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MAY DAY March for Food Justice 
Santa Cruz City Hall: 809 Center St, Santa Cruz, CA...
Event Date: Sun, May 1, 2016 11:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, Apr 29, 2016 7:15pm PDT
Eminent Domain for the Gardeners Progressive Council Could Support Civil Action...
Posted: Wed, Apr 27, 2016 11:05am PDT
Driscoll’s Runs Away at Watsonville Earth Day 
People started speaking about the Driscoll’s boycott, so Driscoll’s got rid of their strawberries and quickly left Watsonville Earth Day....
Posted: Mon, Apr 25, 2016 7:46pm PDT
Farm defenders occupy the Gill Tract again to halt construction indefinitely 
Albany, CA—Celebrating Earth Day and the 4th year anniversary of the first occupation, about 30 farm defenders occupied two acres on the south side of the Gill Tract and vow to stay on the land to halt construction indefinitely. The group is making three demands: 1) STOP THE DEVELOPMENT, 2) PRESERVE THE LAND FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE, 3) CREATE A COMMUNITY PROCESS FOR DESIGN & STEWARDSHIP OF GILL TRACT....
Posted: Sat, Apr 23, 2016 5:15pm PDT
Rally at Brazilian Consulate over the assassination of peasant leaders 
Consulate General of Brazil in San Francisco
300 Montgomery St #300, San Francisco, CA 94104...
Event Date: Mon, Apr 18, 2016 3:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2016 3:00pm PDT
H.E. Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, former President of Nigeria to visit Sacramento, California 
CAPCR Director Ernest Uwazie. “We are also honored and very pleased to have President Jonathan as our distinguished guest speaker. His gracious concession and peaceful transfer of power to the opposition party in Nigeria’s 2015 election, for the first time in the country’s 55-year history....
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2016 9:20am PDT
Letter from Al Rojas to Arturo Rodriguez on UFW and the Delano 1965 Grape Strike 
"Dear brothers and sisters many of you for the last several months have been asking me whether I was invited or decided to attend the "UFW" 50th year commemoration of the Delano 1965 Grape Strike. Three days prior the event I received an invitation from, "Arturo Rodriguez." President of the "UFW" Union in so doing after consulting with my Family having sent our response have decided to share and to release publicly the letter that was sent to brother Arturo Rodriguez." -Al Rojas
** No, the...
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2016 12:33pm PDT
Farmworker groups march on Driscoll's corporate headquarters, call for boycott 
Representatives from farmworker unions in Washington state and Baja California - citing abuses including wage theft, broken contracts, pesticide poisoning, and sexual harassment and coercion - led a march to the Watsonville headquarters of berry distributor Driscoll's, where they spoke out on their experiences as workers and demanded Driscoll's force growers to provide dignified working conditions....
Posted: Fri, Apr 1, 2016 11:21pm PDT
March to Driscoll's to protest for the boycott of Driscoll's strawberries! 
Boycott of Driscoll's strawberries in Watsonville CA. March 31, 2016...
Posted: Fri, Apr 1, 2016 1:42pm PDT
Boycott Driscoll’s West Coast Tour at Driscoll’s HQ in Watsonville 
After a series of strikes in 2013 at Sakuma Brothers Farms in Washington state, farmworkers formed a union in response to denial of lunch and rest breaks, inhumane housing conditions, wage theft, below minimum wage pay, and harassment from supervisors....
Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2016 9:55pm PDT
Demo at Whole Foods: Boycott Driscoll's Berries! On sidewalk in front of Whole Foods
774 Emerson St, Palo Alto, CA 94301...
Event Date: Thu, Mar 31, 2016 3:00pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Mar 26, 2016 12:39am PDT
Selma James speaking on Caregiving: an Anti-Capitalist Perspective Omni Commons
4799 Shattuck at 48th Street
Oakland...
Event Date: Fri, Mar 25, 2016 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Mar 24, 2016 6:08pm PDT
Anti-Displacement Activists Shut Down Mayor’s Economic Development Summit 
Anti-Displacement Activists Shut Down Mayor’s Economic Development Summit
Demand Oakland Declare Housing State of Emergency...
Posted: Tue, Mar 22, 2016 10:01pm PDT
Black Power Network Calls for Housing Emergency NOW (video/mp4 42.6MB) On Friday, March 18th, 2016 The Black Power Network and allies responded to the growing housing crisis in Oakland by interrupting the Chamber of Commerce Big Business Breakfast at the Kaiser Building....
Posted: Tue, Mar 22, 2016 5:25pm PDT
Protesters Crash Oakland Chamber of Commerce Breakfast Set to Feature Mayor Libby Schaaf 
Before 8am on Friday, March 18, over a hundred housing activists caught the Oakland Chamber of Commerce off guard at their "Oakland is open for business" breakfast for real estate developers. Protesters were able to completely shut down the 2016 Economic Development Summit at the Kaiser Building on Lake Merritt before Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf could even give her opening remarks. Once inside, demonstrators took the stage. Lockboxes were used to block one of the main entrances to the confe...
Posted: Tue, Mar 22, 2016 12:21am PDT
21st Annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair 
The New Oakland Metro Operahouse
522 Second Street
Oakland, CA 94607
(2 blocks from West Oakland BART)
http://www.oaklandmetro.org/...
Event Date: Sat, Apr 23, 2016 10:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, Mar 18, 2016 6:10pm PDT
Message from San Quintín to the United States: Boycott Driscoll’s 
Farmworkers declare “we have suffered reprisals, mass dismissals, constant threats, increased workload for the same salary, and are obligated to join corporate unions that have never represented us, in exchange for keeping our jobs, among other labor abuses.”...
Posted: Sat, Mar 5, 2016 1:29pm PST
Boycott Driscoll's Action at Whole Foods Market in Santa Cruz 
“Thank you to all the people who enter the stores and raise the consciousness of the consumers, because we are going to win this struggle together with you all.” – Maestra Gloria...
Posted: Mon, Feb 29, 2016 7:18pm PST
In SF Demonstrators Say Apple Should Not Be Forced to Help FBI Hack iPhone 
Dozens of people rallied in front of Apple’s flagship store in San Fransisco on February 17. They were there to protest the U.S. government’s unlawful attempt to force the company to help the FBI hack into an iPhone, which would set a dangerous precedent and threaten the safety and security of millions of iPhone users worldwide....
Posted: Thu, Feb 25, 2016 2:08am PST
Dr. Angela Davis comes to the University of San Francisco 
Last week, the University of San Francisco’s Black Student Union had the honor of presenting author, educator, and activist Dr. Angela Davis.
Dr. Angela Davis has spent over forty years dedicating her life to activism and scholarship in an attempt to combat inequality and systems of oppression to achieve social justice. Drawing on her experience as a member of the Communist Party USA, the Black Panther Party, and an eighteen-month prison sentence after being placed on the FBI’s “Ten Most W...
Posted: Tue, Feb 23, 2016 10:55pm PST
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