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ARLA benefit party :: May 2 :: Balazo (audio/ogg 649.7KB)
A benefit for community microradio projects in Latin America....
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 10:28pm PDT
NO! to Enemy Combatant Status; SF Fed Bldg Press Conf Video (video/x-ms-wmv 10.1MB)
2:51 minutes. A dozen speakers representing as many local and national progressive organizations spoke out against the government’s actions that have eliminated due process for individuals based entirely on the government’s declaration of them as “enemy combatants.”...
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 8:09pm PDT
Th. 4/22 Police Abuse of Anti-war Demonstrators on 3/20 SF Board of Supervisors' Hearing
The hearing will be in City Services Room 263. Between Van Ness and Polk, Grove and McAllister. The meeting begins at 9:30am. However, the item is #6 on the agenda with a special order at 10am. It is hard to see how this could happen any sooner than 11am....
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 5:23pm PDT
NO! to Enemy Combatant Status; SF Fed Bldg Press Conf Photos
NO! to Enemy Combatant Status; San Francisco Federal Building Press Confence...
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 5:09pm PDT
Support Ben Davis workers in SF!
Support union workers sewing Ben Davis work wear as they as fight for a fair union contract in San Francisco...
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 3:39pm PDT
May1 Laborfest Film Screening&Music/Poetry
LaborFest will host an international celebration of May Day with labor films from Argentina, Columbia and Korea. We will also have music and poetry....
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 3:28pm PDT
Oakland--Human rights abuser prosecutes victims
A pretrial hearing for the “Oakland 25” will be held Thursday, April 22nd at 8:30 a.m. at the Oakland courthouse. Please come and show solidarity....
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 1:28pm PDT
stop the underground garage in Golden Gate Park
The Music Concourse Community Partnership promised,
however, that they would not do any irreversible damage before
the hearings....
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 1:02pm PDT
Lets Make Democracy Work
This article is about the establishment of a Progressive Political Action Committee in Fresno. With the money from this PAC, a grassroots get out the vote campaign, and good candidates the progressive community are going to kick the ass of the neo-cons....
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 12:28pm PDT
Primates locked in cages 4 pharma profit
Written about primate research lab in UC Davis, same concept of pharmaceutical corporation sponsored propaganda applies to primate/animal research elsewhere.....
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 10:52am PDT
4/21 - Rally for Clarement Workers - 12pm at UCB, Lower Sproul Plaza
HERE local 2850 and workers at the Claremont have called for a rally on the UCB campus calling for the Haas Business School, Athletics Dept, and the School of Public Health to stop using the Claremont....
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 10:41am PDT
Black and Green Bloc Call to Action for BioDev 2004
We call on all anarchists, allies and anti-authoritarians to take to the streets in San Francisco from June 3rd-9th to counter the actions of the BIO 2004 biotechnology conference and the agenda of the G8....
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 10:34am PDT
Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In: Dr. Strangelove
Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ) at the Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In...
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 1:40am PDT
Religious Leaders Descend on Sacramento to Defend Pro-Same Sex Marriage Legislation
RELIGIOUS LEADERS DESCEND ON CALIFORNIA ’S CAPITOL IN SUPPORT OF EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ’S SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LEGISLATION
EQCA-Sponsored Marriage License Bill by Assemblyman Mark Leno Scheduled for Assembly Judiciary Committee Vote on April 20th...
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 1:05am PDT
LGBT COMMUNITY GROUPS REJECT TRANS PANIC DEFENSE IN GWEN ARAUJO MURDER TRIAL
Trying to deflect attention from the actions of their clients, defense attorneys raised questions about what Araujo was wearing on the night of the murder, whether she "deceived" her attackers, and whether revelation of her transgender status caused at least one defendant to become upset "beyond reason."...
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 1:01am PDT
Key Witness Too Upset to Testify at Araujo Trial
Nicole Brown, who began testifying Thursday, had been expected to talk about the chaotic scene that ensued the night she followed the teenager into a bathroom and confirmed the group's growing suspicions that the beautiful girl they knew as "Lida" was biologically male....
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 12:57am PDT
4/24 SF Tenant Convention
This Saturday, April 24, join tenants from across the city at a Tenant Congress to discuss important issues of rent control and Rent Board reform. The Tenant Congress will be held from 11 AM to 3 PM at the Main Library in Civic Center in the Koret Auditorium (on the lower level). Please try to attend as we discuss ways to strengthen our rent control by getting more tenants on the all-important Rent Board Commission...
Posted: Mon, Apr 19, 2004 8:16pm PDT
Protest gas-guzzling, antisocial Hummer vehicles!
Protest gas-guzzling, antisocial Hummer vehicles!...
Posted: Mon, Apr 19, 2004 4:44pm PDT
GMO Free Yolo?
Since Mendocino voters GMO Free ballot measure passed, other counties in CA and elsewhere are also collecting signatures to protect their food from GMO pollen drift from biotech crops. Here's a challenge, how about a GMO Free Yolo?...
Posted: Mon, Apr 19, 2004 2:00pm PDT