The Board of Supervisors has Supervisor Wiener's Park Closure bill on the agenda for today, November 5th. Their meeting begins at 2pm. The measure could come up at any time. The video below is from last Tuesday; when the meeting began last week, Wiener asked to postpone it to this week....
Posted: Tue, Nov 5, 2013 12:13pm PST
"We need more services; not more citations."
Rally opposing Scott Wiener's bill held October 29th at San Francisco City Hall.
Three-minute QT-movie. 17MB....
Posted: Mon, Nov 4, 2013 3:11pm PST
On the day Bradley Manning was sentenced, August 21, 2013, a rally was held at Bradley Manning Plaza at the foot of Market St. in San Francisco to proclaim, "Free Chelsea Manning!"
Berkeley Broadside Balladeer Vic Sadot led off....
Posted: Sun, Aug 25, 2013 4:34pm PDT
On February 12th, 2013 Officers from the Berkeley Police Department killed a transperson named Kayla Moore. In the days to follow, BPD would remain silent on how somebody could just die in their custody....
Posted: Thu, Mar 14, 2013 3:45pm PDT
On February 12th, Berkeley Police murdered Kayla Moore. Kayla Moore lived with "mental illness" and has been described by friends and family as a Transgender person who "passed as a woman." Exactly one month later on March 12th, while police and corporate media are largely silent about the death, a nighttime march was held to call attention to the lack of accountability for the in-custody murder in Berkeley....
Posted: Wed, Mar 13, 2013 1:09pm PDT
#actup occupies the office of speaker of the house...
Posted: Tue, Nov 27, 2012 1:52pm PST
On September 6th a national day of action to free Bradley Manning was held across the nation. In more than 25 locations, people called for President Obama to take action to release the whistleblower from jail. Most actions were held in front of Democratic campaign headquarters during the Democratic National Convention....
Posted: Sun, Sep 9, 2012 11:56am PDT
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Posted: Thu, Jun 14, 2012 9:50am PDT
(video 19:36)...
Posted: Thu, Jun 14, 2012 9:50am PDT
Hello I am a 99’er. Profile of a poor middle class educated blue collar worker and community activist....
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2011 11:29am PST
How do the UC Berkeley Police interact with LGBTQ activists? Is the UCB-PD respecting the rights of the LGBTQ community?
A trans-woman activist found herself being interviewed by police after a direct-action in People's Park. The interview goes sour as transphobia seeps from the UC Berkeley police....
Posted: Fri, Sep 16, 2011 12:00pm PDT
The Bradley Manning Pride Contingent: Sunday morning, June 26, 2011.
Seven-minute QT movie. 62MB....
Posted: Wed, Jun 29, 2011 5:27am PDT
The disillusioned “gay activist” called “Marc” who appeared in a YouTube video condemning the Gaza Freedom Flotilla for alleged homophobia, that was tweeted by the Israeli Government Press Office, has been identified as an Israeli called Omer Gershon. This definitely proves that the video is either a hoax or a piece of propaganda designed to discredit the flotilla and use a mask of concern for gay rights to pinkwash Israel and justify the persecution of Palestinians in Gaza.
This two-min...
Posted: Tue, Jun 28, 2011 5:33pm PDT
April 15, 2011: Transgendered women and their allies gathered to protest the beating of a transwoman April 1st at 16th and Mission Streets in San Francisco....
Posted: Thu, Apr 21, 2011 4:29am PDT
Last eight minutes of the press conference.
Eight-minute QT movie. 19MB....
Posted: Wed, Aug 4, 2010 7:17pm PDT
Two-minute QT movie. 23MB....
Posted: Fri, Jun 25, 2010 10:00am PDT