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Sutter Bars Nurses From Patients at 5 Hospitals - Nurses Say All Options on Table for Future Actions
Friday, October 12, 2007 : Sutter Health slammed its doors on registered nurses at five Bay Area hospitals, barring them from returning to the bedside to care for patients following a two day strike which ended this morning. Sutter RNs were locked out at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center facilities in Berkeley and Oakland, Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, San Leandro Hospital, and Sutter Solano Medical Center in Vallejo....
Posted: Sat, Oct 13, 2007 9:04am PDT
Free Mind Media Benefit Raffle & Concert
New College North Bay Campus
99 6th St.
Santa Rosa, CA...
Event Date: Sat, Oct 20, 2007 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 1:22pm PDT
Nurses Step Up Plans for California’s Biggest RN Strike This Decade
California’s largest strike of registered nurses in a decade is scheduled to begin Wednesday morning, October 10 at 15 Northern California hospitals, involving 5,000 RNs....
Posted: Tue, Oct 9, 2007 7:28am PDT
Santa Rosa October 22nd March & Rally to Stop Police Brutality
Santa Rosa Southwest Community Park (Hearn & Burbank Aves) @ 4 pm, feeder march @ 5 pm from Sebastopol Rd @ West Ave, Rally @ Old Courthouse Square 6 pm...
Event Date: Mon, Oct 22, 2007 4:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Oct 7, 2007 4:31pm PDT
October 22nd National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality March in Santa Rosa
Join us on the National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality, we are marching in Santa Rosa from Southwest Community Park (corner of Hearn and Burbank) at 4pm to Courthouse Square (corner of 3rd and Mendocino) with a rally at 6pm....
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 12:05pm PDT
Progressive Perspectives Presents Phyllis Bennis "Middle East: The Real Story"
meetings end a guess...
Event Date: Tue, Sep 25, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Sep 17, 2007 11:09pm PDT
Leading Scientists Criticize Marin County Supervisors Over Policies For Endangered Salmon
Hundreds of scientists and thousands of residents are calling on the Marin County Board of Supervisors to enact stronger creek protections to prevent coho salmon extinction in Marin....
Posted: Mon, Sep 10, 2007 1:12am PDT
Take Back Red California Hosts A Taste of the Red Counties
Produce, wine, cheese, and other goodies from Northern California's rural counties will be available for sampling on Oct. 21 at the Marinwood Community Center. And Democratic activists from those counties will be on hand to introduce you to opportunities to help turn the tide against Republicans and keep California a Blue state....
Posted: Sun, Sep 9, 2007 9:59pm PDT
Fremont-Rideout One-Day RN Strike Friday - Hospital hires costly replacements, tells RNs not to return to work until Tuesday
11:00 am rally at Fremont Medical Center, picket lines at four locations:
RN Picket Lines:
6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Friday Aug. 31
* Fremont Medical Center
970 Plumas Street, Yuba City, CA 95991
* Rideout Memorial Hospital
726 4th Street, Marysville, CA 95901
6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Friday Aug. 31
* Fremont Rideout Cancer Center
618 5th Street, Marysville, CA 95901
* Feather River Surgery Center
370 Del Norte #101,Yuba City, CA 9599...
Event Date: Fri, Aug 31, 2007 11:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, Aug 31, 2007 6:47am PDT
Protesting Elephant Abuse (video/mp4 43.3MB)
Animal rights activists at the entrance to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom amusement park protest the park's abuse of elephants, and demand that the animals be retired to a sanctuary in Northern California where they may roam freely for the remainder of their lives....
Posted: Tue, Aug 28, 2007 8:04pm PDT
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death with Norman Solomon
New College of California/North Bay
99 6th St., (6th & Wilson Sts. in Railroad Square)
Santa Rosa...
Event Date: Sat, Sep 15, 2007 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Aug 23, 2007 12:09pm PDT
San Rafael: Stand Up For Peace
Corner of Third Street and Irwin, downtown San Rafael
See www.mapquest.com for detailed map. Be sure to park in a legal space....
Event Date: Tue, Aug 28, 2007 4:30pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Aug 23, 2007 11:43am PDT
Minutemen Unwelcome in Marin (video/mp4 24.8MB)
On July 28, 2007, the Minutemen border vigilantes held a meeting in Larkspur, California, to organize a new chapter in Marin County. Local immigrant rights activists greeted them with the message that racists are unwelcome in our county....
Posted: Mon, Jul 30, 2007 2:51pm PDT
Defend Health Care Justice in Sonoma County!
Defend Health Care Justice in Sonoma County!...
Posted: Tue, Jul 17, 2007 8:08am PDT
Fourth of July Parade in Bolinas, Ca
Hundreds of people lined the main street of Bolinas to participate in the annual 4th of July parade....
Posted: Sun, Jul 8, 2007 10:12pm PDT
Pleasant Care Corporation Nursing home saga continues
New information on the bankruptcy, negligent deaths, and possible closures of Pleasant Care nursing homes, specifically Santa Cruz Pleasant Care....
Posted: Sat, Jul 7, 2007 5:56pm PDT
Free Speech Victory: Court Agrees Napa Middle School Dress Code Banning "Tigger" Goes Too Far
Tuesday, July 3, 2007 : NAPA – Upholding the principle that students do not “shed their constitutional rights…at the schoolhouse gate,” a Napa Superior Court judge issued a ruling on Monday that prevents the Napa Valley Unified School District from enforcing the Redwood Middle School dress policy....
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 8:48am PDT
NASGA response to Marin County defamation lawsuit
Robin Westmiller, president of the National Associaiton to Stop Guardian Abuse responds to Marin County defamation lawsuit...
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 7:05am PDT
Save Energy! Lamp Swap
Elephant Pharm
909 Grand Avenue
San Rafael, CA 94901...
Event Date: Tue, Jul 10, 2007 3:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Jun 19, 2007 1:01pm PDT
Dr. Bob Bowman
Former Air Force Lt. Col., Bob Bowman calls for the impeachment of Bush Cheney and re-Investigation of 911. College of Marin, June 15, 2007...
Posted: Mon, Jun 18, 2007 7:58am PDT