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'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
One Representative and One Senator: January 6th at Senator Boxer's SF office (video/quicktime 19.2MB)
The Electoral College vote tabulation halts at Ohio. Four-minute QT movie. 19MB....
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 6:45pm PST
proposed CA legislation on petting zoo improvements
Action Alert on Petting Zoo legislation...
Posted: Fri, Jan 7, 2005 3:52pm PST
Demand Clemency for Donald Beardslee: Events
Please Help Us Demand Clemency for Donald Beardslee
by Attending These Important Events!...
Posted: Thu, Jan 6, 2005 2:01pm PST
Bay Area Democracy Activists' Work Pays Off
This morning's hearing is online at kpfa.org and on pacifica stations and affiliates nationwide...
Posted: Thu, Jan 6, 2005 10:32am PST
Roe v. Wade Anniversary Demonstration
On January 22nd, join the San Francisco Area Pro-Choice Coalition for a Roe v. Wade Anniversary Demonstration...
Posted: Thu, Jan 6, 2005 10:01am PST
Keep Space For Peace: Protest at Vandenberg AFB 9/25/04 (video/quicktime 44.5MB)
On Saturday, September 25, 2004, there was a protest at Vandenberg Air Force Base in northern Santa Barbara County as part of the International Week of Protest to Stop the Militarization of Space.
(higher-resolution Time: 6:21 Size: 44.4 MB)...
Posted: Thu, Jan 6, 2005 5:47am PST
Schwarzenegger Prescription Drug Proposal Puts Drug Firms in Control
Schwarzenegger Prescription Drug Proposal Puts Drug Firms in Control, Leaves Seniors Without Protection, Says Consumer Group...
Posted: Wed, Jan 5, 2005 11:18pm PST
D-Day minus 1 - Senator Feinstein the target: Wednesday, Jan. 5th (video/quicktime 7.4MB)
Three demos at Sen. Diane Feinstein's SF offices at One Post St: 8:30am, noon, and one yet to go (as of now) at 5pm today. Two-minute QT movie of the 8:30 demo. 7MB....
Posted: Wed, Jan 5, 2005 2:51pm PST