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Event Date: Wed, Feb 1, 2017 6:00pm PST
Posted: Mon, Jan 30, 2017 6:16pm PST
If you had told me two months ago that the SF International Airport would be shut down by hundreds of liberals chanting “no borders, no nations,” — I would have thought you had completely lost your grip on reality....
Posted: Mon, Jan 30, 2017 12:38pm PST
A letter I sent to Jimmy Panetta regarding his his recent vote for HR 11, the non-binding resolution opposing UN sanctions of Israel. I filled my letter with eye witness information from my recent trip to Palestine to try to explain the subterfuge around the claim that Israel is a Democracy....
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2017 9:32pm PST
Tech wields incredible power, and is now prepared to provide all the tools for a repressive police state, like we have never seen before....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2017 9:35am PST
Long-time Bay Area comrade, collective member, friend, and all 'round nice guy Peaches' was critically injured in the Ghost Ship fire. He escaped the fire, but with life-threatening burns to his lungs and esophagus from smoke inhalation. He has been hospitalized since the fire and his prognosis is looking better, but expenses are piling up and recovery will be a long road. Please, donate to his medical fund, as much as you can. Below is a loving message from his friend Stephanie....
Posted: Sat, Dec 31, 2016 1:13pm PST
A brief statement and film in memory of our beloved Denalda...
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2016 2:34am PST
The fundraiser for Standing Rock was quite a success! #noDAPL...
Posted: Sat, Dec 17, 2016 1:02pm PST
During a busy payday lunch hour, members of #NoDAPLBayArea took over the global headquarters of Wells Fargo Bank in the financial district of San Francisco....
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2016 9:33pm PST
Dakota Access Pipeline protesters close the Santa Cruz branch of Bank of America at River and Water Streets....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2016 10:59am PST
Hasta Muerte Coffee is the collective vision of a few Latinx homies to open up a coffee shop where vibrant community, good coffee and social justice work meet in the Fruitvale neighborhood. We are calling out for support in the final days of a KICKSTARTER campaign to make our vision a reality! Watch our 3 min video below....
Posted: Sun, Nov 27, 2016 12:01pm PST
Speech by Codepink co-founder Medea Benjamin on her new book "Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection" with opening comments on the recent presidential "elections."...
Posted: Fri, Nov 25, 2016 4:33pm PST
On November 10 — the second full night after Trump was selected to be the next US president by the 18% of Americans who voted for him — rowdy and defiant protests continued in Oakland. Again, hundreds of police turned out, but this time the cops were noticeably more aggressive after having lost control of the city the night before....
Posted: Thu, Nov 17, 2016 8:50pm PST
More Actions Pledged in Support of Standing Rock Sioux...
Posted: Wed, Nov 16, 2016 1:14pm PST
People in Santa Cruz again turned out for justice at Standing Rock!...
Posted: Wed, Nov 16, 2016 11:31am PST
Photos of the Dakota Pipeline protest that occurred in San Francisco on Tuesday November 15, 2016....
Posted: Tue, Nov 15, 2016 5:36pm PST
Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheatre. If inaccessible, Kaiser Park (19th St btwn Telegraph & San Pablo). If raining, the OMNI....
Event Date: Sun, Nov 20, 2016 3:00pm PST
Posted: Tue, Nov 15, 2016 4:40pm PST
WASHINGTON, November 15, 2016 — Thousands gathered today in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., for a national day of action at President Obama’s Army Corps of Engineers offices to call for the permanent rejection of the Dakota Access Pipeline, currently under the threat of the Trump presidency. This call to action from indigenous leaders in Standing Rock was in response to increased violent repression from militarized police as the pipeline company continues construction on sacred land, desp...
Posted: Tue, Nov 15, 2016 3:47pm PST
Thousands turned out in Oakland on November 9 to protest the election of Donald Trump. Police gathered in the hundreds and even called in mutual aid from neighboring departments. But their presence was not enough to rein in the masses of outraged anti-Trump demonstrators, especially after OPD seriously escalated the situation by prematurely declaring an illegal assembly and attacking the crowd with tear gas and flash bang grenades. In no time, what was once a single unified march spread ac...
Posted: Sun, Nov 13, 2016 10:50pm PST
Kids' messages to Trump at a rally in Palo Alto on Saturday included "No to any grabbing", "Love and kindness" and "You are not my president".
Top photo: the girl at left made the sign that includes the words, "No to any grabbing"....
Posted: Sun, Nov 13, 2016 12:39am PST
[Indybay editor note: See also the Response from Jamie Holland and Response from John Viola of the NLG below.]...
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2016 3:36pm PST
















