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4/20: East Palo Alto Residents To March For Our Health And Environment Thursday, April 20th, 2006
Rally and March
Start at 4:45PM at Parking Lot of Home Depot (Donohoe Street and East
Bayshore)
End at 6:00PM at Pulgas and Bay Road...
Posted: Sun, Apr 16, 2006 8:34pm PDT
Stanford Students Support Immigrant Rights! Students organized a rally at Stanford in conjunction with the National Day of Action for Immigrant Rights. They blocked off two traffic arteries off White Plaza to draw attention to the problems of "borders."...
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2006 5:25pm PDT
A System Out of Control in San Mateo County San Mateo Probation Department attempts to force those on probation to "snitch" or be violated!!...
Posted: Fri, Mar 31, 2006 5:18pm PST
Rep. Murtha steals the show at Panetta Lecture The Panetta Lecture Series starts its 2006 run and features John Murtha, Slade Gorton, and Richard Haass in debate about democracy and Iraq...
Posted: Tue, Mar 28, 2006 10:34am PST
Ford Dealership Blockade, Palo Alto CA 
The Raging Grannies, RAN, Global Exchange, the Ruckus Society, CODEPINK, Veterans for Peace, and San Mateo Peace Action Team Up to Tell Ford that Urgent Action is Needed to Break America's Oil Addiction!...
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 9:32pm PST
Taboo Topics 
The latest encounter between activist Carol Brouillet, and Congresswoman Anna Eshoo, highlighting the resistance to "information" that many people don't want to acknowledge....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 10:21am PST
Impeachment, Peace, Truth, Abolish the Patriot Act? 
If your political activities were noticed and you were removed from your Congresswoman's rolladex and not invited to the upcoming Town Hall Meeting- consider this an invitation...
Make your voice, issue heard at the Town Hall Meeting with Congresswoman Anna Eshoo Saturday, March 4th, Mountain View 9:30 am!...
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 10:54pm PST
Alert: South San Francisco May RESTRICT Collective Cultivation on Th! Tomorrow night, the Planning Commission will vote on a proposal from the
South San Francisco Police that, if passed, will greatly restrict
collective cultivation....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 1:43pm PST
Animal rights in labs are not protected In an article in yesterday’s (Stanford Daily) paper, “Students Protest for Animals,” Ruthann Richter claimed that animals in laboratories are covered by extensive legal protections, ensuring a happy and comfortable life for animal subjects. These regulations, however, fail to prevent basic suffering....
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 1:23pm PST
Green 9-11 Truth Candidate Calls for Impeachement at MLK Rally On the fourth anniversary of a march on Congresswoman Eshoo’s office to demand a Congressional Investigation of 9/11, Carol Brouillet organized a rally for Truth, Peace and Justice, and to announce her decision to run for Congress. Other Green candidates, activists, and friends also spoke....
Posted: Sun, Jan 29, 2006 7:54pm PST
Google China Adopts New Logo 
In light of Google's agreement to adhere to the Chinese government's strict censorship rules, Google introduced several new logos for the China-based version of their website, www.google.cn. In a press conference held this afternoon at the company's Mountain View headquarters, co-founder Larry Page urged artists and graphic designers to run with the theme and come up with new, creative variations....
Posted: Fri, Jan 27, 2006 6:03pm PST
Military Recruiters Face Grannies' Tough Questions (video/quicktime 17.6MB) A documentary film crew from Germany filmed the Raging Grannies of the San Francisco Peninsula on January 17, 2006, during one of their occasional visits to have tea with military recruiters. One-minute QT movie. 17MB....
Posted: Fri, Jan 27, 2006 4:34pm PST
Charter School Unionizes Edison Brentwood Academy and Edison-McNair Academy in East Palo Alto are the first Edison Schools Charter schools to unionize. Contract was ratified, and includes increase in pay and limited protection for 5th-year teachers....
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 7:34pm PST
Protest Google for lining itself with Chinese govt on censorship issue ...
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 1:58pm PST
FILM: Affluenza – An unsustainable addiction to economic growth Sept. 20, 7:30 p.m. Americans, who make up only five percent of the world's population, use nearly a third of its resources and produce almost half of its hazardous waste. Add overwork, personal stress, the erosion of family and community, skyrocketing debt, and the growing gap between rich and poor, and it's easy to understand why some people say that the American Dream is no bargain. Many are opting out of the consumer chase, redefining the Dream, and making "voluntary simplicity"...
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 3:53pm PST
Elephant Seals Mate and Relax at Año Nuevo 
A large colony of northern elephant seals are currently mating and taking life easy at Año Nuevo State Reserve. The Reserve is located off Highway 1, between the cities of Santa Cruz and Half Moon Bay, on a beautiful stretch of the southern San Mateo County coastline. On January 4, 2006, I took a guided tour of the Wildlife Protection Area of the Reserve and saw lots of cute elephant seal pups and their parents....
Posted: Tue, Jan 10, 2006 2:26pm PST
Green Party Congressional Challenger Carol Brouillet Rallies for Truth, Peace, Impeachment 
Sunday, January 15, 2006, from 11 am to 1 pm, in the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr., Green Party candidates and others will rally at Lytton Plaza, in Downtown Palo Alto (University x Emerson) to speak out on Truth, Peace, and Justice, and to launch Green Party campaigns....
Posted: Tue, Jan 10, 2006 9:32am PST
The Opposite of Good is Apathy 
Hold your vigils and marches in relevant places: such as warmongering local Congressional offices. So many Senators and Congresspeople come to mind. Or in front of a recruiting station. Or Federal Buildings. Or military bases. Then instead of going home and cracking open a beer, or uncorking a bottle of wine, sit down and say "we aren’t leaving until you call for an immediate end to the occupation of Iraq." Put your butt on the line for humanity....
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 2:20pm PST
Twentieth Annual Western Workers Labor Heritage Festival, Jan. 13-15, 2006 The Twentieth Annual Western Workers Labor Heritage Festival, honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s contribution to the civil rights and labor movements, will be held January 13-15, 2006.
The weekend of solidarity in an era of war, racism, and hard times features music, drama, visual arts, spoken word, poetry, photography and more....
Posted: Mon, Jan 2, 2006 8:41pm PST
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