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audioFoothill Anti-Capitalist Action Committee Shuts Down Military Recruiters by Default (audio/mpeg 1.9MB) by ~Bradley
The Foothill Anti-Capitalist Action Committee spread the word of a protest on November 1, 2005 against the military recruiters who table in the quad every Tuesday at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California. However on this Tuesday, the military recruiters failed to show up. It looks like the military learned about the protest and thought it would be a better idea to stay away from it, rather than be the focus of the demonstration. About 15 people marched from the Smithwick Theate...
Posted: Thu, Nov 3, 2005 5:30pm PST
textSanta Cruz OKs pot strategy: City department would dole out drug by repost
The Santa Cruz City Council has voted to create a city department to distribute medical marijuana, a move city leaders hope will bolster its chances of winning a lawsuit that would legalize the use of medicinal pot....
Posted: Sun, Oct 30, 2005 10:32pm PST
textBay Area Families and Friends Protest Police Brutality by Silicon Valley DeBug (reposted)
This past Saturday, October 22, about 80 people gathered at Emma Prusch Farm Park on King and Story Roads in East San Jose, CA for a march and rally against police brutality. In doing so, San Jose joined thousands across the nation on the 10th annual day of "Protest to Stop Police Brutality" for the first time. Although, the Bay Area event is usually held in San Francisco, it was held in East San Jose to draw attention to the escalation in deadly force that has been used by the San ...
Posted: Sat, Oct 29, 2005 5:37pm PDT
imageListen, Ring, Scream - 100,000 Bells Toll
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by Carol Brouillet
Report on the event held October 26, 2005 in Palo Alto's Lytton Plaza, on the Fourth Anniversary of the PATRIOT Act, activists exercised their first amendment rights- to speak, to listen, ring bells, to scream on issues ignored and censored by the press....
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 11:20pm PDT
textLennox Sweeney Memorial by via a list (mahtin)
The Community Memorial and Celebration of Life for Lennox will be held at 2pm Saturday, November 5, 2005, at MACLA, 510 S. First St., (between William & Reed) in downtown San Jose....
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 9:34am PDT
imagePIX: Santa Cruz Candlelight Vigil
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by Matt Fitt
On Wednesday evening, more than one hundred people gathered at the Santa Cruz Clock Tower for a candlelight vigil marking the 2,000th US soldier to die in Iraq since the March, 2003 invasion....
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2005 6:30pm PDT
textSanta Cruz proposes medical marijuana department by Santa Cruz Sentinel repost
Some city leaders want to sell medical marijuana to ill residents by creating a new department within the city: an Office of Compassionate Use, with a five-member advisory commission and the capacity to archive patient records....
Posted: Tue, Oct 25, 2005 10:56pm PDT
document11/1: Rally to Protest Delaying Tactics by the City of San Jose in the Tran case
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by Coalition for Justice and Accountability
rally on Tuesday November 1, 2005 at San Jose City Hall 200 E. Santa Clara Street, San Jose, CA 95113 at 12 noon regarding the outrageous delaying tactics by the City of San Jose in the Tran case...
Posted: Tue, Oct 25, 2005 8:30pm PDT
imageStanford Community Speaks Out Against Animal Experiments
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by ARF!
Stanford students and community members protest use of tens of thousands of animals in Stanford labs....
Posted: Mon, Oct 24, 2005 2:14pm PDT
imageOctober 22 Demonstration Against Police Brutality
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by Peter Maiden
There was a small but spirited demonstration against Police Brutality in San Jose October 22....
Posted: Sat, Oct 22, 2005 6:15pm PDT
textSimcox no longer coming to visit? Says who? ¿Que ya no viene Simcox? ¿Quien dijo? by madre_indigena_en_lucha
An update to the ongoing issues surrounding the MHP and their planned "immigration" forum. WE ARE NOT IMMIGRANTS ~ NO SOMOS INMIGRANTES RISE UP GENTE AND SPEAK TO THE TRUTH - ANAHUACA (AND THE REST OF IXACHILAN) LIBERATION!...
Posted: Fri, Oct 21, 2005 10:04pm PDT
textList of people killed by law enforcement in Santa Clara County in last several years by Mahtin for October 22nd Coalition
people killed by police since 2001 in the San Jose area...
Posted: Fri, Oct 21, 2005 7:20pm PDT
textD.A. claims drug agent acted as a "cowboy" (in killing Rudy Cardenas) by SF Gate
A Santa Clara County prosecutor told a San Jose jury today that a state narcotics agent acted as a "cowboy" when he killed a man in a case of mistaken identity and should be found guilty of manslaughter....
Posted: Thu, Oct 20, 2005 7:46pm PDT
textTrial set to start for drug agent accused of killing by Merc repost
For the first time in California history, a Department of Justice drug agent will go on trial this week in San Jose for killing someone in the line of duty -- a case that could pit local police against state narcotics agents....
Posted: Tue, Oct 18, 2005 10:00am PDT
text10/22: Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generati by Mahtin for October 22nd Coalition
Rally begins at 11am at Emma Prusch Farm Park, 947 S. King Rd., (near Story Rd) in San Jose. March leaves at 11:30 and returns at 12:30 for a second rally....
Posted: Sun, Oct 16, 2005 10:21pm PDT
textAnti-fur, suburban style by Paul Rogers
A group of scantily clad animal rights protesters gathered outside one of Silicon Valley's largest shopping malls Wednesday afternoon, urging clothing chain J. Crew to stop selling fur. But unlike events held regularly in San Francisco or New York, this was more of a G-rated suburban version....
Posted: Thu, Oct 13, 2005 10:06am PDT
textwhat corporations are behind animal testing? by exposing the pharma hoax
How do pharmaceutical corporations profit from animal testing and their "investment business with disease"? Some ideas on why the American Chemistry Council and pharmaceutical corporations continue to endorse unreliable animal research as a fast track to the commercial market....
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 4:03pm PDT
textReport from Mountain View city council meeting re: dispensaries by Marnie Regen and Chris Erlinger
We really need dispensaries in Santa Clara County. It is difficult for many patients to make the trip to Alameda County and SF...
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 11:16am PDT
textASA Weekly Alert by Americans for Safe Access
*1) ASA Files Suit Against Three Cities with Dispensary Bans 3) October 10th, Auburn: City Council to Vote on BANNING Dispensing Collectives *5) October 11th, Mountain View: City Council to Discuss Regulating **Medical Cannabis Dispensing Collectives...
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2005 4:01pm PDT
textSign the Petition to denounce the "Mexican Heritage" Plaza for inviting the MinuteKKKlan by madre_indigena_en_lucha
...and the resignation of Marcela Davison Aviles, the ED of the Plaza!!...
Posted: Sat, Oct 1, 2005 2:24pm PDT
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