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imageHow the Wealthy Stole 55 Acres of Golden Gate Park
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by Harry S. Pariser
The former Strybing Arboretum, now the San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum, has been privatized....
Posted: Sun, Dec 15, 2013 7:01pm PST
videoFree Nestora Salgado! (video/quicktime 19.9MB) by Bill Carpenter
A rally in the Bay Area was part of a worldwide challenge on December 10, 2013, to the Mexican government for imprisoning Nestora Salgado for community organizing activities in Olinalá, Guerrero. The demonstration took place in front of the Mexican Consulate in San Francisco....
Posted: Sat, Dec 14, 2013 5:38pm PST
imageAnthony Messer 1985-2013
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by Alex Darocy
Friends and family from coast to coast are mourning the loss of 28-year-old Anthony Messer, who died in Santa Cruz on the evening of December 2. Funeral services were held for him on Monday in Chipley, Florida. Anthony was well known in Santa Cruz as a veteran of the U.S. military, a political activist, a traveler, and a generally friendly person who exuded positivity. Anthony made a big splash in the Occupy movement after having first participated in Occupy Sacramento. After leaving Sacramen...
Posted: Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:02pm PST
videoCosts of OPD's Occupy Fiasco Mount: Oakland settles in the Kayvan Sabeghi beating (video/quicktime 48.6MB) by WeCopwatch
The Oakland City Council has agreed to settle Kayvan Sabeghi's federal civil rights lawsuit for $645,000. Sabeghi's spleen was lacerated during an Occupy Oakland demonstration on November 2, 2011, when he was beaten by Oakland Police Officer Frank Uu Uu, now retired, was part of a tight-knit group of SWAT / "Tango team" officers who were at the heart of OPD's violent misconduct toward Occupy Oakland demonstrators. Uu's immediate supervisor at the time of this incident was Sgt. Patrick Gon...
Posted: Tue, Dec 10, 2013 11:48pm PST
imageAlbany Bulb Eviction Happening Now (Monday, December 9)
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by Ryan Rising
The eviction of the Albany Bulb, an autonomous wild space where people have lived and created art for decades, is happening now in Albany CA. The entrance to the Bulb is at the end of Buchanan beyond the freeway headed towards the coastline. The time of this writing is 11:40 a.m. on Monday, December 9th, 2013. Two people's belongings have been thrown in dump trucks thus far behind the lines of Albany police....
Posted: Mon, Dec 9, 2013 12:20pm PST
imageT.W.A.T. Action Report
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by Technophobic Women's Action Team
the communique of a group of women committed to fighting gentrification and the surveillance state in Oakland, California....
Posted: Fri, Dec 6, 2013 5:57pm PST
documentEvict This! The Landscape, History and the Battle Against Evictions in West Oakland
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by Advance the Struggle
Advance the Struggle hopes to write a longer, more researched piece on gentrification in the upcoming months but would first like to showcase some of the work organizers have been doing. Here is the East Bay Solidarity Network’s zine....
Posted: Tue, Dec 3, 2013 3:14pm PST
textKoNo Office Gets Windows Smashed by Anonymous
In the early hours of November 27, 2013, "Smash Kono" was spraypainted on the windows of the Kono Office at Telegraph and 27th. The other windows were then smashed with a hammer and the door was broken....
Posted: Tue, Dec 3, 2013 12:45pm PST
audioRadio Autonomía: Zapatismo in the Bay DEC 2013: "Youth & Education Movements" (audio/mpeg 94.0MB) by Radio Autonomía
Radio Autonomía: Zapatismo in the Bay DEC 2013 SHOW "Youth & Education Movements"...
Posted: Mon, Dec 2, 2013 12:35am PST
calendarScreening of “The Battle for Oscar Grant Plaza”
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by Jacob Crawford
Sudo Room 2141 Broadway Oakland,CA 94607 USA...
Event Date: Sun, Dec 8, 2013 3:00pm PST
Posted: Sun, Dec 1, 2013 2:17pm PST
calendarOccupy San Francisco Reunion: Family is Forever Celebration!!!
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Gather at Justin Herman Plaza (Chelsea Manning Plaza) at the end of Market St. at the Embarcadero...
Event Date: Sat, Dec 7, 2013 2:00pm PST
Posted: Tue, Nov 26, 2013 11:12pm PST
calendarSaving the Berkeley Post Office: A Public Meeting to Defend Our Postal Service. by Dave Welsh
Berkeley Arts Festival Space 2133 University Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94710, USA...
Event Date: Thu, Dec 5, 2013 7:00pm PST
Posted: Sun, Nov 24, 2013 5:05pm PST
textThings I Hate about San Francisco's Gentrification: A Love Poem by Cindy Milstein
Please note: The original version of this piece includes many photos; if interested, see http://cbmilstein.wordpress.com/2013/11/22/things-i-hate-about-san-franciscos-gentrification-a-love-poem/...
Posted: Fri, Nov 22, 2013 10:02pm PST
imageGlass War
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by Tech Antagonist
New article from FireWorks, a "bay anarchist counterinformation project" about the new google glass barge and its implications....
Posted: Thu, Nov 21, 2013 12:10pm PST
videoFrom Berlin to Greece to Santa Cruz to the Puget Sound, Camover Actions Coming to Oakland? (video/mp4 17.0MB) by Benjamin Franklin
"They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - You can quote me on this. I wrote it for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its Reply to the Governor on November 11th, 1755....
Posted: Thu, Nov 21, 2013 2:02am PST
textOccupy Oakland Is Back! This Time we're OCCUPYING 2 DECOLONIZE by treejumper
Occupy 2 Decolonize, the new, improved resurrection of Occupy Oakland, is taking place RIGHT NOW in Oakland - 19 days and counting...
Posted: Tue, Nov 19, 2013 9:37pm PST
image¡Mesoamérica Resiste! A New Campaign by the Beehive Design Collective
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by Bradley Allen
On November 12, 2013, Sakura of the Beehive Design Collective presented ¡Mesoamérica Resiste!, the long-awaited third graphics campaign in an epic trilogy, at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. ¡Mesoamérica Resiste! is a graphic story-telling about resistance to neo-colonialism and mega-projects in Mexico and Central America....
Posted: Thu, Nov 14, 2013 10:31pm PST
videoFlush The TPP - Part 2 . (video/quicktime 28.6MB) by Bill Carpenter
Bay Area activists urge Nancy Pelosi to oppose the Trans-Pacific trade agreement. Four-minute QT movie. 30MB....
Posted: Thu, Nov 14, 2013 9:51am PST
calendarBeehive Collective presents their new mural "Mesoamerica Resiste!"
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2135 Broadway, Oakland, CA...
Event Date: Thu, Nov 14, 2013 6:30pm PST
Posted: Wed, Nov 13, 2013 3:30am PST
textBob Lee and the Santa Cruz Eleven - Time to Move on and Let the Community Heal by Steve Pleich
Time to Close the Book on Santa Cruz Eleven Prosecutions...
Posted: Mon, Nov 11, 2013 12:59pm PST
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