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Live broadcast from KPFA Local Station Board meeting (audio/x-mpegurl 0.0KB)
Sat May 21st, 11am - 3 pm: KPFA Local Station Board meeting at Freight and Salvage, Berkeley, CA...
Posted: Sat, May 21, 2005 11:58am PDT
Weekly Action Alert: Court Support & Alameda Hearing
Monday, May 23: Stockton, CA: Support Aaron Paradiso in Court!
uesday, May 24th @ 10am
Alameda County Board of Supervisors Meeting to Discuss Dispensing...
Posted: Sat, May 21, 2005 12:54am PDT
Bay Area Students Demand Educational Equity
High School and Middle School Students walked out of classes and marched to Frank Oglala Plaza to demand
- Non-compliance with No Child Left Behind
- Restore Local Control to Oakland Schools
- Fully Fund Prop 98 and Equally Distribute These Funds
- End the High School Exit Exam...
Posted: Sat, May 21, 2005 12:35am PDT
Tenure Granted!
I am proud to contact you with extraordinary news. Yesterday afternoon,
the Dean of the College of Natural Resources at Berkeley communicated to
me the intention of our new Chancellor to grant tenure to my position at
Berkeley.
This decision is a clear message of vindication not only of myself, but
also of the innumerable individual and collective efforts put into this
process by all of you. You have generously added your voices to the many
questions raised around my tenure review ...
Posted: Thu, May 19, 2005 5:46pm PDT
Vertict in Riders' Case Still Out, Despite What You've Heard on TV
Vertict in Riders' Case Still Out, Despite What You've Heard on TV
Hung Jury at Alameda County Court House But the People of Oakland Remain Hipper than Hip...
Posted: Thu, May 19, 2005 2:44pm PDT
Students Declare May 17 - TAKE BACK OUR SCHOOLS DAY!
On the 51st anniversary of Brown vs Board of Education, hundreds of Bay Area high school students walked out of their schools to attend Take Back Our Schools Day. They rallied in front of Oakland's City Hall and the State Building to call attention to continued inequalities in local public schools....
Posted: Wed, May 18, 2005 2:38am PDT
HIGHWAY PATROL AFRAID OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Take BAck Our Schools Day Apparently has the Highway Patrol Out in Droves...
Posted: Wed, May 18, 2005 12:17am PDT
Kernighan Elected to Oakland City Council with 70% of the Voters Against Her
Kernighan and Democracy Win in Oakland? Only problem: 70% of the voters were against her....
Posted: Tue, May 17, 2005 11:19pm PDT
UC Bioengineering/Chapela awareness week
All week from Monday May 16-May 20th, a low-key demo is being carried out at UC Berkeley with the purpose of creating awareness about the new 12-storey bioengineering building under construction at the mining circle, awareness about the changing source of funding for the university away from taxpayer funds towards higher student tuition and private research funds with an incentive for patent generating choices of research, and awareness about Professor Ignacio Chapela's lawsuit against the un...
Posted: Tue, May 17, 2005 8:07pm PDT
Girlstock This Weekend in the East Bay
Over 30 women and genderfluid artists are showing their artwork and performing on Saturday, May 21st and Sunday, May 22nd in Berkeley and Oakland respectively...
Posted: Tue, May 17, 2005 1:21pm PDT
Election in Oakland, District 2 Today: Vote for Aimee Allison for City Council !!
Aimee Allison has received the most support from IndyBay authors. Her election to the Oakland City Council will definitely help shift Oakland politics in a much more progressive direction! You can drop your ballot off at one of four drop-off locations today, from 7 am until 8 pm. (For a list, see: http://aimeeallison.org/special_election.php ). Here are some of the articles that have been posted to IndyBay about her:...
Posted: Tue, May 17, 2005 1:12am PDT
Update On Steve DeCaprio's Case: Sentencing Wednesday Morning At 9am
A judge has told Steve he can see a public defender but has also said that Steve will be receiving jail time (for squatting an abandoned building). Steve is currently out on bail....
Posted: Mon, May 16, 2005 12:16pm PDT
North Oakland rabbit killings
The following article, updating the North Oakland rabbit killings case, appears in today's Oakland (California) Tribune....
Posted: Mon, May 16, 2005 10:13am PDT
Leading Military Voices Against the War Coming to Bay Area Sun. May 29
A celebration of conscience, courage, resistance, and truth in a time of war. Featuring veterans of the Iraq War, military family members of service persons killed in Iraq, and military resisters....
Posted: Sun, May 15, 2005 2:32pm PDT
Is Karl Rove in Oakland?
Distorted facts are being presented by one of the eight candidates in this month's special election for Oakland's District 2 City Council seat....
Posted: Sun, May 15, 2005 9:28am PDT