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9/11 Truth Movement- Interview with Paul DesLauriers and Janice Matthews- 9/3/07 7-9 pm 
Tonight, September 3rd from 7-9 pm, Paul DesLauriers, author of Bearer of Light- A Catalyst for Global Change and Grassroots Coordinator for 911Truth.org and Janice Matthews, Executive Director for 911Truth.org will speak on the 9/11 Truth Movement on the radio program- Questioning War- Organizing Reistance with local 9/11 Truth activist, Carol Brouillet....
Posted: Mon, Sep 3, 2007 8:34am PDT
Muslim-American Political Cartoonist Khalil Bendib Presents New Book at Berkeley Event 
An evening before flying to Chicago to speak at the 44th Annual ISNA Convention, Khalil Bendib unveiled his recently published book, Mission Accomplished, to a standing-room-only crowd of friends and neighbors at a small cafe in Berkeley.
His talk, accompanied by a presentation of cartoons from his book, explored what it means to be an anything-but-impassive Muslim American observer in a country off-track: an America which seems to be increasingly driven by greed, prejudice, irrationality,...
Posted: Fri, Aug 31, 2007 9:27am PDT
8/30: Delegation to SSA re: SS No Match rule As many of you know, the Department of Homeland Security has implemented
new regulations that could result in mass firings of immigrant workers
this fall....
Posted: Mon, Aug 27, 2007 2:00pm PDT
Five Women Arrested Outside Pelosi's Office My elected representative won't have a public dialogue with her constituents about peace, and Code Pink wants to know why....
Posted: Fri, Aug 24, 2007 3:40pm PDT
UAW Bargaining Update: Tentative Agreements Reached on Two Key Articles Our August 13-14 bargaining session proved productive in two key areas: 1) we came to a tentative agreement on the employment files and evaluations article; and 2) we established an electronic method of membership card processing....
Posted: Fri, Aug 24, 2007 2:21pm PDT
Elvira & Saul (video/quicktime 44.5MB) Earlier this week the United States seized Elvira Arellano and deported her to Mexico leaving her son, Saul, in Chicago.This brutish treatment by a supposedly civilized government was protested in the Bay Area at the Fruitvale BART Plaza on August 21, 2007. Three-minute QT movie. 45MB....
Posted: Fri, Aug 24, 2007 1:09pm PDT
Another Karl Rove Playbook in California Thursday, August 23, 2007 : Besides the Leno-Migden fight in San Francisco, the June 2006 primary should be a real sleeper in California. And a low voter turnout statewide causes huge risks of right-wing propositions sailing through. The Howard Jarvis Taxpayer’s Association has already planned to put a ballot measure in June to end rent control, and expect the religious right to put an anti-gay marriage amendment on the same ballot....
Posted: Thu, Aug 23, 2007 10:23am PDT
ACLU of Northern California Urges Congress to Hold White House in Contempt, Force Compliance on NSA Subpoenas Wednesday, August 22, 2007 : SAN FRANCISCO - The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California today asked Congress to hold the White House in contempt. Having disregarded the second deadline for compliance with Senate Judiciary Committee subpoenas, the White House, Office of the Vice President and Department of Justice can now be held in contempt of Congress. The original subpoenas were issued June 27th and sought materials related to the National Security Agency’s warrantless wire...
Posted: Thu, Aug 23, 2007 10:18am PDT
US court hears suit against AT&T's collaboration with domestic spying program Wednesday, August 22, 2007 :On Wednesday, August 15, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco heard arguments in the case of Hepting v. AT&T, a class action suit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in January 2006. The suit accuses telecommunications giant AT&T of violating the First and Fourth amendments to the Constitution, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) (which prohibits spying on Americans unless authorized by the Foreign In...
Posted: Wed, Aug 22, 2007 7:33am PDT
Stop Frame-up and Jailing Of CA Injured Worker Reginald Fagan San Louis Obispo worker and union member Reginald Fagan has been targeted by the District
Attorney for workers compensation fraud. His "crime" was speaking up about health and
safety problems and organizing for justice in the San Louis Obispo area. This article is about
Reginald and his case....
