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Bradley Manning supporters march on news of pre-trial hearing in SF 
On November 21st, the US Army scheduled an Article 32 pretrial hearing for PFC Bradley Manning, the Army intelligence specialist accused of releasing classified material to WikiLeaks. The pretrial hearing will commence on December 16th at Fort Meade, Maryland. This will be PFC Manning’s first appearance before a court after 18 months of pretrial confinement. Bradley is a 23-year-old, openly gay soldier who faces life in prison. He is accused of sharing the following with WikiLeaks: a video of...
Posted: Wed, Nov 23, 2011 10:58am PST
SF Rally and March for Accused Wikileaker Bradley Manning! 
Corner of Market and Powell streets...
Event Date: Tue, Nov 22, 2011 5:00pm PST
Posted: Mon, Nov 21, 2011 11:50am PST
Occupy Oakland Veterans Against War 11-11-11 
Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War rallied at Occupy Oakland Nov. 11, 2011 to protest police brutality and support Occupy Oakland....
Posted: Sat, Nov 12, 2011 7:43pm PST
Veterans at Occupy Sacramento speak out against war, arrests 
"Out of my experience that day, I made my committment to work for peace - and decided that the best way to do that was as a pastor," said Jerry Pedersen, a Lutheran minister and veteran. "As a member of Veterans for Peace, I am working for our veterans to be treated honorably when they come home from war - and for the government to make a real committment to slow down the war and violence business."
Photo: Jerry Pedersen, speaking at the Occupy Sacramento press conference on Veterans Day,...
Posted: Sat, Nov 12, 2011 6:28pm PST
Occupy Oakland Veterans' March Against Police Brutality, 11/11/11: Video (video/mp4 101.3MB) On Veterans' Day, November 11th, veterans groups including Iraq Veterans Against the War and supporters held a march against police brutality to demand an end to the violence by Oakland police, Alameda County Sheriffs deputies, and other forces that has left at least three former members of the U.S. armed services seriously injured as well as numerous others. Scott Olsen was critically injured when he was shot in the head with a police projectile at close range on the evening of October 25th...
Posted: Sat, Nov 12, 2011 2:17am PST
Occupy Oakland Historic Strike and Shutdown of the Port – Media Roots TV Media Roots captured some great energy from the day of the historic general strike in Oakland on 11-2-11.
Footage includes the strike, the shutdown of the banks around town, the epic march to the port and the shutdown of the Port of Oakland....
Posted: Fri, Nov 11, 2011 2:00pm PST
Tristan Anderson to Sue Israeli Military 
Nov. 17 is the opening of Tristan Anderson's trial holding the Israeli military responsible for shooting him in the head with a tear gas cannister in March of 2009. There will be an event in Berkeley in solidarity with the trial with Tristan, an update from court from Gabby, and a discussion as well as music....
Posted: Wed, Nov 9, 2011 10:14pm PST
Vigil for Scott Olsen @ Occupy Berkeley Occupy Berkeley; MLK and Center St
MLK/Civic Center Park by city hall....
Event Date: Thu, Oct 27, 2011 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2011 12:10pm PDT
Vigil tonight for Scott Olsen at Occupy Oakland 7pm General Assembly of Occupy Oakland at 14th St and Broadway...
Event Date: Thu, Oct 27, 2011 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2011 11:52am PDT
Sacred Sites Peacewalk now arriving in Santa Cruz/Watsonville! Schedule and info 
The Sacred Sites Peacewalk for a Nuclear Free World departed from San Luis Obispo on October 22nd and will be arriving in Watsonville on Thursday, October 27th, staying in Santa Cruz county through Saturday before heading north to San Jose on Sunday. Here is a schedule of planned Santa Cruz County Peacewalk public happenings. Please come out and support the walkers!...
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2011 1:26am PDT
OccupySF: Solidarity March for National Anti-Police Brutality Day (video/quicktime 43.1MB) On October 22, 2011, OccupySF marched to San Francisco police headquarters at the Hall of Justice asking, "Police - Who do you protect? 1% or 99%."
