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"Since 1975, practically all the gains in household income have gone to the top 20% of households...Long-term problems include inadequate investment in economic infrastructure, rapidly rising medical costs of an aging population, sizable trade deficits, and stagnation of family income in the lower economic groups." -CIA World Factbook With the market currently seen in wealthy circles as the pinnacle of all human achievement, CEOs, pundits, and governments must now explain away yet another ga...

President Bush is due in Stockton, CA on Friday, 8/23. Groups are mobilizing to greet him with a strong message that America doesn't want to go to war with Iraq. Details Massive protests against the Bush regime are planned up and down the west coast this week, from Portland on 8/22 to LA on 8/24.Oakland-based AFSCME Local 444 seeks peace in the Middle East. On 8/15, they adopted a resolution to withdraw US support to Israel, support self-determination in Palestine, and support workers' rights...

The dot-com boom is over. The days when live/work lofts, rich, dot-commers and out-of-town developers can force workers, the poor and predominantly people of color out of the Mission through evictions and pro-developer and business City Hall policies are hopefully over. An organization that has driven the struggle against gentrification and displacement has been the Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition (MAC). On 8/15, MAC convened a neighborhood meeting to discuss and improve the People's Plan...

Mattole Forest Defenders have resurrected ongoing protests of Maxxam's liquidation of the Mattole Watershed on the Northcoast of California. The protests had gone into a lull since October 2001 when logging in the Mattole ceased. The Rainbow Ridge area has been dubbed the "Headwaters Sacrifice zone" by many in the community who've helped to protect the infamous "Headwaters" area in the Elk River watershed. Photos of 9/15 action | Read more Elsewhere, Santa Cruz Earth First! is in the proces...

Bay Area Workers Democracy Network Forum will hold a forum on the ILWU contract struggle, Bush and the fight against government intervention on Sept 15. Details Working under an expired contract, 10,000 West Coast longshore men and women face a threatened lockout by the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) — and now the danger that President Bush will invoke the Taft-Hartley Act to crush a strike or work stoppage. With contract negotiations stalled, Bush has urged dockworkers to accept a ...

"Since 1975, practically all the gains in household income have gone to the top 20% of households...Long-term problems include inadequate investment in economic infrastructure, rapidly rising medical costs of an aging population, sizable trade deficits, and stagnation of family income in the lower economic groups." -CIA World Factbook With the market currently seen in wealthy circles as the pinnacle of all human achievement, CEOs, pundits, and governments must now explain away yet another ga...

8/7: VP Dick Cheney spoke at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco Wednesday morning. About 300-400 demonstartors showed up to protest against corporate rule. Five people were arrested for trying to disrupt his speech. Details: 1   |   Photos: 1 2 3  |  Video: 1 2 3...

The dot-com boom is over. The days when live/work lofts, rich, dot-commers and out-of-town developers can force workers, the poor and predominantly people of color out of the Mission through evictions and pro-developer and business City Hall policies are hopefully over. An organization that has driven the struggle against gentrification and displacement has been the Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition (MAC). On 8/15, MAC convened a neighborhood meeting to discuss and improve the People's Plan...

8/5: Nearly 500 Chicano/Latino activists marched in Santa Rosa on 7/28, calling for the creation of a law that would allow undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license. Demonstrators also denounced the government's militarization of the US/Mexico border and the daily brutality of the INS and the police against immigrants. Photo essay: part 1 | part 2 | Demo announcement...

More than 13 supermarkets were looted in poor neighborhoods of Montevideo today to the shouts of "we are hungry." Riot police were dispersed throughout the city, shooting rubber bullets at people as they tried to get food. The Minister of the Interior has called for "people to remain peaceful," but to whom does he speak? The families of children who eat grass in the schoolyard? Uruguay's crisis exploded this week when the government ordered all banks to remain closed, preventing people from g...