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calendarBooksigning, Chicano activist and vampire Felix Gomez by Ed Kaufman
M is for Mystery 74 East Third Avenue San Mateo, CA 94401...
Event Date: Sun, Mar 11, 2007 1:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Feb 7, 2007 5:16am PST
textFeb 18- Protest Float Company at Vietnamese Cultural Parade by sink east west
East West Art Studios - the company the makes the corperate floats for the Vietnamese parade - is owned by a racist Vietnam veteran....
Posted: Tue, Feb 6, 2007 8:57pm PST
text15-year old Armando Castro charged with felony for sitting on a campus golf cart! by Barrio Defense Committee
SAN JOSE CAMPUS POLICE AT INDEPENDENCE HIGH SCHOOL CHARGES A STUDENT A FELONY FOR SITTING ON A CAMPUS GOLF CART! THE VICE PRINCIPAL VALVERDE STATED HE WILL DEFEND THE POLICE INSTEAD OF THE STUDENT!...
Posted: Tue, Feb 6, 2007 10:37am PST
textSilencing critics not way to Middle East peace by Joel Beinin, SF Chronicle (reposted)
Last Sunday in San Francisco, the Anti-Defamation League sponsored "Finding Our Voice," a conference designed to help Jews recognize and confront the "new anti-Semitism." For me, it was ironic. Ten days before, my own voice was silenced by fellow Jews....
Posted: Mon, Feb 5, 2007 2:20pm PST
textNew year begins with more coal miners’ deaths in US by wsws (reposted)
Coal miners in the United States continue to die at an accelerated pace more than a year after the Sago Mine disaster and the repeated promises of industry executives and state and federal officials that safety would improve....
Posted: Mon, Feb 5, 2007 7:27am PST
textDeadly house fire in Petersburg, Virginia: the human cost of social inequality by wsws (reposted)
In the early hours of January 12, 2007, an old wood-frame house in Petersburg, Virginia caught fire, killing three boys and injuring seven others. Two sisters, Diamond and Hope Hazer, were renting the house, and their extended family was living in it. Six-year-old Mark Banks, 11-year-old Na’Tyah Hazer and 16-year-old John Harper Jr. were unable to escape the fire....
Posted: Thu, Feb 1, 2007 8:54am PST
calendarLunardi's San Jose Demonstrations by East Bay Animal Advocates
Noon - 1:00 PM: Lunardi's Evergreen: 4055 Evergreen Village Sq, San Jose 1:30 - 2:30 PM: Lunardi's San Jose: 4650 Meridian Ave, San Jose...
Event Date: Sun, Feb 25, 2007 12:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Jan 31, 2007 10:29am PST
calendarLunardi's Los Gatos Demonstration by East Bay Animal Advocates
Lunardi's Supermarket, 720 Blossom Hill Rd, Los Gatos, CA 95032-3503...
Event Date: Sun, Feb 18, 2007 12:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Jan 31, 2007 9:31am PST
textKey to the Future of Information Technology -- Underrepresented Groups by New American Media (reposted)
There is trouble brewing in IT-Land. At a time when technology jobs are projected to double over the next five years, fewer people of color are graduating with degrees that will prepare them for jobs in information technology. This development has serious implications for industry, higher education and groups seeking their share of the American pie....
Posted: Tue, Jan 30, 2007 8:49pm PST
audioNative Americans and Environmentalists Resist Energy Development on Sacred Land (audio/mpeg 1.8MB) by Christina Aanestad
Native American rights activists and environmentalists gathered at Calpine headquarters in San Jose today to dissuade the energy company from its decades long plan to develop a power plant on a sacred area near mount Shasta. Calpine operates over 90 geothermal, renewable power plants in the U.S. with nearly 30 in California. Tribes are concerned the power plants would pollute local indigenous communites and the sacred area called Medicine Lake in Northern California....
Posted: Tue, Jan 30, 2007 11:36am PST
text7 Year Anniversary of the Centro Aztlan Chicomoztoc's Existence, an organizing center by quetzaoceloaciua
Celebrating 7 years of the the existence of a community grass-roots independent organizing center in San Jose, CalifAztlan...
Posted: Tue, Jan 30, 2007 10:38am PST
imageRaging Grannies Against Environmental Racism: Save Medicine Lake!
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by Granny Ruth R
Raging Grannies got the call from Morning Star and Dixie B and headed out to Calpine Headquarters at Noon for Rally to Protect Sacred Space. There we met many friends, old and new....
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2007 9:49pm PST
imageRally & Protest to Protect Sacred Places: Save Medicine Lake!!
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by doug m
San Jose, CA - Pit River Indian Tribe members and Indigenous and environmental justice supporters delivered an eviction notice to Calpine Corporation in downtown San Jose on Monday, January 29, 2007 demanding they drop their decades-long attempt to build polluting power plants in the Medicine Lake Highlands near Mount Shasta. Tribal members and supporters vowed to nonviolently defend Medicine Lake from any attempts to build power plants at this area that is profoundly sacred to area Native p...
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2007 8:02pm PST
imageJanuary 27 Antiwar Protest in San José Says, Bring the Troops Home Now
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by South Bay Mobilization
In support of the march in Washington, DC against the U.S. war on Iraq, 200 people gathered in San José on January 27th to protest the Bush's "troop surge" and to call for impeachment of the president....
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2007 3:24pm PST
imageNO WAR ANYWHERE - JAN 27 - FREE TO FIGHT
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by doug m
Anti-war, bring the troops home rally at Stevens Creek and Winchester on Saturday, January 27th 2007...
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2007 8:06am PST
textHotel room attendants tell their stories by PWW (reposted)
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The walls of the meeting room were lined with photos of dozens of women, their warm and friendly faces contrasting sharply with the close-ups of their swollen, work-scarred hands, mounted below....
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2007 6:32am PST
calendarCURING CALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE: 5 Steps to Universal CHOICE in 2007 by Doug McNea
Stuft Pizza, Campbell (private room) 1461 Campbell Avenue (at San Tomas Aquino) Campbell, CA 95008 (408) 871-7171...
Event Date: Wed, Jan 31, 2007 6:30pm PST
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2007 12:51am PST
calendarSan Jose: Protest at the Peace Crossroads by
Stevens Creek and Winchester Blvd San José, CA...
Event Date: Sat, Jan 27, 2007 11:30am PST
Posted: Fri, Jan 26, 2007 9:37am PST
calendarSan Jose KFC protest by Carol Evans
KFC, 250 North Bascom Ave., San Jose (corner of No. Bascom/Naglee)...
Event Date: Sat, Dec 1, 2007 12:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Jan 25, 2007 12:39pm PST
calendarEmergency Protest : February 7th International Day in Solidarity with Haiti, with multi-city protests on 4 Continents by Donna Wallach
South end of Cesar Chavez Plaza Corner of Market and San Carlos Streets downtown San Jose, CA...
Event Date: Wed, Feb 7, 2007 5:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:03pm PST
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