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Uhuru Furniture & Collectibles 25th Anniversary Celebration Uhuru Furniture is a project of the African People’s Education and Defense Fund non-profit organization (APEDF) as well as part of a long history of community programs coming out of the Oakland Uhuru House addressing the disparities faced by the African community. Nationally APEDF has numerous current programs including the All People’s TyRon Lewis Community Gym, Kids Fit Program, Uhuru Health Festivals, Uhuru House community centers and Uhuru Jiko ....
Posted: Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:58pm PDT
Oakland Youth-Friendly Business Awards: 2013 Winners Announced The Oakland Youth-Friendly Business Network (OYFBN) will honor winners of the 2013 Oakland Youth-Friendly Business Awards (OYFBA) at the Inner City Advisor’s “ALL IN 2013” on June 12th at the Fox Theater in downtown Oakland. This is the second year that the OYFBN has presented these awards to recognize businesses that offer workplace mentorship and other essential career-building opportunities to Oakland youth....
Posted: Mon, Jun 10, 2013 4:50pm PDT
Berkeley Housing Authority is hit by sequestration budget cuts The Berkeley Housing Authority recently took back vouchers from 14 Section 8 voucher holders because of the massive budget cuts taking place known as sequestration! The agency also gave notice to approximately 200 additional households in the final stages of being eligible to receive Section 8 vouchers, that their application for the vouchers have been suspended until further notice!...
Posted: Sun, Jun 9, 2013 9:16pm PDT
Non profit housing developers thrive despite massive sequestration budget cuts Despite the massive $85 billion in sequestration budget cuts that are still in effect, local 501 c3 charity non profit housing developers continue to jack up the rents on the poor in tax payer assisted housing projects, as a way to maintain or raise the already excessive high salaries of their over payed top executives!...
Posted: Fri, Jun 7, 2013 1:08am PDT
UC/FEMA East Bay fire control project generates huge reaction, part II The article “UC/FEMA East Bay fire control project generates huge reaction”, generated a big reaction,
in the way of comments, and I will try to answer some of it here, as I think it needs a separate posting....
Posted: Sun, Jun 2, 2013 1:33am PDT
Dept of Toxic Substances Control Fact Sheet: LBNL/UC Berkeley VOCs The Department of Toxic Substances Control quietly released a public notice regarding "relatively high concentrations of Volatile Organic Compounds" (VOCs) from the site of LBNL/UC Berkeley's Building 51, which formerly housed the Bevatron particle accelerator. These VOCs have leeched into the groundwater. At this point, there is no open public meeting on the issue; the DTSC is only taking written public comments. Mail must be postmarked by June 7th, and emails must be sent before 5PM Jun...
Posted: Thu, May 30, 2013 2:46pm PDT
Please sign to support Indigenous consultation at East Bay Regional Park District This is about a petition being circulated to support indigenous voices in the East Bay Regional Park District...
Posted: Wed, May 29, 2013 11:39pm PDT
Oakland hotel arson scam, Richard Singer is released from prison Convicted and sent to prison for hiring an arsonist to burn down the occupied low-income Hotel Menlo in Oakland, wealthy slum-lord hotel owner Richard Earl Singer is back on the streets doing business, after being released from prison!...
Posted: Tue, May 28, 2013 8:20pm PDT
LGBTQ PRIDE - Nike Smashed in Portland in Memory of Late Trans Women As LGBTQ Pride approaches, in the spirit of May Day 2012 in Seattle, the Nike store alongside a major street in Portland, Oregon had about half of its front windows smashed out with a baseball bat late in the night a few weeks ago....
Posted: Sun, May 26, 2013 6:29am PDT
UC/FEMA East Bay fire control project generates huge reaction There's a lot to learn about this issue. FEMA is still taking comments, but please educate yourself before you comment because there's a lot of misinformation going around about this complex affair....
