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Aug 10 & 11 - Meet a Brazilian Revolutionary!
Aug 10 & 11 - Meet a Brazilian revolutionary!
Brazil's Landless Workers Movement (MST) Celebrates 20 Years!
Ramao Aldo da Silva, a leader of the National Coordination Committee of the MST, will speak at New College and La Pena Cultual Center....
Posted: Mon, Aug 9, 2004 10:28pm PDT
Stop the War on Protesters Update!
A group of nonviolent arrestees from the Reclaim the Commons June 8th protest could
face up to one year in jail and huge fines for blocking traffic outside the Biotech
conference....
Posted: Mon, Aug 9, 2004 3:39pm PDT
Green Primary Analysis
When Matt Gonzalez was trying to make arguments on democracy concerning the fact that Cobb won the Green nomination disproportionate to his delegate take in the primaries in Milwaukee, I did some analysis that convinced him that his arguments were baseless. Perhaps it might convince you as well....
Posted: Mon, Aug 9, 2004 8:35am PDT
SF politicos caught in shady financial dealings
NO!! Not our beloved, untarnished liberal conservatives and conservative liberals!? It couldn't happen here in San Francisco!?!
California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley and Julie Lee, real estate agent and president of the San Francisco Housing Authority Commission, are named in an investigative report....
Posted: Mon, Aug 9, 2004 12:51am PDT
Photos from Summer of Love 2004 Rally
Photos from the Summer of Love 2004 rally in support of marriage equality....
Posted: Sun, Aug 8, 2004 7:40pm PDT
Beggars and San Francisco Homeless People: The Photographs of Robert Terrell
EARLY WARNING: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF ROBERT TERRELL by Carol Harvey
Photojournalist Robert Terrell photographs beggars and homeless people on three continents and San Francisco on Display at the Meridian Gallery, 454 Sutter in San Francisco until August 15....
Posted: Sun, Aug 8, 2004 12:13pm PDT
6th Annual 911 Power to the Peaceful Festival
On Saturday, September 11th, the visionary musician, international speaker and human rights worker, Michael Franti and his group Spearhead with Guerrilla Management bring you the 6th Annual 911 Power to the Peaceful Festival at Speedway Meadow in Golden Gate Park....
Posted: Sat, Aug 7, 2004 2:11pm PDT
from Bizarre Fleas to Folsom
Calendar of events in SF and beyond, August 7 thru September 26: SM fleamarket, mass panty-flashing by "the Axis of Eve", Louisiana referendum on marriage rights, Folsom Street Fair, more....
Posted: Sat, Aug 7, 2004 11:58am PDT
Nowhere To Lay Your Head
Homeless San Franciscans denied access to beds because of Care Not Cash...
Posted: Thu, Aug 5, 2004 10:46pm PDT
Emergency Levi Strauss Anti-Sweatshop Action
Emergency Levi Strauss anti-sweatshop protest....
Posted: Thu, Aug 5, 2004 9:32pm PDT
SF: 8/11 Protest North Beach Evictions
Protest Wave of North Beach Evictions By
North Beach Partners, LLC
Real Estate Investment Company Evicting Dozens of Long-Time
North Beach Tenants in 6 Buildings!
Wednesday, August 11, 424 Francisco (at Powell) 4:30 PM...
Posted: Thu, Aug 5, 2004 7:18pm PDT
San Francisco hotel workers fight for contract
Workers stand up to hotel corporations, call march and rally on August 13....
Posted: Thu, Aug 5, 2004 4:41pm PDT
Youth tells City Hall: Make BofA pay its taxes! (video/quicktime 16.0MB)
San Francisco Assessment Appeals Board considers lowering Bank of America taxes $4.6 million! The Common Cents Coalition testifies in opposition. August 3, 2004. Four minute QuickTime movie. 16MB. (Part 2 is down below: click on "Latest Comments....")...
Posted: Thu, Aug 5, 2004 3:09pm PDT
2 Hip Hop Events in SF this week: Thurs Tribute to Run DMC, Sun Free Show in GG Park
2 Hip Hop events happening in SF this week....
Posted: Thu, Aug 5, 2004 9:30am PDT
Sign up now for tables or workshops for SF Zine Fest
The SF ZIne Fest is coming up on September 4-5, and there's still some table space available for local DIY publishers. Also, the organizing collective is still accepting proposals for workshops relating to independent publishing....
Posted: Thu, Aug 5, 2004 9:28am PDT
Next in line - Article in SFBG about Grocery Worker Struggle for Healthcare and Wages
The southern California labor struggle that forced a long grocery strike is coming to the Bay Area this fall...
Posted: Thu, Aug 5, 2004 8:39am PDT
Urgent! Support Haitian Sweatshop Workers TODAY!
EMERGENCY LEVI STRAUSS BULLHORN ACTION! -- Thursday, Aug. 5th -- at Levi's HQ: 1155 Battery, San Francisco -- at 1PM!...
Posted: Thu, Aug 5, 2004 3:01am PDT
D10 Recall - Arntz Delays Certification of Signatures (video/quicktime 6.8MB)
Why won’t Elections director put District 10 recall on Nov. 2 ballot? Special election would cost hundreds of thousands and disenfranchise voters...
Posted: Thu, Aug 5, 2004 1:47am PDT
Maxwell the Supervisor that does nothing for her Community
Maxwell has not seemed to notice that there is an out of control murder rate in her district. The prevalence of drug dealers because there are no other jobs available, (30% unemployment rate) despite all the millions being spent by a whole raft of public agencies not to mention private operations....
Posted: Wed, Aug 4, 2004 11:57pm PDT
8/25 in SF: World Environment Day 2005 planning meeting
August 25, 2004
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
San Francisco Main Public Library
100 Larkin Street at Grove
Latino-Hispanic Community Meeting Room (located on the Library's lower
level. Enter 30 Grove Street, proceed downstairs)....
Posted: Wed, Aug 4, 2004 9:24am PDT