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Up to 2 Million Take to the Streets of L.A. To Demonstrate Against Anti-Immigrant Bill
Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in downtown Los Angeles Saturday to demonstrate against a new anti-immigrant bill being considered by Congress. Crowd estimates range from 500,000 to 2 million. We speak with longtime immigrant rights activist Javier Rodriguez and United Farm Workers of America co-founder Dolores Huerta....
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 7:14am PST
Hammer Away The Loveall Lie At UFCW Local 588
The Loveall's leadership at UFCW Local 588 want everybody to mark and mail their merger ballot in today. Here is the problem with their info....
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 8:38am PST
3/25: Los Angeles: Half to 1 Million People Protest against Anti-Immigrant Law!
Today in downtown Los Angeles, over 1 million people demonstrated in support of immigrant rights. This was the largest demonstration in the history of California....
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 1:48am PST
Saint Patrick's Day
Saint Patrick's Day shouldn't be reduced to drinking lots of tacky green beer and kissing everyone in sight. It's passing presents people with the opportunity to examine the history of nearly 900 years of Irish resistance that eventually led to their independence....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 11:20am PST
Death Penalty Issue Still Alive
The California death penalty has a temporary moratorium resulting from medical professionals refusing to participate in the execution of Michael Morales. Now is the time to examine the failures of capital punishment and how the criminal justice system is completely out of control in California and America....
Posted: Thu, Mar 16, 2006 10:52pm PST
4/7-9: The Faces of Wrongful Conviction Conference
Check out this seminal conference on wrongful
convictions...
Posted: Mon, Mar 13, 2006 10:12am PST
Raich v. Gonzales Hearing in Ninth Circuit - Mar 27th, Pasadena
hearing date
for Raich v. Gonzales for Monday, March 27, 2006, at 1:30 in hearing room
Three, at the Richard H. Chambers U.S. Court of Appeal building, 125 South
Grand Avenue, Pasadena, California...
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 10:29pm PST
PFP VOICE UNION CONCERNS
The Democratic leadership in Sacramento and Washington has become silent on issues in government that will protect the working class and organized labor; and now to have a voice in government, working people must look beyond the emerging one party system for political leadership....
Posted: Fri, Mar 10, 2006 1:08pm PST
LA South Central Farmers call for help
The South Central Farmers and their supporters are putting out the call for mutual aid from environmental activists to help save their farmland....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 10:02am PST
Save the South Central Farm - A call for Mutual Aid
The South Central Farmers and their supporters are putting out the call for mutual aid from environmental activists to help save their farmland....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 10:00am PST
Bush Considered Flying US Spy Planes With UN Colors Over Iraq In 2003 to Provoke War
British international law professor Philippe Sands, author of “Lawless World,” reveals President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair secretly agreed in January 2003 to invade Iraq in mid-March 2003 regardless of the outcome of diplomatic efforts....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 8:36am PST
Join California Safe Schools at the Los Angeles Arboretum
The Los Angeles Environmental Education Fair...
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 3:41am PST
ACLU Brought In As Ghandian Tactics Bring Whiff of Victory in College Exclusion Case
Arjuna Ahimsananda has fasted, picketed and complained to the Office of Civil Rights against Santa Barbara City College which excluded him "on trumped up charges fabricated from whole cloth" after he complained about some college policies and penned an article critical of censorhsip in higher education. Today he filed a formal compaling with the California ACLU....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 9:05pm PST
Candidate Filing Deadline is March 10
Last day to file for offices on the June 6, 2006 ballot is 5 p.m., Friday, March 10. If the incumbent does not file, the deadline is extended to 5 p.m., Wednesday, March 15....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 12:39pm PST
EARTH MATTERS RADIO - Interview with Att'y. Ben Rosenfeld on Rod Coronado's arrest (audio/mpeg 12.6MB)
Earth Matters - Environmental news for "Flashpoints" on KPFA radio. San Francisco civil rights attorney Ben Rosenfeld talks about the recent arrest of Rod Coronado, the FBI witch hunt of environmental activists, and what we can do about it. mp3 audio, 13:47 minutes...
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 6:06pm PST
Senator Feinstein to Co-Sponsor DREAM Act
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) announced Thursday that she is co-sponsoring the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, which would provide an opportunity for permanent resident status to undocumented high school students who wish to attend college or serve in the military....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 6:54am PST
Send a message of peace to the world on Sunday March 12th!
Be a part of the image: Sunday, March 12th, 2pm to 4pm. Arlington West Memorial
(Santa Monica Beach, just north of the pier.) Sign up below & let us know that
you'll be in the image on March 12th....
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 11:31pm PST
Two dead, 100 injured in Los Angeles County jail riots
On Saturday, February 4, racial riots broke out in Los Angeles County jails between black and Latino inmates. The rioting continued for more than two weeks, involving thousands of prisoners at several different facilities. More than a hundred have been injured, many critically, and two inmates are dead....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 7:06am PST
Son del Centro y El Pinche Simón: El Enemigo Común in Santa Ana (audio/mpeg 5.5MB)
On February 18th, about 50 people came out to El Centro Cultural de México in Santa Ana to hear Son del Centro perform son jarocho music and see a premier screening of El Enemigo Común....
Posted: Sun, Feb 26, 2006 1:02am PST
The Green Scare and the Government’s “Case” Against Rod Coronado
The federal government has been chomping at the bit to put Rod Coronado back in prison since the moment he got out, and his indictment in San Diego for an exercise of pure speech is a flimsy pretext to do just that. [ed: Updated 02 March 2006]...
Posted: Sun, Feb 26, 2006 12:45am PST