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The Message Of Mary Jesus
Mary Jesus Of Oakland Sacrificed Her Life To Get The Following Message To You!...
Posted: Fri, Jan 21, 2005 5:58am PST
"Not Our President!" J20 Banners
As part of nationwide counter-inaugural actions, Not in Our Name organized a dozen morning banner-holding teams from Santa Rosa to San Jose this morning to greet commuters. Photos here from the University foot bridge over I-80, Berkeley....
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 2:53pm PST
Freeway Bloggers hit Hayward, Castro Valley
Banners over 580 and 880 in Castro Valley and Hayward to protest the corporate coronation of George W. Bush....
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 10:39am PST
Inauguration Protest in Berkeley
Artists and Writers for Peace will bring people together in BART Plaza in Downtown Berkeley, California to read the Langston Hughes poem "Let America Be America Again."...
Posted: Wed, Jan 19, 2005 7:06pm PST
Silent The Vigil for Global Justice
More pictures from Pictures From The Vigil for Global Justice...
Posted: Tue, Jan 18, 2005 11:02pm PST
Emergency Albertson's Action on Thursday 12/20
We need your support by joining us for an Emergency Day of Action this Thursday between 4:00-5:00 PM at the Albertson’s store at 3250 Lakeshore Avenue in Oakland. UFCW grocery workers will deliver their message to Safeway and Albertson’s: “Don’t Take Away Our Health Care!"...
Posted: Tue, Jan 18, 2005 5:38pm PST
Tomorro (Wed) Community Meeting on Crisis in Oakland Schools
Please join us for this important community meeting on
the crisis in the Oakland schools on January 19th from
5-8PM at the OEA office, 272 E. 12th Street (at 3rd Ave). Dinner and childcare will be provied. See the letter of invitation
below....
Posted: Tue, Jan 18, 2005 12:57pm PST
MUMIA: OAKLAND'S WAR AGAINST SCHOOLCHILDREN
Mumia Abu-Jamal on the threat of cuts, cutbacks, charter schools and the "crisis" of public eduction in Oakland....
Posted: Mon, Jan 17, 2005 4:25pm PST
Friday, Jan. 28th at AK Press - A Night of Anarchist Hip Hop
Friday, Jan. 28th at AK Press - A Night of Anarchist Hip Hop...
Posted: Sun, Jan 16, 2005 6:43pm PST
Pictures From The Vigil for Global Justice
On Jan. 16th a "Rally Against Global Terrorism" took place in Berkeley to protest Congresswoman Barbara Lee's vote against the apartheid wall. In response, a Vigil for Global Justice was organized to protest in support of Palestinian Freedom. Several hundred people showed up on both sides....
Posted: Sun, Jan 16, 2005 4:33pm PST
Trouble for Section 8 tenants of Alameda County
The National Housing Conference, A Non-Profit Housing Organization, Held Their Latest Conference In Walnut Creek Recently, And Declined To Oppose The Bush Administration's Proposed Flexible Voucher Program That Will Put Tens Of Thousands At Risk Of Becoming Homeless If Implemented!...
Posted: Sun, Jan 16, 2005 2:58am PST
Update: Efforts to get AR programming on KPFA
Greetings everyone who has been interested and kind enough to help with efforts to get AR programming on KPFA. Following are notes for your update with all that has transpired since I last sent you an update almost a month ago. Whoa! I had no idea it has been almost one month!...
Posted: Fri, Jan 14, 2005 11:05am PST
T Colin Campbell of "The China Study" speaking Feb 14th in Palo Alto
Dr. Campbell is to speak MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2005 at 8pm in Palo Alto...
Posted: Thu, Jan 13, 2005 11:40am PST
The Phony Social Security Crisis
The Wall Street/Bush Administration Con-men Promote Their Phony Social Security Crisis In Hopes Of Duping The Public Into Allowing The Privatizion (termination) Of America's Favorite Retirement Program!...
Posted: Thu, Jan 13, 2005 11:39am PST
Behind Our Uniforms We Are All Human Beings
I was struck by this article and the flyer put out about Mary Jesus' suicide by the Oakland Fire Department Critical Incident Stress Management Team, who hosted a memorial on January 10 to "honor and celebrate the life of Mary Jesus" a homeless woman who committed suicide, and actually wrote on the flyer "behind our uniforms we are all human beings". As political activists, this is the kind of spirit we want to encourage, while not relenting on our critique of the police ...
Posted: Wed, Jan 12, 2005 1:04pm PST
Recount Says Berkeley's Measure R Did Lose, Legal Action Pending
The recount of Berkeley's Measure R has left the medical marijuana
initiative 166 votes short of victory, and supporters still
dissatisfied with the count hoping that legal action would overturn
the outcome....
Posted: Wed, Jan 12, 2005 10:35am PST
TODAY: School Board Meeting on Crisis in Oakland Schools
Tonight, 4-8PM at Oakland High School (1023 Macarthur Blvd) the Oakland School Board will hear commentary on Randy Ward's attempts to turn 13 Oakland schools into "internal charters" with undermined union rights. Parents and teachers at the 13 effected schools, as well as the 5 Oakland schools targetted have been extensively organizing and planning extensively for tonight's meeting. Here these groups will present an alternative to Ward's proposal....
Posted: Wed, Jan 12, 2005 9:21am PST
U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Living Wage Law Challenges
Skates had refused to pay the living wage while the case was litigated, and instead chose to place the unpaid wages in an escrow account that must now be paid to the employees....
Posted: Tue, Jan 11, 2005 5:28pm PST
1/16: Vigil for Global Justice (Berkeley)
Sunday, January 16
12-3pm
Martin Luther King Jr Civic Center Park
(on MLK Way between Alston and Center in Berkeley....
Posted: Tue, Jan 11, 2005 2:45pm PST