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The wounds inflicted upon demonstrators were extremely painful and severe. They will need care over time and were meant to be lasting. These bruses will take weeks to go away. The following medical care and advice was sent to our list....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 4:05pm PDT
The following was passed at yesterday's Representative Assembly of the Oakland Education Association...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 3:30pm PDT
from Direct Action to Stop the War website:...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 3:12pm PDT
5:00 mp3 format, The Campaign to Save Jackson State Forest today held a rally at CDF Headquarters to protest the Brandon Gulch Timber Sale. For KXYX and KMUD news....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 3:04pm PDT
Oakland: Protest police attack at City Council meeting- Tuesday, April 8, 2003 6 p.m....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 3:00pm PDT
The fed-directed SFPD cannot stifle political dissent in this city forever. We have to keep coming back, keep protesting, keep getting in the streets. This Saturday, we call on people to join with us in doing that....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 2:56pm PDT
With the U.S. in Baghdad, protests against the war are affecting more than just the U.S. campaign against Iraq....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 2:27pm PDT
Six protestors in San Francisco were arrested this morning for staging a non-violent occupation of Autonomy Corporation offices in San Francisco while scores of others picketed outside the office. This protest, coordinated with a simultaneous action in Cambridge, England, highlighted the surveillance software company’s unethical ties to Bush advisor Richard Perle. Pearle, an influential Pentagon insider and key promoter of the war on Iraq, was placed on the board of the company three years a...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 1:13pm PDT
Tony Hall's resolution, asking the SF District Attorney to force M20 protesters to pay for police brutality, goes before the SF Board of Supervisors budget committee Thursday April 10 at 1:00....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 12:19pm PDT
More photos from the March 4 demo, including Freedom Uprising, Code Pink, SEIU and ILWU pics can be found at: http://www.designaction.org/demopics...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 11:29am PDT
Got this in an email, after I sent one to the Amnesty International address that Vince posted yesterday....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 11:05am PDT
Stop the war and the militarist society we are now amidst: fascism...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 10:50am PDT
Mon. 4/7 San Francisco Police stop "Bikes not Bombs" ride and cite 12 riders for "impeding flow of traffic....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 10:47am PDT
I just talked to a Councilmember's staff person and he requested that people hang onto their video-tapes of the rally and be ready to present them to City Councilmembers to show what happened. Is there someone who wants to coordinate this?...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 10:45am PDT
Call to action for Bikes at the April 14th Chevron-Texaco protests....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 10:41am PDT
Tonight is the Oakland City Council meeting at 6:30PM at the City Hall (14th and Broadway). We should show up in mass to protest the City's treatment of peaceful protesters and demmand an investigation and the resignation of Mayor Jerry Brown, who initiated the attacks and Police Cheif Ward....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 10:37am PDT
Come down to 2601 Mariposa (in the Mission) to protest KQED. PBS, NPR of
1. violating their mission and the public's trust in NOT providing "a voice for groups in the community that may otherwise may be unheard."
2. Prostituting the public's airways in support of corporate greed and aggressive war.
3. Deliberately limiting voices of reason, dissent and resistance.
4. Pretending to be sponsored mainly by public subscriptions when vast sums of their program underwriting ...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 9:35am PDT