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February is Freedom to Marry Month and it is a great time to focus on increasing awareness and understanding of the importance of civil marriage rights for everyone regardless of gender....

Justin Watt, who runs a MMJ patients' delivery service in Redding, was arrested by Shasta County sheriffs for possession of MJ & hashish in his car. Watts says he was picking up medicine for his patients in full legal accordance with SB 420....

On February 3, 2005, Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore, spoke at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Mattilda is the editor of a 37 author anthology called,"That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation." Mattilda spoke on a variety of topics, including gay marriage and assimilation, challenging power, and the rejection of queer youth from established gay districts such as the Castro in San Francisco. I began recording as Mattilda was talking about a recent book reading ...

Same-Sex Couples Must Be Allowed To Marry In New York, Court Rules; Lambda Legal Says Decision Is ‘Historic, Well Reasoned and Fair’ Lambda Legal brought the case under the state Constitution, saying gay New Yorkers weren’t being treated equally under the law because they couldn’t marry...

A total of 845 indoor grown marijuana plants and records of the sale of marijuana were seized from Steven Lance Berry's LANKASH Caregivers Clinic Tuesday morning, according to Sgt. Rusty Noe, County of Mendocino Marijuana Eradication Team commander....

The Campaign for Children and Families (CCF), a Sacramento-based group, has called for two rallies this month in support of traditional marriage and in opposition to AB 19. The "California Rallies to Protect Marriage" will take place in Madera on February 5, and in Sacramento on February 14....

Respected comrade targeted by racist police. An injury to one is an injury to all. Alton has been threatened in his car by police before. He called the police and made it clear that he would not let them murder him. Being commited to defending yourself is distinctly different from "threatening to attack a police officer." That the officers in question knew of his statement, made at a previous profiling incident, is further evidence of a criminal conspiracy among racist police....

A federal appeals court Wednesday refused to consider blocking the execution of Stanley "Tookie" Williams, a founder of the notorious Crips street gang who was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize while in prison....

Labor, retiree and community organizations in California are kicking off a campaign to uphold Social Security against the drive of President Bush and Wall Street to privatize the 70-year-old program serving retirees, the disabled, and families of deceased workers. At the same time, they are gearing up to defeat Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s campaign to privatize the pensions of California state employees....

Yesterday, the California Youth Authority (CYA) agreed with what youth, families, and advocates have been saying for decades: the CYA is completely broken and can't be fixed -- a new model of juvenile justice is needed. The CYA has committed in writing to totally transform California’s juvenile justice system....