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textEBAA showers Lunardi's Supermarket Headquarters with flowers today by East Bay Animal Advocates
East Bay Animal Advocates P.O. Box 1406 Martinez, CA 94553 (925) 487-4419 Info@eastbayanimaladvocates.org Online at www.EastBayAnimalAdvocates.org...
Posted: Fri, Jul 13, 2007 12:40pm PDT
textLOCAL 483 MEMBERS RATIFY HISTORIC CONTRACT AT PEBBLE BEACH LODGE by UNITEHERE! Local 483
UNITEHERE! Local 483 members at the prestigious Pebble Beach Lodge voted overwhelmingly to approve an historic 5-year labor contract July 12. ... calling for a minimum of $4.00 per hour in additional wages for non-tipped workers over the span of the contract, as well as increases in gratuities and improvements in health insurance, pension, and job protection....
Posted: Fri, Jul 13, 2007 10:38am PDT
imageRaging Grannies for Single Payer Health Care at SICKO
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by Granny Ruth Robertson
Interactive Street Theater with members of the Raging Grannies and theater patrons at SICKO....all to promote passage of SB840...that's California-speak for Single Payer Health Care! Photos: Kim Kinoshita, R. Robertson...
Posted: Sun, Jul 1, 2007 4:04am PDT
imageRaging Grannies "Play Doctor" at SICKO
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by Granny Ruth Robertson
Awesome First Night for SICKO in Mountain View, California with the Raging Grannies acting up for passage of Single Payer Health Care!...
Posted: Sun, Jul 1, 2007 2:58am PDT
imageHeroes Rally, Sing, March for 9/11 Truth and Impeachment
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by Wonder Woman and Spiderman
Report on the June 13th Rally for 9/11 Truth and Impeachment where superheroes gave out 2007 Heroic Citizens for 9/11 Truth awards. Master of Ceremonies, Dennis Bernstein also received a Heroic Citizen for Truth award. Petitions in support of Congressman Kucinich's House Resolution 333, articles of impeachment against Cheney were delivered to Congresswoman Eshoo's office....
Posted: Fri, Jun 15, 2007 10:38pm PDT
calendarJustice for Janitors Rally and March by Sylvia Ruiz
Rally will start at corner of Bell and University in East Palo Alto and end in Palo Alto at Univeristy and Emerson....
Event Date: Fri, Jun 15, 2007 11:00am PDT
Posted: Wed, Jun 13, 2007 4:52pm PDT
image"Animal Abuse Protest" at Belmont Lunardi's Supermarket
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by Charles Slay
Members of East Bay Animal Advocates staged a protest, Sunday, June 10, in front of Lunardi's Market in Belmont to draw attention to what they allege is animal cruelty behind the production of eggs sold by Lunardi's....
Posted: Sun, Jun 10, 2007 10:49pm PDT
textCaged Humans Ask Lunardi’s Supermarket to Oppose Cruel Farming Practices by EBAA
Media Contact: Phone: (925) 487-4419 Email: Info@EastBayAnimalAdvocates.org...
Posted: Fri, Jun 8, 2007 2:25pm PDT
documentDTSC Takes Enforcement Action Against Romic Environmental Technologies of East Palo Alto
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by DTSC (reposted)
05/30/2007 Press Release From The DTSC...
Posted: Wed, Jun 6, 2007 7:06am PDT
imageEast Palo Alto Youth Win Preliminary Battle Against Giant Polluter
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by Ruth Robertson
After more than a decade of fighting Romic Environmental Technologies' polluting presence in East Palo Alto, the young activists of YUCA (Youth United for Community Action) are celebrating a major success towards shutting down environmental racism in their city. Organizer Annie Loya, pictured here speaking at a May 30, 2007 press conference, began working on the campaign against Romic when she was 13 years old. She is now 23....
Posted: Wed, Jun 6, 2007 2:09am PDT
textEast Palo Alto Youth Win Preliminary Battle Against Giant Polluter by Ruth Robertson
After more than a decade of fighting Romic Environmental Technologies' polluting presence in East Palo Alto, the young activists of YUCA (Youth United for Community Action) are celebrating a major success towards shutting down environmental racism in their city. Related story at: www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/02/10/18360617.php...
