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Cindy Sheehan visited the State Capitol in Sacramento today to ask the "Governator" to pull California National Guard troops out of Iraq....
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 7:47pm PDT
Fresno Jail/Court Support Information for
Joe Fortt, Dustin Costa, and Thunder Rector...
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 11:21am PDT
STOP CALIFORNIANS' DEATHS AND DEBTS, BEFORE THEY OCCUR (BY BALLOT): GET ACCOUNTABILITY AND AVAILABLE-TRAINING FOR ALL STATE BALLOT ADMINISTRATORS, BEFORE THESE ASSAULTS (AND WORSE) HAPPEN AGAIN, REGARDING BALLOTS (AND BEFORE MORE CONTRIBUTIONS ARE STOLEN).....[TAKE-BACK YOUR GOVERNMENT, BEFORE IT'S DYSFUNCTION TAKES MORE PEOPLES' LIVES]...
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 11:05pm PDT
Note: a SPANISH version follows the English
The Bay Area Coalition to Fight the Minutemen is mobilizing an action to oppose the Minutemen Project's rally to gather public support for their attempts to harass poor, undocumented border-crossers and to announce their support of a new initiative that would establish a state
border police in addition to the existing federal border patrol. This rally will take place in Sacramento on the Capitol steps on October 29th from 10am to 12:30pm....
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 3:53am PDT
Eyes suspending community privacy rights....
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 8:51am PDT
Fires in two gay nightclubs in Fresno may have been attacks on the LGBT community California's largest gay rights group says.
The most recent fire occurred at The Dance, formerly the Fresno Express, on N. Maroa. The club had been closed for several months but the blaze caused $20,000 damage.
On Sept. 26 fir broke out at the site of North Tower Circle, a few blocks away. That fire resulted in damage estimated at $375,000.
Both fires are being probed by arson investigators....
Posted: Thu, Oct 6, 2005 3:56pm PDT
Earth First!ers are needed to organize in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley (aka Central Valley) to bring visibility to corporate logging corporations like Sierra Pacific Industries, suburban sprawl in wetlands habitat, potential extinction of endangered species as loss of vernal pools continues, effect of toxic pesticide drift used by corporate agribusiness, dams blocking anadromous fish migrations, etc.....
Posted: Wed, Oct 5, 2005 1:54pm PDT
This show on the struggles of workers in public broadcasting in the UK and Canada aired on KPFA. Makes you wonder about the parallels with workers at Pacifica and KPFA who have been threatened with job cuts and downsizing....
Posted: Tue, Oct 4, 2005 3:00pm PDT
A heads up on a rally by the Minutemen from info off of their website. Details of the fight to stop this rally upcoming. This heads up is especiallly important so those in Sacramento can organize early agaisnt these racists and so that those in other areas can figure out the logistics of getting there....
Posted: Mon, Oct 3, 2005 6:43am PDT
We will be doing another Really Really Free Market in Modesto, next Saturday!...
Posted: Sat, Oct 1, 2005 11:37pm PDT
Don't miss this event featuring Rigoberta Menchu, Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights leader. This Guatemalan indigenous leader was a survivor of the genocide engineered in Washington by the Reagan regime....
Posted: Sat, Oct 1, 2005 8:18am PDT
Full Belly Farms presents the 18th annual Hoes Down Festival in the Capay Valley....
Posted: Fri, Sep 30, 2005 10:57am PDT
Film showing and discussion in Ceres CA, at Whitemore Park, 5pm. Free food and literature....
Posted: Thu, Sep 29, 2005 3:06pm PDT
Film showing and discussion in Ceres CA, at Whitemore Park, 5pm. Free food and literature....
Posted: Thu, Sep 29, 2005 10:07am PDT
Environmental, fishing and farming groups had a great press conference on Monday to protest the "Extinction Act" that Congressman Richard Pombo, the Anti-Environmental Prince of Darkness, is trying to rush through Congress....
Posted: Wed, Sep 28, 2005 4:06pm PDT
The following Equality California chapters and allied organizations are hosting
community gatherings in response to the Governor's action on AB 849. We will rally
the same day of the veto if the Governor acts before 2 p.m. and the following
calendar day (including weekends) if the Governor acts after 2 p.m...
Posted: Wed, Sep 28, 2005 12:24pm PDT
The Pentagon, on the morning of the bombing, said that about fifty US and British aircraft had hit three targets in southern Iraq with precision-guided weapons aimed at Baghdad's antiaircraft network....
Posted: Sun, Sep 25, 2005 6:58pm PDT
Really Free Market in Modesto!...
Posted: Sun, Sep 25, 2005 1:18pm PDT
STOCKTON, CA – A former Republican Congressman from California who co-authored the Endangered Species Act (1973) will join farmers and fishermen to support strong protections for endangered species and habitat on Monday, September 26, in Stockton. They will call on Members of Congress to support the Endangered Species Act, oppose a drastic rewrite of the Act, and deliver thousands of signatures to the office of Representative Richard Pombo (R-CA), the prime sponsor of the new bill....
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 8:44pm PDT