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New California Factory Farming Websites
East Bay Animal Advocates has launched two new websites regarding
California factory farming.
East Bay Animal Advocates...
Posted: Sun, Aug 7, 2005 1:44pm PDT
8/6 KPFA Special Programming On AFL-CIO Convention & Labor Struggles
The KPFA Labor Collective on Saturday August 6, 2005 at 9:00 AM will be producing a one hour labor radio show on the events at the 2005 AFL-CIO convention
and struggles going on in the bay area. It can be heard on the internet at www.kpfa.org....
Posted: Thu, Aug 4, 2005 6:00pm PDT
NFWM E-News: 5 Farmworker deaths due to heat; New Emerg. Regulations
1. 5 Farmworker deaths due to heat
2. NFWM Board in silent vigil at Gallo of Sonoma
3. Unitarian Universalist Association endorses Gallo boycott
4. NFWM News & Views online...
Posted: Thu, Aug 4, 2005 5:22pm PDT
Calif. Drs. Rethink Position On Gay Medical Care
The California Medical Association is reportedly reconsidering its position that doctors and medical clinics have the right to refuse treatment on moral grounds....
Posted: Wed, Aug 3, 2005 6:51am PDT
Businesses Can't Discriminate Against Gay Couples Calif. Court Rules
Country clubs must offer same-sex couples the same discounted memberships that they give married couples California's Supreme Court ruled Monday in a decision that will spillover to affect all businesses in the state....
Posted: Tue, Aug 2, 2005 9:29am PDT
Bohemian Grove & the 25th Vigil
Report from the Saturday, July 16, 2005 demonstration at Bohemian Grove on the Russian River...
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 9:31pm PDT
Weekly Alert: Court Support, Council Votes & MCA Mtg
3) Monday, Huntington Beach: Council to Vote on Permanent Dispensing Ban
4) Monday, Pasadena: Council to Vote on Permanent Dispensing Ban
5) Tuesday, Sacramento: Support Dispensary Operator Louis Fowler in Court
6) Thursday, Oakland: Medical Cannabis Association Meeting...
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 12:51am PDT
Eddy Lepp, Ron Kiczenski religious use cases updates
FYI, I'm sending this update and forward to let people know the status
of these two cases. Bear in mind that these are my own observations and
were not vetted with the principals involved in the cases, who may see
things quite differently. Please visit their web sites to get the
official versions....
Posted: Sat, Jul 30, 2005 12:41pm PDT
SOS members, Neo-Nazi Skinheads, & White Supremacists (1/4)
The photograph below shows Don Silva, a top spokeperson for Save our State (SOS), the immigrant bashing group founded by Joe Turner of Ventura County, California, holding up the blue banner, "DEPORT ILLEGAL ALIENS," along with a man reputed to be "Advocate," at the Saturday, July 16th, 2005 rally against the day laborer center in Laguna Beach, California. A woman reputed to be "Dixieland_Delight" poses before the camera while waving an American flag. Both "A...
Posted: Sat, Jul 30, 2005 9:25am PDT
Update on Theresa Dang, Garden Grove Arrestee Facing 8/24 Hearing
Theresa Dang, the young woman whose home was raided
last month by Garden Grove police looking for a
flashlight that one of their officers lost at the May
25th protest against Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist,
was formally arraigned this morning on a misdemeanor
petty theft charge...
Posted: Thu, Jul 28, 2005 4:56pm PDT
Two Additional Ballot Initiatives Released For Signature Gathering
Today, two additional Constitutional amendments were released for signature gathering. Both initiatives would repeal domestic partnership rights and permanently ban access to civil marriage protections....
Posted: Wed, Jul 27, 2005 8:55pm PDT
Professor Dill to Testify for Election Assistance Commission
Professor Dill to Testify for Election Assistance Commission
Urges Accessible and Verifiable Voting Systems Standards...
Posted: Wed, Jul 27, 2005 8:47pm PDT
Rad Radio interview from a front line Planned Parenthood Clinic Defender (audio/mpeg 16.5MB)
Lichi from the International Socialist Organization is interviewed on clinic defense at Planned Parenthood's San Francisco clinic the past two Saturdays. Anti-abortion Catholic college students, the "Crusade For Life" passed through San Francisco on a statewide abortion protest tour, were met head on by well organized, militant clinic defenders. Lichi discusses the protests, contadictions of the "pro-life movement, the fundamentals of the abortion battle including current leg...
Posted: Tue, Jul 26, 2005 9:31pm PDT
SF Clinic Defenders Stand Firm Against Crusade For Life Protesters
Socialist-led clinic defenders stand off against and shout down the anti-abortion Catholic college group "Crusade For Life", protesting the past two Saturdays in front of San Francisco's Planned Parenthood clinic. The article looks at the abortion debate with an analysis of "Crusade' and the related reactionary movement...
Posted: Tue, Jul 26, 2005 9:06pm PDT
Equality for All Denounces Mean-Spirited Ballot Initiative to Enshrine Discrimination
Measure Would Repeal and Permanently Ban Existing Safety Net for Legally Recognized Domestic Partners...
Posted: Tue, Jul 26, 2005 9:56am PDT
Mean-Spirited Ballot Initiiative To Enshrine Discrimination In The California Constitution
Measure Would Repeal and Permanently Ban Existing Safety Net for Legally Recognized Domestic Partners...
Posted: Tue, Jul 26, 2005 8:09am PDT
Green Party Supports Dropping of Prop. 77
Governor's 'pet project' deserved the axe, note Greens, who give superior court judge a 'Green for a Day' award...
Posted: Tue, Jul 26, 2005 7:04am PDT