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In their walk for peace, which began on 1/15, the Hiroshima Flame Interfaith Pilgrimage is marching across the US, carrying a flame constructed from embers of the Hiroshima bombing. The walk arrived in the SF Bay Area on 2/11 and met up with a concurrent homeless rights protest. It will reach the Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Laboratory on 2/14. The procession aims to stop the Star Wars missile defense program, honor Native people who are victims of nuclear development, and promote alternatives...
Posted: Wed, Jan 24, 2001 12:00am PST
Tributes to the work and life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. took place throughout the Bay Area this past week. Events included a demonstration against the war and racism in downtown SF on Jan 16, the day after MLK's birthday. See photos. On the observance of his birthday, hundreds of school children and community members met up with labor, Free Mumia, and peace activists to march in the rain from Caltran to Civic Center to honor and represent the legacy of his non-violent work for justice. ...
Posted: Mon, Jan 21, 2002 12:00am PST
Bradley Angel, Executive Director of Greenaction -- "IES underestimated the power of the community coalition, and our determination to stop the incinerators no matter what IES or the government did to support the company." Green Action is an organization which is part of the coalition that recently helped close the polluting IES incinerator in the Fruitvale district of Oakland. Read Full Interview...
Posted: Sun, Jan 20, 2002 12:00am PST
1/9: In a victory for Forest Activists in Humboldt County, the District Attorney has dropped all charges against 9 activists cited and released on October 24, 2001 while engaged in protests at the gate to the Hole in Headwaters logging plan. The activist maintain that they were doing nothing illegal having only engaged in friendly dialog with loggers on public property. The arrests were made by a security guard hired by Maxxam/PL who was backed by Carl Anderson, a former Sheriff, now head of...
Posted: Wed, Jan 9, 2002 12:00am PST
1/11: As the Enron organized crime scandal keeps accelerating out of control, the Bush Oil Cartel is faced with startling accusations into their co-operation with fundamentalist terrorists.
On 1/8, a delegation demanding a Congressional inquiry into the cause of the 9/11 events gathered at Justin Heman Plaza and then proceeded up Market Street for a meeting with Senator Feinstein's staff. As the US corporate media persists in its failure to question the government's assessment of the res...
Posted: Tue, Jan 8, 2002 12:00am PST
1/9: The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) has condemned a new Justice Department plan that focuses deportation efforts on Middle Eastern men. According to the ADC, the program reflects a bias inherent to numerous post-9/11 measures. A clear example is the Department's ongoing investigation of 5,000 young Arab men who entered the United States since Jan. 1, 2000. Males from Arab and Muslim states who apply for visas to visit the U.S. also have to wait an additional 20 days ...
Posted: Wed, Jan 9, 2002 12:00am PST
Anti-War Coverage: "Next year will be a war year," Bush has declared, indicating there is no end in sight for the on-going bloodbaths in Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Colombia and anywhere that US imperialism may be threatened:
• Learn about Afghanistan’s central geographic location and its very desired natural resources, namely oil reserves. Audio
• A chief consultant at Unocal has been appointed the U.S. Special Envoy to Afghanistan. This Unocal "consultant" has demanded US in...
Posted: Tue, Jan 1, 2002 12:00am PST
NYPD & anti-capitalists prepare for confrontation in New York City
Feb 1st: Protests are underway in NYC, as a co-ordinated netstrike against the World Economic Forum has shut down their website. Thousands protested the Gap (see video), and NYPD stood guard for the rich.
San Francisco Protests: Activities in the Bay Area include a WEF solidarity protest on Saturday at 6pm, a demo for a Palestinian American woman fired from Macy's at noon, an all-day fair at Islais Creek, a WEF panel ...
Posted: Mon, Jan 21, 2002 12:00am PST
IWW Local 23 launched a new web portal to promote easy access to a broad range of news affecting workers. With this resource, the IWW hopes to brings together information from news agencies, activist organizations and labor organizations. Details...
Posted: Tue, Jan 8, 2002 12:00am PST
1/15: About 100 people protested Taco Bell's world headquarters in Irvine, CA. At issue is Taco Bell's refusal to pay their tomato pickers a living wage, or to even meet with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), the organization of Florida tomato pickers and supporters, to discuss a pay raise. This protest is merely a buildup to a national march on 3/11 that will be led by CIW, whom are traveling across the country to hopefully meet with Taco Bell corporate executives and discuss a ra...
