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31Jan - Photos from Safeway Picket & Direct Actions
approx. 800 folks turned out to support the striking So. Cal workers. The atmosphere was charged and spirited....
Posted: Sat, Jan 31, 2004 6:49pm PST
JERRY DUNCAN MUST GO
My analysis about why progressive forces in Fresno should vote to oust Fresno City Councilmember Jerry Duncan. It may be lesser evil politics, but what choice do we have?...
Posted: Sat, Jan 31, 2004 6:24pm PST
The Fresno Peace and Social Justice Calendar
The Fresno Peace and Social Justice Calendar...
Posted: Sat, Jan 31, 2004 6:21pm PST
COMMUNICATING METHANE GAS
Parcel A is still not safe, new restrictions place building restrictions up to 1000 feet from methane barrier...
Posted: Sat, Jan 31, 2004 5:11pm PST
Sacramento Area Peace Action events calendar: Feb 2004
While we like to send out the whole monthly calendar at the beginning of the month (followed by weekly updates), this month there are too many events! Below is the first half of Feb, 2004; please check www.sacpeace.org for more events. For bus tickets to the March 20 demonstration in San Francisco (see below), call 916 448-7157; sypeaceact@jps.net...
Posted: Sat, Jan 31, 2004 2:48pm PST
State to sue grocery chains : Antitrust Law Broken In Strike, Lockyer Charges
The California Attorney General's Office is expected to file a lawsuit Monday against three major supermarket chains locked in a labor dispute with 70,000 workers in Southern California, alleging the companies broke antitrust laws and hurt consumers by forming a financial pact to protect grocery profits during the strike....
Posted: Sat, Jan 31, 2004 12:41pm PST
San Francisco sex workers are on a mission to decriminalize prostitution
A new Bay Area coalition is arguing that the best way to stop the horrifying exploitation of forced prostitution is to make the world's oldest profession legal....
Posted: Sat, Jan 31, 2004 12:25pm PST
Journal 3 -- Straight out of Palestine
Kate Raphael is part of a 12-woman delegation to Baghdad organized by CodePink and Occupation Watch. She spent the last five months working with International Women's Peace Service in Occupied Palestine. You can subscribe to her list by emailing iwps-kate-subscribe@lists.riseup.net.
For information about the delegation see www.codepinkalert.org. For info about IWPS, www.iwps.info....
Posted: Sat, Jan 31, 2004 11:42am PST
Voter Fraud Personified
Special Interest the Fat Cats that know how to manipulate the system and leave the poor holding the bag,...
Posted: Sat, Jan 31, 2004 8:54am PST
Next Stop Patriot Coalition mtg Feb 5
Thursday, Feb 5, 7-9pm at the Hart Senior Center, 915 27th Street, in Sacramento, says Ellen Schwartz:...
Posted: Sat, Jan 31, 2004 8:25am PST
War Criminal Albright coming to Berkeley!
Madeleine Albright, as Clinton's Secretary of State, helped maintain the embargo that -- by her own admission -- had killed half a million Iraqi children by 1996. When asked in a television she said that that embargo was "worth the price" of those deaths! This creep will be speaking at Cody's in Berkeley at 12:30 PM on February 11....
Posted: Sat, Jan 31, 2004 5:36am PST
Solidarity with Striking and Locked-Out Grocery Workers- For a Class Union
Solidarity with Striking and Locked-Out Grocery Workers- For a Class Union - February 2004...
Posted: Sat, Jan 31, 2004 2:40am PST
Local Bay Area reporter in Iraq: Civilian Claims Process
The Bay Area reportage continues to flow in from Iraq. Rob Eshelman reports....
Posted: Fri, Jan 30, 2004 11:26pm PST
Bay Area Reports from Iraq: How the Other Half Lives
Bay Area reporter, David Martinez, gives another update from the ground in Iraq. Continue to check out www.indybay.org/ for continuing reports and look for a compilation of all of his reports so far coming soon....
Posted: Fri, Jan 30, 2004 11:22pm PST
Next two Sac IMC mtgs: same place/time
Next two mtgs: Sat Feb 7; Sat Feb 28; both at SEIU hall, 1911 F Street in downtown Sac, both 3:00 to 6:00 PM....
Posted: Fri, Jan 30, 2004 7:37pm PST
SF events 1.30
Bush + Kerry = Skull and Bones ( CIA ) http://conspiracytheory.tribe.net
http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2004/01/special-r-01-22.html
CIA's Hussein http://www.bushflash.com/thanks.html
The American Nazi Awards Show! http://www.naziawards.com/...
Posted: Fri, Jan 30, 2004 4:34pm PST
RELEASE: Community to Gather for Education not Incarceration, Saturday, January 31st
Community Forum to Respond to Gov. Schwarzenegger's Proposed Budget and the Impacts on Oakland’s School Closures; Incarceration of Youth; Prison Spending
WHAT: Community Forum hosted by Education Not Incarceration Coalition
WHEN: Saturday, Jan. 31, 2004 – 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE: Laney College, Student Center, Irma P. Walker Conference Room, 4th floor
900 Fallon St ., Oakland.
WHO: Students, parents, teachers and concer...
Posted: Fri, Jan 30, 2004 4:15pm PST
Hardship, Dissent, and Questions about Union Strategy Supermarket War
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Posted: Fri, Jan 30, 2004 12:40pm PST
Songs of Social Significance at Sonoma State
David Rovics will perform in a benefit concert for Not In Our Name - Sonoma County, Students for Media Democracy, and the Mobilization to End Globalization on Saturday February 7, 2004 at 8:00PM at Sonoma State University....
Posted: Fri, Jan 30, 2004 10:45am PST
Who is killing the women of Juarez Mexico? Updated Release
You have a number of opportunities to see the powerful film, "Senorita Extraviada," from Feb. 3 to Feb. 9 in Sacramento and Davis. I saw this film at the event on last Tuesday and everybody, including myself, was very moved about the atrocities taking place in Juarez. Don't miss it!...
Posted: Fri, Jan 30, 2004 10:13am PST