Posted: Mon, Jun 4, 2007 4:22pm PDT
textEndangered Butterfly Returns to Destroyed Habitat on San Bruno Mt. by L. Dunlap/ken mcintire/San Bruno Mtn Watch
This week small red caterpillars, larvae of the endangered Elfin Butterfly, are feasting on the one plant they can eat, a small, yellow-flowered sedum that grows in the only habitat where the Elfin can survive. These plants grow on the contested slopes of San Bruno Mountain between Brisbane and South San Francisco, but this year they've been found, with the larvae, returning to the very ledges of a rock quarry that had destroyed their habitat. Their return protects the quarry from further d...
Posted: Thu, May 31, 2007 8:46pm PDT
textEBAA to introduce the 'Human Battery Cage' to Lunardi's Supermarket on June 10th by East Bay Animal Advocates
Online at www.LunardisAbuse.com....
Posted: Thu, May 31, 2007 4:11pm PDT
textConference on State of Newspaper Industry Draws Huge Crowd by Beyond Chron (reposted)
On May 14th, Stanford University and McClatchy Company co-sponsored a free community forum at Cubberly Auditorium to discuss the fate of the newspaper industry. Speakers included Bill Keller,Executive Editor of the New York Times, Gary Pruitt, Chief Executive Officer of McClatchy, Marissa Mayer, Vice President of search productsand user experience at Google, and Harry Chandler, a former executive at the Los Angeles Times. It was the 41st of such events sponsored by McClatchy....
Posted: Sat, May 19, 2007 9:11am PDT
imageStudent Photography Exhibit on Immigration
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by Lars Howlett
The Advanced Photography Students of Sacred Heart Preparatory in Atherton, California are pleased to announce: An Exhibition of Photographs from the U.S. / Mexico Border and Bay Area Immigrant Communities Documented // // Undocumented On View May 16th - June 8th at Spur Projects in Portola Valley...
Posted: Fri, May 18, 2007 11:12am PDT
imageBoycott Monster Cable! Rally/Concert Photos
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by Granny Ruth R.
Laid-off workers, mostly Latino and Chinese immigrants 50+ years old, RALLIED on May 5 in front of Burlingame (CA) Apple story and marched through downtown Burlingame. Joined by members of local labor groups they took their protest to the HILLSBOROUGH MANSION of Monster Cable CEO Noel Lee. Their struggle has now lasted more than 6 months. Youtube video of earlier march on the CEO's home is 5 minutes long and includes a musical mix of Chinese hip hop, traditional Chinese drumming and Ragin...
Posted: Thu, May 17, 2007 8:22pm PDT
text5/18 in Mountain View: Day Worker Center Losing Space by via BAIRC
Dear Friends, For those of you in or near Mountain View, please think about joining and supporting our members at the Mountain View Worker Center at a press conference tomorrow, Friday, May 18. The Center is losing its space at the end of July, 2007. The press conference will be at 9:30 am at 1880 California in Mountain View. See below for details. Larisa...
Posted: Thu, May 17, 2007 5:21pm PDT
imageDay Worker Center May be Forced to Close
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by R. Willsdotter
The Day Worker Center of Mountain View, housed for the past 5 years at the Calvary Church at California Street and Escuela Avenue, is losing its facility on July 31, 2007. Photo by Charles Slay...
Posted: Thu, May 17, 2007 12:55am PDT
imageGolden Gate Minutemen on the Streets/Raging Grannies Sound the Alert
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by Granny Ruth
A newly formed branch of the Minutemen, joined by other anti-immigration groups, are targeting San Francisco Peninsula and South Bay cities bringing their message to the streets. What they didn't count on was this: a group of middle aged and elderly woman called the Raging Grannies with signature flowered bonnets are sounding the alarm to local community activists to react quickly in response. Calling on peace and immigrant rights groups to counter demonstrate on short notice, the Peninsul...
Posted: Mon, May 14, 2007 10:47pm PDT
textCal-Am: Giving Monterey Customers What They Want? by TLT
Sacramento Cal-Am customers are getting what Monterey Cal-Am Customers got....
Posted: Sun, May 13, 2007 4:34pm PDT
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