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DEFEAT THE "SON OF SENSENBRENNER"....HR1645 STRIVE ACT > It seems that the "WE ARE AMERICA/SOMOS AMERICA" .......CROWD ARE
> GOING ON A FULL COURT PRESS TO SUPPORT THIS "SON OF SENSENBRENNER"
> BILL.
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> Reports are coming in from across the country, Gutierrez is going to
> the Bay Area in the next few days to speak at a rally being organized
> by supporters of his HR 1645.
>...
Posted: Tue, Mar 27, 2007 1:25pm PDT
Mumia Emergency: 5/17 Oral arguments, Philadelphia's 3rd Circuit; SF Organizing Meeting 3/ 3/31 - Organizing Meeting - SF
4/15 - Hip Hop for Mumia - NYC
4/21 - Writers for Mumia - NYC
4/24 - Rally - Mumia's Birthday - Philadelphia
**5/17** Oral arguments - 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals - Philadelphia...
Posted: Fri, Mar 23, 2007 10:01pm PDT
Protecting Sustainable Resources – Voting Sustainable With your Dollars and Sense 
Environmentalism is a colossal topic, and even though there are more environmentalists now than ever before, the majority of us do not always have time for the full story. When looking into where our food comes from, it becomes clear that organic agriculture is at the root of environmentalism. And although many continue to ignore the threat of global warming, claiming it yet another plea by environmentalists to curb our industrialized nation’s status as the wealthiest, most advanced country i...
Posted: Fri, Mar 23, 2007 3:06pm PDT
GMO News - GMOs are Going Down! 
There have been some major noteworthy advances on the good side of the food war lately, namely in opposition to GMOs and GE technologies, that are continually discredited and exposed little by little, each passing day. The USDA is being found guilty in GE cases, contamination is running rampant, and major agricultural players are starting to join the fight against GMOs....
Posted: Fri, Mar 23, 2007 2:45pm PDT
Yellowstone: The grizzly truth? There's been a lot of news related to Yellowstone National Park this week, most obviously the de-listing of the grizzlies in Yellowstone from the Endangered Species List. Yet, what are we to make of all the news? There are some grizzly pictures not being painted by any of us....
Posted: Fri, Mar 23, 2007 10:13am PDT
Beneath the Surface with Michael Slate Michael Slate, the only revolutionary communist hosting a weekly drive-time radio show in America, can be heard on Beneath the Surface every Tuesday from 5 to 6 p.m. Pacific time on KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles and 98.7 FM in Santa Barbara. You can also tune in on the internet at www.kpfk.org....
Posted: Wed, Mar 21, 2007 11:24am PDT
Grassroots Journalism discussed (audio/mpeg 16.2MB) Eesha Williams talks with Andrea on the Morning Show at KPFA about alternatives to the mainstream media, including indymedia. 24-minute MP3 file. 16MB....
Posted: Wed, Mar 21, 2007 11:13am PDT
February 15 student antiwar actions collage 
A collage of photos from coordinated student antiwar actions of february 15th of this year...
Posted: Wed, Mar 21, 2007 1:44am PDT
PAN ALERT: URGENT - Updated Farm Bill Action for Californians TODAY, we ask that you send an immediate message to Senators Boxer and Feinstein urging them to support the “Grassley-Dorgan amendment” to the budget. http://action.panna.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=7046...
Posted: Tue, Mar 20, 2007 11:17pm PDT
Preserving Freedom of Expression in America - New Challenges, New Sacrifice Bay Media Lab host Howard Vicini presents new video evidence in the case against vBlogger Josh Wolf, who has been held in coercive confinement for more than 200 days, a new U.S. record for a journalist, for refusing to turn over raw video he shot of a San Francisco protest rally in 2005, that was subpoenaed by a federal grand jury. Titled, “Freedom of Expression, New Challenges, New Sacrifice,” the show features discussion among media activists and journalists concerning the Wolf case and oth...
Posted: Mon, Mar 19, 2007 12:29am PDT
Meetings held with Barbara Lee and Pete Stark Staff on case impeachment of Bush and Cheney Just this Wednesday, 3 /14 Members of a Bay Area Impeachment coalition met with Sandra Andrews of Barbara Lee's staff and Jo Casenave of Pete Stark's staff to lay out our position on impeachment....
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 9:07pm PDT
San Francisco Congressional Watchdog Group Keeps Up Pressure on Pelosi 
Activists met again today at the Federal Building in San Francisco to plead for a sensible and moral end to the war in Iraq. Some later joined other activists from Code Pink who were maintaining a camp and peace vigil outside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home in Pacific Heights....
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 7:54am PDT
Fault Lines 20 hits the streets! 
Fault Lines, the bi-monthly newsmagazine of Indybay, has just released another issue of radical political analysis and social commentary. Fault Lines #20 features exclusive articles on war resistors, squat riots, Climate Change, resistance to CAFTA, UC Berkeley's corporate sell-out and much more. Free issues of Fault Lines are available at various locations throughout the Bay Area, or join the Fault Lines crew for a Dinner Distro Party Thursday in SF to grab a stack and distribute it yourself...
Posted: Wed, Mar 14, 2007 2:10pm PDT
Asian Week Not Off the Hook for Firing Kenneth Eng On February 28th, Asian Week apologized for publishing Kenneth Eng’s column “Why I Hate Blacks,” and announced that Eng would no longer write for them. Editor Ted Fang apologized in a March 1st press conference, and on March 2nd held a community forum about race relations. But Fang has yet to explain how the column was ever published, or why they did not take action earlier when Eng wrote similar columns for the newspaper. When first confronted about the column, Editor-in-Chief Samson Wong re...
Posted: Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:32am PST
Homelessnes Marathon in Fresno Audio of event Chapter One (audio/mpeg 13.8MB) Audio of the Homelessness Marathon in Fresno. Each audio link is 30 minutes....
Posted: Fri, Mar 2, 2007 8:23am PST
Veteran Broadcaster Larry Bensky Says Farewell In a promotional spot at KPFA aired today between Democracy Now! and the Morning Show, Larry Bensky announced that he will be leaving KPFA and Pacifica. He said his last program will be on April 29.
Among his reasons for leaving: "the so-called "democratization" of [KPFA's] local and national governance structure has not enhanced [its] effectiveness as a media outlet, or as a force for peace and social justice."...
Posted: Fri, Mar 2, 2007 7:24am PST
Call for Nonviolent Civil Disobedience! 
The Declaration of Peace Calls for Nationwide Nonviolent Civil Disobedience to stop the occupation of Iraq....
Posted: Mon, Feb 26, 2007 11:27am PST
We are in very dark times but our struggles can be won 
Lynne Stewart, Carlos Villareal, Pam Africa, Jeff Mackler, Diana Block and Michael Ratner appeared together in the San Francisco Mission district this evening to denounce America's use of torture at home and abroad and to spur activists to resist those who sanction or abet it....
Posted: Sat, Feb 24, 2007 5:14am PST
Who frames the questions we ask ourselves? The secret to getting the right answers is asking the right questions. And the right questions at this point are not, "Who gets Anna Nichole Smith's body?" and "Will Britney Spears make it through rehab this time?"...
Posted: Fri, Feb 23, 2007 1:42pm PST
This Friday! Tell Hillary No More Money For War! What: Bird-dog Hillary
When: 10am-12:00 p.m., Friday, February 23rd...
Posted: Wed, Feb 21, 2007 3:31pm PST
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