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We regret to report that the UC labor studies programs are facing severe budget reductions in the current fiscal year...
Posted: Wed, Oct 26, 2005 10:15pm PDT
The Contra Costa County board of supervisors unanimously supported on Tuesday prohibiting convicted felons from owning any dog that is aggressive or weighs more than 20 pounds, making it all but certain the proposal will become law when it formally comes before the board for approval Nov. 15....
Posted: Wed, Oct 26, 2005 10:00pm PDT
UC law professor John Yoo wrote memos supporting torture while deputy assistant attorney general, as more fully described in a 10/18/05 PBS documentary, and his presence at UC was protested on 10/25/05, according to a KPFA news report on Flashpoints, 10/25/05....
Posted: Wed, Oct 26, 2005 4:11am PDT
Tuesday, October 25, 6:00pm-8:00pm
UC Berkeley Campus
Genetics and Plant Biology Building Room 100...
Posted: Tue, Oct 25, 2005 4:19pm PDT
great film on women in Iran- tomorrow at Pacific Film Archives...
Posted: Tue, Oct 25, 2005 10:29am PDT
Shannon Murray, Crayon, and Mark Gunnery and Ryan Harvey of Riot Folk will be playing a free concert at the Long Haul this Saturday, October 22, at around seven or eight. Acoustic punk! Radical folk! Electric shit! Yay!...
Posted: Fri, Oct 21, 2005 6:26pm PDT
However, we've only just begun. We need to work that many shifts again
before Get-Out-The-Vote weekend, and that many shifts yet again for
GOTV November 5-8....
Posted: Wed, Oct 19, 2005 11:28am PDT
The local civil liberties organization MCLI (Meikeljohn Civil Liberties Institute) based in Berkeley is again in the news for having to report on US human rights violations and breaches of international law to the UN since the US has failed to submit it's own report. Here's Ann Ginger: - "Perhaps most infuriating to the international community, Ginger said, was a proposition put forth by John Bolton, the recently appointed U.S. Ambassador to the UN, at the UN World Summit in September. ...
Posted: Wed, Oct 19, 2005 10:29am PDT
There will be a solidarity picnic for striking NWA mechanics on Saturday October 29, 2005.
The airline bosses are seeking to destroy the union and contract out most of their work....
Posted: Tue, Oct 18, 2005 9:21pm PDT
The Lake Merritt peace walk is now in its 5th year...
Posted: Tue, Oct 18, 2005 3:17pm PDT
Forward please!
** Join a PICKET against UNION BUSTING BERKELEY HONDA,
this SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15th, at the North End Zone / Memorial Atadium
** Meet at Berkeley Honda picket line (Shattuck at Parker)
between 10:00-11:00 AM, and carpool to the stadium, or
just show up at the North End Zone at 11:30 to join the picket.
The picket will last one hour....
Posted: Thu, Oct 13, 2005 7:02pm PDT
pickets:
Monday through Friday: 6-8pm
Saturdays 3-6pm
Sundays 12-6pm...
Posted: Thu, Oct 13, 2005 3:41pm PDT
East Bay Animal Advocates
Action Network
October 12, 2005 Issue...
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 3:00pm PDT
A hero! This is too much! Blast away . . ....
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 12:47pm PDT
The October 12 Hearing for Measure EE has been delayed until October 26th at 2pm....
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 3:45pm PDT
The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear Stan "Tookie" Williams' appeal of his death penalty conviction. Come to today's UC Berkeley event, or to the Fri., 10/21 event to learn more -- and to start organizing to stop the execution!...
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 3:18pm PDT
In what is becoming a common occurence, the Alameda County Sheriff's
Department is investigating burglaries of two medical marijuana clinics in
unincorporated communities near Hayward....
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 2:58pm PDT
9/24/05 protest photos...
Posted: Sat, Oct 8, 2005 6:12pm PDT
---LANDLORDS SUE OAKLAND IN A BID TO END EVICTION PROTECTIONS---
A Hearing on the Merrits of Just Cause Eviction Protections known as Measure EE, takes place in Oakland on Wednesday October 12, 2005....
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2005 8:14pm PDT