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A01: Protest Barbara Boxer in SF Protest Barbara Boxer at the August 1 fundraiser.
- Boxer supported the Patriot Act
- Boxer supported the War
- Boxer supported the nomination of John Negroponte
- Boxer did not come to the aid of the Congressional Black Caucus protesting the theft of the 2000 election
A vote for Boxer is a vote for Bush?...
Posted: Mon, Jul 19, 2004 1:26pm 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
Help needed: South Berkeley Community Garden is for Sale After 17 years as a community asset, the South Berkeley Community Garden
is for sale at the market value of $445,000. The garden is being
liquidated as part of a large estate of a deceased Berkeley man....
Posted: Mon, Jul 19, 2004 12:10pm 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
Jamie Spector Update from Sun 7/18 IMPORTANT: Jamie's court date has been moved up one
day (!) to Wednesday, 7/21, 10am, Tel Aviv District
Court. Also, a very famous Israeli human rights
lawyer, Lea Tsemel, is now assisting Jamie's lawyer
Yael Berda with her case....
Posted: Mon, Jul 19, 2004 10:31am PDT
Klamath River Tribes Appeal to European Union for Help Representatives of the Klamath River tribes, Friends of the River and a commercial fishing group (PCFFA) are in Scotland this week to protest the dams that Scottish Power's subsidiary operates on the Klamath. Representatives will also be going to Brussels to meet with the E.U. Two local activists - Craig Tucker and Kelly Catlett of FOR - are on this trip....
Posted: Mon, Jul 19, 2004 7:27am PDT
A Question of Safety,The 'Ugly Mug Prom' Santa Cruz, Ca. July 17th queer bashing police neglect and the question of a right to safety...
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 4:20pm PDT
“This Is Your Future” 
Global Exchange trip to Argentina provides insights into privatization both there and at home in the Central Valley. For a related story about privatization in Fresno, see: http://sfbay.indymedia.org/news/2004/06/1686399.php...
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 3:19pm PDT
CYA crisis in Chino facility! Black youth face death threats and families denied visits! CYA authorities minimize the seriousness of threats to incarcerated youth at the Chino facility! Situation grave!...
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 2:36pm PDT
We tortured animals drum circus protest 
We tortured animals drum circus protest. 1 minute video...
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 1:05pm PDT
Anti-war march photos 
90 photos from the June 5, 2004 anti-war march in San Francisco have been posted on my website: www.telepoetic.com. Sorry for the delay....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 1:02pm 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
Fault Lines Issue 2: Deported, but not Demoralized Brooke Atherton is a Bay Area activist dedicated to fighting Israel’s repression of Palestine. On June 24, six days after Brooke was deported from Israel, Fault Lines talked to her via e-mail. Writing from Beirut, Brooke wanted to stress that this situation is not about her; it is about the movement for a free Palestine…...
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:48am PDT
Fault Lines Issue 2: Hung Jury in Araujo Murder Trial On June 22, after nine days of deliberations, Judge Harry Shepard declared a mistrial in the case of three men accused of murdering Gwen Araujo, a transgendered teen from Newark, CA, because the jury failed to reach a unanimous decision. Community outrage over the hung jury resulted in a march for “tranny” rights through the streets of San Francisco on June 26, marking the beginning of a series of rallies to celebrate Pride Week....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:40am 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
Israel, Iran and the IAEA: Nuclear Ambiguity or Hypocrisy? Last week, Mohamad ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), paid a visit to Israel. The visit was prompted mostly by the charge of duplicity that is often levied against the agency by the indigenous people of the Middle East, who perceive the IAEA as one among many instruments in the US-Israeli (USraeli) arsenal of colonial domination....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:31am 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
Message From Nancy Nadel - Come Speak on Tuesday July 20th Glad that Nancy puts these out. She is a lone voice for the people - 90% of the time - on the Oakland City Council. Her attempts to dialog with people and her efforts to make time to hear people are clear to me. A good sign. We must get her in as mayor....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 9:48am PDT
Thirteen killed in US Falluja attack A US air strike on a house in Falluja has killed 13 Iraqis, including women and children, Aljazeera has reported....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 9:05am PDT
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