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PASADENA (CA) - Occupy joined this year's New Year celebrations by marching at the end of the Rose Parade. As Rose Parade spectators dispersed, the Occupy movement held a rally outside Pasadena City Hall with speakers....

Our public community celebration of Kwanzaa is a visual, musical, poetic journey "to bring out what is within" or educate about Kwanzaa. Throughout the Central Valley, the greatest Garden in the World, people of African descent have made amazing agriculture contributions to the forward flow of humanity, first fruits indeed. This is the 45th Season of Kwanzaa, California Grown holiday. The Central Valley of California, west coast headquarters of the National Black Agriculture Action Agenda, c...

The temperature is dropping, the U.S. Park Service turned off the electricity (although the Stop the Machine! encampment has a permit until December 30th), Cali right wing congressman Issa started an investigation into our receiving a permit in the first place, and the social service worker working with the Traveler's Aid desk refuses to give protesters a Greyhound bus voucher to leave Washington D.C....

Presidential Candidate Stewart Alexander says, “Wall Street has a basic income guaranteed; it is called, too big to fail. The time has now come to introduce a basic income guarantee that will help meet the basic needs of the unemployed, the poor, the elderly, college students, the homeless, the basic needs of veterans, single parents, and the disabled.”...

December 12, 2011 LONG BEACH, California - Heeding the call of Occupy Oakland, who called for a shutdown of west coast ports in response to the brutal eviction of occupy encampments nationwide, and in solidarity with expolited port workers and truckers, about 500 militant occupiers and their friends shut down Terminal J of the Port of Long Beach, the home of SSA Marine, an investment of the criminal enterprise Goldman Sachs and the main stakeholder of the US government....

The Alexander/Mendoza campaign calls for a real jobs program, as well as protecting public sector jobs which have been faltering since the economic crisis began. They say that spending billions of dollars on incentives for businesses doesn’t get the job done – rather they call for the government to create jobs directly....

Let’s take our democracy back from Wall Street. We need a new politics for the other 99% of America that doesn’t collect a CEO’s salary or write big checks for politicians....

November 26th marked the 57th day of Occupy Los Angeles, which is the largest standing Occupy encampment in the nation. The occupation is located at Solidarity Park (formerly known as City Hall Park) in downtown Los Angeles....

Ocean acidification — which makes it difficult for shellfish, corals, sea urchins, and other creatures to form shells — was supposed to be a problem of the future. But because of patterns of ocean circulation, Pacific Northwest shellfish are already on the front lines of these potentially devastating changes in ocean chemistry....

California's eugenics program sterilized 20,000 people from 1909 - 1964. Charles Follett is 68 years old, was sterilized at age 15 by the ST of CA and is the first to ask for a public apology from the state. Camarillo State Mental Hospital in Ventura, CA experimented on mental patients in what amounts to human rights violations as well. I believe it is imperative that people speak out in first person about what they endured at the hands of CA's institutional history. I was held in MacLaren Ha...