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Gas Boycott on Monday
Boycott of purchasing gas on monday's starting May 17th. This is an attempt to hurt the evil big oil tycoons and force them to lower prices to a reasonable level for the average working class citizen. We can fight big business if we stand united!...
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 11:32pm PDT
6/7 Medical Facts Behind the Headlines - Sacramento
Please join NARAL Pro-Choice California with Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health (PRCH) on Monday, June 7, 2004 for an educational evening with medical experts who will discuss the current news making the headlines...
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 11:19pm PDT
ACTION ALERT HR 3722: Requires Emergency Rooms to Report Undocumented Immigrants
US House of Representatives to vote on HR 3722, requiring emergency
room health workers to fingerprint or photograph undocumented
immigrant patients and then call Homeland Security to begin
deportation proceedings...
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 7:01pm PDT
Change in Plans for Weds CYA Demo going to Sacto
As you know, we've been planning to go to Sacramento on Wednesday morning. Instead,
we will get together in OAKLAND on Wednesday AFTERNOON. That's right — we're meeting at 1.30 p.m. in West Oakland....
Posted: Tue, May 11, 2004 9:53am PDT
5/12: Sacramento Showdown with AG Bill Lockyer
7.30 AM -- OAKLAND DEPARTURE
Youth Empowerment Center
1357-A 5th Street at Mandela
(near West Oakland BART)
11.30 AM -- SACRAMENTO MEET-UP
Bill Lockyer's Office
1300 I Street, Suite 1120...
Posted: Tue, May 11, 2004 1:03am PDT
STATEWIDE WALKOUTS WEDNESDAY
CALIFORNIA STATEWIDE STUDENT WALKOUTS
WEDNESDAY MAY 12, 2004...
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 11:54pm PDT
Nader Supports Industrial Hemp as a Renewable Resource
In October, 2001, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued a rule banning the sale of foods produced from industrial hemp. The Hemp Industries Association (HIA) sued to force the DEA to rescind its rule, and last February they won their case in a unanimous 3-0 decision by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In a continuing waste of taxpayer money, however, the U.S. Department of Justice has petitioned for a rehearing of the HIA v. DEA decision by the full Ninth Circuit, asse...
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 11:11pm PDT
Prison officials declare ‘state of emergency,’ CURB proposes closing 4 prisons
“Polls show that three out of four Californians prefer rehabilitation and prevention over sending more young people to prison. But neither political party seems willing to stand up to the prison guards union, whose jobs and million-dollar annual war chest depend on the size of the inmate population,” says Hayden....
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 6:14pm PDT
Death Penalty Democrat AG Lockyer Caters to Lynch Mob; Nazi Newsom Attacks Arts
Death Penalty Democrat Attorney General Bill Lockyer won great applause from the barbaric death penalty lynch mob, the Califorina "peace" officers, aka the Gestapo, for promising to take the case of a person accused of killing a cop from the San Francisco DA who refuses to ask for the death penalty....
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 11:35am PDT
Who Will Stop CAFTA Contest
Quest for Peace of the Quixote Center will run a full-page, New York Times signature ad in opposition to CAFTA- the Central American Free Trade Agreement. The 44,000 dollars and 2,500 signatures it takes is being raised from engaged citizens like you, who wish to proudly and publicly say "No" to CAFTA. The state with the highest number of signers (as a percentage of the state's total population) will be specifically acknowledged in the New York Times Ad. Show the country and Mr. B...
Posted: Fri, May 7, 2004 7:46am PDT
Separated from Wife and Kids by Dept. of Homland Security
Separated from Wife and Kids by Dept. of Homland Security...
Posted: Thu, May 6, 2004 10:57pm PDT
Stop Voting for Death Penalty Candidates
After you get done making your phone calls and writing letters to Death Penalty Democrats Senators Boxer and Feinstein condemining their support of the death penalty police lynch mob in San Francisco, stop voting for these and all other death penalty politicians....
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 7:01pm PDT
Independent Truckers Strike!
Independent owner/operators on the West Coast carry their strike through the weekend. Signs of growing solidarity felt in the Oakland area and up and down the Coast....
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 6:35pm PDT
New Shadow Commission Will Form to Urge State to CURB prison use
“We are encouraged by the Governor's willingness to study prison closures, but if he truly wants ‘action, action, action,' he is going to have to hear from more than the people who built and are invested in this $5.3 billion prison system,' says Sitara Nieves Kapoor of CURB....
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 11:00am PDT
Can the People Who Built California Prisons Be Trusted to Close them?
Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB),
a broad based coalition of 38 organizations, seeks to CURB prison spending by reducing the number of people in prison and the number of prisons in the state....
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 10:55am PDT
West Coast G8 Regional Mobilization in San Francisco
Call to action for a West Coast regional mobilization against the G8....
Posted: Sat, May 1, 2004 12:02am PDT
1992 LA REBELLION REVISITED AFTER 12 YEARS
Today marks 12 years after LA--and lots of other cities--exploded in the aftermath of the aquital of the all-white cops who beat Rodney King. Things aren't much better for those in South Central LA, nor are they for the rest of the US working class. And they're getting worse, so we might see more of these rebellions--hopefully this time they can take on a more consciously anti-capitalist perspective....
Posted: Thu, Apr 29, 2004 4:14pm PDT
10/11: DC, Here We Come! The National Marriage Equality Express
Help us keep the Constitution sacred. Come-out for equality on National Coming Out Day at the Marriage Equality/Don't Amend Rally in DC at the US Capitol!
When: October 11th, 2004 from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Where: West Steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington DC
What: Rally for Marriage Equality with the Leaders of the Freedom to Marry Movement...
Posted: Thu, Apr 29, 2004 12:00am PDT
Indybay Meeting Schedule
Indybay Meeting Schedule for the rest of the Year...
Posted: Wed, Apr 28, 2004 12:57pm PDT
Death Penalty Focus- Urgent Action Needed!
There are 3 important action items. Please take a moment to help with one, two or all of the action alerts!!...
Posted: Tue, Apr 27, 2004 12:46am PDT