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Remarks from Bettina Aptheker on Inauguration Day 
On January 20, Inauguration Day, Bettina Aptheker, Distinguished Professor of Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at UCSC, spoke at the Unite to Ignite candlelight rally in Santa Cruz, CA. Her remarks are as follows....
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2017 4:29pm PST
Shut Up and Listen. The Police Are Not Feminist 
Cops were created not only to protect slavery, but have an equally long history of "protecting white womens' virtue" by murdering black men....
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2017 11:36pm PST
Bay Area Residents Begin Inauguration Day By Shutting Down Caltrain’s South Bay Service 
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
The Longest Walk 5.2 “Calling an End to Drug Abuse and Domestic Violence” 
The National Field Office of The American Indian Movement proudly announces, The Longest Walk 5.2, “Calling an End to Drug Abuse and Domestic Violence.” Dennis Banks, National Field Director and Co-Founder of The American Indian Movement issued a three phase - 3 year walk across America in 2016. Dennis Banks stated, “Because of the extremely high rate of abuse, suicides, drug related deaths and destruction, which is at a pandemic stage, our mission is to cross this continent on foot; seeking...
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2017 2:02pm PST
Killing Continues to Mount in California Drift Gillnet Fishery: Government Adds New Species Today, the National Marine Fisheries Service published its final List of Fisheries for 2017. The list classifies U.S. fisheries based on the level of mortality and serious injury that occurs in each fishery.
The California drift gillnet fishery is once again ranked as Category I, the most harmful rating a fishery can receive....
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2017 12:21pm PST
Inauguration Day protests organized against fascist pig President-elect Donald J. Trump Protests are being organized against fascist pig President-elect Donald J. Trump in Oakland, San Francisco, Sacramento, Washington D.C., and elsewhere on or around January 20, 2017!...
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2017 4:11am PST
Hundreds in Seattle, Oakland Kick Off National Earth2Trump Resistance Roadshow Tour 
16-city Tour Opposing Trump Attacks on Environment, Civil Rights Stops Next in Portland, Los Angeles...
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2017 5:07pm PST
Pacific Fisheries Management Council Nominated for ‘Shark Enemy’ Award by Turtle Island and Host of Concerned Environmental Groups This week Turtle Island Restoration Network, a leading international marine conservation organization, and fellow environmentalists officially nominated the Pacific Fisheries Management Council (PFMC) for the ‘Shark Enemy’ award by the conservation organization Sharkproject International....
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2016 10:26am PST
President Obama Signs Water Bill With Big Ag 'Poison Pill' Rider 
Caleen Sisk, Chief and Spiritual Leader of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, was appalled by passage of the bill with its environmentally destructive Big Ag rider.
“This is the tool California water districts need to deny the water for salmon and continue on with the Brown WaterFix for California,” said Chief Sisk. “DiFi doesn't care about all the fishermen, Tribes and fish consumers. This is the worst thing that President Obama could have done to the California water wars."...
Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2016 8:54am PST
Rally Inside Wells Fargo Headquarters Demands Bank Divest from Dakota Access Pipeline 
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
Thirty-Five Years Too Long — Free Mumia Now! 
Photo: Rally for Mumia, Toronto, 9 December 2016
To mark the 35th anniversary of the frame-up of American political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and to protest the criminal refusal by prison authorities to provide necessary medication, IBT comrades in Toronto, Canada, Wellington, New Zealand, and Oakland, California co-sponsored united-front demonstrations with a variety of organizations. A demonstration was also held in Philadelphia. We reprint below the speech given by an IBT representative ...
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2016 7:27am PST
Bay Area Residents Urge The Electors Of The Electoral College To Dump Trump Those of you reading this article can join the more than 150,000 people who have already contacted the electors in opposition to Trump, by sending your emails to the electors. If enough electors fail to vote for Trump on December 19, Trump will not be allowed to take the oath of office on January 20, and he will not be certified as the next president of the United States!...
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2016 5:57pm PST
Marin-Based Wildlife Group Slams EPA Pick Turtle Island Restoration Network, a Marin-based wildlife organization, is raising a red flag over Donald Trump’s proposed appointment of Scott Pruitt as the head of the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)....
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2016 2:51pm PST
Free All Political Prisoners forum at Starry Plough (12-3-16) (audio/mpeg 35.1MB) 12-3-16 whistleblowers forum at Starry Plough featured w/ readings from Rachel Wolkenstein's 'Path to Mumia's Freedom' and Williams vs. Pennsylvania, the case that can open his prisons doors...and our many other innocent defenders'....
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2016 2:26pm PST
Trump nominates a moron to be the next HUD Secretary Ben Carson is known as a far right wing-nut who is considered to be a moron by many as a direct result of his views and past statements!...
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2016 4:24pm PST
Western States Petroleum Association: the biggest lobby group you’ve never heard of 
While the mainstream and alternative media have published articles about aspects of WSPA’s enormous influence over politics in the West, they haven't looked at the overall strategy of how WSPA and Big Oil exert their power and influence.
CDFW map of Southern California marine protected areas: There is no better example of regulatory capture in the state than the privately-funded Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative. Catherine Reheis-Boyd, President of the Western States Association...
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2016 11:11am PST
Pipeline Protesters Shut Down Bank of America 
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
Kingdom of the Unjust - Medea Benjamin Speech - Nov. 12 2016 - Santa Cruz, California (audio/mpeg 45.4MB) 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
JPN American Community Rallies In SF Against Racism & Xenophobia and Attacks on Minorities 
Hundreds of Japanese Americans, Japanese and supporters of human rights attended a rally at the San Francisco Peace Plaza in Japan Town to call for unification against racism, xenophobia and attacks on immigrants, LBGT and minorities....
Posted: Thu, Nov 24, 2016 3:05pm PST
Woman Used As Salami Tray at Altai Brands Event in Las Vegas 
Altai Brands of Salinas, California, purveyors of gourmet cannabis edibles, objectifies woman as salami tray at Marijuana Business Conference after-party in Las Vegas....
Posted: Tue, Nov 22, 2016 11:39am PST
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