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Alameda County Warns E-Voting Corporaton Diebold Clark's letter revealed a greater array of problems with Diebold equipment and ballot-printing services than the county previously has acknowledged. For the first time, Clark's letter suggests Alameda County also had unspecified "programming problems" in the Democratic and American Independent Party presidential primaries. The registrar did not respond immediately to inquiries Tuesday about those problems. Clark also made note of "absentee ballot problems," a reference to ...
Posted: Wed, Mar 24, 2004 3:59pm PST
Teacher/ Activist Cesar Cruz Fired For Caring About Students and Parents Instead of Profit International Activist, Poet, and Elementary Teacher Cesar Cruz was fired Monday at Downer Elementary School. The firing occured after an article was published that documented Cesar's organizing of a 70 mile march on Sacramento by students and parents to protest budget cuts at their 99% people of color school, as well as the presence of the nearby prison and oil refinery. (Un) Coincidentally, Cesar had also recently aided the community in their demands for a new school and site-based manage...
Posted: Wed, Mar 24, 2004 3:55pm PST
Bay Area Filipino Family to Face Deportation on April 7 The undocumented Fremont family that appealed to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and other legislators for permanent U.S. residence received its deportation letters Monday evening and is scheduled to be sent back to the Philippines on April 7 after living in the United States for 19 years....
Posted: Wed, Mar 24, 2004 12:38pm PST
Statement from PUEBLO People United for a Better Oakland Update on PUEBLO, People United for a Better Oakland...
Posted: Mon, Mar 22, 2004 5:10pm PST
3/27 Copwatch Know Your Rights Training Sat. 3/27 11am-2pm
2022 Blake St, near Shattuck, in Berkeley...
Posted: Mon, Mar 22, 2004 11:15am PST
Oakland Initiative to Tax & Regulate Cannabis An initiative calling for the regulation and taxation of cannabis for adult use in Oakland has been launched by a group known as the Oakland Civil Liberties Alliance....
Posted: Mon, Mar 22, 2004 12:22am PST
Deckarama: The Art of the Skateboard 
Deckarama: Skateboard Art Exhibition
Fremont, California—March 31, 2004—The art of the skateboard deck. The skateboard subculture generates a brash-new-urban folk art with a history stemming from graphic design, underground art and appropriated commercial pop icons....
Posted: Sat, Mar 20, 2004 12:37am PST
Are you ready to fight? Damn Right! (video/x-pn-realvideo 9.0MB) several hundred gathered at superior court in oakland 3/19/04 just ahead of a 2pm hearing. here is 36 minutes of the 90 minute rally. 56 realvideo.
a rally at the port for 4/7/04 was announced. 5pm at west oakland bart. see www.dasw.org for more info....
Posted: Fri, Mar 19, 2004 10:05pm PST
Tenants Outraged By Nuisance Eviction Ordinance The New Version Of The NEO Comes Up For Another Vote At The April 6 Oakland City Council Meeting!...
Posted: Fri, Mar 19, 2004 7:56pm PST
EVERY CHILD IS BORN A POET: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas EastSide Arts Alliance presents
FINAL FRIDAY'S VIDEO SERIES
premiering with the KQED sponsored screening of
EVERY CHILD IS BORN A POET: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas...
Posted: Thu, Mar 18, 2004 11:52pm PST
Friday: Brian Avery at UCB, Lunch Event Come meet ISM volunteer BRIAN AVERY, hear his story and learn
his views on the situation in Palestine. LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED....
Posted: Thu, Mar 18, 2004 10:05pm PST
Tonight: Biotic Baking Brigade Book Party Come to the book launch of the Biotic Baking Brigade's Pie Any Means Necessary, meet editor and BBB spokesperson Agent Apple, partake of tasty vegan snacks, learn about pie making and throwing and have loads of fun! Music will be provided by the Infernal Noise Brigade...
Posted: Thu, Mar 18, 2004 10:20am PST
NCPC Needs Snitches for the NEO The New & Improved Version of Oakland's NEO Comes Up For A Final Vote On April 6, 2004. Meanwhile, The NCPC's Are Recruiting New Snitches To Keep The NEO Busy Once It's Final Passage Has Been Approved!...
Posted: Thu, Mar 18, 2004 5:37am PST
April 7: Remember the Shots! Return to the Docks! From Oakland to Iraq
No War! No Empire!
Return to the Oakland Docks!
Wednesday April 7th, 2004 on the anniversary of the April 7, 2003 Community picket shutdown and assault at the APL and SSA ports on Oakland Docks....
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 11:21pm PST
Police Dogs...In Berkeley???? Berkeley's Police Review Commission is reviewing whether or not to recommend the city's proposal of getting police dogs. Tell the PRC that Berkeley DOES NOT NEED attack dogs! Their next meeting is: Wednesday March 24, 7:30 pm at the North Berkeley Senior Citizen Center 1901 Hearst Ave. Berkeley 94709...
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 8:27pm PST
March 18 NCPC Brown Shirt Meeting Invites You! NCPC Brown Shirts Invite You To Their March 18 Meeting @ the F.M. Smith Recreation Center @ 1969 Park Blvd in Oakland!...
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 8:15pm PST
21 March DASW - Working Group meeting to plan April 7th return to the docks Calling all agitators, artists, anarchists, anti-imperialists, anti-racists, articulators, astrologers, antithesizers and A-listers to help plan and promote the April 7th RETURN TO THE DOCKS action....
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 1:17pm PST
Oakland opposition to school closures 
Today, March 16, 2004, hundreds of mostly high school students came to Oakland city hall to express their opposition to the announced closure of 5 small schools, which have primarily African-American students....
Posted: Tue, Mar 16, 2004 11:34pm PST
Pictures From Rally For Schools At Oakland City Hall 
On March 16 there was an Oakland City Council hearing on school closures. State Administrator Randolph Ward has threatened to close five Oakland elementary schools in predominately low income African American and Latino communities. Meanwhile, Alameda County is spending 177 million dollars to build a new prison for children.
Parents, teachers, union members, church members, elected officials and concerned citizens of the Coalition Against School Closures rallied and spoke before the City Co...
Posted: Tue, Mar 16, 2004 10:33pm PST
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