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Foothill Anti-Capitalist Action Committee Shuts Down Military Recruiters by Default (audio/mpeg 1.9MB)
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
Santa Cruz OKs pot strategy: City department would dole out drug
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
Bay Area Families and Friends Protest Police Brutality
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
Listen, Ring, Scream - 100,000 Bells Toll
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
Lennox Sweeney Memorial
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
PIX: Santa Cruz Candlelight Vigil
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
Santa Cruz proposes medical marijuana department
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
11/1: Rally to Protest Delaying Tactics by the City of San Jose in the Tran case
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
Stanford Community Speaks Out Against Animal Experiments
Stanford students and community members protest use of tens of thousands of animals in Stanford labs....
Posted: Mon, Oct 24, 2005 2:14pm PDT
October 22 Demonstration Against Police Brutality
There was a small but spirited demonstration against Police Brutality in San Jose October 22....
Posted: Sat, Oct 22, 2005 6:15pm PDT
Simcox no longer coming to visit? Says who? ¿Que ya no viene Simcox? ¿Quien dijo?
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
List of people killed by law enforcement in Santa Clara County in last several years
people killed by police since 2001 in the San Jose area...
Posted: Fri, Oct 21, 2005 7:20pm PDT
D.A. claims drug agent acted as a "cowboy" (in killing Rudy Cardenas)
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
Trial set to start for drug agent accused of killing
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
10/22: Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generati
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
Anti-fur, suburban style
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
what corporations are behind animal testing?
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
Report from Mountain View city council meeting re: dispensaries
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
ASA Weekly Alert
*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
Sign the Petition to denounce the "Mexican Heritage" Plaza for inviting the MinuteKKKlan
...and the resignation of Marcela Davison Aviles, the ED of the Plaza!!...
Posted: Sat, Oct 1, 2005 2:24pm PDT