Posted: Sat, Aug 18, 2007 1:47am PDT
Who’s Putting the Heat on Barry Bonds… and Why The anti-steroid crusade championed by George Bush has at bottom nothing to do with making the game more “fair”--what it is really about is enforcing a culture of snitches and some highly paid stars who have to be good “role models” in an increasingly mad and oppressive American culture. The fact that Barry Bonds cannot be tolerated as all-time home run king shows just how serious these people are, and how deadly the changes they are seeking to make in baseball and the culture of the country....
Posted: Fri, Aug 17, 2007 1:36pm PDT
Michel Chossudovsky, Bev Collins, Connie Fogal- Challenging the North American Union 
On the weekly radio show- Questioning War- Organizing Resistance, Canadian guests will report on resistance to the North American Union. Leaders of Mexico, the US and Canada will be at a summit in Montebello, Quebec, the Canadian government and the US military are trying to keep the protesters away. The agenda of the summit is in violation of the Constitutions of Canada, Mexico and the United States....
Posted: Fri, Aug 17, 2007 7:52am PDT
Dissident Members Challenge American Psychological Association on Role in CIA Interrogation, Torture Friday, August 17, 2007 :
Democracy Now! broadcasts from San Francisco, where the American Psychological Association is set to hold a historic vote at its annual convention. Following a string of exposes revealing that psychologists have played a key role in designing the CIA’s torture tactics, outraged APA members have introduced a moratorium calling for an outright ban on psychologist involvement in detainee interrogations. We speak with two psychologists at the forefront of the campaign...
Posted: Fri, Aug 17, 2007 7:32am PDT
End the Sleeping Ban - open letter to council The Jones v. City of Los Angeles decision in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that criminalization of homelessness amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. In the words of the judge writing the majority decision: "The Eighth Amendment prohibits the City from punishing involuntary sitting, lying, or sleeping on public sidewalks that is an unavoidable consequence of being human and homeless without shelter in the City of Los Angeles,"...
Posted: Thu, Aug 16, 2007 12:44pm PDT
AT&T Must Face Justice for Illegal Spying NSA Surveillance Comes Under Fire Today in Appeals Court Battle
August 15, 2007 : San Francisco - In a packed San Francisco courtroom today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to allow AT&T customers to continue to fight against illegal spying on their telephone and Internet communications....
Posted: Thu, Aug 16, 2007 7:49am PDT
Corn Ethanol and Unintended Consequences For California A Background Research Paper on Corn Ethanol...
Posted: Tue, Aug 14, 2007 6:03pm PDT
Media Blames Black Mayors - Not Bush - for Rising Homicides Tuesday, August 14, 2007 : As federal budget priorities starve urban America, the outcome has been predictable: rising murder rates from Newark, New Jersey to Oakland, California, with virtually no low-income African-American or Latino neighborhood spared the violence. Who is to blame for this problem? According to the media, it is the nation’s black mayors....
Posted: Tue, Aug 14, 2007 9:53am PDT
The Dangers of Reporting on Your Hometown Originally From New America Media
Saturday, August 11, 2007 : The death of Chauncey Bailey highlights how deadly the news business can be. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) monitors the killings of journalists all over the world. Since they began tracking these deaths in 1992, CPJ found that on average more than three journalists are killed every month in the line of duty....
Posted: Sat, Aug 11, 2007 9:17am PDT
This Week's Street Actions for SF8 and against Blue Shield of CA Kiilu Nyasha of the Committee for Defense of Human Rights and Michael Lyon of the San Francisco Gray Panthers report on this week's street rallies for the San Francisco 8 and against Blue Shield of California and other health insurance companies who are working to block passage of CA SB840 for Universal, Single-Payer Healthcare. Kiilu and Michael also report on this week's bail hearings for some members of the SF8....
Posted: Fri, Aug 10, 2007 10:34pm PDT
History, Whose-story? Collapsing Empire radio show with Mickey Huff, and Carolyn Baker 
August 13th 7-9 pm on the Questioning War- Organizing Resistance Radio Show, local activist Carol Brouillet will be speaking with two historians on the topics of "the weaponization of information" throughout US history, and the collapse of the American Empire....
Posted: Fri, Aug 10, 2007 2:40pm PDT
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