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Mayor Dellums letter to Port Action There will be a community picket line to shut down War Profiteers in the Port of Oakland on Saturday, May 19th at 7 a.m. Themes and issues of the picketing include: Stop shipping war materiel. Port money for schools & social services. Bring the troops home now, and give them the healthcare they need. Below is Oakland Mayor Dellums letter of support to Port Action, the ad hoc group which is organizing the picketing....
Posted: Fri, May 18, 2007 9:48pm PDT
DATE CHANGE: Green Jobs Rally 6/12, PLUS big news! BREAKING NEWS: We've changed the date of our rally for the Oakland Green Jobs Corps
to reflect the new Oakland City Council hearing date. Save the date - our
rescheduled rally is Tuesday, June 12!...
Posted: Fri, May 18, 2007 5:42pm PDT
7/13-15 in Oakland: National Copwatch Conference 2007 1st National Copwatch Conference 2007
Oakland, California
July 13-15
Laney College
(Lake Merritt Bart)
Join us for a weekend of networking, workshops, film showings, and discussions in support of direct observation of police as part of a strategy for stopping police brutality...
Posted: Fri, May 18, 2007 4:13pm PDT
SPRING into the SEASON with Sistahs Steppin' in Pride! Get out your calendars and mark these important dates!...
Posted: Fri, May 18, 2007 9:13am PDT
Picketing war profiteers on Armed Forces Day Antiwar activists will picket war profiteers in the Port of Oakland on Saturday, May 19. Below are two press releases from the Port Action Committee....
Posted: Fri, May 18, 2007 2:59am PDT
East Bay Animal Advocates May 17, 2007 eNews East Bay Animal Advocates
P.O. Box 1406
Martinez, CA 94553
(925) 487-4419
info@eastbayanimaladvocates.org
http://www.eastbayanimaladvocates.org...
Posted: Thu, May 17, 2007 3:52pm PDT
Violent Motorist at Berkeley Critical and Biased Coverage Another witness' report on the Berkeley Mass incident....
Posted: Thu, May 17, 2007 1:16pm PDT
GM Industry Flak scheduled to speak May 20th at UC Berkeley Commencement Dr. Florence Murinigi Wambugu is scheduled to speak at UC Berkeley the morning of May 20th, 2007, as the Commencement Speaker during the College of Natural Resources Commencement Program. Dr. Florence Wambugu is a leading African biotechnolgy expert whose career and research projects are funded by Monsanto, Dow, Noivartis, AgrEvo, Bayer, BBSRC, Cargill, Pioneer, Syngenta. These companies also provide millions to UC Berkeley for research....
Posted: Wed, May 16, 2007 9:00am PDT
Take Back OUR Schools Day 2007 May 17th marks the 53rd anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education but economically disadvantage youth and youth of color continue to receive an unequal education. On this historic date, we hold a press conference in commemoration of Brown vs. Board of Education so that elected officials could have the opportunity to hear what students, teachers and community members feel is most urgent and what should be prioritized when talking about education reform, and so that politicians can state whe...
Posted: Tue, May 15, 2007 6:26pm PDT
Eric Drooker: Musical Slide Lecture (5/24) 
Eric Drooker: Musical Slide Lecture, Thursday May 24th, 7:30pm at Pegasus Books (2349 Shattuck Ave. Downtown Berkeley)...
Posted: Tue, May 15, 2007 1:37pm PDT
UC Hunger Strike Against Weapons Labs Passes 1-Week Mark 
A hunger strike initiated by 44 UC students, several alumni and a professor has passed its 1-week mark. The hunger strikers are demanding that the UC Board of Regents withdraw from their contracts to operate Los Alamos and Livermore National Laboratories based on, “the grounds that the Reliable Replacement Warhead program and Los Alamos Labs’ ongoing preparations to conduct plutonium pit manufacturing both clearly violate Article VI of the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.” The hunger ...
Posted: Tue, May 15, 2007 10:42am PDT
The Question of Criticizing Oakland Mayor Dellums by J. Douglas Allen-Taylor ‚ May. 15‚ 2007
(A longer version of this column first appeared in the Berkeley Daily Planet)...
Posted: Tue, May 15, 2007 9:03am PDT
Fairfield Planning Commission Rejects Dispensary Ban I am writing to congratulate everyone on a job well done at the Fairfield
Planning Commission on Wednesday night....
Posted: Mon, May 14, 2007 9:36am PDT
BAIRC Update 5-11-07 - events & actions i took out the first event, since it happened already...
Posted: Mon, May 14, 2007 9:31am PDT
New Board Members For Troubled Berkeley Housing Authority Mayor Tom Bates Appoints New Board Members For The Berkeley Housing Authority. Oddly, 2 Board Members Were Reappointed, After Firing Themselves From The Troubled Agency In Recent Months!...
Posted: Mon, May 14, 2007 4:26am PDT
Picket War Profiteers at Port of Oakland APL Terminal at Port of Oakland, 1579 Middle Harbor Road
Not far from sign for Berths 61-63
Continuous shuttle service for West Oakland BART throughout the day...
Event Date: Sat, May 19, 2007 7:00am PDT
Posted: Sun, May 13, 2007 7:08pm PDT
IS KPFA PUTTING FUNDRAISING BEFORE ITS MISSION? Many of the "premiums" offered to KPFA's subscribers are speeches or programs that are not being played when they happen or soon thereafter but are being recorded and held for the next fund drive. And then we get to hear 30 minutes of a longer program and to hear the whole program you have to buy it. Many, if not most, of these programs are never played entirely on the air for those that can't afford to buy them. Is that what KPFA and Pacifica are about? I have a motion on this issue before t...
Posted: Sun, May 13, 2007 2:48pm PDT
Urgent Actions for Oakland Schools We are at a crossroads in stopping the closure of schools and getting
back local control for Oakland. The good news is we have a bill to
return local control (AB 45), in the state assembly and it looks like
it may pass. However the work to stop the school closures is at a
turning point with only a month and a half before closure, we are
bringing our resolution for a moratorium on closures to the school
board and we are turning up the heat on State education official Jack
O'Connell. Edu...
Posted: Sat, May 12, 2007 2:14pm PDT
NICHOLS: More lies from Livermore nuclear weapons lab 
"A group of citizens of the Bay Area are seeking a lawyer to take legal action to stop the open air explosions set off by Livermore Lab in Tracy, California......
Posted: Sat, May 12, 2007 1:19pm PDT
Boots Riley Withdraws Plans for Berkeley Grad Speech in Support of UC Custodians 
Boots Riley Withdraws Plans for Keynote Speech at Saturday's UC Berkeley's Black Graduation
Comes Out in Support of Custodian Union's Fight to End Poverty-Level Wages...
Posted: Fri, May 11, 2007 1:23pm PDT
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