profile pictures of babies nursing. The pictures have been reported as 'obscene' and have been removed- their posters warned not to repost or fear being kicked off of Facebook.
On December 27, M.I.L.C. demonstrated in front of Facebook's headquarters in Palo Alto, CA in response to Facebook designating breastfeeding photos as obscene, removing t...
Posted: Sun, Dec 28, 2008 12:12am PST
Facebook Discriminates Against Nursing Moms 
Members of Mothers International Lactation Campaign (MILC) held a *nurse-in* in front of Facebook's Palo Alto office today for three hours. Together with the Raging Grannies, who contributed a song written for the occasion (lyrics below) they protested Facebook's removal of user-posted images that show women breastfeeding their babies....
Posted: Sat, Dec 27, 2008 9:44pm PST
Breastfeeding is NOT obscene~Facebook's attitude is! 
Facebook's removal of photos of breastfeeding is demeaning and oppressive! Women, including grandmothers, kids, infants, and breastfeeding moms protested in front of Facebook headquarters in downtown Palo Alto today....
Posted: Sat, Dec 27, 2008 2:05pm PST
Protest Facebook! :: Action against breast-phobia, in Palo Alto and on Net on the Internet, internationally ;
and outside Facebook HQ, 156 University Avenue,
Palo Alto, northern California, U$A
.................
Event Date: Sat, Dec 27, 2008 11:00am PST
Posted: Tue, Dec 23, 2008 1:17pm PST
See the Movie *Milk* but NOT at CineArts Palo Alto/San Jose 
Cinemark CEO Alan Stock donated $9,999 to Yes on 8 campaign, yet is "milking" money out of movie-goers hurt by the passage of that shameful proposition.
Photo: Demonstrators in front of CineArts on Santana Row (San Jose) on December 20, by Gloria Nieto....
Posted: Mon, Dec 22, 2008 10:00pm PST
Sun Shines on *Revoke Prop 8* Marchers headed to Supreme Court 
Tracie and Val made their way through the rain up the historic El Camino Real, walking from Sunnyvale this morning. By the time they got to Palo Alto the weather was clear and beautiful. The sun shines on those who rally for justice!
The marching duo started in LA on November 17. They have been housed and greeted by many supporters along their way. Today's rally near Stanford U. was sponsored by the Raging Grannies. The couple, married in Canada last April, plans to arrive in San Franci...
Posted: Mon, Dec 15, 2008 8:56pm PST
'Tis the Season to Support FAIR TRADE 
The Raging Grannies Action League and Global Exchange offer tips for shopping with social justice in mind, during this holiday season and throughout the year. New lyrics to holiday tunes accompany the photos below; they were taken on December 12 at:
***RED ROCK CAFE where the Raging Grannies crashed open mic night
and
***at a peace and justice rally sponsored by Mountain View Voices for Peace...
Posted: Sat, Dec 13, 2008 3:22am PST
Revoke Prop 8 Rally Monday in Palo Alto 
Corner of Embarcadero and El Camino Real in Palo Alto
In front of Town and Country Shopping center
across from Stanford and Palo ALto High School...
Event Date: Mon, Dec 15, 2008 3:00pm PST
Posted: Fri, Dec 12, 2008 2:13am PST
Raging Grannies/Anti-Prop 8 Protest Comic 
A comic about the Nov 15th Anti-Prop 8 Protest in Mountain View, hosted by the Raging Grannies....
Posted: Thu, Dec 11, 2008 10:43am PST
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