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"Vetoes are Ugly!" - SF Mayor Newsom vetoes Renters Economic Relief Package! (video/quicktime 44.4MB) Four-minute QT movie in Spanish and English. 44MB....
Posted: Tue, Jul 7, 2009 5:04pm PDT
Arrests at Schwarzenegger's SF Office Protesting State Budget Cuts - Pt. 2 (video/quicktime 50.0MB) Video of disability rights activists occupying McAllister Street in front of the State Building in San Francisco in protest of cuts to the California state budget. One-by-one the activists, most of them in wheelchairs, were escorted by SFPD to a location behind a barricade to be cited and arrested for blocking traffic. The San Francisco Police Department arrested a total of 17 people. Most of those arrested were physically disabled and were in electric wheelchairs that could not be loaded ...
Posted: Sun, Jul 5, 2009 11:21am PDT
Arrests At Schwarzenegger's SF Office Protesting State Budget Cuts (video/quicktime 66.3MB) June 23, 2009
Part 1
Five-minute QT movie. 66MB. More than a dozen demonstrators for disability rights from the coalition "The People's Day of Reckoning" were arrested on June 23 in front of Governor Schwarzenegger's office in the State Building in San Francisco. A speaker from the coalition calls out that tax cuts for the wealthy are the last thing to be touched in the state's budget crisis. The first thing to be slashed is care for the most vulnerable...including programs that serve pe...
Posted: Sat, Jul 4, 2009 9:07am PDT
Video of Die-In on Parade Route (video/x-ms-wmv 39.2MB) On June 28 2009 San Francisco held their annual GLBT Pride Parade. On the route a group staged a Die-In in front of Gavin Newsom's contingent. This video will show it......
Posted: Mon, Jun 29, 2009 9:02am PDT
Single Payer on the Table (video/quicktime 20.4MB) Demonstration on June 22, 2009, at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco for Single-Payer Health Insurance (i.e., Medicare for all). Three-minute QT movie. 20MB....
Posted: Wed, Jun 24, 2009 1:51pm PDT
Fighting Over a Dollar! (video/x-ms-wmv 59.4MB) Health Care or Safety? Social Workers or Firemen? Homeless Shelters or Police?
That is what the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and Mayor Gavin Newsom are up against…...
Posted: Tue, Jun 16, 2009 10:12pm PDT
"Crime on a Bench": Bernard's Benchsitting Protest of April 29, 2009 (video/x-ms-wmv 18.9MB) Bernard attempts to get cited for disregarding one of Santa Cruz's newest ordinances: Unlawful to sit on a bench for more than one hour on Pacific Avenue...Serious crime at its finest...right here!...
Posted: Mon, Jun 15, 2009 11:24pm PDT
Bunny's "PLEDGE" Protest Highlights, Interviews, and Music of June 6, 2009 (video/x-ms-wmv 23.4MB) Video recap of the protest in front of Bunny's Shoes on Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz, CA on June 6, 2009 asking the community to support and buy only from merchants who support rights for the homless, and who encourage an end to the Santa Cruz Sleeping Ban......
Posted: Mon, Jun 15, 2009 4:56pm PDT
Fresno Police Break Homeless Man’s Wrist (video/mp4 64.3MB) In what appears to be another case of excessive force by the Fresno Police Department, Randy Johnson had his wrist broken by an officer who responded to a disturbing the peace call. Johnson was calling his wife’s name in an attempt to give her a cell phone. You can hear, in Randy and his wife’s own words, what happened in the video below....
Posted: Fri, Jun 12, 2009 1:04pm PDT
MARCH for BUDGET JUSTICE in SAN FRANCISCO! (video/quicktime 125.4MB) * All City Departments should share the pain of budget cuts including police, fire, high paid executives, and public relations staff.
* We need open and democratic budget reform to stop Mayor Gavin Newsom from imposing unilateral budget cuts.
* San Francisco needs progressive revenue measures.
Six-minute QT movie. 125MB....
Posted: Thu, Jun 11, 2009 10:03pm PDT
Health Care: We Need SINGLE PAYER Right Now! (video/quicktime 51.8MB) San Francisco joined thousands of single-payer supporters on May 29th in a nationwide week of action supporting improved Medicare for all: H.R. 676. The rally was at 450 Golden Gate where Speaker Nancy Pelosi has her San Francisco office.
Five-minute QT movie. 52MB....
Posted: Wed, Jun 10, 2009 10:58pm PDT
Arcata Cops Gone Wild - part 1 (video/x-flv 22.2MB) Newly released video of police brutality in Arcata at a homeless rights protest in April 2007. Two years later protester Dominic von Zabern is scheduled to go t...
Posted: Wed, Jun 3, 2009 7:22pm PDT
Arcata cops gone wild, part 2: Prelude to the mass arrest (video/x-flv 23.0MB) This newly released video shows the People Project Protest, a homeless rights movement that took place in Arcata CA, in April 2007. This clip shows the protest ...
Posted: Wed, Jun 3, 2009 7:31pm PDT
Arcata Cops Gone Wild: Part 3 - More Arrests (video/x-flv 23.3MB) Newly released video of police brutality in Arcata at a homeless rights protest in April 2007. The District Attorneys' video was obtained by a protester who rec...
Posted: Wed, Jun 3, 2009 7:37pm PDT
Arcata Cops Gone Wild, part 4: more arrests (video/x-flv 23.3MB) The Arcata cops and Humboldt Sheriffs arrest the remaining protesters in the Peoples Project homeless rights protest, April 2007. At the beginning the cops push...
Posted: Wed, Jun 3, 2009 7:47pm PDT
Bicimaquinas de Oaxaca / Bike Machines from Oaxaca (video/quicktime 68.8MB) C.A.C.I.T.A. (Autonomous Centre for the Intercultural Creation of Appropriate Technologies) From Oaxaca, presents a video from their participation in the Zapatista's 1st International Festival of Dignified Rage.
C.A.C.I.T.A. (Centro Autónomo para la Creación Intercultural de Tecnologías Apropiadas) de Oaxaca, presenta un video de su participacion en el Primer Festival Internacional de la Digna Rabia....
Posted: Sat, May 2, 2009 1:38pm PDT
City Hall..... Why are you CLOSING Homeless Services!!! (video/quicktime 75.6MB) Homeless People brought their needs straight to San Francisco City Hall in order to receive some of the life sustaining services they would have to live without if proposed budget reductions are enacted by San Francisco public officials. Six-minute QT movie. 76MB....
Posted: Wed, Apr 29, 2009 12:03pm PDT
FIGHTING TO SAVE MEDI-CAL! (video/quicktime 84.7MB) Outside the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals waiting to hear the decision in Independent Living Center of So. Calif v. Shewry: the challenge to Governor Schwarzenegger's cuts to Medi-Cal.
Twenty-three minute QT movie. 85MB....
Posted: Fri, Mar 6, 2009 2:21pm PST
Video: Dia Internacional de las Lenguas Maternas (21 de Febrero) (video/quicktime 119.3MB) CECUT celebra las culturas e idiomas indigenas vivientes en Baja California....
Posted: Thu, Mar 5, 2009 2:43pm PST
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