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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
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
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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