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More than 150 people filled a Berkeley church Saturday to rally in support of condemned death row inmate Kevin Cooper -- and to hear from Cooper himself....
Posted: Sun, Feb 1, 2004 9:34am PST
Madeleine Albright, as Clinton's Secretary of State, helped maintain the embargo that -- by her own admission -- had killed half a million Iraqi children by 1996. When asked in a television she said that that embargo was "worth the price" of those deaths! This creep will be speaking at Cody's in Berkeley at 12:30 PM on February 11....
Posted: Sat, Jan 31, 2004 5:36am PST
Community Forum to Respond to Gov. Schwarzenegger's Proposed Budget and the Impacts on Oakland’s School Closures; Incarceration of Youth; Prison Spending
WHAT: Community Forum hosted by Education Not Incarceration Coalition
WHEN: Saturday, Jan. 31, 2004 – 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE: Laney College, Student Center, Irma P. Walker Conference Room, 4th floor
900 Fallon St ., Oakland.
WHO: Students, parents, teachers and concer...
Posted: Fri, Jan 30, 2004 4:15pm PST
ALAMO, Calif. - Hundreds of religous and labor leaders and supermarket workers brought the rising despair and tension of Southern California's 3 1/2-month-old grocery strike to the exclusive neighborhood of Safeway Inc. Chairman Steve Burd Wednesday, hoping to broker a truce with the CEO....
Posted: Wed, Jan 28, 2004 5:54pm PST
Friday, January 30, 2004, 4:15 p.m.:
Institute of East Asian Studies,
2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor Conference Room.
Two sociologists discuss the impact of a high-profile domestic violence case in South Korea last year, and how the anonymous and decentralized aspect of internet-based media allowed for frank and open conversations on a topic not always discussed in mainstream Korean society.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC...
Posted: Wed, Jan 28, 2004 5:27pm PST
Support workers fighting the Hilton bully for their first contract....
Posted: Wed, Jan 28, 2004 4:05pm PST
The Eviction Defense Center Celebrates The Ten Year Anniversary Of Providing Legal Representation For Low-Income Renters In The East Bay....
Posted: Wed, Jan 28, 2004 4:03pm PST
Food First and other concerned groups and individuals (like you) will be at an organizing meeting to prepare to mobilize around to the BIO Conference. The meeting will take place on Feb 3, from 3-5 PM at the Humanist Hall in Oakland....
Posted: Wed, Jan 28, 2004 7:29am PST
You are invited to a strategy meeting on inserting Global AIDS, debt and trade into the CA Primary debate. If you can't come, but want to raise the issue with candidates in CA in February, here is a sample list of questions....
Posted: Mon, Jan 26, 2004 9:28pm PST
UC Berkeley V-Day 2004 hosts
Intersex Movement, Friday, January 30, 5 - 7 pm!!!!!!!!!!!!...
Posted: Mon, Jan 26, 2004 3:55pm PST
Forum to Respond to the State Budget, Local Attacks on Our Schools and Incarceration of Our Youth:
Saturday, Jan. 31st, 11-1PM Laney College Student
Center, 901 Falon Street, Near Lake Merrit BART
More info and flyers at www.may8.org...
Posted: Mon, Jan 26, 2004 11:44am PST
This Action Plan comes from a powerful planning
meeting of over 40 community members from the five
schools targeted for closure and from Oakland in
general. The Coalition Against School Closures has
agreed to take the following steps in order to
pressure the State of California and its appointed
Administrator, Randy Ward, to take into account the
wishes of the Oakland community for its schools. We
need the support and action of a vast spectrum of the
Oakland community in order for ...
Posted: Mon, Jan 26, 2004 11:40am PST
Just two days after approving a use permit, city planners booted a nonprofit from its office space in one of Berkeley’s most drug-blighted neighborhoods, revoking their permit amid allegations the group’s chief planned to bring a cannabis club to the site....
Posted: Sun, Jan 25, 2004 3:18pm PST
Don't Shop At Safeway
March To Support Grocery Workers
Saturday, January 31 at 2 PM
Gather at Mosswood Park, MacArthur & Broadway, Oakland...
Posted: Sat, Jan 24, 2004 4:49pm PST
BERKELEY ACLU HOSTING DEBATE OVER WHETHER TO LEGALIZE SAME-SEX MARRIAGES...
Posted: Fri, Jan 23, 2004 4:09pm PST
A small group of East Bay parents has been meeting with the idea of setting up a Family Activist Resource Center--a drop-in center where parents and caregivers can come with their children and do their political work while their children are cared for in ways that honor the
unique and creative individuals they are and, where possible, engage them in age-appropriate political activism and education....
Posted: Thu, Jan 22, 2004 8:39pm PST
Education not Incarceration Coalition (www.may8.org) Community Forum :
How Does Schwarzenegger's Proposed Budget Relate to Attacks on Our Schools and Incarceration of Our Youth? Come Learn and Organize a Response!
Saturday, January 31st, 11AM-1PM; Laney College, Student Center...
Posted: Thu, Jan 22, 2004 8:33pm PST
ALL OUT ON FEBRUARY 6 TO DEFEND
THE OAKLAND 25 ANTIWAR PROTESTERS!...
Posted: Thu, Jan 22, 2004 1:13pm PST
To offset the
state
budget cuts, please come out and celebrate community spirit and
generosity
by listening to some down home, great music....
Posted: Wed, Jan 21, 2004 10:37pm PST
Berkeley Decriminalization Initiative Filed
Thursday, January 15, 70-year-old Lois Rowan filed an initiative on behalf of Sex Workers Outreach Project-USA....
Posted: Tue, Jan 20, 2004 11:01pm PST