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Crosses in Lafayette: The need to remember 
The Crosses in Lafayette California withstand the test of time, the passing of it's facilitators, the on-going onslaught of negative responses to it's existence, and the decay, but it has grown since the last time I reported on the display. And the volunteers work tirelessly to maintain it and make it a valuable part of Lafayette California's history....
Posted: Mon, Nov 12, 2012 10:29am PST
Cindy Sheehan in Fresno (video/mp4 138.7MB) This is an 11:53 minute video of Cindy Sheehan speaking in Fresno at the College Community Congregational Church. Cindy talks about her new book: Revolution, A Love Story & announces that she will run for Governor of California in 2014....
Posted: Sun, Nov 11, 2012 7:50pm PST
Tibetan "Flame of Truth" Global Relay 
UN Plaza, 1150 Market Street, SF, CA...
Event Date: Sat, Nov 10, 2012 10:00am PST
Posted: Mon, Oct 29, 2012 8:30pm PDT
Tristan Anderson and Scott Olsen Anti-War Panel, Oakland: audio & photos 
Tristan Anderson is an activist and Indybay journalist who was critically injured in the West Bank village of Ni'lin in 2009 when he was shot in the head with a high-velocity tear gas canister by Israeli forces. Scott Olsen is an Iraq War vet, now a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War and Veterans for Peace, who suffered a traumatic brain injury during an Occupy Oakland march on October 25th, 2011, when Oakland police fired a bean bag round into his head at close range. Although Scott r...
Posted: Sun, Oct 28, 2012 3:19pm PDT
Anti-Imperialist, Anti-Capitalist Hoodie & Hijab March in Oakland, 10/7/12: photos 
Directly after the Decolonize the New World 2012 Afghans for Peace rally in Oscar Grant plaza on the 11th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan and Indigenous People's Day (Columbus Day), up to 200 demonstrators marched through downtown Oakland for just under an hour. In the course of the march, while a sound system boomed and anti-war chants rang out, windows were broken, ATMs were smashed, and paint went up. Targets included numerous banks, a credit union, AC Transit, AT&T, the Oakland Tri...
Posted: Mon, Oct 15, 2012 1:01pm PDT
Afghans for Peace Rally on the 11th Anniversary of the Afghanistan War, Oakland, 10/7/12: video & photos 
With a series of actions on both sides of the bay, Decolonize the New World 2012 highlighted the history of resistance to colonialism and imperialism in the 500 years since Christopher Columbus landed in the "new world". On the third day of protests, falling both on Indigenous People's Day (Columbus Day) and the 11th anniversary of the Afghanistan war, Afghans for peace called for solidarity with a rally and march in Oakland. Speakers at the rally confronted injustices and inhumanities from...
Posted: Mon, Oct 15, 2012 12:00pm PDT
Decolonize Is Solidarity: Oakland protests the war in Afghanistan (video/mp4 36.1MB) Sunday October 7th marked the 11th year of the US-led NATO occupation of Afghanistan and it also coincided with Indigenous People's Day (anti Columbus Day). About 200 people gathered at Oakland's Oscar Grant Plaza to protest colonization in all it's forms, from the 500 years of genocide of Indigenous peoples to the the US war in Afghanistan. The action was called for by communities of color who directly affected by US colonialism and imperialism....
Posted: Tue, Oct 9, 2012 11:54pm PDT
10/6-7/12 US Protests of 11 year Demo-Republican war on Afghanistan On the weekend of Oct. 6-7, 2012, the ANSWER Coalition joined with many other organizations in cities across the country and around the world to call for an end to war and occupation in Afghanistan. These actions marked the 11th anniversary of the U.S./NATO war in Afghanistan. Contrary to countless statements from Democratic and Republican administrations alike claiming “great progress,” etc., the occupying forces are no closer to achieving their aims than when they launched the war. In ord...
Posted: Tue, Oct 9, 2012 4:43am PDT
Crash Obama in San Francisco! 
UN Plaza/Civic Center BART...
Event Date: Mon, Oct 8, 2012 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2012 1:31pm PDT
Stop 30 $Billion to Israel Ads on SF Buses We now have the antidote to to the terrible ads a court forced onto our buses in San Francisco, referring to Palestinians as "savages." The new ads were put there by a group called Bay Area Stop $30 Billion Military Aid to Israel. You can see the ad at: http://www.bayareastop30billion.org/...
Posted: Wed, Oct 3, 2012 9:57pm PDT
Hundreds Create Heart-Shaped Flash Mob Meditation & Yoga on International Day of Peace 
On Friday evening, September 21, the International Day of Peace, over a hundred Bay Area residents gathered during rush hour for a lively flashmob meditation and yoga action for peace in San Francisco’s Union Square. The action, organized by BeThePeace and Dancing Without Borders, created a heart-shaped aerial image which was photographed from a building 36 stories high. This action was part of over 200+ organized "MedMob" events that happened on the International Day of Peace across all cont...
Posted: Fri, Sep 21, 2012 11:38pm PDT
Solidarity Action with Jeju Island 
HOBAK, a network of radical anti-imperialist Koreans in diaspora, organize to bring attention to the struggle against militarism in Gangjeong Village on the island of Jeju in South Korea....
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2012 6:47pm PDT
Artists, Musicians and Bernal Community Residents Protest Destruction Of Victor Jara Mural 
Musicians Rafael Manriquez and Francisco Hererra as well as community residents and artists joined together on the anniversary of the death of Victor Jara and in action to prevent the destruction of the Bernal Heights Victor Jara mural. Jara was murdered on September 16, 1973 by the US supported military coup in Chile. His hands were broken and then he was killed...
Posted: Sun, Sep 16, 2012 6:21pm PDT
SFPD is Here to Make Your Day 
Seen on Broadway & Sansome – San Francisco's North Beach...
Posted: Thu, Sep 13, 2012 4:22pm PDT
18th Annual Peace and Unity March 
Meet at the Watsonville City Plaza on Main Street at 11:00am!
March Begins: 12:30pm ● Peace Rally: 2:30pm – 4:00pm...
Event Date: Sun, Sep 30, 2012 12:30pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Sep 13, 2012 1:09pm PDT
Free Bradley Manning: Speech Demands Pardon (video/quicktime 163.7MB) Short video 2:31 in which activists demonstrating in front of the Democratic party's campaign office in Menlo Park, CA read a letter of demands related to the incarceration of Bradley Manning...
Posted: Tue, Sep 11, 2012 5:22pm PDT
Free Bradley Manning: Speech Outside Democrats' Campaign Office in Menlo Park (video/quicktime 106.0MB) In this 1:39 video, former State Assembly candidate Joseph Rosas calls on President Obama to release Bradley Manning from incarceration. He asks that the President be true to his own words spoken in May 2011 about the importance of freedom of information....
Posted: Mon, Sep 10, 2012 8:40pm PDT
Protest UC Berkeley Torture Advocates 
Boalt Hall, Room 105
UC Berkeley...
Event Date: Wed, Sep 12, 2012 12:30pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Sep 9, 2012 1:30pm PDT
Free Bradley Manning: LGBT Community Step UP! (video/quicktime 127.2MB) On September 6th a national day of action to free Bradley Manning was held across the nation. In more than 25 locations, people called for President Obama to take action to release the whistleblower from jail. Most actions were held in front of Democratic campaign headquarters during the Democratic National Convention....
Posted: Sun, Sep 9, 2012 11:56am PDT
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