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L.A.'s Pet Project: By the Numbers Los Angeles Animal Services General Manager Mr. Guerdon Stuckey routinely states that there has been a decrease in animal shelter deaths within the past year; however, the facts seem to point to an increase....
Posted: Tue, Nov 15, 2005 2:32pm PST
LA Times Fires Longtime Progressive Columnist Robert Scheer The Los Angeles Times newspaper last week announced that it was firing longtime columnist Robert Scheer. Scheer has been at the Times for 30 years and was one of the most progressive voices at the paper. In recent years, his columns took on the Bush Administration and its justifications for the invasion of Iraq....
Posted: Tue, Nov 15, 2005 6:36am PST
Solidarity with the Rebels of France The o.r.g.a.n.i.c. collective wishes to extend our feelings of solidarity to the rebels of the migrant communities of France. It is clear to us that the recent uprising which has spread across the country is a reaction against years of bitter racism that has ruined countless lives as well as a reaction against racist immigration policies based on that racism....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 4:10pm PST
NOW Celebrates Encouraging Results in State Elections The National Organization for Women congratulates voters in California, Maine and New Jersey for supporting equality and opposing bigotry in Tuesday's elections, when voters across the country weighed initiatives on abortion and laws prohibiting discrimination....
Posted: Wed, Nov 9, 2005 10:16pm PST
San Diego's Day Of Remembrance The San Diego LGBT Community Center
(The Center) announced today that it will host San Diego's fourth
annual Transgender Day of Remembrance on Sun., Nov. 20 at The
Center....
Posted: Tue, Nov 8, 2005 10:32pm PST
Cascadia Discussion Forum New online forum for discussion of Cascadia's culture, politics, geographic boundaries, and future....
Posted: Tue, Nov 8, 2005 3:22pm PST
Thanksgiving Letter Drive 
Help East Bay Animal Advocates reach its goal of writing 1,000 letters to our elected officials by Thanksgiving....
Posted: Mon, Nov 7, 2005 6:54pm PST
Join the O2 Collective For a Relief Trip to New Orleans! 
The Oxygen Collective is organizing a trip in our biodiesel bus for the first three weeks of December to bring supplies and volunteers to offer direct aid and relief work for people in the New Orleans area. We will be joining with an inspiring grassroots effort spearheaded by the Common Ground Collective (http://www.commongroundrelief.org) in the Algiers Neighborhood, where one of the O2's founding members, Kerul Dyer, is working as their unofficial Director of Operations....
Posted: Fri, Nov 4, 2005 2:06pm PST
Scrap the "Secret" Ballot - Return to Open Voting Secrecy rarely does anyone any good. And secrecy in voting is particularly senseless. It has produced a series of disastrous, if not unintended consequences. Due to its anonymity and non-transparency, the secret ballot has made vote fraud easier not harder, particularly for those in a position of power, such as election officials and voting machine technicians....
Posted: Fri, Nov 4, 2005 9:11am PST
Mayor Villaraigosa and the Truth about Cats and Dogs If Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa fails to honor his promise to fire Mr. Stuckey and to hire a compassionate and experienced General Manager who can implement a no-kill plan and reform the department, he may find that the animal community is politically-speaking, more bite than bark....
Posted: Thu, Nov 3, 2005 11:14am PST
Editorial submitted to NY Times about the illustrious Rep. Richard Pomba (Rep-CA) I sent this editorial from the NY Times to various Central Valley newspapers, but no one saw fit to reprint it. Maybe you will have more nerve....
Posted: Tue, Nov 1, 2005 1:07pm PST
Millionaires for Prop 75 Despite claims by its proponents that Prop. 75 is a “paycheck protection” measure, the millionaires who are funding the initiative have no interest in protecting paychecks, wages, health care or collective bargaining rights. Their agenda is to protect their own business interests and roll back the protections workers have won through unions....
Posted: Sat, Oct 22, 2005 12:01pm PDT
George Bush Visits the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California (audio/mpeg 4.5MB) Among the people gathered to protest Bush, was Tim, John and Aaron, three members of Iraq Veterans Against the War. I had the chance to speak with Tim, John and Aaron as well as David, Sue and Rachel. Listen to the interviews to hear all of them call for an end to the War in Iraq, and much more.
The first interview is with Tim, John and Aaron of Iraq Veterans Against the War. (9:47 minutes)...
Posted: Fri, Oct 21, 2005 8:58pm PDT
Join California Safe Schools & Promote Health & Safety www.calisafe.org...
Posted: Fri, Oct 21, 2005 8:00pm PDT
DRCNet/Perry Fund LA Event, 11/7 Scholarships for Students Denied Federal Financial Aid Because
of Drug Convictions, Memorializing a Hero of 9/11 and Champion
of Civil Liberties...
Posted: Fri, Oct 21, 2005 7:06pm PDT
DIVERSE VOICES SPEAK OUT IN FAVOR OF "CLEAN MONEY" BILL Elected officials from California, labor, public interest organizations,
and elected official from Arizona testify in support of full public funding
of state election campaigns...
Posted: Wed, Oct 19, 2005 11:35am PDT
10/27+11/6: Challenge the Palm Desert Dispensary Ban The special COOP meeting will begin at 1:30 p.m.
on Sunday, November 6. The regular MAPP meeting
will begin at 3 p.m. Both meetings are being held
in the community room of the Cathedral City
Public Library at 33520 Date Palm Drive at the
corner of Date Palm and Dave Kelly, one block
north of Dinah Shore....
Posted: Mon, Oct 17, 2005 11:22pm PDT
CSULB Students Ripped off by Marketing Company 
"Brailsford & Dunlavey is not a polling company, interested in providing an unbiased sampling. They are a facility planning company that profits from providing “market and financial analyses, architectural programming, business planning, referendum management, and other pre-implementation services” for moving the construction process to fruition. On their website, www.facilityplanners.com, Brailsford & Dunlavey states, “B&D equips clients with the data and tools needed to navigate confid...
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 2:08pm PDT
Chicano Artist Promote Healthy Diversity 
Chicano artists “paint their own reality” by promoting multiculturalism and healthy diversity....
Posted: Thu, Oct 6, 2005 11:57am PDT
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