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Rev Billy and the Stop Big Boxes Gospel Choir comes to the Bay Area
Berkeley - Thurs, SF/Bernal Heights - Fri, SF: West Coast Live Radio Performance, Castro Theatre Revival at 8pm on Saturday...
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 2:59pm PDT
A COOL Conference
The Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL) held its 20th annual conference March 12-14, 2004, connecting college students and their communities....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 2:37pm PDT
Truth-in-Gov't activist wins FOIA request for photos of U.S. soldiers' remains
Photos of Military Coffins
(Casualties From Iraq)
at Dover Air Force Base...
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 1:58pm PDT
Reportback: 2nd Annual Boobies Against Ashcroft
“My only hope is that next year John Ashcroft will be gone so we won’t have to target him as the political boob of the year. Perhaps someone else will step in to take his place, but I doubt anyone could be as big a boob as Ashcroft."
- Robyn Few, Executive Director of the Sex Workers Outreach Project(SWOP)...
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 1:54pm PDT
Charges dropped against Oakland port protesters
Over a year since Oakland police opened fire with wooden bullets and metal-shot bags against protesters at the Oakland docks, even though video demonstrated that they had been nonviolent, charges were dropped against 24 arrestees....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 1:03pm PDT
Guerrilla Media in Action
Cascadia Media Collective is in the bay with our newest video from the front lines of struggle against free trade, environmental exploitation and colonization.
Showings are:
Friday, April 23rd at the AK Press Warehouse, 674-A, 23rd St., Oakland, 7pm
Saturday, April 24th, Long Haul Infoshop, 3124 Shattuck Ave., Oakland, 8pm...
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 1:03pm PDT
Woman, and husband, fired for U.S. soldiers' coffins photo (AP)
Woman fired by military contractor for published photograph of flag-draped U.S. coffins...
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 12:52pm PDT
SAT: Art-Making & Preparation for Days Of Mourning And Resistance
This Saturday will be a major day of preparation for the days of mourning and resistance. There will be art making, affinity group formation, trainings and planning happening from 11 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 24th at the Redstone Building, 2940 16th st. (capp st.) in SF, and another space a couple blocks away...
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 12:12pm PDT
Israelis kill 9 year old Palestinian girl along with over a dozen others in just one day
Picture of Palestinian nine year old girl shot in the head by Israeli sniper. At least 12 Palestinians were killed in a 24 hour period on their own land by invading Israeli troops....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 11:30am PDT
Saddam's capture revisited
On 28 March the BBC aired an "expose" revealing the identity of Saddam Hussein's betrayer, but news of this had already broken by January. And what the BBC didn't mention was that a chain of events, beginning last July, signaled the start of the dictator's demise....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 11:02am PDT
Golden Gate Park News: Warren Hellman's MCCP Destroys Northeast Pedestrian Tunnel
The Golden Gate Park Concourse Authority assured all that no harm would come to the pedestrian tunnels while the issue is before Superior Court. This morning, the renegade non-profit Music Concourse Community Partnership and Warren Hellman decided to take out the Tunnel. They are accountable to no one. Time's Up for these corporate thugs. Time to kick them out of the Park. Come to the JFK Bridge at 9th Avenue and see the damage they've done to our park....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 10:48am PDT
Sewage in Golden Gate Park
Sewage line hit by demolition crew in Golden Gate Park Thursday morning....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 9:43am PDT
THURS AM Speak Out Against Police Abuse of 3/20 Anti-War Protestors SF Supervisors Hearing
The hearing will be in City Services Room 263. Between Van Ness and Polk, Grove and McAllister. The meeting begins at 9:30am. However, the item is #6 on the agenda with a special order at 10am. It is hard to see how this could happen any sooner than 11am....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 9:30am PDT
Activists Say Israel Held Boy, 13, as Human Shield
BIDDO, West Bank (Reuters) - When older Palestinian boys started throwing stones at Israeli border police in the flashpoint West Bank village of Biddo, 13-year-old Muhammed Badwan went along to watch....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 9:09am PDT
Woman fired over For Taking Picture Of US Iraq War Coffins
Last weekend, a newspaper in Seattle, Washington, published a rare photograph of coffins containing the bodies of American soldiers killed in the war in Iraq....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 9:07am PDT
U.S. Army Breaches Fallujah Ceasefire, Kills 36
BAGHDAD, April 22 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – The U.S. occupation forces have "breached" the ceasefire in the town of Fallujah, a chief negotiator said Thursday, April 22, as the American occupation forces admitted killing 36 people in the western Baghdad town a day earlier....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 8:49am PDT
Two Haitian rebel leaders accused of murder say they will surrender
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Two Haitian rebel leaders who helped oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide promised Wednesday to surrender to face Haitian justice for earlier murder convictions....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 8:41am PDT
Limited Iraqi Sovereignty Planned
Coalition Troops Won't Answer to Interim Government, Wolfowitz Says...
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 8:36am PDT
Iraqi forces 'turn on coalition'
The new coalition-trained Iraqi police force is being infiltrated by insurgents, a US army general has said....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 8:32am PDT
Tre Arrow Update
There was an immigration hearing there Wednesday, which was essentialy adjourned until this Monday, April 25th, at 10am. 16th floor of the Federal building on the corner of Georgia and Hamilton - it is unclear at this time whether it will be public or private....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 8:12am PDT