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Berkeley isn't what it used to be. BERKELEY, Calif. - Here in the nation's capital of tolerance and liberalism, the people have had enough....
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 10:20pm PST
Hemp - Could Save America 
The Weed That Can Change The World
From Varied Sources...
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 8:56pm PST
The Real Price of a Big Mac shit diet Jan. 27 - Sometimes inspiration strikes in the unlikeliest places. After gorging himself on Thanksgiving dinner in 2002, Morgan Spurlock was watching TV with his belt unbuckled and his pants unzipped. On the news was a report about two girls in New York who were suing McDonald’s because, they claimed, the food made them overweight and sick....
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 8:35pm PST
Eisenhower's Holocaust - His "God, I hate the Germans..." (Dwight David Eisenhower in a letter to his wife in September, 1944)...
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 8:29pm PST
UC workers are paid so little that they depend on welfare to get by First the governor proposed a rule change that could eliminate lunch breaks for California workers. Now, if a new report about the University of California is correct, it seems lunchroom workers themselves are paid so little at UC campuses that many of them qualify for nine public subsidies for the poor, including food stamps and public housing....
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 8:35am PST
Schwarzenegger Threatens California State Teachers Retirement System Four big squares marked “vacant” sat alongside photos of remaining board members on the California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) web site this week. It seems the squares’ former occupants (two Republicans and two Democrats) had the nerve to vote against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposal to privatize pensions of all new state workers, including teachers, into a 401(k)-type system starting in 2007, and his proposal to shift onto local school districts the state’s contribution t...
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 8:29am PST
Adult Education in Oakland Under Attack: Protest Wednesday at School Board Meeting Attention: Adult Education in Oakland Under Attack! Protest Wednesday, 4PM at the Oakland School Board Meeting; Town Hall Meeting to Defend Public Education in Oakland, Tuesday, March 8th...
Posted: Sun, Feb 20, 2005 4:28pm PST
"Postcards from Buster" the Bunny Creates Nationwide Flap Controversy has been brewing this year, since the news came out that in one episode, called "Sugartime!," Buster goes to Vermont and learns about making maple syrup. Buster is visiting Karen, who used to work with his mom. Karen's partner is a woman named Gillian, and they have kids. (!!!)...
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 11:45pm PST
World Festival of Students and Youth in Caracas Aug.5-13th The Hands Off Venezuela Campaign is offering as a service to all those groups and LOC's organizing for the WFSY in Caracas, Venezuela on August 5-13th, our website to enhance and spread the word on your efforts towards it( see our main menu sub-section on left hand side).This is being done in a friendly way to help, since our site is viewed by alot of people interested in Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution....
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 11:16am PST
The Justice of Roosting Chickens: Ward Churchill Speaks The Governor of Colorado has called for his "termination." Fox's Bill O'Reilly has attacked him consistently for weeks. He says he won't apologize and he won't back down. We speak with Ward Churchill, the professor at the center of the controversy over free speech and academic freedom on college campuses....
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2005 9:23am PST
Was smallpox among Mandan an 'accident'? One of the ways in which Prof. Ward Churchill has been criticized in the past couple of weeks was in an essay by assistant professor Thomas Brown of Lamar university who criticized the footnote Churchill used supporting the claim that the United States deliberately released smallpox into the Mandan and other tribes in the Missouri area in 1837....
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2005 8:31am PST
Court: Activists Didn't Get Fair Trial BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Two vegetarian activists convicted of libeling fast-food giant McDonald's Corp. did not receive a fair trial in Britain, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday...
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 7:41pm PST
Study: Homeless Shelters, Food in Demand -- Many homeless shelters and soup kitchens faced with more requests for emergency services are turning people away because they lack the beds, food and money to meet the demand, says a survey from an advocacy group for low-income Americans....
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 7:37pm PST
Rioting at French student protest 
At the end of a massive student protest (80,000 people) in Paris on February 15, 2005, hundreds of youths threw objects at riot police, smashed shop windows, trashed cars and looted goods. 24 people were arrested by police, and eight remain in custody. 30 police were wounded and eight were hospitalized. Student union protest marshals used batons to attack youths who were breaking windows and looting....
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 3:43pm PST
Welcoming Chancellor Denton to UC Santa Cruz (video/quicktime 33.6MB) On February 14th (Valentine's Day), the Student & Worker Coalition for Justice, AFSCME Service Workers, CUE Clericals, and other campus unions "welcomed" incoming Chancellor Denise Denton on her first day at UCSC.
Several hundred students and workers marched from McHenry Library to Kerr Hall. At Kerr, the Budget Office was noisily occupied, with the large crowd flowing out onto the upper patio.
(12 minute video -- see comments for a lower resolution version with a quicker down...
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 10:57am PST
Ward Churchill has rights, and he’s right Ward Churchill has a right to speak about 9/11.
And Ward Churchill is right about 9/11....
Posted: Mon, Feb 14, 2005 6:20pm PST
Vallejo and Benicia: Organize Now to Stop School Closings! 
Regional Organizing Drive to Stop Educational Cuts! Oakland Education Association President Ben Visnick to join Benicia and Vallejo Teachers, Staff, Parents and Workers in an Open Forum to Save Our Schools...
Posted: Mon, Feb 14, 2005 4:07pm PST
Sweet Jesus, I hate Bill O'Reilly, International organization
dedicated to the dissemination of information that exposes
Bill O'Reilly for what he is: an ego-driven, biased individual who
spreads fear, hate and misunderstanding. His views are firmly
anchored to the political right. He works tirelessly to enrage
Americans and pit them against anything he considers "liberal"
or, worse yet, "secular". Mr. O'Reilly uses highly manipulative
forms of presentation, phrasing and, yes, "spin"....
Posted: Sat, Feb 12, 2005 10:14am PST
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