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Santa Rosa: October 22nd National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality March
Join us on the National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality, we are marching in Santa Rosa from Southwest Community Park (corner of Hearn and Burbank) at 4pm to Courthouse Square (corner of 3rd and Mendocino) with a rally at 6pm....
Event Date: Mon, Oct 22, 2007 4:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 12:14pm PDT
October 22nd National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality March in Santa Rosa
Join us on the National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality, we are marching in Santa Rosa from Southwest Community Park (corner of Hearn and Burbank) at 4pm to Courthouse Square (corner of 3rd and Mendocino) with a rally at 6pm....
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 12:05pm PDT
The Fire Retardant Dilemma Part III
September 20, 2007 - 150 University Hall, UC Berkeley
(8:30am =96 1:00pm, Oxford/Addison streets, Berkeley)...
Event Date: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 8:30am PDT
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 12:01pm PDT
Peace and Freedom Party War Protestor Arrested
Yesterday John Reiger, a member of Peace and Freedom Party, was among ten war protestors that were arrested at the office of Congresswoman Doris Matsui in Sacramento California. The protestors were part of a nationwide movement of anti-war protestors that oppose the Iraq war and congressional support for the war....
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 11:38am PDT
History of the Free Speech Movement Film Evening
Dwinelle Hall Room 156
On the UC Berkeley Campus
For a map go to
http://www.berkeley.edu/map/maps/CD34.html...
Event Date: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 10:50am PDT
Bay Area Actions to Free the Jena 6
Bay Area Actions to Free the Jena 6...
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 10:22am PDT
San Francico == Rally to Free the Jena 6
San Francisco
4:00 p.m. Rally
Powell and Market...
Event Date: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 4:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 10:16am PDT
Rally to Free the Jena 6
East Bay: WALKOUT FROM SCHOOLS!
12:00 Noon Rally and March
Sproul Plaza - University of California, Berkeley...
Event Date: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 10:12am PDT
Australia's devestating drought drives up food prices.
Australian agriculture is devestated by the lack of rain this winter....
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 9:36am PDT
Powerful Typhoon Heads For China's Financial Hub
Australia's devestating drought drives up food prices....
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 9:34am PDT
Introduction to Recycling Class
October 1-3, 2007 (Monday – Wednesday)
8:30 AM – 3:15 PM
Sanitary Fill Company (SF Recycling and Disposal, Inc.)
401 Tunnel Ave, SF (at Bayshore CALTRAIN Station)...
Event Date: Mon, Oct 1, 2007 8:30am PDT
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 9:25am PDT
Selfish Burlingamers tell elders to drop dead
Peninsular NIMBYs versus seniors....
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 9:20am PDT
Atlas Shrugged?
AMERICA’s elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil. Alan Greenspan was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (FRB). He had served on the FRB since 1987 when he was appointed by President Reagan....
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 9:09am PDT
Eastern Neighborhoods, rezoning, and the ploys of the SF Planning Department.
The new maps, rezoning, and plans for the future of the Eastern Neighborhood smacks of unfairness, deceit, dubious ploys - that will adversely impact all of San Francisco. The SF Planning Department has once again - behind closed doors faked the maps - deceived the people and more the small developers. Really, what this plan does is entrench the " moratorium" and further leads the small developers and construction industry in limbo....
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 8:13am PDT
Afghan family fear for their lives over film's rape scene
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 : The Kite Runner has run into trouble. The film version of a best-selling book that has put Afghanistan on the literary map will not be screened in Kabul after controversy erupted over a pivotal rape scene....
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 7:45am PDT
Major Demonstration Planned in Jena to Protest Pending Charges Against Six Students
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 :
A major protest is expected in Jena, Louisiana on Thursday to protest the pending charges against six African American high school students. Last week, a Louisiana appeals court threw out the conviction of 17 year-old Mychal Bell. Bell was supposed to have been sentenced for attempted second-degree battery this Thursday. He has been jailed since January unable to meet his $90,000 bond. We speak with Lewis Scott....
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 7:41am PDT
Can Iraq (or Anyone) Hold Blackwater Accountable for Killing Iraqi Civilians? A Debate On the Role of Private Contractors
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 :
As the Iraq government expels Blackwater over the killing of 11 Iraqi civilians, Jeremy Scahill, author of "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army," debates Doug Brooks, president of International Peace Operations Association, a trade group for the private security industry....
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 7:41am PDT
Protesters Decry Animal Testing
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 : Approximately 20 protesters picketed outside a UC Berkeley neuroscience conference held in Downtown Berkeley yesterday, claiming that campus scientists are using inhumane practices when testing on animals in their research....
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 7:40am PDT
Unions, Steel Giant Agree to Boost Job Safety for Workers
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 : Trade unions from more than 20 countries and Arcelor Mittal, the world's largest steel company, have committed to a new program to educate and train employees to raise health and safety standards throughout the company. The agreement was hammered out at the first world conference of Arcelor Mittal and its unions in Montreal....
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 7:40am PDT
UK soldier killed in Afghanistan blast
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 : A British soldier has been killed and another injured in an explosion in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said today....
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 7:39am PDT