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"DP heavy" versus "DP lite" -- a California dilemma
Domestic Partnerships come in two loose sizes -- "heavy" (like Vermont Civil Union) and "lite" (less obligations, less rights, etc.). Each state-registered California couple must SOON decide which, if any, suits their particular needs.
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(Please reprint/forward SUN's commentary freely within California. But please DON'T reprint/forward Rona Marech's report, which is © 2004 by the SF Chronicle.)...
Posted: Thu, Sep 23, 2004 11:19am PDT
The Web: New views on the 'digital divide'
This is a great story about the impact of the digital divide....
Posted: Wed, Sep 22, 2004 8:25pm PDT
On the grocery workers' struggle
About the California & Washington St. grocery workers' struggles: AFL-CIO leaders' sabotage the workers' economic struggles, just as they sabotage the workers' desire to fight the Iraqi occupation...
Posted: Wed, Sep 22, 2004 5:24pm PDT
American Anarchist Motion Picture
A historical documentary video is now available---free for educational use. Explains the legacy of several American-style anarchists from Emma to Ammon...
Posted: Fri, Sep 17, 2004 10:03am PDT
Weekly fisheries news bulletin service of Fishlink - 3 September 2004
Dungeness Crab Trap Limits on California Governor’s Desk; Oregon Seeks MSC Certification. PFMC TO MEET IN SAN DIEGO; GROUNDFISH ISSUES DOMINATE AGENDA OREGON CLOSES SPORT FISHERY ON POPULAR GROUNDFISH STOCKS:...
Posted: Thu, Sep 16, 2004 12:55am PDT
Its a MediaEmergenC!! Converge against Corprate Media
Media EmergenC, a conference organized by the San Diego Independent Media Center to promote, strengthen and build democratic media organizations, will incorporate performance, street action, workshops, speakers and forums October 6-9 to raise a voice of opposition against the increasing corporate control of our media....
Posted: Wed, Sep 15, 2004 1:00pm PDT
US DOJ Press Release: Major Marijuana Growing Operation Dismantled
On Wednesday, August 18, 2004, Special Agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration, with the assistance of the Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office, and the Wolf Team of the California National Guard, executed a federal search warrant on four properties in Upper Lake, California, owned by Mr. Charles Edward Lepp....
Posted: Thu, Sep 9, 2004 12:22am PDT
October: California Protests Operation Guardian
Preparation continues for the march/rally planned for San Ysidro, Ca.
on Sat. Oct. 2nd against 10 years of Operation Guardian and the neoliberal
policies and theft against the people of LatinoAmerica.
ALSO on Oct.16th, there will be a statewide march against
Immigration Raids, for legalization for all and against the government's
anti-immigrant policies....
Posted: Mon, Sep 6, 2004 3:59pm PDT
Medical pot shop shut down
Agents raid dispensary, seize hundreds of plants at farm...
Posted: Sat, Sep 4, 2004 10:11am PDT
Call for Art, Performance, Papers, and Workshops for GenderQueer/GenderEnders Conference
GenderQueer/QueerGenders is a multidiscplinary, multimedia conference
that will take place in Santa Barbara, CA, this coming February. It
will be a forum for people who?ve been thinking about queerness and
gender from different places (institutions, geographic locations,
identities) and through different means (performance, scholarship,
organizing, cultural politics, etc)....
Posted: Fri, Sep 3, 2004 11:32pm PDT
Keep irradiated food out of your childs' lunch
Urge the Governor to sign AB 1988 into law!...
Posted: Thu, Aug 26, 2004 8:51pm PDT
Organizing Six Million Nader/Camejo Supporters
For leftists, an electoral campaign like Nader/Camejo 2004 is a means, not an end in itself. Use the campaign as an occasion that allows us to go out and discover our allies who have not met us -- and one another -- yet....
Posted: Wed, Aug 25, 2004 12:12pm PDT
CAL bigots attack domestic partners
Attackers and defenders of DP each claim Prop 22 is "clearly" on their side.
Like two armies on a battlefield, each claiming "God's on our side"....
Posted: Wed, Aug 25, 2004 6:00am PDT
All campers to pay Ticketmaster??
The Government is promoting the "imbedded" fee model because they feel the public's perception of a seamless and free reservation system is desirable....
Posted: Mon, Aug 23, 2004 10:30pm PDT
Trial By Fire: The SHAC 7 and the Future of Democracy
It remains to be seen if activists involved in other causes will truly understand the indictment of the SHAC 7 in its broadest social and historical context, thereby showing solidarity with the myriad of SHACtivists and other direct action militants on the front lines of protest, making sure that their voices are anything but a whisper. Meanwhile, the animal liberation cause continues to grow throughout the world, establishing itself as both an heir of the great human liberation movements and...
Posted: Fri, Aug 20, 2004 12:45pm PDT
8/22, San Diego:
END THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ and
BRING OUR LOVED ONES HOME!
*Special Guest: Iraq War Veteran Ivan Medina, traveling from New York, will
share his experiences on the ground in Iraq from the invasion to August ´03, the
impact on his family when his identical twin was killed in Iraq in November ´03, and
why WE MUST STOP THIS WAR!...
Posted: Thu, Aug 19, 2004 11:50pm PDT
Nazi fuckbags holding hate-fest somewhere in Nor Cal
William Pierce, the (thankfully now deceased) racist fuck who founded the neo-Nazi "National Alliance", was born on Sept. 11th (hmm, creepy...) So to "celebrate" his followers are having some kind of white-supremacist music festival (they're calling it "Folk the System") from Sept. 11-12 this year, somewhere here in Northern California......
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2004 12:39am PDT