Posted: Sat, May 25, 2013 4:00am PDT
KPFA 5/21/13 Evening News Promotes Anti-Sovietism The KPFA Evening News, just before the end at around 6:55 p.m. on 5/21/13, 94.1 FM, had a strange, anti-Soviet story that would have fit perfectly on a capitalist radio station....
Posted: Tue, May 21, 2013 7:50pm PDT
Occupy the Farm RePlants the Gill Tract!~ Occupy the Farm has gathered at the Gill Tract in Albany, CA, and walked back on to the land to replant uprooted seedlings and put some new plant starts into the ground. Over one hundred people and one bunny got together across Monroe Street from the piece of land that was planted Saturday and tilled under earlier this Monday morning and walked back on to the land arm in arm....
Posted: Mon, May 13, 2013 8:18pm PDT
Four Arrests, A Tractor Sit-In, and A Destroyed Farm Four people are arrested today attempting to plant and then defend a community farm in Albany, CA on a piece of land owned and planned to be paved over and developed by the University of California at Berkeley. Many farmers express they want a peaceful and voluntary shift towards all people taking care of each other, and also that destruction of food will not be tolerated. RISE UP...
Posted: Mon, May 13, 2013 1:55pm PDT
Occupy The Farm RAIDED Monday, May 13, 2013 Occupy the Farm is raided Monday morning, May 13, 2013. UC Police came to the Gill Tract at San Pablo and Marin early morning around 4 a.m. flashing mag lights on people and telling people to get up and get out or get arrested.
Folks will be holding space all day outside on San Pablo Avenue @ Monroe Avenue in Albany, CA. Join us, especially towards 5 pm so we can gather in strength to go on to the land and water the plants that are already in the ground.
We are liberating the land to g...
Posted: Mon, May 13, 2013 6:20am PDT
Closing Guantanamo—Why it’s Symbolically, Spiritually and Materially Important. President Barack Obama has made a clear and convincing case for closing Guantanamo! Mostly the same reasons finally articulate were just as true when he initially took office. Closing the stigma of war, crime and national shame has always been a high agenda item for many Americans. It is now the watermark battle ground that could begin to show who or what really runs this country. But think of the mindless excuses from war hawks (including complicity by the mainstream media) to try to stop an...
Posted: Sun, May 5, 2013 1:33pm PDT
Public Nudity(?) at 44th Anniversary Celebration at Peoples Park in Berkeley On Sunday. April 28 the Berkeley Police harassed a nudist at the 44th Anniversary Celebration at Peoples Park in Berkeley. This reverses a long time tradition of accepting nudism as part of the Celebration. Just another freedom being chipped away....
Posted: Mon, Apr 29, 2013 1:52pm PDT
Resolution of the 4th International Conference on Islamophobia at UC-Berkeley: ON FRANCE A RESOLUTION ON ISLAMOPHOBIA IN FRANCE TODAY!!!...
Posted: Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:17am PDT
Pentagon Loses Court Case over Refusal to Release Names of SOA/ WHINSEC Graduates Oakland! BREAKING NEWS: SOA Watch scored a MAJOR VICTORY this week when we won our court case against the Pentagon! The judge ruled that the Pentagon has no grounds for its refusal to disclose the names of graduates and instructors of the SOA/WHINSEC. This is another setback for the Pentagon, following the withdrawal announcements by Nicaragua and Ecuador. We are moving forward and we are winning! The Department of Justice, which represented the Pentagon in the lawsuit, did not immediately respond to ...
Posted: Fri, Apr 26, 2013 9:50am PDT
Chernobyl & Fukushima: Ongoing Consequences Award-winning author Cecile Pineda will discuss and sign copies of her newest book, Devil’s Tango: How I Learned the Fukushima Step by Step, at the Oakland Public Library Main Branch, 125 14th Street, on Thursday, April 18th from 6 to 8 PM. Ms. Pineda’s book is a provocative and heart-wrenching exploration of the nuclear industry and the ongoing global impact of the meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility in Japan. An update on the dangers resulting from both th...
Posted: Tue, Apr 16, 2013 11:43am PDT
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