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urgent: SSJCD needs help, tech equip
Kali Akuno, Director of the School of Social Justice and Community Development has sent out the the following urgent appeal for community assistance in replacing the technical equipment stolen from their school. The SSJCD is a magnate high school, serving high school students in East Oakland....
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2004 10:13am PDT
Defend Hatem Bazian!
have received the following complaints submitted to the university
over my speech at the emergency demo held at the UN Plaza in SF. It seems
that those recording the event are working for some group which is
attempting to make a major issue of it....
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2004 11:27pm PDT
Collective Punishment: FALLUJA in Iraq, LIDICE in World War II
The Iraq Governing Council is protesting the "collective punishment" being inflicted by the U.S. Marines in Falluja. The closest parallel in history is the German Nazi collective punishment of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in World War II....
Posted: Mon, Apr 12, 2004 8:06am PDT
April 15th - DASW: Tax Day Protest
We have the power to redirect our taxes from militarism
and occupation to meet essential human needs!...
Posted: Sun, Apr 11, 2004 12:28pm PDT
ECR to air second spot on KALX
ECR set to air second show on KALX....
Posted: Sat, Apr 10, 2004 1:49am PDT
Happy Anniversary at the Oakland Docks
Yesterday was a different kind of anniversary; the painful memory was lot more real and personal. A year ago on April 7th, a 600 person picket line formed early in the morning at the Oakland Docks to take direct action against shipments to Iraq. The picket was brutally attacked by the police using less lethal weaponry such as rubber bullets, wooden dowels, concussion grenades and beanbag rounds. 50 people were injured and some sustained huge welts that made national news....
Posted: Fri, Apr 9, 2004 11:29am PDT
Oakland Supports Marriage License Non-Discrimination and Opposes FMA
"Marriage, Anything Less Is Less Than Equal"...
Posted: Thu, Apr 8, 2004 11:34pm PDT
May 1, Education Not Incarceration Teachin + Speakout
teach-in and speakout
at Oakland Tech High School
4351 Broadway, 10am-3pm...
Posted: Thu, Apr 8, 2004 11:16pm PDT
4/9 1pm: Clergy, Grocery Workers Congregate for Interfaith Services
Clergy, Grocery Workers Congregate for Interfaith Services
Where: Park, 14th and Broadway, Oakland
When: Friday, April 9 - 1 pm...
Posted: Thu, Apr 8, 2004 10:11pm PDT
Stencil Night and Hip Hop Screening
FREE EVENT-- SKILLSHARE AND MOVIE
Friday, April 9, at 8:00 PM
The Long Haul in Berkeley
Stencil-making skillshare and creativity session and screening of the 1980's hip-hop movie Wild Style, featuring some of the hip-hop pioneers of the '80's. All ages....
Posted: Thu, Apr 8, 2004 9:32am PDT
Covering April 7: LIVE at ECR
LIVE Coverage April 7: Return to the Docks !
on Enemy Combatant Radio :
OPD Rally and March to the Oakland Docks
LIVE Radio begins at 4pm
www.enemycombatantradio.net...
Posted: Wed, Apr 7, 2004 2:20pm PDT
Port protesters meet with police to discuss April 7, 2004
“I want to replicate May 12th,” Chief Word told us, and that one line pretty well sums up what came out of this conference. Last year’s demonstration at the docks on May 12th had been a successful event. There had been no violence and no arrests that day....
Posted: Wed, Apr 7, 2004 12:45am PDT
Oakland cops under U.N.'s watchful eye
There’s nothing like making the list of the world's worst government violence against activists. The Oakland Police Department earned that distinction for its assault on peaceful anti-war demonstrators at the port last year....
Posted: Tue, Apr 6, 2004 1:46pm PDT
4/18-20 "America's In Pain" - MARCH ON WASHINGTON - "Silent No More"
Calling for "Congressional Hearings on the DEA War
on Physicians, Pharmacists and Pain Patients", grass roots pain
advocacy groups are pushing lawmakers to take action. The National
Pain Patients Coalition (NPPC), the American Pain Institute (API) and
the National Juneteenth Medical Commission (NJMC) are organizing
"America's In Pain" - MARCH ON WASHINGTON - "Silent No More", on the
National Mall and at the U.S. Capitol, April 18-20, 2004, in
Washi...
Posted: Mon, Apr 5, 2004 11:00pm PDT
Weds 4/7: Meeting to Keep McDonald's out of Grand Lake Area
A McDonald's franchise is threatening to open up in my beloved Grand Lake
neighborhood--right across the street from the incredibly successful Grand Lake
Farmer's Market....
Posted: Mon, Apr 5, 2004 10:20pm PDT
United Nations Report on the Oakland Port Protest
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights report, which was released Friday, April 2, 2004, includes a summary of last year’s April 7th police attack on protesters at the Port of Oakland....
Posted: Sat, Apr 3, 2004 1:34pm PST
U.N. cites police for being too forceful at A7 (Oakland)rally
In her 166-page report, Hina Jilani, a Pakistani human rights lawyer and investigator for the Geneva-based U.N. Commission on Human Rights, suggests that Oakland police used excessive force on protesters at the Port of Oakland....
Posted: Sat, Apr 3, 2004 12:07pm PST
DASW Press Conference: One Year Later: April 5 @ 11am
Press conference announcing return to the Oakland Docks and demanding an end to human rights abuses from Oakland to Iraq...
Posted: Sat, Apr 3, 2004 2:01am PST
Oakland to Have Its Own Queer District?
Oakland, with the third highest per-capita population of same-sex couples and the nation's largest population of lesbian couples, does not have a specific neighborhood the gay community can call its own....
Posted: Fri, Apr 2, 2004 8:13pm PST