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Iraq war resisters, Agustín Aguayo and Camilo Mejía, speak out against war in Bay Area Iraq combat veterans, Agustín Aguayo and Camilo Mejía, will be joined by fellow war resisters Pablo Paredes and Robert Zabala for a series of Northern California events May 9-18....
Posted: Tue, May 1, 2007 12:35am PDT
An Introduction to War Tax Resistance Unitarian Universalists of San Mateo
300 E. Santa Inez
San Mateo, CA 94402...
Event Date: Thu, May 10, 2007 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Apr 24, 2007 6:00pm PDT
Minutemen Counter Demonstration Jefferson and El Camino Real...
Event Date: Sat, Apr 28, 2007 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Apr 23, 2007 2:30pm PDT
Stanford Students Fasting To Demand Living Wage Policy On Campus Stanford students are fasting to get a living wage policy on campus....
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 4:07pm PDT
Stanford Students approach 4th day of fast, Administrators refuse to meet 
SLAC members entering 4th day of fasting for a REAL living wage through a Code of Conduct. Current Living Wage Policy for subcontracted workers effectively covers no workers due to many restrictions which the presidents own advisory committee recommended to be lifted. Despite years of protest, petitions, student senate bills, and the advisory committee's recommendations urging the restrictions to be lifted, administrators continue to refuse to lift the restrictions or meet with students or wo...
Posted: Sat, Apr 14, 2007 9:00pm PDT
Dumbarton Dialogue Project--Multi Jurisdictional Meeting The Dumbarton Dialogue will continue with the community dialogue to define the top 10 criteria for projects on Saturday, April 28 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the City of East Palo Alto Municipal Building, 2415 University Avenue, East Palo Alto. The meetings will bring to together interested individuals from the six participating cities – East Palo Alto, Atherton, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Palo Alto and Redwood City. The public is encouraged to attend and participate. For more information c...
Posted: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 3:34pm PDT
4/14 San Mateo forum Food Service Workers' Forum: A tale of two economies Food service workers at High Tech and Biotech companies will give testimony about their
conditions....
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 5:26pm PDT
Pride at Work Hires Two Youth Organizers For years, organized labor and the LGBT community have achieved important victories by working together. In the 1970’s, Harvey Milk teamed up with the Teamsters Union to boycott Coors Beer. Two years ago, LGBT activists and the United Farm Workers joined forces to support each other’s causes – a boycott of Gallo wine, and the passage of marriage equality. Central to these struggles has been Pride at Work – a group within the AFL-CIO that represents LGBT workers....
Posted: Wed, Apr 4, 2007 7:22am PDT
CSU Faculty Strike to Hit Bay Area April 11th If No Agreement Is Reached Teachers of the California State University system -- the most affordable higher education institution in the state -- vowed to strike if the CSU administration did not offer an acceptable contract. Central to the California Faculty Association's objections are the university system's proposal to drastically increase student tuition by more than 200% over the next couple of years, and a substandard salary schedule that leaves many teachers struggling to survive on less than most k-12 teacher...
Posted: Fri, Mar 30, 2007 11:36pm PDT
Taser Task Force Meeting in Palo Alto The public needs to challenge the adoption and use of tasers by the Palo Alto Police Department. This meeting will be one of the few oportunities which will allow public input- please come. March 27, 2007, 1305 Middlefield Road, Lucie Stern Community Center...
Posted: Mon, Mar 26, 2007 1:24pm PDT
Taser Task Force and the Death of Innocence (unedited) 
This is a recap and follow-up to a previous story on the Palo Alto Taser task force ("Strange Fruit: The Task of Forcing Tasers on Palo Alto" at http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/03/06/18373044.php), detailing the players and their tricks. It was originally posted on the online forum of the Palo Alto Weekly newspaper, where passages were removed by Palo Alto Weekly staff....
Posted: Sat, Mar 24, 2007 4:37am PDT
Pics from Anti-War Rally in Palo Alto 
Pics from Anti-War Rally in Palo Alto on Saturday March 17th....
Posted: Mon, Mar 19, 2007 9:48am PDT
East Palo Makes Good with Crime, Killings, and Violence East Palo Alto (EPA) makes good by working hard and bringing the community, Community Based Organizations, Faith Based, City Officials, and the local Businesses to address Quality of Life issues in their neighborhood. This is the right method and it will bring great success. In San Francisco our City Attorney, Dennis Herrera, has been using the tool and wrong ploy of "Injunction" - it will , never ever work. Time to learn from EPA!...
Posted: Fri, Mar 16, 2007 12:56pm PDT
Love Life, Liberty? Impeach Bush/Cheney Rally/March in Palo Alto 
Activists will rally at Lytton Plaza in Downtown Palo Alto at 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 14, 2007 to voice their opposition to government policies and demand that Congress launch the “Impeachment” of Bush and Cheney. The rally will conclude with a presentation of demands at Congresswoman Anna Eshoo’s Emerson Street office. Like Pelosi, Eshoo doesn’t want to touch “Impeachment.”...
Posted: Wed, Mar 14, 2007 8:19am PDT
Palo Alto: Anti-War Rally - Out of Iraq Now! City Hall Plaza
250 Hamilton Ave.
Palo Alto...
Event Date: Sat, Mar 17, 2007 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Mar 9, 2007 5:33pm PST
San Francisco - Nuclear Weapons Lab Backs Down 
Bob Sarvey: We have achieved ... a major victory....
Posted: Wed, Mar 7, 2007 9:20am PST
Strange Fruit: The Task of Forcing Tasers on Palo Alto 
Without saying what's the problem, the Palo Alto police chief and City Council are ready to declare that Taser is The Solution - with a little help from a "task force" that they declared represents the community....
Posted: Tue, Mar 6, 2007 1:35am PST
Raging Grannies at Monster Cable Workers' Demo 
March 3, 2007: Grannies Went Undercover to Help Laid-Off Monster Cable Workers. With sunglasses on, we were sure to be unrecognizable....
Posted: Mon, Mar 5, 2007 7:51pm PST
Impeachment Rally/March on Eshoo's Office Lytton Plaza
University x Emerson, Downtown Palo Alto
Eshoo's Office, 698 Emerson Street...
Event Date: Wed, Mar 14, 2007 10:00am PDT
Posted: Mon, Mar 5, 2007 10:18am PST
Screening of Film Documentary 'Why We Fight' Unitarian Universalists of San Mateo
300 E. Santa Inez
San Mateo, CA 94402...
Event Date: Thu, Mar 22, 2007 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Mar 1, 2007 10:14pm PST
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