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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
Sen. Barbara Boxer's constituents petition for a redress of grievances - Pt. 1 (video/quicktime 32.9MB) January 3, 2004. This eight-minute 33MB low-res QT movie is blurry because of all the movement. A high-res version will be up on...
fog.ccsf.edu/~wcarpent
...for a few days....
Posted: Tue, Jan 4, 2005 12:59pm PST
E-mail addresses for Letters to the Editor Below are Letters to the Editor email addresses for daily newspapers in California. Note that newspapers will not print your letter if they know you are sending it to everyone. Thanks for speaking for the voiceless! :)...
Posted: Mon, Jan 3, 2005 10:20am PST
CALIFORNIA PARENTS GAIN RIGHT TO KNOW ABOUT CHEMICALS USED AT K-12 PUBLIC SCHOOLS CONTACT:
School Pesticide Reform Coalition http://www.nopoison.org or at 1-888-NO-POISON....
Posted: Sun, Jan 2, 2005 1:22pm PST
Dark Mondays Encourage Immigrants to Not Buy Gas on Mondays in CA What is a DARK MONDAY? MAPA's call to observe DARK MONDAYS and not purchase gasoline one day a week is an economic boycott, which targets the energy industry throughout California and in any state where our message is well received....
Posted: Sun, Jan 2, 2005 11:03am PST
Santa Ana police brutality protestor sentenced $1000 misdemeanor On October 22nd, many of you have heard that the small community organized
march against Police Brutality on the impoverished streets of SantaAna was
brutalized with people receiving various levels of injuries, arrests, and
criminal charges....
Posted: Fri, Dec 31, 2004 12:36am PST
The Fight in California 
Two weeks, the supermarket workers in northern California had a protest, against the efforts of Safeway and other strong chains of cutting again the health insurance in the negotiations of a new union contract in this part of the neighbor of the north....
Posted: Sun, Dec 26, 2004 11:21pm PST
Bill Mandel on KPFA: Democracy Deferred? The following is the presentation Bill Mandel prepared for the Public Forum ("KPFA/Pacifica - Democracy Deferred?"), held at La Peña in Berkeley on November 10, 2004....
Posted: Sun, Dec 26, 2004 4:34pm PST
AUDIO: Molotov Mouths at Practical Activism 2004 
On October 30, 2004, the 2nd annual Practical Activism conference was held at UC Santa Cruz. The day featured interactive workshops and presentations that provided students and activists from both the Monterey and San Francisco Bay with tools for local and global change.
The closing performance was by Leroy Moore and James Tracy, two members of The Molotov Mouths Outspoken Word Troupe, a collective of Bay Area politically-direct poets. Gentrification, poverty, race, disability, and discrim...
Posted: Sat, Dec 25, 2004 1:52am PST
Update from Hearing on Constitutionality of California Marriage Law Legal argument has just ended in the historic litigation challenging California’s discriminatory marriage laws brought by 12 couples, Equality California and our Families Coalition. Lead counsel Shannon Minter, Legal Director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, urged the Court to put an end to the irrational and discriminatory exclusion of lesbian and gay couples from civil marriage....
Posted: Thu, Dec 23, 2004 6:52pm PST
Stop Cross-Gender Pat Searches! - Ca Prison Focus Launches Dignity for Women Prisoners ...
Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 12:38pm PST
Appeals Court Rejects Stay on AB 205 A California appeals court today denied a request by antigay activists to prevent California’s comprehensive domestic partnership law from becoming operative on January 1, 2005....
Posted: Tue, Dec 21, 2004 10:55pm PST
Promising Steelhead Run Follows Behind American River Salmon 
Early, cold rains this fall have transformed the American River from a potential disaster
area for king salmon into a river full of spawning fish. Early returns of steelhead also
look very promising, as anglers get ready for the traditional steelhead opener in the upper
river on January 1....
Posted: Sun, Dec 19, 2004 1:33pm PST
Urgent! Execution date set for Donald Beardslee The State of California has set an execution date of January 19th for death
row inmate Donald Beardslee. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has granted him
one more hearing, and there is a chance he could be saved from execution
there....
Posted: Sun, Dec 19, 2004 12:52am PST
ASA Legal Campaign Update Americans for Safe Access (ASA) has had a very active legal campaign in
2004. In addition to training over 400 public defenders in California on
current medical marijuana law, and providing critical legal information
to hundreds of patients, caregivers, public officials and attorneys, ASA
is assisting in and working on many pending cases related to medical
marijuana....
Posted: Fri, Dec 17, 2004 11:51pm PST
Gary Webb: Do What He Did Dammit, he was our
surfboard. He carried us through the first wave and kept us all from
plunging into the undertow. Now, we must surf this dangerous sea of lies and
liars without him. The next wave is coming....
Posted: Thu, Dec 16, 2004 9:08pm PST
California Healthcare Workers Form New Statewide Union The National Leadership of Service Employees International Union and Locals 250 and 399 today announced the results of a membership vote by both locals, approving a new constitution uniting them into a new statewide union with more than 130,000 members...
Posted: Wed, Dec 15, 2004 9:30pm PST
Measure Z and Beyond: Planning Medical Marijuana Activism in CA, 2/19 What's Next in California with regards to marijuana policy? Join us for a
Statewide Strategy Meeting to discuss legalizing, taxing and regulating
cannabis in California, and what's next for medical marijuana....
Posted: Wed, Dec 15, 2004 9:36am PST
A Night at the Rio with FRSC and Friends 
In response to the FCC raiding Free Radio Santa Cruz on 9/29/04, Utah Phillips called up FRSC with the idea of a benefit concert to help get our pirate station sailing the airwaves again. Many people throughout the Santa Cruz area donated their time and resources to organize a fantastic musical benefit on December 10, 2004....
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 9:42pm PST
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