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Bakersfield rocked by World Can't Wait anti-theocracy demonstration! 
"In God We Trust" anniversary celebration interrupted as protestors took to the stage with a massive banner, saying: "No to Women-Hating anti-gay Christian fascist theocracy!"...
Posted: Mon, Jul 31, 2006 4:34pm PDT
Take Action! No Aerial Pesticide Spraying in Davis! Today 7/31 the SacYolo Mosquito Vector Control District (SYMVCD) will announce the results of their mosquito trap count and their plans for possible aerial spraying of Davis and other communities in the Sac/Yolo region. Davis City Councilmembers need to hear from Davis residents and visitors about the proposition to opt out of being sprayed with potentially carcinogenic synthetic pyrethroid pesticides via overhead spraying, the method most dangerous to human health and least effective at redu...
Posted: Mon, Jul 31, 2006 10:04am PDT
Sacramento Protest: Cindy Sheehan Announces Camp Casey's Return to Crawford This August Cindy Sheehan appeared at a lively protest in Sacramento at 16th & Broadway on Saturday, August 29, just before going to Crawford, Texas to set-up Camp Casey on a recently-purchased five-acre property....
Posted: Sun, Jul 30, 2006 4:52pm PDT
Cindy Sheehan Joins Peace Activists for Demonstration in Sacramento July 29th 
Cindy Sheehan joined about 300 local activists at 16th & Broadway in Sacramento on the evening of July 29th for a demonstration against the ongoing occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and Israel's military offensive against innocent civilians in Lebanon....
Posted: Sun, Jul 30, 2006 4:26pm PDT
Join Cindy Sheehan at 16th & Broadway Tomorrow (Saturday, July 29th)! I just received this announcement from Virginia Pearcy. Cindy Sheehan will be joining a protest at 16th & Broadway tomorrow, Saturday, July 29....
Posted: Fri, Jul 28, 2006 11:21pm PDT
7/31 Sacramento Press Conference/Picket To Demand Removal Of FAC Chair William Zachary Injured Workers and California candidates for insurance commissioner will be having a press
confernce at the offices of the California Department of Insurance to demand the removal
of William Zachry who is chair of the Fraud Assessment Commission and also a vice president
of risk management (insurance) for the Safeway Corporation. Zachry was instrumental in
helping to deregulate Workers' Comp and bringing in SB899....
Posted: Fri, Jul 28, 2006 6:08pm PDT
Preserve Tejon Ranch as a new Natural Park Please take action today to help preserve southern California's largest and most valuable unprotected natural area, Tejon Ranch....
Posted: Fri, Jul 28, 2006 12:29pm PDT
ACLU Report Documents Government Monitoring of Lawful Protest Federal, state and local agencies have infiltrated or monitored the political activity of Californians throughout central and northern California in what has become a disturbing trend, according to an ACLU-NC report released today....
Posted: Thu, Jul 27, 2006 10:03pm PDT
Reedley High School Teacher Joins Peace Mission to Israel/Palestine 
The photo below is Don Friesen, as he accepts the Way of Peace award from the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, earlier this month. The Press Release that follows is about Don’s trip to Palestine with the Christian Peacemaker Teams....
Posted: Thu, Jul 27, 2006 11:48am PDT
News Conference 7/30/06 at noon regarding Stealing of Mexico Elections Here's a news advisory from Alex Garza, Frente de Mexicanos en El Exterior, regarding the 7/30/06 News Conference at noon to announce protest actions regarding Mexico Elections at the Mexican Consulate Offices, Sacramento....
Posted: Thu, Jul 27, 2006 12:28am PDT
Alternatives to Israel’s Occupation: Justice For Palestine 
Rachel Corrie exhibit comes to Fresno. This will be the front page story in the August Community Alliance newspaper....
Posted: Wed, Jul 26, 2006 7:49pm PDT
THE PEACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE CALENDAR 
Events of interest to progressive activists in the Fresno area...
Posted: Wed, Jul 26, 2006 7:40pm PDT
Feds' $1 Billion Farm Drain Could Bring Repeat of Kesterson Wildlife Disaster Twenty-five years ago, the federal government's disastrous project to make toxic land suitable for farming became a death trap for migratory birds. So why are they getting ready to try it again?...
Posted: Tue, Jul 25, 2006 5:36pm PDT
Mosquito Control District Sprays Davis Without Timely Warning To Residents Activists from "Stop West Nile Spraying Now" will be holding a press briefing shortly before David Brown, district manager for SYMVCD, makes a presentation at the Davis City Council meeting tonight at 6:30 p.m....
Posted: Tue, Jul 25, 2006 1:57pm PDT
We greet Fresno rock fans with some truths on Bush 
We greet Fresno rock fans with some truths on Bush. 1.5 minute video...
Posted: Mon, Jul 24, 2006 5:46pm PDT
Indymedia Potluck and Training in Davis! 
We will be hosting a potluck and indymedia training in Davis, CA on July 30 from 6 to 8 pm in the Blanchard room of the Yolo County Library at 315 E 14th Street....
Posted: Mon, Jul 24, 2006 5:09pm PDT
Stop the War on Lebanon and Gaza: Call for Peace Vigil 7/25/06, 4-6 pm, 16th & J Here's the urgent action alert I just received from Ellen Schwartz of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. There will be a Call For Peace Vigil on July 25 from 4 to 6 pm at 16th & J in Sacramento....
Posted: Mon, Jul 24, 2006 4:36pm PDT
Assemblymember Jones Joins Community Organizations in Opposing Public Financing of Arena Here's the press advisory regarding the press conference tomorrow in opposition to public financing of an arena....
Posted: Sun, Jul 23, 2006 5:44pm PDT
War protestors civil rights case settled 
I am pleased to report that my three year old federal civil rights action against the County of Sacramento was resolved on July 20th, 2006....
Posted: Sun, Jul 23, 2006 5:45am PDT
Inhumane Treatment of Prisoners in Chowchilla The words of a women locked up in one of the many prisons in the Central Valley....
Posted: Sat, Jul 22, 2006 8:36pm PDT
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