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Greens Push Gonzalez to Challenge Pelosi
San Francisco Green Party activists are circulating an online petition encouraging Matt Gonzalez to run against Congressmember Nancy Pelosi. Such a race would bring joy to the city’s conservatives, who would sit back and watch as a not so civil war breaks out among San Francisco’s progressive community. A Gonzalez campaign would weaken progressives’ effort to defeat Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and create a rift between Greens and local labor unions, environmental groups, and communities o...
Posted: Mon, Apr 24, 2006 7:40am PDT
Mon 7:35 am Draft Matt Gonzalez (Against Pelosi) Organizer on Quakeradio 960 am on dial
THANK YOU!
Thank you very much for signing the DraftMatt.com petition! We're off
to a great start....
Posted: Sun, Apr 23, 2006 10:29pm PDT
4/22 Anti-Bush Protest in W. Sacramento
Hundreds of people gathered in West Sacramento on April 22 to protest during Bush's Earth Day visit to the California Fuel Cell Partnership. I arrived around 1:15 and stayed until 3:30. Here are some of the sights from the event....
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 7:28pm PDT
The GOP and California's Levees: A Deficit Hawk and Flood Funds
"Inexcusable" is what Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recently called the lack of federal funds to improve the state's system of flood control. In late February on a trip to Washington, he had asked for $56 million for emergency repairs on 24 levee sites eroded by rising river waters in Central and Northern California....
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 9:29am PDT
Hundreds Unwelcome 'Not Our President' Bush in San Jose
San Jose, California (April 21, 2006) – Hundreds unwelcome “Not Our President” Bush on rare visit to California. Muslim youth detained, hand cuffed, and ticketed for praying near protest zone....
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 2:48am PDT
Bay Area Activists Un-Welcome President Bush to California (audio/x-wav 18.5MB)
Peace and social justice activists gathered near Cisco Systems in San Jose to tell President Bush he's not welcome in California. Activists criticized Bush's foreign and domestic policies, calling for an end to the war in Iraq, no attacks on Iran, no war on immigrants, and no cuts in social services....
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 7:26pm PDT
Poll Workers Needed for June Election
Poll Workers Needed for June 2006 Election...
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 1:43pm PDT
Standing up for the Republics of California
Bush is coming to California and we already have the Enronanator in "office". It is time for a change. Californians unite and throw off the tyrants of Corporatism! Time for a new Bear Flag Rebellion! Time for a change! Time for an Olive Revolution! No simple protest to end at a specific set time. Take to the streets and hold them until a New California is free from the dictators of the new world fascism!...
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 4:30am PDT
BattleCry 50-state attack due on May 12, 2006
Right Wing Fundies Declare War on Diversity across the nation.
PLEASE FORWARD!...
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 12:56pm PDT
San Jose Bush visit info (street closures)
Lots of us are heading to SJ tomorrow; here are street closures and pedestrian access, from a memo to Cisco employees this a.m. Bush speaks at 2 pm; varied reports about which bldg: 9? 10? D? People are arriving early, rally set for 1 - 4 pm.
Also check south bay mobilization www.southbaymobilization.org...
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 11:13am PDT
Elect Marie Harrison / SF District 10 Supervisor 2006 !
Green Action Marie Harrison, Local Sister / Global Sister runs for Sup, SF District 10, 2006 ! !...
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 1:12am PDT
Californians Rejecting One Party System
Californians reject the one party system because the new Democratic Republican Party only represents five percent of all Americans. Today people are going to the streets and there is an awaking in America for a change in leadership....
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 9:30pm PDT
Greens Testify Today to Reduce Power of Special Interests
The Green Party testified in the Capitol in favor of legislation that would create public financing of all political parties, including third parties like the Greens....
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 3:22pm PDT
Supreme Court Justice Fernando Vegas @ MIIS
Venezuelan supreme court justice Fernando Vegas spoke at the Irvine Auditorium at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Vegas spoke of the current situation in Venezuela, as well as some history, and relatively new constitution drafted....
Posted: Tue, Apr 18, 2006 12:29pm PDT
Progressives Indifferent to Angelides’ Fall in Polls
After state public employee unions stomped Governor Schwarzenegger’s initiatives in last November’s special election, Treasurer Phil Angelides seemed a sure bet to win the Democratic Party’s gubernatorial nomination in June. Angelides is a close ally of the powerful California Teachers Association, and is supported by the core progressive Democratic constituencies whose voter outreach efforts typically decide the Party’s primary elections. Yet according to the Field Poll, Controller Steve Wes...
Posted: Tue, Apr 18, 2006 8:16am PDT
Mike Malloy to Moderate Impeachment Forum in Sacramento! 4/28
Mike Malloy, who coined the term "Bush Crime Family," will be coming to Sacramento on Friday, April 28, to do his radio show from 7 to 10 pm. The next day he will moderate an impeachment forum at the Crest Theatre in Sacramento at 8:30 pm....
Posted: Fri, Apr 14, 2006 9:51am PDT
Heritage Tree Preservation Act is now making it's way through the California Legislature
SB 1799, The Heritage Tree Preservation Act is now making it's way through the California Legislature!
Please help us pass this historic legislation!...
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 7:35am PDT
Draft Matt to Replace Pelosi; Sign the Petition
Matt Replace Pelosi...
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 9:40pm PDT