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Posted: Fri, Apr 25, 2014 1:39am PDT
Even though there is overwhelming support for the redwood trees (at Ridge Road and Le Roy Avenue), UC Berkeley is still planning to cut down the grove for the Paul Jacobs Design Institute. Students, faculty/staff and Berkeley residents want the trees to stay, but the UC is ignoring the community.
The ground breaking ceremony for the design center is April 12th, Cal Day. It is believed the trees may be cut down beforehand, over Spring break, to clear the lot for the public ceremony....
Posted: Tue, Mar 18, 2014 6:22am PDT
0:12 second video. Great music on stage including reggae and some music from back in the day (Rolling Stones) by some fantastic bands inspired some members of the Raging Grannies of Sacramento to shake it a bit, just getting in gear, before the rally of thousands in front of the capitol in Sacramento on March 15....
Posted: Sun, Mar 16, 2014 12:23am PDT
UC Berkeley is planning to cut down a grove of 16 redwood trees as soon as March. The redwood trees behind Soda Hall, on Ridge Road and Le Roy Avenue are going to be replaced with the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, a privately funded tech design lab paid for by the CEO and Chairperson of the Board of Qualcomm Paul Jacobs. Qualcomm has representation on the UC Regents, through Sherry Lansing, who is both a regent and on the Qualcomm board of directors....
Posted: Thu, Feb 27, 2014 1:51am PST
Flash mobbers targeted a Jerry Brown event in San Francisco to send a message: Ban Fracking Now!...
Posted: Mon, Nov 25, 2013 7:12pm PST
Unfolding nuke disaster in Puducah Kentuck....
Posted: Wed, Nov 20, 2013 10:31am PST
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Posted: Mon, Nov 18, 2013 3:27pm PST
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
The Saturday, October 12th, 2013 march across the Golden Gate Bridge against Killer Corporation Monsanto was a 2-1/2 mile roundtrip crossing at San Francisco's harbor entrance in concert with March Against Monsanto processions around the globe. This march was a reprise of the May 25, 2013 mass protest against Monsanto and its Roundup Ready product that contains carcinogenic Glyphosate intruded against our will into our own and our children's DNA through food grown from its genetically modifi...
Posted: Fri, Oct 18, 2013 5:56pm PDT
Documenting the Global Day of Solidarity in support of the 'Arctic 30' on October 5, 2013....
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2013 12:18pm PDT
September 26, 2013: Thirty Greenpeace activists remain jailed in Russia facing possible piracy charges after they attempted to board Russia’s first Arctic offshore oil rig. Many of the activists are appearing in a Russian court today, facing up to 15 years in prison if Russian prosecutors bring threatened piracy charges. We’re joined by Greenpeace Executive Director Kumi Naidoo, who took part in a similar action against oil drilling in the Arctic last year. "This is a disportionate use of sta...
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2013 11:00am PDT
Save The Arctic 30 Protest, San Francisco...
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2013 11:35am PDT
In 2010 the TPP met in San Francisco and was greeted then with opposition, too. This is a preview of video of the opposition rally.
The url for the first par...
Posted: Sun, Oct 6, 2013 10:44am PDT