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Posted: Thu, Aug 16, 2012 6:03pm PDT
The San Francisco Veterans Mural Project has started up on Shannon Street in San Francisco....
Posted: Thu, Aug 16, 2012 6:03pm PDT
Part Three:
Art Persyko, Organizer
Grace Shimizu, Organizer, Asian Americans for Peace & Justice
Twelve-minute QuickTime movie. 38MB....
Posted: Wed, Aug 15, 2012 3:47pm PDT
Part Two:
Arthur Persyko, Organizer
Shahid Buttar, Executive Director, Bill of Rights Defense Committee
Eighteen-minute QuickTime movie. 80MB....
Posted: Mon, Aug 13, 2012 12:02am PDT
Part One:
Dolores Perez Priem, Organizer
Rev. Jeremiah Kalendae, Minister
Six-minute QuickTime movie. 22MB....
Posted: Wed, Aug 8, 2012 10:49am PDT
Norman Amador, Frank Lara, and Francis Collins were part of San Francisco's observance of the June 28th national day of action in solidarity with the people of Honduras -- the third anniversary of the illegal coup.
Ten-minute QuickTime movie. 76MB....
Posted: Fri, Jul 13, 2012 9:17am PDT
National day of action in solidarity with the Honduran people on the third anniversary of the illegal coup. We denounce the murders and other human rights abuses against the popular movement and call for an end of U.S. support for the repressive coup regime.
--Bay Area Latin American Solidarity Coalition...
Posted: Fri, Jul 6, 2012 3:49pm PDT
Among the speakers were David Solnit and Rochelle Pardue-Okimoto.
Ten-minute QT movie. 126MB....
Posted: Sat, Jun 23, 2012 8:58am PDT
Willie Cotton of the Socialist Worker's Party. For more info, see: http://www.themilitant.com...
Posted: Thu, Jun 14, 2012 3:09am PDT
Dr. Amos C. Brown, the President of the San Francisco chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). For more info, see: htt...
Posted: Thu, Jun 14, 2012 3:09am PDT
Archbishop Franzo King, of the Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church. For more info, see: http://www.coltranechurch.org/...
Posted: Thu, Jun 14, 2012 3:09am PDT
Rachel Guido Red, mother of Derrick Gaines....
Posted: Thu, Jun 14, 2012 3:09am PDT
On June 12, family members held a memorial for Derrick Gaines, a 15 year old who was shot and killed by an officer with the South San Francisco Police Department on the evening of June 5th. Police claim that Gaines, who was walking with a friend near an Arco gas station, was engaging in "suspicious behavior". They tried to stop him, and they say he ran and produced a gun. It was at that time a still unnamed officer shot and killed Gaines. Community members want justice for Derrick Gaines, an...
Posted: Thu, Jun 14, 2012 3:09am PDT
DeBray (Fly Benzo) Carpenter will appear in court Wednesday May 30th on a possible permanent restraining order from Cahill construction site at the Westpoint Housing Projects in Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco. Fly Benzo and his father, Claude Carpenter, challenged training and hiring practices at the Westpoint construction site. Chris Parker, site manager, filed for a restraining order against Fly and the order has been granted pending the hearing this Wednesday. Please support Fly ...
Posted: Mon, May 28, 2012 10:13am PDT
The Wall St. Journal's MarketWatch.com, published this on January 20, 2012, but has since taken it down:
Buyer Beware: AEW May Seek to Unload Hotel Frank Labor...
Posted: Sun, May 27, 2012 12:46pm PDT
What is the San Francisco Employees' Retirement System?...
Posted: Sun, May 27, 2012 12:46pm PDT
Hotel Frank Workers in Third Year of Struggle:
On May 10th the struggle at the Hotel Frank entered its third year. The UNITE HERE Local 2 workers have increased picketing to five mornings per week (beginning at 7am), three afternoons, and every now and then on special occasions with several hundred protesters. AEW Capital Management, the owner of Hotel Frank, has retaliated -- the latest being the cutoff of all health insurance as of June 1st.
The Struggle Moves to a Broader Front:
The ...
Posted: Sun, May 27, 2012 12:46pm PDT
Hotel Frank workers and allies take the fight against AEW Capital Management, owners of their hotel, to a meeting of the San Francisco Employees' Retirement System.
Four-minute QT movie. 33MB....
Posted: Sun, May 13, 2012 11:58pm PDT
If you haven’t felt the sting of runaway police crime in your neighborhood or family yet, then God forbid it will be your husband, father, brother, son or uncle next. We say “rest in peace” to those lives taken, but to the living we say “the struggle continues-the struggle is for you and yours.” A victory for Fly Benzo is a victory for us all. Superior court of California, County of San Francisco 400 McAllister Street Dept. 514, 9a.m. may 30th. Be there. Occupy Fly Benzo’s courtroom for u...
Posted: Sat, May 5, 2012 12:11am PDT