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Jim Ostrowski interview (video/avi 28.4MB) Talks on the people aspect, the political, and the science aspect of Smart Meters and PGE...
Posted: Mon, Jun 27, 2011 1:42pm PDT
Friends of Oakland Tool Library Urge City Council to Save Libraries, 6/21/11: video (video/mp4 34.7MB) With rakes, shovels, and drill bits in hand, a Friends of the Tool Lending Library delegation filled the Oakland City Council’s Budget Hearing at City Hall on June 21st. At the conclusion of the Open Forum public comment period, several representatives from the Friends of the Tool Lending Library stepped forward to address the City Council and remind them of the importance of all of the Oakland Public Libraries. Their message: these tools repair Oakland, build Oakland, improve Oakland, and mo...
Posted: Sun, Jun 26, 2011 1:47am PDT
Single Payer Now - III (video/quicktime 24.5MB) The U.S. already has a single payer system for old folks: Medicare. Why not just put everyone in Medicare? That's actually been done in one American city, and Dennis Kelly, head of the teachers' union in San Francisco, tells how Libby, Montana, did it. Then Greg Brockbank, who is running to be mayor of San Rafael, tells what's going to have to be done once S.B. 810 becomes law in California: the Health Insurance Corp's will do their best to sabotage it by holding the law up to referendum. Onc...
Posted: Fri, Jun 24, 2011 10:57pm PDT
Single Payer Now - II (video/quicktime 39.1MB) Karen Smulevitz speaks at the demonstration against health insurance corporations meeting in San Francisco on June 16, 2011. She explains what HEALTH INSURANCE CORP'S and BUGGY WHIP CO'S have in common.
Seven-minute QT movie. 39MB....
Posted: Wed, Jun 22, 2011 9:34am PDT
Single Payer Now! (video/quicktime 25.5MB) The Chinese Progressive Association's YOUTH MOJO was among the Bay Area groups demonstrating against health insurance corporations meeting in San Francisco on June 16, 2011.
Four-minute QT movie. 27MB....
Posted: Mon, Jun 20, 2011 3:47pm PDT
Support the Hunger Strike: Pelican Bay Criminalizes the Oppressed for Organizing (video/mp4 100.1MB) We post this clip from Unlock the Box to help demonstrate the political context behind the upcoming July 1, 2011 Hunger Strike at Pelican Bay State Prison in California, a notorious Security Housing Unit (SHU). The SHU is just one part of the ongoing war against Black and Brown people in the United $tates. MIM(Prisons) supports the self-determination of all oppressed nations. Stop Torture in U.$. Prisons! (5 min. video clip)...
Posted: Mon, Jun 13, 2011 8:16pm PDT
SHORT FILM: The Spiritual Encampment to Protect Glen Cove (video/quicktime 48.0MB) Native activists and allies have been fighting to preserve Glen Cove, a Native American burial ground, from desecration for the past 12 years....
Posted: Tue, May 31, 2011 10:43pm PDT
Raw Footage of BayTrail Demo (video/mp4 18.7MB) see attachment...
Posted: Tue, May 31, 2011 10:15pm PDT
Berkeley 'Smart' Meter Measurements Undermine PG&E Safety Claims (video/mp4 45.8MB) Stop Smart Meters! went to Berkeley last Friday to measure wireless pulses from PG&E's new 'smart' meters. One apartment building (Redwood Gardens) had 112 wireless meters on one wall. A perfectly healthy shrub mysteriously died after the meters were installed, and residents are alarmed....
Posted: Wed, May 25, 2011 2:07pm PDT
The first protest against a Berkeley No Sit/Lie Ordinance (video/x-ms-wmv 145.2MB) No Sit, No Lie, No Way!
Members of the Muwekma Park (People's Park) activist community, houseless youth community, the Suitcase Clinic, B.O.S.S., and other concerned citizens gathered to protest a proposed sit/lie ordinance in Berkeley....
Posted: Tue, Apr 26, 2011 11:52pm PDT
Nuclear Expert: Smart Meters 100x Radiation Exposure of a Cell Phone (video/quicktime 26.4MB) Stop Smart Meters! caught up on Wednesday evening with Daniel Hirsch, a lecturer and expert in nuclear policy at UCSC who has been widely quoted in the media regarding recent events in Japan. Mr. Hirsch had just finished his talk at Stevenson College, UCSC about the crisis at Fukushima and what it means for the future of nuclear energy. Mr. Hirsch reviewed the report on smart meters and health requested by the state legislature and found some very disturbing anomalies....
Posted: Thu, Apr 21, 2011 10:55am PDT
Benches Sent to Jail (video/mp4 60.0MB) Follow-up video documentation to recent action by Some Angry Queers....
Posted: Fri, Apr 15, 2011 8:59am PDT
Pics and Video from protest of FCC chair (video/x-ms-wmv 54.3MB) Pics and video from protest in Mountain View of FCC chair Julius Genchowski...
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2011 9:00pm PDT
HOMES NOT JAILS seizes vacant Kaiser-owned Apartment Building! (video/quicktime 36.6MB) Homes Not Jails Housing Takeover in San Francisco
by Michael Steinberg
Monday Apr 11th, 2011
Squatter's group Homes Not Jails took over a large long vacant apartment building at the corner of Divisadero and O'Farrell, off Geary, in San Francisco today.
The building is owned by Kaiser Permanente, the HMO empire whose colossal hospital buildings dominate the medical landscape across California.
When I got home a while ago and told my housemate about the action and the location of the...
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2011 6:22pm PDT
Benches Magically Appear in San Francisco, After All These Years (video/mp4 109.4MB) Original video documentation of this week's direct action by some angry queers against Sit/Lie and the privatization of public space.
Also look for follow-up v...
Posted: Fri, Apr 15, 2011 3:28pm PDT
CPUC Admits to Smart Meter Health Crisis- Opt-Out Plan Falls Short (video/mp4 52.0MB) Facing mounting opposition to wireless ‘smart’ meters being rolled out by California utilities, including 10 local governments who have criminalized installations, and 23 more who have demanded that the CPUC stop the program because of widespread reports of health impacts, the Commission yesterday signalled that it would ask one of California’s utilities- PG&E- to develop a plan to allow customers to opt out of having a wireless meter installed- at customers’ expense. Meanwhile, as residents...
Posted: Fri, Mar 11, 2011 11:32am PST
Tell Governor Brown: These Cuts Won't Heal! (video/quicktime 58.8MB) Six-minute QT movie. 59MB....
Posted: Tue, Mar 8, 2011 11:15am PST
Stop Smart Meters! Protest in SF (video/quicktime 10.4MB) Protests have been ramping up in SF to fight against PG&E's stupid meters. Come to the PUC meeting on Thursday March 10th at 9:30am to speak. 505 Van Ness SF....
Posted: Sun, Mar 6, 2011 11:00pm PST
California Alliance for Retired Americans (aka CARA) members Defend Social Security (video/mp4 74.2MB) On Monday, February 21, 2011 California Alliance for Retired Americans (aka CARA) converged on the Monterey, California Conference Center from all over California to attack the cat food commissions BS Boys - Erskine Bowles and Alan K. Simpson who have been going around the US spreading lies about Social Security and trying to privatize it....
Posted: Tue, Mar 1, 2011 3:08pm PST
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