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San Jose, California (April 21, 2006) – Hundreds unwelcome “Not Our President” Bush on rare visit to California. Muslim youth detained, hand cuffed, and ticketed for praying near protest zone....

Students organized a rally at Stanford in conjunction with the National Day of Action for Immigrant Rights. They blocked off two traffic arteries off White Plaza to draw attention to the problems of "borders."...

The Raging Grannies, RAN, Global Exchange, the Ruckus Society, CODEPINK, Veterans for Peace, and San Mateo Peace Action Team Up to Tell Ford that Urgent Action is Needed to Break America's Oil Addiction!...

If your political activities were noticed and you were removed from your Congresswoman's rolladex and not invited to the upcoming Town Hall Meeting- consider this an invitation... Make your voice, issue heard at the Town Hall Meeting with Congresswoman Anna Eshoo Saturday, March 4th, Mountain View 9:30 am!...

A documentary film crew from Germany filmed the Raging Grannies of the San Francisco Peninsula on January 17, 2006, during one of their occasional visits to have tea with military recruiters. One-minute QT movie. 17MB....

Sept. 20, 7:30 p.m. Americans, who make up only five percent of the world's population, use nearly a third of its resources and produce almost half of its hazardous waste. Add overwork, personal stress, the erosion of family and community, skyrocketing debt, and the growing gap between rich and poor, and it's easy to understand why some people say that the American Dream is no bargain. Many are opting out of the consumer chase, redefining the Dream, and making "voluntary simplicity&quot...

The Twentieth Annual Western Workers Labor Heritage Festival, honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s contribution to the civil rights and labor movements, will be held January 13-15, 2006. The weekend of solidarity in an era of war, racism, and hard times features music, drama, visual arts, spoken word, poetry, photography and more....

I bring this to you after being in INS detention for 2 months. I was detained by INS for no specific reason and was slated for deportation to India. While in INS custody I met with other detainees who have been in INS detention for period ranging from a few years to one Sikh detainee who has been in INS limbo for 9 years being shunted form one INS facility to another....

The following are some of the people at Stanford University who abuse animals, in the name of "scientific research", using our federal tax dollars: Alan Schatzberg, Tirin Moore, David Lyons, Emmanuel Mignot, Gregory Corrado, William Newsome, Corinna Darian-Smith, Jennifer Raymond and Krishna Shenoy. For details of how wasteful and unnecessary these experiments are, visit http://www.curedisease.com ....

A Citizen Investigates a Needless Death in San Mateo County...