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Freewayblog the Inaugural and win $100! Please join us on the freeways on January 20th to celebrate four more years of shock and awe....
Posted: Wed, Jan 19, 2005 2:49pm PST
"Witness to an Execution" an Essay I wrote the following in 2001 when Robert Lee Massie was executed and stood outside last night as Donald Beardslee was killed by the State of California. I hope the following will provide some insight into some of the emotions of what happened last night. Feel free to reproduce.
Jonah Zern
Member, Education not Incarceration...
Posted: Wed, Jan 19, 2005 9:59am PST
Beardslee Executed Despite Community Opposition Prison officials declared Donald Beardslee, at 12:29am. Beardslee is the first man to be executed in California in nearly three years....
Posted: Wed, Jan 19, 2005 3:05am PST
Aid in Dying Bill to be Introduced in California California Assembly members Lloyd Levine, D-Van
Nuys and Patty Berg, D-Sebas-Topol and majority
whip, will introduce an aid-in-dying bill
fashioned after the successful Oregon law. The
bill will be introduced by February 18....
Posted: Tue, Jan 18, 2005 10:53pm PST
1/18 10pm-12 am KPFA 94.1 FM Live Coverage of Execution & Protest KPFA at 94.1 FM will have live coverage of the execution at San Quentin tonight, 1/18/05 from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. (or however long this barbarism takes) as well as of the protests which are taking place right now....
Posted: Tue, Jan 18, 2005 7:24pm PST
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebrated in Santa Cruz (video/quicktime 32.4MB) A coalition of Santa Cruz organizations invited the entire community to honor the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by joining in activities to promote peace, equality and social justice on Monday, January 17th. People throughout Santa Cruz commemorated the holiday by engaging in community service activities - making MLK's birthday a "Day on, not a Day off"....
Posted: Tue, Jan 18, 2005 10:36am PST
1/14: Update about return of property- some victories Thought folks would like to know that a patient and caregiver cited by
CHP in Marin County was recently awarded his 2 pounds of manicured
medical marijuana returned....
Posted: Tue, Jan 18, 2005 1:01am PST
Open Letter To Boxer: A gift audio clip of Condi Dear Senator Boxer,
Thanks for standing up for the election challenge, it took a lot of courage to do that, I hope you have more where that came from. I've read that you are gearing up to battle Condi's appointment- if you really want to ask her tough questions, I have a gift for you. This audio excerpt of a speech Condi gave 6 months after 9/11:
http://la.indymedia.org/uploads/condi-terrible_accident.mp3
After seeing the first plane hit, Condoleeza's "first thought was, what a te...
Posted: Mon, Jan 17, 2005 11:02am PST
'Car-sit' EV Vigil Underway NOW In Sacramento! 
Sacramento - This weekend in Sacramento, Ford electric vehicle (EV) drivers, climate protection advocates, healthcare professionals, solar energy experts and human rights and peace activists will begin an 'EV vigil' to protest Ford Motor Company's confiscation and destruction of its all-electric, zero-emission Ranger pickup trucks. Inspired by civil rights sit-ins and powered by a 5,000-watt mobile solar array, citizens for clean cars are prepared to buckle-in for an extended 'car sit' over ...
Posted: Sun, Jan 16, 2005 12:28pm PST
LGBT caravan to Napa On Saturday, February 5th, at 9:30am, car loads of LGBT activists
from San Jose, San Francisco, Sacramento, Santa Cruz and Reno will
roll into Napa for a fun-filled day of precinct-walking and phone
banking on behalf of Chris Edwards. Chris is a local business owner,
a longtime Democratic activist and civic leader, the co-chairperson
of the Napa Valley Gay Lesbian Political Caucus...
Posted: Sat, Jan 15, 2005 12:24pm PST
Calif. governor unveils Bush-like proposals Labor and people’s organizations are expressing outrage over the proposals made by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in the “State of the State” address he delivered Jan. 5, and the budget he introduced Jan. 10....
Posted: Sat, Jan 15, 2005 11:51am PST
California governor urged to grant clemency to Death Row inmate Donald Beardslee: Pt. 2 (video/quicktime 20.3MB) "Pain can not be passed along; it can only be spread" - Joy Sojoodi, Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation. Four-minute QT movie. 20MB....
Posted: Fri, Jan 14, 2005 6:51am PST
California governor urged to grant clemency to Death Row inmate Donald Beardslee (video/quicktime 14.6MB) Beardslee's clemency hearing is tomorrow (Friday, Jan. 14th) in Sacramento. Time and place at the end of the movie. Three-minute QT movie. 14MB....
Posted: Thu, Jan 13, 2005 4:52pm PST
DawnWatch: "Happy Cows" ads stay as govt is immune from false advertising laws Those of us in California are familiar with the amusing but misleading 'Happy Cows' advertisements from the California Milk Producers Advisory Board. The theme of the cartoon-style campaign is "Good cheese comes from happy cows. Happy cows come from California." It shows cows on rolling green hills, chatting happily to each other about the California good life. The campaign, though light-hearted, is clearly taking advantage of the increasing public concern for animal welfare, using ...
Posted: Wed, Jan 12, 2005 5:14pm PST
ASA's Action of the Week I. Action of the Week - Turn up the Heat on HHS!
II. Legal Tip
III. Activist Spotlight
*I. Action of the Week:*...
Posted: Wed, Jan 12, 2005 3:42pm PST
Want Peace? End Our Fossil Fuel Addiction!!! CALL CPUC TODAY!!! t's beginning to appear that THE MOST DIRECT ROUTE to peace in the Middle
East is to end our fossil fuel addiction: The US invaded Afghanistan so that
Unocal could build a natural gas pipeline; the US invaded Iraq so that
Chevron could get their oil--so that the multi-trillion-dollar oil and
natural gas industries can keep going, at the cost of hundreds of thousands
of human lives and hundreds of thousands of species and ecosystems, just for
starters! DIRECT ACTIONS to conserve, "g...
Posted: Tue, Jan 11, 2005 8:04pm PST
Ramifications of Same-Sex Marriage Debate One queer's view of the possible ramifications of the same-sex marriage debate in California....
Posted: Tue, Jan 11, 2005 5:30pm PST
Restaurant workers speak out on KPFA's morning show Tune into KPFA at 94.1 FM (or at www.kpfa.org) from 8:08-8:28am, Pacific time, Wednesday and Friday or listen to archives of the whole weeks worth of shows on KPFA's website....
Posted: Tue, Jan 11, 2005 5:26pm PST
Roe v. Wade Demonstration Flyers- English and Spanish 
Revised flyers for J22 available for download in English....
Posted: Tue, Jan 11, 2005 5:25pm PST
Pending Actions & 9th Circuit Page on Beardslee Possible Execution 1/19 On Jan 19, 2005 at 12:01 a.m., the State of California will murder a human being, Donald Beardslee, with our tax dollars, unless we do everything we can to stop this barbarism, the death penalty, which has been abolished in Europe, and is rarely used except in the most backward countries, like the USA....
Posted: Mon, Jan 10, 2005 9:26pm PST
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