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Letter from SHU Prisoner at Pelican Bay You will find this pretty interesting!!
As you well know Ray is locked up at Pelican Bay
S.H.U., the time that he does spent outside in another hole is so minimal that all he has is wasted time. In order to stay SANE he either draws or reads and one being Trend Kaufman I have forward my brother letter and I did not add or take anything out exactly how you read it is how it came. I want their stories exposed by who better than a liberal org. than you guys let me know
if you do okay thanks s...
Posted: Thu, Jul 8, 2004 1:25pm PDT
State Controller proposed anti-torture investment policy; defense contractor goes into att California State Controller Steve Westly called Tuesday for the California State Teacher’s Retirement System to become the first among the nation’s largest pension funds to restrict investments in companies engaged in torture....
Posted: Wed, Jul 7, 2004 3:21pm PDT
Californians Support Sustainable Agriculture! 
On March 6, 2004 residents of Mendocino county passed a measure that bans the planting of Genetically Engineered (GE) crops -- also known as Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) -- within their county. Mendocino county’s Measure H is being used as a model for at least seven other counties in California where local residents are well on their way to passing similar measures. Californians feel that local measures seeking to ban the cultivation of GE crops are critical steps to take in the promo...
Posted: Tue, Jul 6, 2004 7:42pm PDT
SF events 7.6 NO condos in Presidio: http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/07/1687939.php
NO RFID in SF public Libraries: http://www.libraryusers.org http://www.saveourlibraries.com...
Posted: Tue, Jul 6, 2004 12:20am PDT
Santa Cruz Indymedia is Having an OPEN HOUSE! on 7/10 Santa Cruz Indymedia is having an open house at our new home at Barrios Unidos on Saturday, July 10, from 3 - 6 pm...
Posted: Mon, Jul 5, 2004 5:33pm PDT
Master Petroleum in the Trinity Alps Master Petroleum,Inc., Proposes open pit mining on the Eligible Wild and Scenic Canyon Creek adjacent to the Trinity Alps Wilderness...
Posted: Mon, Jul 5, 2004 2:59pm PDT
Governor's Prison Proposals Fail to Produce Big Savings Experts Charge "Titanic" Prison System Will Sink California Budget without Prison Closures...
Posted: Fri, Jul 2, 2004 2:05pm PDT
Tribes Take Klamath River Battle to Scotland The Klamath River tribes, Friends of the River and the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations are sending a contingent to Scotland this summer to stop the destruction of salmon runs by the dam operations of Scottish Power's subsidiary, PacifiCorp....
Posted: Thu, Jul 1, 2004 11:00am PDT
Over 400 Detained in Southern California Immigration Sweep In the past month, immigration agents have arrested hundreds of undocumented workers and immigrants in Southern California in sweeps conducted well inside the US/Mexico border that are causing widespread fear and charges of racial profiling in local immigrant and Latino communities....
Posted: Thu, Jul 1, 2004 9:10am PDT
Statement from Dolores Huerta on the Deportation of the Cuevas Family This is a statement that Dolores Huerta just sent to the Cuevas Family Support Committee to be read at the press conference tonight....
Posted: Wed, Jun 30, 2004 4:34pm PDT
Struggle to Shut Down CA Prison SHU Advances Since January our coalition has taken to the streets to educate people about the corrupt California prison system...
Posted: Wed, Jun 30, 2004 10:19am PDT
Heroes’ Farewell For Cuevas Family: Communities Continue Struggle But even as lawmakers turn a deaf ear and fail to
protect their constituents, the Cuevas campaign has
given hope to other families. According to the Support
Committee for the Cuevas Family, more undocumented
Filipino families have stepped forward to ask for
assistance with legalizing their status after decades
of working in the country and raising their families....
Posted: Wed, Jun 30, 2004 8:22am PDT
Labor Continues to Join Struggle to Stop the Deportation of the Cuevas Family The Alameda Central Labor Council passed a resolution last Monday supporting the campaign to stop the deportation of the Cuevas family, and the Million Worker March Organizing Committee decided to endorse the campaign last night at their meeting....
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 2:00pm PDT
Bring the War Home broadens scope, delays start Rather than a week of action, Bring The War Home will be an on-going campaign. Regarding the June 27th to July 4th focused week of actions, the consensus was: Good idea, bad timing. Current plans are for continued and on-going resistance through the summer, guerilla outbreaks of street theater and independent direct action to increase the costs to the war machine and war profiteers. An October concentrated week of action before the election is currently being planned. If you'd like to be part...
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 1:31pm PDT
California DAs accept payoffs from music industry for "Napster" style prosecutions Very short news item, shows the the California District Attorney Association is taking money from the recording industry. Questions propriety of this after the aggressive file sharing Napster prosecutions...
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 10:55am PDT
How to Publish to Indybay You are encouraged to publish your news coverage, analysis, comments, and event announcements to the site....
Posted: Tue, Jun 22, 2004 11:25pm PDT
Immigrant Communities Fight Back Against INS/ICE Immigration Raids Throughout California Our demands are:
stop all raids
that the city denounce the raids
that the police not cooperate with the INS
stop violating the human rights of immigrants who are under custody of the INS...
Posted: Tue, Jun 22, 2004 12:06pm PDT
DRC Releases Prop 209 Study! Discrimination Research Center Releases Study "Prop 209 and the Decline of Women in the Construction Trades"....
Posted: Mon, Jun 21, 2004 1:09pm PDT
Fahrenheit 9/11 at First Run Theaters for 6/25 Opening One week to go, and the theater list grows longer daily, all at first run theaters, defying the fascist censors, for the opening of Fahrenheit 9/11 on June 25....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 8:54pm PDT
Round-ups & Desaparecidos (bilingual) INS (or whatever Homeland Security Dept. acronym they've got now) have recently raided businesses, picked people off the street, and racially profiled and harassed community members and leader in a campaign against undocumented people and allies....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 1:42pm PDT
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