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7/27 - March against INS raids!
Tues. July 27, 1:00pm
Meet at the Montgomery BART station and march to
630 Sansome St, in front of the immigration building....
Posted: Tue, Jul 20, 2004 6:42am PDT
Immigrants: Know your Rights!
Food and childcare will be provided.
For more information, call: (415) 487-9203...
Posted: Tue, Jul 20, 2004 6:38am PDT
6/17 - Pictures from Macy's Picketline at Union Square
Some pictures from the picketlines on Saturday July 17 in Union Square....
Posted: Mon, Jul 19, 2004 11:43pm PDT
Screeds & scoops
Scooplet: Two members of the Bd. of Supes are about to lose their seats. ... The Mayor plans to appoint them to high office. That will allow The Gav to appoint two new, seemingly more amenable, members to the board, solidifying the mayor's strength and weakening Aaron Peskin's grip on the group....
Posted: Mon, Jul 19, 2004 1:07pm PDT
Federal Fascist Warlords Attacking Internet Activists
Mobile Audit Club, a website detailing criminal offenses by fascist factions of terrorists by government has been hacked and attacked, Kurt Brown, an editor for the site........
Posted: Mon, Jul 19, 2004 12:49pm PDT
Sacrament!
Sacrament! is the first play created in collaboration with internationally heralded memoirist, novelist, and publisher Dave Eggers. In much the same way that Eggers and his literary journal McSweeney's attempt to shatter literary constructs, this piece takes off from Eggers' novels You Shall Know Our Velocity and the recently revised version of the book titled Sacrament! 2 hours...
Posted: Mon, Jul 19, 2004 12:00pm PDT
Hundreds of Macy's workers strike
Hundreds of Macy's workers went on a one-day strike on Saturday, marching and chanting "Don't Shop Macy's" in front of all entrances to the two Macy's stores on Union Square....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 12:47pm PDT
Tenants speak up for a fair and balanced Rent Board
"The San Francisco Rent Board has become controlled by landlords – 65 percent of the time the Rent Board rules in favor of landlords, and only 16 percent of the time do they even hear cases brought before them by tenants,” said Ted Gullickson of the San Francisco Tenants Union, citing a Tenants Union study....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:33am PDT
San Francisco families protest Bush’s Section 8 de-funding
San Francisco families protest Bush’s Section 8 de-funding...
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:30am PDT
7/17 UFCW 101 Mass Picketline at SF Macy's
The sleeping giant, labor, is finally waking up, and the unthinkable just happened, a picketline today, July 17, 2004 at San Francisco's Macy's department store, with hundreds of people at all entrances picketing for a union contract....
Posted: Sat, Jul 17, 2004 5:31pm PDT
San Francisco: 1,000 rally for Nader-Camejo (report, audio and video)
Written report, video and audio files. Over 1,000 Greens, Socialists and Indies rally for Nader/Camejo in San Francisco...
Posted: Sat, Jul 17, 2004 2:29pm PDT
Where's the bold vision
Every day the media reports growing opposition to the war; it is not just old-time peace activists like me who oppose it. The war has been a disaster. There were no weapons of mass destruction; there was no connection with al Qaeda; Saddam was not the culprit. Americans are deeply bothered by the prisoner abuse scandals in Iraq. We are embarrassed by the U.S. companies with no-bid contracts, which are reaping the profits of reconstructing the Iraq that we destroyed. The United States has lo...
Posted: Fri, Jul 16, 2004 2:46pm PDT
Camejo and Nader Tonight
What: Nader/Camejo 2004 Campaign Rally
Where: Mission High School Auditorium
3750 18th Street (corner of Dolores)
San Francisco, CA
When: 7:00 PM Friday, July 16...
Posted: Fri, Jul 16, 2004 1:08pm PDT
This Man is not a Medical Cannabis Patient!
This man is NOT a medical cannabis patient!...
Posted: Thu, Jul 15, 2004 1:11pm PDT
Demon
First installment of a fictitious work in progress on squatting and travelling, "Demon"....
Posted: Thu, Jul 15, 2004 12:47pm PDT
Do merely 42 senators support anti-marriage amendment?
If original version of anti-marriage amendment had faced direct vote in Senate, it might have received as few as 42 votes. Procedural motion got 48 votes....
Posted: Thu, Jul 15, 2004 9:49am PDT
Democrats Peskin & McGoldrick Attack Tenants
Democratic Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Jake McGoldrick refused to support putting on the ballot a Tenant Union proposal to reform the Rent Board appointments so that tenant representatives are 2/3 of the Board, as we are 2/3 of the City's population....
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 8:40pm PDT