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This week small red caterpillars, larvae of the endangered Elfin Butterfly, are feasting on the one plant they can eat, a small, yellow-flowered sedum that grows in the only habitat where the Elfin can survive. These plants grow on the contested slopes of San Bruno Mountain between Brisbane and South San Francisco, but this year they've been found, with the larvae, returning to the very ledges of a rock quarry that had destroyed their habitat. Their return protects the quarry from further d...

Lyttton Plaza University x Emerson Downtown Palo Alto...

Lytton Plaza University x Emerson Downtown Palo Alto...

On May 14th, Stanford University and McClatchy Company co-sponsored a free community forum at Cubberly Auditorium to discuss the fate of the newspaper industry. Speakers included Bill Keller,Executive Editor of the New York Times, Gary Pruitt, Chief Executive Officer of McClatchy, Marissa Mayer, Vice President of search productsand user experience at Google, and Harry Chandler, a former executive at the Los Angeles Times. It was the 41st of such events sponsored by McClatchy....

Laid-off workers, mostly Latino and Chinese immigrants 50+ years old, RALLIED on May 5 in front of Burlingame (CA) Apple story and marched through downtown Burlingame. Joined by members of local labor groups they took their protest to the HILLSBOROUGH MANSION of Monster Cable CEO Noel Lee. Their struggle has now lasted more than 6 months. Youtube video of earlier march on the CEO's home is 5 minutes long and includes a musical mix of Chinese hip hop, traditional Chinese drumming and Ragin...

The Day Worker Center of Mountain View, housed for the past 5 years at the Calvary Church at California Street and Escuela Avenue, is losing its facility on July 31, 2007. Photo by Charles Slay...

A newly formed branch of the Minutemen, joined by other anti-immigration groups, are targeting San Francisco Peninsula and South Bay cities bringing their message to the streets. What they didn't count on was this: a group of middle aged and elderly woman called the Raging Grannies with signature flowered bonnets are sounding the alarm to local community activists to react quickly in response. Calling on peace and immigrant rights groups to counter demonstrate on short notice, the Peninsul...

Pelosi Appears with Palo Alto Daily News Box in Midtown. In this report: Nancy Pelosi attended MoveOn Council 14 meeting where she sidled up to MoveOn field organizer and got grilled by Raging Grannies. On to some shopping, then finally, it was time for a home-cooked meal, courtesy of Cafe Sophia...home-cooking in the true tradition of Afghanistan! Raging Granny theater in the streets, meetings and cafes of Palo Alto....

Heroic Citizen for Impeachment awards will be presented by Spiderman, Wonder Woman, Superman and Yoda to heroic citizens who have championed Impeachment, Peace, Truth, Justice at a rally, march in Palo Alto, today. They will recruit the public, press, Congress in their efforts to Impeach the greatest threat to our country and the world, those abusing their power who have hijacked the executive branch of government....

Raging Grannies and Friends counter-protest appearances by the Minutemen on the Peninsula. Scenes here are from cities of Redwood City and San Mateo. Next Minutemen counter protest in Peninsula/South Bay area will be in Campbell on May 12. Contact us for details....