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textHow to Publish to Indybay by Indybay volunteers
You are encouraged to publish your news coverage, analysis, comments, and event announcements to the site....
Posted: Tue, Jun 22, 2004 11:25pm PDT
textImmigrant Communities Fight Back Against INS/ICE Immigration Raids Throughout California by upton sinclair
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
textDRC Releases Prop 209 Study! by Discrimination Research Center & ERA
Discrimination Research Center Releases Study "Prop 209 and the Decline of Women in the Construction Trades"....
Posted: Mon, Jun 21, 2004 1:09pm PDT
textFahrenheit 9/11 at First Run Theaters for 6/25 Opening by Moviegoer
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
textRound-ups & Desaparecidos (bilingual) by danielsan
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
textSign on to Letter to Stop the Deportation of the Cuevas family by upton sinclair
Please forward this to any organizations or groups that you work with, and encourage them to join the fight to stop the deportation of the Cuevas family. If you live in the SF Bay Area please join us on Wednesday June 16 at Senator Barbara Boxer's office to demand that she take action on behalf of the Cuevas family(info on link)....
Posted: Tue, Jun 15, 2004 6:41am PDT
text Voters Want Real Corrections' Reform by rose braz - critical resistance and CEPS
“Saving money by amending three strikes is just the tip of the iceberg,” said CEPS member Andy Hsia-Coron. “We’ve documented dozens of other reforms that, if implemented, could save California more than $1 billion a year while at the same time creating safer communities.”...
Posted: Tue, Jun 15, 2004 5:52am PDT
textRestoring Eelgrass to the Pacific Bays by moth
Humboldt Bay was previously threatened by Calpine's (ENRON start-up) LNG terminal, now is the chance to save Humboldt Bay's eelgrass ecosystem and also restore edible eelgrass to SF Bay.....
Posted: Mon, Jun 14, 2004 8:07pm PDT
textCourt Approves Gay Marriage Super Suit for California by 365gay.com
Legal challenges across California asking whether the state Constitution permits same-sex marriages were consolidated into one case and will be tried in San Francisco, a state agency overseeing the courts decided Friday....
Posted: Sun, Jun 13, 2004 12:10am PDT
textCops want your DNA by KX
"DNA is not like a fingerprint, since getting it is more invasive and it holds information beyond mere identification,'' said Tania Simoncelli, a science and technology fellow for the American Civil Liberties Union. "Storing it permanently for future criminal investigations doesn't comply with the Constitution.''...
Posted: Sat, Jun 12, 2004 3:07pm PDT
textPsychiatric Pharmaceutical Police State by moth
Biotech and pharmaceutical corporations are profiting from people's emotional suffering, prescribing psychiatric medications as quick fix solutions when the cause is rooted in racial and class oppression, the isolating forces of consumerist capitalism.....
Posted: Sat, Jun 12, 2004 1:04pm PDT
textStarving for Justice - Fast 4 Education article from Fault Lines, June 2004 by julio magana and charles houston
“Never before has the assembly floor been forced to stop business as usual and grant full attention to an issue as it did when those of you Fasting for Education rolled onto the floor, except once when the Black Panther Party stormed in, wielding rifles and shot guns…”...
Posted: Sat, Jun 12, 2004 11:20am PDT
textUCLA Students on Day Three of Hunger Strike by Student/Farmworker Alliance
Students at UCLA are on hunger strike until UCLA decides to honor its strict code of conduct and stops doing business with Taco Bell!...
Posted: Fri, Jun 11, 2004 1:40pm PDT
textLet's encourage critical thinking on biotech and the role of the commons by Bill Simpich
Successes and lessons learned from within the Reclaim the Commons convergance - and a look at the role of the bio-pharm industry, genetic engineering, stem cells...the focus is to fight corporate power and encourage critical thinking....
Posted: Thu, Jun 10, 2004 7:33pm PDT
imageFast 4 Education - Last Days Update and What Next - from Julio Magana
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by upton sinclair(repost from julio magana)
With the god-given blessing of our own living legend, Dolores Huerta, we had the honor of learning some organizing skills to create a plan for legislative lobbying and community outreach. Were it not for Camila Chavez, Lacey, Juanita Ontiveras and Dolores Huerta we could not have lit so many effective fires under so many politico’s rear ends to make em move as fast as they did....
Posted: Tue, Jun 8, 2004 1:29pm PDT
textKevin Cooper's Execution Delayed For DNA Testing by DPF
Death-Row Inmate's Execution Delayed For DNA Testing Man Claims Previous Tests Tainted, Incomplete...
Posted: Tue, Jun 8, 2004 12:38am PDT
image06/02/04 Day 24 Report and Pics from the Fast 4 Education
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by upton sinclair(repost from julio)
The fasters, though quite literally "kicked to the curb" by a concerned group of Sacramento's highest ranking police and CHP officers, spent the day surrounded by supporters and media. The CHP presence was obvious but the fasters retained their dignified and peaceful stance.......
Posted: Mon, Jun 7, 2004 11:37pm PDT
textReally REALLY Free Market Report by Bill Simpich
Market report from Reclaim the Commons - DIRECT from SF's Conspicuous Consumption Center...A call to take it to the streets June 8, 6:30 am on...A call for build the gift economy at freecycling.org...And...A Short History of FREE...
Posted: Mon, Jun 7, 2004 6:32pm PDT
imageDirect Lobbying by CEPS(6/02/04) - Cut sack lunches for prisoners, save peanuts...
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by upton sinclair
“Numerous polls – including a June 2003 poll by the Public Policy Institute – show that likely California voters favor cuts to prison spending over any other area of state spending,” Rose Braz added. “But real change and real savings will not come from denying prisoners a peanut-butter sandwich.”...
Posted: Mon, Jun 7, 2004 5:13am PDT
text Fast 4 Education: East Bay hunger strikers end fast at Capitol by upton sinclair
"This would have been a victory even if the governor had not partly agreed to one of our demands," Cesar Cruz said afterward. It still would have been a victory because of the support we got from people here in Sacramento and all over the Bay Area."...
Posted: Sun, Jun 6, 2004 2:21am PDT
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