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Justice for Cammerin Boyd Demand accountability for SF police shootings and justice for Cammerin Boyd!...
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2004 7:49pm PDT
Press Conference 8/16/04 
This is a summary of a Press Conference held on Monday Aug 16th on the steps of City Hall....
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2004 5:40pm PDT
UNITE HERE! Local 2: Aurolyn Rush speaks (video/quicktime 5.2MB) Aurolyn Rush, member of the Negotiating Committee, tells how disastrous is the bosses' offer and explains that the only way to beat them is to get a two-year contract which will enable Local 2 to unify with hotel workers all over North America. Two-minute QT movie. 5MB....
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2004 3:49pm PDT
UNITE HERE! Local 2: Ramon Guevarra speaks (video/quicktime 3.1MB) Ramon Guevarra recalled the victory over the SF Marriott Hotel and stressed the importance of national unity for United HERE!
One-minute QT movie. 3MB....
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2004 3:15pm PDT
UNITE HERE! Local 2: Walter Johnson speaks (video/quicktime 9.2MB) Walter Johnson, recently retired head of the San Francisco Labor Council thinks it would be a good idea to call for a general strike in the city if Local 2 encounters resistence from the hospitality industry. Three-minute QT movie. 9MB....
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2004 2:37pm PDT
Worker-owner Opportunity at 6th Street Books SF Worker-owned business is an effective mode not only of personal economics but also an individual part in efforts to shift the global economy toward regional stability and economic sustainability. So why, then, is Tommy at Sixth Street Books having trouble finding people who want to enter into a worker-owned book shop/lunch stop/education & entertainment venue?...
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2004 12:28am PDT
SF Day Labor Program wins victory at City Hall 
On Monday, August 16, approximately 50 members and allies of the San Francisco Day Labor Program marched from the Mission to City Hall and occupied Mayor Gavin Newsom’s office, demanding their funding be reinstated....
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2004 12:10am PDT
8/29, SF: Really, Really Free Market Sunday, 29 August 2004, 2 - 5 PM
Sharon Meadow, Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, California
(near JFK Dr. & Kezar,...
Posted: Tue, Aug 17, 2004 11:53pm PDT
Info About Tom the Nurse's 8/20 Court Date When: Friday August 20th 8:30 am
Where: Hall of Justice; Municipal Court, Department 10; 850 Bryant St.; San Francisco, CA
Bag Lunches provided & Free 420 and brownies supplied....
Posted: Tue, Aug 17, 2004 11:32pm PDT
Peaceable Kingdom at SF's Red Vic Movie House Aug 22 & 23 only! 
At a time when factory farming is in the headlines for putting the environment and public health at risk, Peaceable Kingdom takes its audience on an eye-opening journey to the heart of this unfolding national drama....
Posted: Tue, Aug 17, 2004 7:15pm PDT
Premiere screening of new documentary exposes the pillaging of the ocean ...
Posted: Tue, Aug 17, 2004 4:44pm PDT
Bay Area Black in the Life Events This Week Check out these events happening this week hosted by Bay Area Black in the Life celebrating
African-American same gender-loving/transgender-loving community. Directions to all events
available on the website (www.bbitl.net)....
Posted: Tue, Aug 17, 2004 10:25am PDT
UNITE HERE! Local 2: The March from Yerba Buena Gardens to Local 2 Square (video/quicktime 20.4MB) One wing started out from Union Square and greeted the Yerba Buena Gardens wing as it entered Local 2 Square. This video features Local 2 organizer Kevin O'Connor. Three-minute QuickTime movie. 20MB....
Posted: Tue, Aug 17, 2004 2:29am PDT
Blow the Whistle on the 9-11 Cover-Up! 
Blow the Whistle on the 9-11 Cover-Up! NO to the Global Police State! Here's an idea that should spread across the country to put a halt to the lies, crimes, wars engineered by the criminals in the White House....
Posted: Mon, Aug 16, 2004 10:56pm PDT
Backgrounder on Cammerin Boyd case This Wednesay, Aug. 18, come to the SF Police Commission meeting to demand that disciplinary charges be filed against the officers who shot Cammerin Boyd in cold blood! For anyone who doesn't remember or isn't familiar with the Boyd case, here's an article from June......
Posted: Mon, Aug 16, 2004 3:39pm PDT
Fault Lines Issue 3 Hits the Streets! 
Issue 3 of Faultlines has hit the streets!...
Posted: Mon, Aug 16, 2004 1:03pm PDT
Tues 8/17: Court Date to Challenge Military Stop-Loss Attorneys for a decorated combat veteran serving in the Army Reserve
will announce Tuesday the filing of a petition challenging a "stop loss"
order that requires the reservist to remain in the military beyond the
term of his enlistment for possible duty in Iraq....
Posted: Mon, Aug 16, 2004 10:41am PDT
UNITE HERE! Local 2: John Wilhelm speaks (video/quicktime 11.6MB) One of Local 2's main goals for their new contract is to have it last for two years. Then it would expire in 2006. The goal, Wilhelm, president of UNITE HERE! says, is to have all contracts expire at the same time. There would then be a unified fight against the half-dozen or so corporations controlling the industry in the US and Canada. Four-minute QT movie. 12MB....
Posted: Sun, Aug 15, 2004 8:55pm PDT
Bay Area Activists Help Organize NYC Press Conf at Central Park in Support of Rally Permit Not in Our Name Bay Area activists help organize community press conference at New York City's Central Park to demand Aug 29 permit...
Posted: Sun, Aug 15, 2004 12:05am PDT
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