Posted: Tue, Jan 15, 2002 12:00am PST
1/15: A new national report – "Illegal to be Homeless" – was recently released. The report distinguishes California as the "meanest" state in the country for people who are poor and homeless. NYC, Atlanta and SF were cited as the three meanest cities nationally. The report finds that increasingly more cities are enacting laws that criminalize homelessness by prohibiting sleeping or camping in public, even when no shelter beds are available.
Details | First-hand account | Coalit...
Posted: Tue, Jan 15, 2002 12:00am PST
1/9: In a victory for Forest Activists in Humboldt County, the District Attorney has dropped all charges against 9 activists cited and released on Oct 24, 2001 while engaged in protests at the gate to the Hole in Headwaters logging plan. Read more Forest News...
Posted: Wed, Jan 9, 2002 12:00am PST
If passed during the March 2002 statewide ballot, the "California Clean Water, Clean Air, Safe Neighborhoods and Coastal Protection Act of 2002" proposition could provide funds to purchase forest in the Mattole which are presently under siege by Pacific Lumber Company. Over 60 activists have been arrested during the past year while protesting logging in this largest unprotected continuous stand of old growth lowland Douglas Fir forest in the state. Proposition 40 would authorize $2.6 billion...
Posted: Sat, Jan 12, 2002 1:30pm PST
1/7: In response to community outrage about the 6/13/01 police killing of Idriss Stelley at the Sony Metreon Theater, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a resolution urging a dramatic increase in the police crisis intervention training program. One in every four calls to the police is regarding someone in psychiatric crisis, but currently less than 3% of SFPD officers are trained to respond. The resolution, passed on 1/7, urges the SFPD to train 25% of all first responder officers ...
Posted: Thu, Jan 10, 2002 12:00am PST
1/9: The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) has condemned a new Justice Department plan that focuses deportation efforts on Middle Eastern men. Read more Criminal Injustice News
Join Media Alliance and Mission Cultural Center to hear delegates from the World Conference on Racism and local media makers discuss racial profiling and anti-immigrant trends in the media on Jan 31 at 7PM. Details...
Posted: Wed, Jan 9, 2002 12:00am PST
11/8 Charleston, SC: After an unrelenting campaign, victory for the Charleston 5 – union dockworkers charged with "inciting to riot" following a January 20, 2000 protest. Negotiated settlement report. When 150 longshore workers, members of the predominantly black ILA local 1422 and its fraternal Local 1771, picketed the loss of their jobs to a non-union stevedore company, they were attacked by 600 riot police in the port of Charleston, SC. The unions and its members were fined $1.5 million do...
Posted: Thu, Nov 8, 2001 12:00am PST
11/8 Charleston, SC: After an unrelenting campaign, victory for the Charleston 5 – union dockworkers charged with "inciting to riot" following a January 20, 2000 protest. Negotiated settlement report. When 150 longshore workers, members of the predominantly black ILA local 1422 and its fraternal Local 1771, picketed the loss of their jobs to a non-union stevedore company, they were attacked by 600 riot police in the port of Charleston, SC. The unions and its members were fined $1.5 million do...
Posted: Wed, Jan 9, 2002 12:00am PST
A student coalition has organized a protest to take
place in front of the downtown Berkeley Taco Bell at
12pm. Farm workers from South East Florida have been
traveling the country informing people about the abuse
they have experienced working for one of the nations
leading tomato growers, a contractor for Taco Bell,
their largest client....
Posted: Wed, Jan 9, 2002 12:00am PST
The workers' struggle for a first time contract at the SF Marriott Hotel continues. On July 31, a 16-hour picket line was held to mark the one-year anniversary of the historic two-day strike at the hotel. Despite the escalating anti-union campaign launched by management, 75% of the workers scheduled to work honored the strike and did not cross the picket line. The intent of the noisy protest was to raise guests' awareness of the boycott and lengthy labor dispute at the hotel. Watch video of t...
Posted: Tue, Jul 31, 2001 12:00am PDT
The workers\\\' struggle for a first time contract at the SF Marriott Hotel continues. On July 31, a 16-hour picket line was held to mark the one-year anniversary of the historic two-day strike at the hotel. Despite the escalating anti-union campaign launched by management, 75% of the workers scheduled to work honored the strike and did not cross the picket line. The intent of the noisy protest was to raise guests' awareness of the boycott and lengthy labor dispute at the hotel. Watch video o...
Posted: Wed, Jan 9, 2002 12:00am PST