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Kaiser workers launch biggest labor battle since 1940s California labor leaders support petition for 45,000 caregivers to quit SEIU and join NUHW...
Posted: Tue, Jun 29, 2010 11:45am PDT
AETA4 Support Video Matthew Strugar of the Center for Constitutional Rights is co-counsel on the case of the AETA4. In this video, he discusses the case. The AETA4 are four individuals under federal indictment in the Northern District of California on terrorism charges for allegedly picketing, flyering, and chalking sidewalks in opposition to University of California animal experimentation....
Posted: Tue, Jun 22, 2010 4:09pm PDT
Labor board could overturn union elections over hospital's illegal interference Management gave SEIU full access to campaign while threatening the jobs of NUHW supporters if they discussed election...
Posted: Wed, Jun 9, 2010 6:51pm PDT
Cesar Chavez descendent asked "Where are your papers?" in Morgan Hill Monica Chavez Delgado, Cesar Chavez's granddaughter, born and raised in California and a former Live Oak High School student, was asked "Where are your papers?" by anti-immigrant tea party participants in Morgan Hill this past weekend....
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2010 1:02pm PDT
Indybay Ten-Year Anniversary Fund Drive: Your Financial Support Urgently Needed Now INDYBAY NEEDS TO RAISE $2,010 in order to continue operating.
Indybay has expenses that amount to several hundred dollars every month for hosting this website. It's been over two years since Indybay last had a fundraising drive and now we need to ask for donations again to cover our costs into the foreseeable future. We'll be happy to end this drive as soon as we reach our goal. Please donate now so we can end it soon....
Posted: Sun, May 9, 2010 3:26pm PDT
The Economics Beneath Immigration Reform How convenient for Goldman Sachs. Just as most working people were demanding that the Goldman bosses and other Wall Street criminals either be massively fined, jailed or worse, the nation’s attention is suddenly forced to react to the racist immigration law in Arizona. And although the two incidents are not directly related, they represent a trend that is likely to increase in the months and years ahead....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2010 7:03pm PDT
Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's house raided, computers seized California’s Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team (REACT) swat team raided the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen late Friday “busting down the door to serve a search warrant that suggests that the site’s role in obtaining an iPhone prototype is being investigated as a felony” according to BTL’s Sam Diaz....
Posted: Tue, Apr 27, 2010 6:20am PDT
Palo Alto uses Sit/Lie Ordinance to prosecute disabled man by Tommi Avicolli-Mecca
Apr. 26‚ 2010
Beyond Chron...
Posted: Mon, Apr 26, 2010 10:00am PDT
Afraid of Workers’ Choice of SEIU-UHW, NUHW Walks Away from 2 More Elections-Now 11 Losses With workers clear about staying in SEIU-UHW, NUHW walks away from 2 more election campaigns, bringing their losses to 11. 2,000 workers are staying united in SEIU-UHW as group started by Sal Rosselli and former SEIU-UHW officials faces string of setbacks...
Posted: Sat, Apr 24, 2010 2:44pm PDT
Split San Jose council orders rewrite of medical marijuana ordinance As San Jose confronts a fiscal crisis forcing massive service cuts such as closure of popular community centers, the City Council moved Tuesday toward allowing medical marijuana collectives as a potential new source of revenue....
Posted: Wed, Mar 31, 2010 9:09am PDT
San Jose ‘not at war’ with dispensaries despite crackdown, officials say Reggae music rolled like a cloud across a large room filled with blond wood, and behind the bar at the Arc Healing Center, Hector Gonzalez watched as Chris Braun, 23, entered wearing a green velvet top hat, green sunglasses and a clutch of fake emerald necklaces. It was nearly noon Wednesday, a few hours before the gutters of San Jose would fill with green beer recycled by St. Patrick’s Day celebrants at the city’s 1,300 purveyors of alcohol....
Posted: Mon, Mar 22, 2010 11:09am PDT
March 22 - AETA4 Court Solidarity Court solidarity for the AETA4, currently facing up to ten years in prison for allegedly attending demonstrations....
Posted: Sun, Mar 14, 2010 7:09pm PDT
Pair Creation of Momentum and Energy Hypothesis This article was censored from publication on the Physics blog I tried to post it at. So I am posting it here. Happy reading. This is an alternative to posting a youtube video in response to http://www.youtube.com/user/thenobelprize, which I don't have the tech gear for....
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2010 2:14pm PST
Mountain View extends pot-shop moratorium to develop ordinance No medical marijuana dispensaries will be allowed in Mountain View, at least not until April 18 of next year....
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2010 12:54am PST
March 4th De Anza Local Day of Action De Anza community college taking part in the March 4th State-Wide Day Strike and Day of Action vs Budget cuts....
Posted: Thu, Feb 25, 2010 11:17pm PST
Gilroy would be wise to rethink medipot strategy San Jose Mercury News columnist Scott Herhold offers his take on the city of Gilroy’s opposition to a new medical marijuana dispensary. His advice — drop it — is worth heeding in Gilroy and many other communities....
Posted: Wed, Feb 10, 2010 11:11am PST
Mountain View takes another look at dispensaries In 2005, Mountain View native Jonathan Lustig came to the City Council with a seemingly radical proposal: Let him open a medical marijuana dispensary somewhere in the city....
Posted: Thu, Jan 28, 2010 2:10pm PST
San Jose officials plan enforcement push against dispensaries San Jose says pot clubs popping up like weeds; city starts crackdown...
Posted: Mon, Jan 18, 2010 11:12am PST
Gilroy Dispatch News Poll about the medical marijuana dispensary Should the City Council majority give up the fight against the medical marijuana dispensary?...
Posted: Tue, Jan 5, 2010 11:54pm PST
In San Jose, "Resisting Arrest" A Cover for Unwarranted Police Force? Seeking explanation from the San Jose Police Department for the large number of cases in which force was used, the San Jose Mercury wrote letters that the department agreed to distribute. The investigative reporters sought comment from more than a dozen officers identified as having used force in repeated incidents. In a front page story the Mercury describes how "only one officer responded, and that officer declined to be quoted."...
Posted: Sun, Dec 27, 2009 11:46am PST
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