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2/17-19: California Transgender Leadership Summit- Register Now
A Gathering of Transgender Persons and Allies
February 17-19, 2006 (Presidents Day Weekend)
University of Southern California...
Posted: Fri, Dec 30, 2005 4:19pm PST
Action ALERT: Crucial actions January VOTE for National Guard return! As you are preparing to make your New Year's Resolutions, PLEASE consider starting
out the New Year devoting, during the whole month of January, as much of your time,
energy, resources as possible in order to ensure the successful culmination of our
Campaign to Bring Home Our California National Guard!...
Posted: Fri, Dec 30, 2005 12:56pm PST
World Social Forum: A call to Bay Area delegates Calling Bay Area activists/delegates to world social forum, Venezuela...
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 1:12pm PST
Q gen-gap; SJ fag-haters; Cal hate prop in Nov. '06 ?; more .... news links -- incl. Brokeback buzz and debate, SF gay Buddhist monk, alt-cinema saved by SF alt-college, getting yr book out, etc....
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 8:49am PST
The funeral of Tookie Williams, cofounder of the Crips Stanley Tookie Williams, one of the founders of the Crips, was murdered by way of the death penalty's lethal injection, by the state of California, under the governance of Arnold Schwarzenegger, on Dec. 13 '05, at San Quentin Concentration Camp on the shore of San Francisco Bay. He had been convicted of multiple murders on no evidence but the testimony of a police informant, who was given a more lenient sentence after he lied to convict Tookie Williams....
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 8:00am PST
California Democratic Party works to prop up Schwarzenegger administration In the aftermath of November’s California Special Election, the Democratic Party is acting as a critical prop for the beleaguered administration of Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Democrats responded to Schwarzenegger’s political debacle in the Special Election, in which all of his favored ballot initiatives were defeated, by calling for a new spirit of bipartisanship. The governor responded by appointing a prominent Democrat as his new chief of staff....
Posted: Wed, Dec 28, 2005 7:36am PST
Cal hate may wait until Oh Eight? A "ballot fight isn't likely until 2008,
says one of California's rival anti-queer leaders.
[AP story is copyright ©2005 by Associated Press.]...
Posted: Tue, Dec 27, 2005 9:41pm PST
'Sausage King' Found Dead In Death Row Cell The self-proclaimed "sausage king" Stuart Alexander died Tuesday morning in San Quentin State Prison while on death row for killing three meat inspectors....
Posted: Tue, Dec 27, 2005 9:01pm PST
Sutter Health Investigated for Abusing Nonprofit Status State Assembly Committee Chair Criticizes Sutter at Hearing on
Hospital and Non Profit Status...
Posted: Tue, Dec 27, 2005 7:58pm PST
Schwarzenegger name removed from Austrian Stadium In Protest Over Tookie Officials in Arnold Schwarzenegger's Austrian hometown of Graz have removed his name from a football stadium in an ongoing row over the US death penalty....
Posted: Mon, Dec 26, 2005 8:16am PST
CodePink, Raging Grannies, Quakers under Surveillance 
California peace groups including CodePink, Raging Grannies, War Resisters League, Quakers. Food Not Bombs and more have been under government surveillance. See photos by Jackie Thomason and links here, and the full text of Dec 21 press release from ACLU California affiliates seeking information about government spying....
Posted: Sun, Dec 25, 2005 1:35pm PST
SAVE Choctaw Clarence Ray Allen from the Governator ! Clarence Ray Allen, a Choctaw Indian, will turn 76 years old on Jan. 16, 2006, the day before the state intends to execute him on January 19, in San Quentin. A few months ago, Mr. Allen "flatlined" (died) from a heart attack... and was resuscitated by the medical staff, so that he can be properly executed in January 06! San Quentin Correctional Facility has issued a statement that Mr. Allen, although wheelchair bound, will have to walk 15 feet to the death gurney, because the death ...
Posted: Sat, Dec 24, 2005 11:29pm PST
Minutemen now hunting immigrants in MEXICO!! Racist immigrant hunters are now organizing to search for immigrants while they are still in Mexico!...
Posted: Sat, Dec 24, 2005 3:57pm PST
49er City - the last frontier and blatant corruption The Southeast Sector is the last frontier in San Francisco. Candlestick Park and the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard is being vied by corrupt developers like Lennar BVHP LLC and the cronies working for Mayor Gavin Newsom - Jesse Blout, Dwayne Jones, Michael Cohen, Marcia Rosen - none of them live in San Francisco. They for sure make their money in San Francisco. Thousands of units will be built on toxic sites mostly landfill and prone to liquefaction....
Posted: Sat, Dec 24, 2005 11:24am PST
ASA CA Weekly Alert It's been a busy month, but the new year holds more in store for us and
we must keep up the fight for safe access! Enjoy the holidays and please
share your best wishes with our POWs....
Posted: Fri, Dec 23, 2005 2:56pm PST
Immigrants Abused in INS Detention I bring this to you after being in INS detention for 2 months. I was detained by INS for no specific reason and was slated for deportation to India. While in INS custody I met with other detainees who have been in INS detention for period ranging from a few years to one Sikh detainee who has been in INS limbo for 9 years being shunted form one INS facility to another....
Posted: Fri, Dec 23, 2005 1:32pm PST
SAVE CLARENCE RAY ALLEN FROM THE GOVERNATOR ! Clarence Ray Allen, a Choctaw Indian, will turn 76 years old on Jan. 16, 2006, the day before the state intends to execute him on January 19, in San Quentin....
Posted: Fri, Dec 23, 2005 1:24pm PST
People of color pay millions more monthly for home loans San Francisco – The California Reinvestment Coalition released a new report Thursday finding that people of color, communities of color and rural towns are more likely to receive higher-cost home loans and that people of color in California could be paying $50 million more than white borrowers every month as a result of higher-cost home loans....
Posted: Fri, Dec 23, 2005 7:19am PST
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