Five-minute QuickTime movie. 45MB.Report on the Solidarity March: "It was one of the largest protests against police brutality in SF in recent memory."...
Posted: Wed, Oct 26, 2011 5:06am PDT
Activists' Panel on Afghanistan and Civil Society (audio/mpeg 3.2MB) OAKLAND, Oct 22 2011 -- Suraya Sadeed (Executive Director of Help the Afghan Children), Mustafa Popul (Professor of History at College of Alameda), and Peter Lewis (AFSC) spoke at the Islamic Cultural Center of N. California about civil society in Afghanistan and the US. Sandra Schwarz (FCNL) moderated. Audio: Sadeed opening (5:30); Popul opening (4:34); Lewis opening (6:39); Q&A (49:28)...
Posted: Mon, Oct 24, 2011 5:47pm PDT
Sacramento Police arrest Cindy Sheehan, 18 others at Occupy Sacramento! 
"Again, it was an overwhelmingly display of City Police might – at least 65 officers and 40 police vehicles were used to overwhelm 19 nonviolent and peaceful demonstrators, which included one person in a wheelchair and another who had to be transported to a local hospital because he was on a hunger strike," according to Arya Rashid of Occupy Sacramento.
Photo of Kevin Carter (with megaphone) by Dan Bacher. "We want to stop the wars abroad," said Carter of Occupy Sacramento. "But if we wan...
Posted: Sun, Oct 16, 2011 9:10am PDT
Sukkah Erected in Oscar Grant Plaza, Oakland 
A sukkah stands in the midst of tents that are part of the Occupy Oakland movement in Oscar Grant Plaza (also known as Frank Ogawa Plaza). A sukkah is a temporary hut constructed for use during the week-long Jewish festival of Sukkot....
Posted: Sat, Oct 15, 2011 12:23am PDT
October 2011 Solidarity - SF -- 3 (video/quicktime 14.5MB) Stop the War!
Fund Human Needs!
The San Francisco commemoration of October 6th at the New Federal Building.
Sheela Gunn-Cushman, Sandra Manning, and Earl Gilman spoke.
Three-minute QT movie. 15MB....
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2011 3:45pm PDT
October 2011 Solidarity - SF -- 2 (video/quicktime 13.2MB) Stop the War!
Fund Human Needs!
The San Francisco commemoration of October 6th at the New Federal Building.
The Raging Grannies: "When We Have Jobs instead of Jails!"
Two-minute QT movie. 14MB....
Posted: Sun, Oct 9, 2011 9:06pm PDT
October 2011 Solidarity - SF (video/quicktime 35.2MB) Stop the War!
Fund Human Needs!
Tony Gonzales of the American Indian Movement - West and Tanya Dennis of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment were among the speakers in San Francisco on October 6th at the New Federal Building.
Seven-minute QT movie. 37MB....
Posted: Sat, Oct 8, 2011 6:27pm PDT
Federal Building Occupation Rally in SF Features Daniel Ellsberg 
Photos of: Speakers, activists, and motivators on October 6th in San Francisco....
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2011 4:16pm PDT
Blue Angels Get the Finger as they Fly Over October 6 Federal Building Occupation 
As hundreds occupied space in front of the new Federal Building on October 6, the dreaded Blue Angels polluted the skies above SF. Speakers were forced to pause, and protesters showed their displeasure....
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2011 12:29pm PDT
Siege Day 1: Navy's Blue Death Terrorizes SF for 3.75 Hours At 1:10 p.m. on October 5, 2011, the Navy's Blue Death burst through the rain clouds from the Pacific Ocean on the West, flying so low over sunny Union Square in San Francisco that we could read the yellow letters on the bottom of the plane, US Navy, as their deafening roar stopped all conversation when they flew east, to the Bay. These illegal low flights over heavily populated San Francisco, wasting tax dollars and oil, causing major pollution and ear-splitting noise, lasted until 4:45 p.m....
Posted: Thu, Oct 6, 2011 7:33pm PDT
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