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Schwarzenegger's budget: up with prisons, down with communities Sacramento - In his budget released today, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger stuck to an old script: increasing funding for the state's massively troubled prison system. Elected on a platform that promised to "blow up boxes," the governor continues to fall in line with expensive and ineffective "tough on crime" policies despite widespread voter frustration at pouring ever more resources into a failed prison system....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 9:25am PST
Protest Schwarzenegger's Lunch Break Takeaway Noon at State Capital 1/13 Arnold the Bullying Lowlife now wants to steal the lunch breaks of workers! Don't miss this protest tomorrow!...
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 10:09pm PST
CA Assembly Committee OKs Hemp Bill Assembly committee OKs bill letting farmers grow hemp...
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 12:11pm PST
Killing Tookie, Smearing Mandela: Schwarzenegger's Hit List So reads the statement of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in denying clemency for Stan Tookie Williams. Twelve hours after the statement was issued, Stan was brought into the execution chamber at San Quentin Prison, and the former gang leader-turned-internationally renown peacemaker was put to death....
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 9:38am PST
Indian-Americans Decry Attempts by Hindu Supremacist Groups to Rewrite India’s History Palo Alto, CA, January 10, 2006 -- A coalition of American groups representing the immigrant communities from the Indian subcontinent, led by Friends of South Asia (FOSA), have taken strong exception to numerous misrepresentations of India’s ancient history and of Hinduism recently put forward by the Vedic Foundation (VF) and the Hindu Education Foundation (HEF) for incorporation into Grade 6 History/Social Sciences textbooks in California....
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 12:39am PST
CA Alert: Help Steve Kubby We are writing today to ask for your help in the case of Steve Kubby,
a medical cannabis patient who has been living with his family in
Canada for the past five years. Mr. Kubby was convicted in 1999 of
misdemeanor drug possession (for possessing minute quantities of
mescaline and psilocin) stemming from a marijuana raid on his Placer
County, California home....
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 10:07pm PST
DPF Updates On January 10, 2006, the California Assembly Public Safety Committee voted 4-2-1 to support the "California Moratorium on Executions Act" (AB1121) (Leno, Goldberg, Hancock, and Dymally voted to support the bill, Cohn abstained and Spitzer and LaSuer voted against the bill)...
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 10:05pm PST
Filibuster or Bush: Feinstein Must Stop Alito Sen. Feinstein must declare her intention now to lead a filibuster against Alito. Simply voting against him is an empty gesture....
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 3:02pm PST
Help Free Theresa Cruz Imprisoned for 15 years for the non-fatal shooting of her ex-husband, Theresa Cruz is finally up for parole! She's not a media star, just a regular working-class woman who needs your help. This is a case we could win! Please write the governor....
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 6:56am PST
AB 1121 Moratorium on Executions Hearing tomorrow Location: State Capitol
Room 126
9:00 am
A press conference will be held at 12:00 noon in Governor's Press room #1190...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 11:10pm PST
Ask Your Assemblymember to Support 3 Key LGBT Rights Bills and Oppose the Pete Knight Memo Ask Your Assemblymember to Support Three Key EQCA LGBT Rights Bills and Oppose the
Pete Knight Memorial Act!...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 9:41pm PST
"Bloody Monday" World Can't Wait Rally against Alito 
"Bloody Monday" World Can't Wait Rally against Alito...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 8:49pm PST
Where Have All the Protests Gone? Sacramento! It's hard to believe it, but there's not one single anti-war rally scheduled in the Bay Area for this entire upcoming, 3-day weekend. However, we're having a big one in Sacramento this Saturday. So if you think it's worth a 1.5 hour drive to help stop the war and to get Bush impeached, then come on over!...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 8:31pm PST
1/16- Upcoming Events Thursday, January 19, 2006
THE SF BAY AREA PREMIERE OF AFTER INNOCENCE
A Benefit for the Life After Exoneration Program and Death Penalty Focus...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 5:02pm PST
Peace Fresno Denounces Government Sponsored Spying 
Peace Fresno Press Conference - Monday, January 9, 2006...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 2:57pm PST
Where Have All the Protests Gone? Sacramento! It's hard to believe it, but there's not one single anti-war rally scheduled in the Bay Area for this entire upcoming, 3-day weekend. However, we're having a big one in Sacramento this Saturday. So if you think it's worth a 1.5 hour drive to help stop the war and to get Bush impeached, then come on over!...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 10:47am PST
Events with Lucius Walker this Week Mon. Jan. 9, 7pm
An Evening with Reverend Lucius Walker, Jr.
522 Valencia, 3rd Floor, San Francisco...
Posted: Sun, Jan 8, 2006 10:05pm PST
Support Action to Protect Medicine Lake 
Protest at Calpine against Power Plant Proposed
at Sacred Medicine Lake near Mt. Shasta
Pit River Indian Tribe members to be joined by community and environmental justice groups in protest and cultural gathering at Calpine corporate offices
Friday, January 27, 2006, high noon
Calpine Headquarters, 50 W. San Fernando Street in San Jose...
Posted: Sat, Jan 7, 2006 5:33pm PST
ASA CA Weekly Alert It's a new year, and there's still a LOT going on in the medical
marijuana community. Between meetings, hearings and protests, there are
opportunities to support medical marijuana throughout all regions of
California. It's time to make our voices heard!...
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 7:17pm PST
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