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Protect Teen Girls: Vote No on Prop 4
Thursday, October 16, 2008 : We wish we didn't have to fight the same battles over and over again, but Proposition 4--defeated three years ago as Prop 73 and two years ago as Prop 85--is once again returning to the California state ballot on November 4th, 2008. If a teenager wishes to terminate a pregnancy, Prop 4 would require parental notification issued by the provider, a judiciary bypass obtained by the teen, or a letter written by the teen to the physician detailing parental abuse that i...
Posted: Thu, Oct 16, 2008 7:37am PDT
Town Hall Meeting to Save the Hmong Community Garden 10/15
"Their only hope is that the city of Fresno -- not the government, but the people who live here and make up this city -- say, 'This is something worth saving. If you can't save this kind of network, this kind of support, this kind of love, then pretty soon the only thing left to save is concrete.'"
- Chukou Thao, executive director of the Hmong American Farmer's Association...
Posted: Tue, Oct 14, 2008 1:03pm PDT
Drum Circle Defense: Drum-De-Dum-Dum at Parking Lot #4 This Wednesday
Obstructive green mesh fencing continues to appear like virulent weeds every Wednesday morning around the public assembly area at Cathcart and Cedar Sts. in Parking Lot #4 next to the weekly Santa Cruz downtown Farmer's Market. The larger the supportive crowd, the less vulnerable are those reclaiming the public space. Come on down and help out....
Posted: Tue, Oct 14, 2008 10:33am PDT
Farewell to Daniel Cassidy
Well known writer and Irish-American activist Daniel Cassidy has passed away in San Francisco....
Posted: Tue, Oct 14, 2008 10:02am PDT
Press Statement by Friends of Kirsten Brydum
PRESS STATEMENT BY FRIENDS OF KIRSTEN BRYDUM
who was murdered in New Orleans on September 27, 2008 at the age of 25...
Posted: Mon, Oct 13, 2008 8:41pm PDT
Neighborhood Garden needs Donations
d street garden needs help...
Posted: Mon, Oct 13, 2008 3:18pm PDT
India Police Chief Challenged on Human Rights Record at International Conference
The Director General of Police of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, Vishwa Ranjan, faced intense questioning at a Conference on Indian Democracy: Justice and the Law held at the University of California, Berkeley. He admitted that arresting documentary filmmaker Ajay T.G. may have been a “mistake,” and signed a postcard supporting the release of imprisoned civil rights leader Dr. Binayak Sen....
Posted: Mon, Oct 13, 2008 12:48pm PDT
Transportation, Land Use and the Environment: Election Forum 2008 (Berkeley, Mayor) (video/quicktime 31.2MB)
Fourteen environmental groups active in Berkeley and the East Bay sponsored an election forum on Transportation, Land Use and the Environment for candidates for Berkeley City Council and Mayor. This is the first (Mayoral) forum....
Posted: Mon, Oct 13, 2008 1:42am PDT
Hear the Health Care Rally
From the California State Capitol on 9-8-08, the Health Care Rally. Senate Bill 840 will cover every Californian with comprehensive health insurance and give them the ability to choose their own physician. This bill is estimated to save $8 billion, in the first year alone, in statewide healthcare spending, and will save money for families, businesses, individuals and local governments. Duration about 36 minutes....
Posted: Sat, Oct 11, 2008 1:28pm PDT
The Really Really Free Market (In Memory of Kirsten Brydum)
Dolores Park, 19th at Dolores, SF...
Event Date: Sat, Oct 25, 2008 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Oct 10, 2008 4:18pm PDT
"What's Your Fair Share for Health Care?"
A forum with public officials, co-sponsored by Peninsula Interfaith Action, San Mateo County Central Labor Council, San Mateo County ACORN, and Legal Aid Society of San Mateo. Come back a difference! Shine a spotlight on access to quality, affordable health care for the uninsured. Join the effort to make this real.
Special Guests: Jerry Hill, San Mateo County Board of Supervisors
As well as other elected officials and representatives from the Health Plan of San Mateo.
Thursday October 16, ...
Posted: Fri, Oct 10, 2008 2:12pm PDT
Island Mountain Quarry Will Destroy Eel River (video/mpeg 33.2MB)
Island Mountain Quarry is the real cost of Marin and Sonoma's Train, measure Q. Environmental destruction of gigantic proportions will result if the quarry is allowed to operate. Kill it's sister operation, the SMART Tax ballot measure in Marin and Sonoma, by voting NO on Q....
Posted: Fri, Oct 10, 2008 11:58am PDT
SC City Council May Reverse State Pesticide Rules
Next Santa Cruz City Council meeting
Tuesday Oct. 14, 2008 at 3 pm...
Posted: Tue, Oct 7, 2008 11:35pm PDT
More Drum Circle Melodrama Wednesday? Be There at 3:30 PM to Keep Public Space Public.
For the last two weeks, uniformed police haven't stalked Parking Lot #4, where drummers have drummed for 10 years next to the Farmer's Market. Still the city, apparently at the instigation of the police have regularly erected plastic green mesh enclosures on stakes pounded into the ground around the area where the public normally assembles. And the community, regularly, takes them down and reclaims the public space. Will the city spacesnatchers wise up this Wednesday? Come on down and he...
Posted: Tue, Oct 7, 2008 6:43pm PDT
Fraud and Deception: The CDFA LBAM Eradication Program
A Detailed Description of Management Strategy Fraud
Prepared For The People by Professor Glen Chase
Glen Chase, a Professor of Systems Management, has released a third report detailing the methodical fraud that the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Management perpetrated to attempt to create a bogus emergency eradication program for the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM). This third report demonstrates the fraud and deception within the program strategy that CDFA Management...
Posted: Tue, Oct 7, 2008 4:14pm PDT
The City of Oakland Needs a Bailout
Monday, October 6, 2008 : Replete with a three horn band, umbrella toting union protesters wore wide brim black church hats in a New Orleans style funeral to mourn the death of City Services at the City of Oakland last Tuesday. The several hundred person procession lead by SEIU Local 1021 moved in and around Oakland City hall and carried signs that read “Save Our City” “Save Our Services.”...
Posted: Tue, Oct 7, 2008 7:13am PDT
CR10: Tenth aniversary of Critical Resistance (audio/mpeg 9.6MB)
Audio report (10 minutes) on CR10, tenth anniversary of Critical Resistance, movement in resistance against the prison industrial complex....
Posted: Mon, Oct 6, 2008 10:11am PDT
Men's Project Performance
The Men's Story Project is a bold new performance and community discussion project examining social ideas about masculinity, using the arts as a medium for community-building and social change....
Posted: Sun, Oct 5, 2008 2:52am PDT
Chalk it up to a learning experience
Santa Cruz Police, at the request of Oneill's Surf Shop, stopped today's Chalk-in and gave one ticket....
Posted: Sat, Oct 4, 2008 2:10am PDT
Open Letter: Congresswoman Barbara Lee Double-Cross Over $700 Billion Bailout Package
Congresswoman Barbara Lee votes to reward those predatory and subprime lenders who are creating such havoc in the lives of millions of Americans!...
Posted: Fri, Oct 3, 2008 4:19pm PDT