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I strongly urge you to call the House Rules Committee RIGHT NOW and tell them to allow a debate and vote on the Lee Amendment. The lives of thousands of Iraqis and Americans are at stake! Then please call Representative Doris Matsui (or whoever your Congressperson is) and urge them to allow the debate and vote!...
Posted: Wed, Mar 21, 2007 12:36pm PDT
The campaigning for the 2008 election is off to an early start and the Democrats in both Houses of Congress are using the Iraq War for political leverage to boaster early public support; however Democrats are deeply divided on troop withdrawal timetables, ranging from mid 2007 to various open-ended commitments to continue the war and occupation beyond 2008....
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 9:45pm PDT
Randy VanDalsen -- member of Sacramento Media Group and producer of the “Media Edge” series on Sacramento area cable access stations -- attended the National Conference on Media Reform in January. His report about this conference was originally published in the current issue of Sacramento's "Because People Matter."...
Posted: Wed, Mar 7, 2007 11:36am PST
Peace and Freedom Party State Chair Debra Reiger has sent a letter to left activists and groups around the country suggesting that they work together with the party to develop a 2008 presidential ticket. Anyone with proposals for possible Presidential or Vice-Presidential candidates is urged to write to her as the chair of the party’s National Campaign Committee....
Posted: Tue, Feb 27, 2007 10:06am PST
We can revive the electric car. 1:30 minute video...
Posted: Sun, Feb 18, 2007 10:20am PST
A study released last December by the non-partisan Congressional Research Service says a proposed 700 mile stretch of fence, along the 2,000 mile U.S. – Mexico border, could cost an estimated $49 billion. But what the report fails to say, U.S. –built walls on the border would cost both the U.S. and Mexico trillions of dollars in economic losses over the predicted 25-year lifespan of the fence, and non-monetary damage to political and cultural relations between the two countries would also la...
Posted: Fri, Feb 9, 2007 5:34pm PST
Will farm workers be exempt from minimum wage increases?...
Posted: Thu, Jan 25, 2007 1:22pm PST
The 7th World Social Forum is underway in Nairobi, Kenya. This is a report from Jean Hayes, who is from Fresno Ca. Jean also attended last year’s WSF in Caracas Venezuela. The photo below is Uhuru Park, where opening ceremonies were held....
Posted: Sun, Jan 21, 2007 3:26pm PST
...Prison's Fifth Anniversary~Interview with Jennifer Daskal, U.S. advocacy director with Human Rights Watch, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Sun, Jan 14, 2007 6:25am PST
Here's Cindy Sheehan's latest article, written from Havana, Cuba....
Posted: Mon, Jan 8, 2007 4:17pm PST
Impeachment is not optional. One doesn’t choose whether or not to enforce the law—unless you are Bush/Cheney. And that is just the problem....
Posted: Thu, Dec 21, 2006 10:08pm PST
This article appears in the current edition of Because People Matter, a Sacramento area progressive newspaper....
Posted: Wed, Nov 15, 2006 3:42pm PST
The far right's political hold on the NorCal voters is disintigrating as additional scandals emerge, tying John Doolittle with former Texas Savings and Loan collapser, Pacific Lumber pension raider Charles Hurwitz.....
Posted: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 2:41pm PST
The National Federation for the Blind, an organization that represents blind people, is suing Target Corp., because Target’s Web site is inaccessible to blind Internet users. Target's argument is their Web site isn't subject to the Americans With Disabilities Act, a 1990 law that requires retailers and other public places to make accommodations for people with disabilities. Target argued that the law only covered physical spaces. Making information technologies available to persons with dis...
Posted: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 9:50am PST
Those who vote this November 7th will face an array of bond measures. The smallest of these measures, Proposition 1C, also happens to be the most critical for many Californians- the homeless, women escaping a violent environment, farmworkers, and working families....
Posted: Fri, Oct 27, 2006 9:07am PDT
Within the past two months gasoline prices have been on a steady decline; in some areas of Southern California prices have dipped below $2.60 per gallon. Stewart Alexander, with the Peace and Freedom Party, admits the lower prices are good for consumers; however he says, “It is not good enough; we need to have gasoline prices below $2.25 per gallon to benefit commuters and truck drivers, and Proposition 87 is not the answer.”...
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2006 9:05pm PDT
We oppose Fresno buying more cop-spy video games. 6:30 minute video...
Posted: Sun, Sep 10, 2006 10:24am PDT
Here's the terrrible news about the firing of Mike Malloy by Air America Radio, with an urgent action alert posted on the Sacramento For Democracy website. I urge everybody to sign the petition and demand that the management of AAR rehire him....
Posted: Thu, Aug 31, 2006 9:13am PDT
Sacramento area labor leaders and health professionals have played a key role in bringing Cuban, U.S. and Honduras doctors together on medical brigades to Honduras...
Posted: Mon, Jul 17, 2006 4:05pm PDT
Here's the latest action alert from Efren Gutierrez of the Chicano Consortium listing upcoming events....
Posted: Fri, Jul 14, 2006 4:38pm PDT