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California Senate to Vote on Two LGBT Rights Bills
Take Action! Support Resolution to Repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and Fair Campaign
Practices Legislation in Senate!...
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 11:09pm PDT
6/25 Raza Prison Conference
Conference On Raza Prisoners And Colonialism
Sat., June 25, 2005
Rudy Acuña Cultural Center/Cafe On A Street
438 South “A” Street
Oxnard, CA
(805) 487-8170...
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 11:03pm PDT
Good Grade for Legislators - A GOOD GRADE FOR LEGISLATORS; Sacramento Acts to Protect Kids
Kids Aren't Lab Rats...
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 9:15pm PDT
Prop 64 (anti-consumer, pro-business) Helps Pork Farm Win Suit Dismissal
DawnWatch: "Pork Farm Wins Suit Dismissal" -- LA Times 6/15/05...
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 3:08pm PDT
Santa Cruz Indymedia Newsletter June 15, 2005
SANTA CRUZ INDYMEDIA UPDATE, JUNE 15, 2005...
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 1:35pm PDT
Legislation Calling for a Suspension of Executions in CA Assembly
Opponents of the death penalty applauded yesterday's introduction of a bill that would place a temporary moratorium –or “time out” – on executions in California while the bipartisan California Commission on the Fair Administration Justice completes an examination of the state’s flawed criminal justice system....
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 9:40am PDT
CUE On Strike! (video/quicktime 23.0MB)
Battered by years of increasing labor unrest, the University of California saw more of the same this week as clerical workers on all ten campuses and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab left their offices and took it to the streets for three days in a row.
Three-minute QT movie. 23MB....
Posted: Tue, Jun 14, 2005 10:20pm PDT
ASA Spokesperson Trainings in Central Valley and So. Cal
Over the next couple of weeks, ASA will be holding four trainings and
strategy sessions across the state to prepare patients and advocates to
effectively lobby local officials and to be media spokespeople. The
trainings will be held in San Diego, Los Angeles, Bakersfield, and
Sacramento (see below for dates and locations)....
Posted: Tue, Jun 14, 2005 8:46pm PDT
Call ASA if you've been cited or arrested for MMJ
We will be using this information to create a formidable legal campaign
against
police resistance to upholding state medical marijuana laws....
Posted: Tue, Jun 14, 2005 3:02pm PDT
Defeat Anti-Labor Nazi Schwarzenegger in November
Our current Nazi in the state house, Gov Schwarzenegger, has delivered the anti-labor special election this November to his capitalist patrons, for which they paid him to become governor to do. It is time for everyone to do everything they can to defeat this thug's fascist initiatives, not only to save the State of California, but also to stop the growing fascist state in the USA, and the threat to world peace....
Posted: Mon, Jun 13, 2005 9:47pm PDT
Union Members Attacked by Governator
In a shocking report this Sunday, the Los Angeles Times revealed
that Governor Schwarzenegger's top advisors announced a strategy
to create a "phenomenon of anger" against union members....
Posted: Mon, Jun 13, 2005 10:37am PDT
On Forum Now! - The Role of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Worth listening to and calling in . . . they started off talking about Moyers and his speech . . ....
Posted: Fri, Jun 10, 2005 10:41am PDT
Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping at the Guerilla Drive-In (video/quicktime 35.7MB)
On June 2, 2005, Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping made a special appearance at the Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In....
Posted: Fri, Jun 10, 2005 1:01am PDT
KPFA News screws up again!
KPFA's 4 pm News headlines today, read by Max Pringle, began with another example of how KPFA News is often as bad as, if more subtle than, NPR and other ruling-class media in its reinforcement of government propaganda. Here's the transcript and my brief commentary....
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 7:21pm PDT
KPFA Board Meeting LIVE
In conjunction with indybay.org, we will once again attempt to bring you a live KPFA Board meeting, this Saturday from Berkeley's Freight and Salvage...
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 6:32pm PDT
Tent U Santa Cruz: a chance to win in the face of repression
Activist networks in the U.S. and around the world were buzzing on the morning of April 19 with the news that 19 people were brutally arrested the night before at Tent University Santa Cruz. Tent U, an experiment in "liberated education," has captured the interest of thousands of students while creating fright and paranoia among UC administrators who, in the words of one well-connected UCSC faculty member, are afraid that "the torch-carrying hordes are coming to raze UCSC to th...
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 6:20pm PDT
Hyatt West Hollywood Workers on Strike Demand Hotels Return Healthcare Money
Hundreds of workers at the Hyatt West Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles went on strike today for two weeks in protest of the hotel’s refusal to return the thousands of dollars in healthcare co-pays the hotel collected from the workers over a period of eight months after their contract expired in April....
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 10:41am PDT
ASA: Campaign Update
Despite a disappointing ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court earlier
this week, medical marijuana advocacy marches on....
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 10:47pm PDT