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Indybay Journalist Assaulted by Leon Panetta's Security at Bookshop Santa Cruz Event 
I was physically assaulted by a security agent who was working for former Secretary of Defense and CIA Director Leon Panetta at a speaking and book-signing engagement in Santa Cruz on November 10. The agent intentionally and deliberately grabbed my camera and hit me with it in the face when I was attempting to take a photo of Panetta leaving the event. I was approximately one foot away from him when he struck me. Top photo: The agent who assaulted me. (Photos of the protest will be published ...
Posted: Tue, Nov 11, 2014 6:29am PST
My Daughter and I Were Arrested Today By Military Police Guarding Worlds Most Hated Weapon 
Drone warfare kills children and other innocents. One California family has had enough. Father and daughter help blockade the base and join the LONG list of Americans in the brig. Free now, they face federal charges....
Posted: Thu, Oct 30, 2014 9:56am PDT
21st Annual Peace and Unity March in Watsonville 
Watsonville City Plaza located on Main Street...
Event Date: Sat, Nov 1, 2014 9:00am PDT
Posted: Mon, Oct 27, 2014 7:56pm PDT
California Leads the Way in the “Block the Boat” Movement 
Fighting the Occupation on the West Coast...
Posted: Fri, Oct 17, 2014 1:27pm PDT
Block The Boat - March for Palestine - SUNDAY (date change) 
Meet at West Oakland BART...
Event Date: Sun, Oct 26, 2014 3:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Oct 16, 2014 6:42pm PDT
Kobanê Solidarity Graffiti in West Oakland 
Graffiti expressing solidarity with Kobanê appeared in multiple locations across West Oakland....
Posted: Wed, Oct 15, 2014 9:29pm PDT
SF Demonstration in Solidarity with Kobane and Rojava Revolution 10/11/14 
Members of the Kurdish diaspora in the Bay Area joined local anarchists today for an afternoon demonstration in solidarity with the Rojava Revolution and the Kurdish resistance in Kobane fighting off a brutal siege by ISIS. Over 50 people took over Powell and Market in San Francisco with powerful banners and thousands of leaflets throughout the afternoon today....
Posted: Sat, Oct 11, 2014 8:53pm PDT
Defend the Kobanê Resistance! 
Powell and Market Street in San Francisco...
Event Date: Sat, Oct 11, 2014 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Oct 9, 2014 10:21am PDT
Protest Obama at his SF fundraiser to say "No War!" 
‘W’ Hotel, 3rd & Howard Sts....
Event Date: Fri, Oct 10, 2014 4:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Oct 5, 2014 11:17am PDT
Stop ZIM Action Committee Thanks Supporters of Zim Shanghai Pickets and ILWU Local 10 
The Stop ZIM Action Committee thanks participants and supporters of the Zim Shanghai blockade on Saturday, September 27, and salutes ILWU Local 10 longshore workers for honoring the picket lines....
Posted: Tue, Sep 30, 2014 12:44am PDT
Liverpool Dockers Solidarity with ILWU Local 10 and Oakland Community Picket of ZIM Ships 
Following the successful blockade of the Zim Shanghai at the Port of Oakland on Saturday, September 27, Liverpool dockworkers both past and present sent the following statement of solidarity to ILWU Local 10 longshore workers, for refusing to cross community picket lines against the Israeli-owned ZIM ships.
All day Saturday the Zim Shanghai was prevented from doing business in the Bay Area and sent back out to sea with all its cargo untouched. For several days in August another ZIM ship, ...
Posted: Tue, Sep 30, 2014 12:21am PDT
Bay Area activists again prevent unloading of Israeli ship 
Labor and Palestine solidarity activists in the San Francisco Bay Area came together again in the pre-dawn hours of Saturday morning, September 28, to greet a cargo ship from the Israeli line Zim at the Port of Oakland....
Posted: Sun, Sep 28, 2014 9:31pm PDT
Israeli Zim Shanghai At Standstill In Oakland By ILWU Action & Picket Line 
ILWU Local 10 longshore workers refused to work the Israeli Zim ship Shanghai on September 27, 2014 and over 200 picketed the SSA terminal 57 in solidarity with Palestinian trade unionists and people against the military attack on Gaza...
Posted: Sat, Sep 27, 2014 4:01pm PDT
We Are Not World Cops 
On the evening of September 23rd the airwaves were filled with reports of strikes by the United States and its allies against targets in Syria. Quick response by the Peninsula Peace and Justice Center called on SF Peninsula residents to gather and protest. Demonstrations were held in San Francisco and San José as well....
Posted: Fri, Sep 26, 2014 2:23am PDT
UK Film-makers Ken Loach & Paul Laverty Statement Of Solidarity With Zim Picket In Oakland 
UK film-makers Ken Loach and Paul Laverty have sent greetings to the community and labor activists who are picketing the Zim ships in Oakland. They have just returned from a tribunal on war crimes by Israel and Ken Loach has also protested the bias by the BBC in covering the war on the Palestinians....
Posted: Thu, Sep 25, 2014 3:22pm PDT
Emergency Protest "Stop the U.S. bombing of Syria!" 
Powell and Market Sts....
Event Date: Wed, Sep 24, 2014 5:30pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Sep 23, 2014 9:24am PDT
Threat of lawsuit from James Baker of Cytel Group / Urban Shield James Baker failed to mention why his wife Anne Marie Baker signed some contracts involving the Sheriff's Office and Urban Shield that were approved by the Alameda County Board of Supervisors that repeatedly mentioned the name Cytel Group, LLC on them. Instead he chooses to blame the County legal department for this situation, and repeatedly claims that I tried to slander him for reporting on the situation, as he continues to threaten to sue me in three different emails!...
Posted: Mon, Sep 22, 2014 11:51pm PDT
Anti-Apartheid Group Announces Campaign to Block Zim Ships to Oakland We are people of Oakland who hate apartheid, racism and genocide in all its forms. We were inspired by the historic actions that occurred on August 16th and afterward that delayed the Zim Piraeus for five days, eventually forcing it to leave after unloading only a fraction of the cargo destined for our city’s port.
We seek to aid and augment the actions by the organizations and individuals that took to the streets to block the Zim Piraeus in August. Our goal is to support and enhance effort...
Posted: Sun, Sep 21, 2014 12:31am PDT
Corruption in the Urban Areas Security Initiative Training Services? The Alameda County Sheriff's Office requested the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to approve and authorize the Purchasing Agent to execute the fully negotiated contracts for Master Contract No. 900926, with the following pool of vendors, to provide Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) training services for the Alameda County Sheriff's Office (ACSO) at an estimated total pool amount of $2,300,000....
Posted: Fri, Sep 19, 2014 9:18am PDT
Reply From Sheriff's Office Regarding Cytel Group, LLC / Urban Shield James Baker of the Cytel Group has not responded to my email request regarding questions about the Alameda County Board of Supervisors voting to approve an agreement with the Sheriff's Office and Cytel Group, LLC, regarding Urban Shield. However, a copy of the email to James Baker was also sent to Alameda County Sheriff Gregory J. Ahern, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, the Oakland City Council members, and a number of other individuals....
Posted: Thu, Sep 18, 2014 12:33am PDT
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