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San Fran Activists Launch Ford Campaign in LA
Global Exchange and Rainforest Action Network scale downtown LA skyscraper and release giant banner to protest US oil addition...
Posted: Sun, Jan 11, 2004 11:33am PST
Bush orders settlement to conservative GOP website by City of Fresno
Settlement funnels money to local conservative website on orders of president George Bush. Rightwing website "FreeRepublic" to recieve large settlement from City of Fresno....
Posted: Sat, Jan 10, 2004 11:03pm PST
Southern California — Grocery workers defending your health care
Health care is perhaps the most life-and-death human rights crisis in America. The unchecked greed of the insurance and pharmaceutical monopoly empires has driven health care costs sky-high. Union-negotiated health care plans are about all that stands between you (if you’re lucky enough to have a job and health insurance) and an end to employer-paid or partially-paid health care coverage....
Posted: Sat, Jan 10, 2004 1:56pm PST
1/13 Crawl for Justice!
January 13, 2004 at 11:00 AM
Sacramento Federal Courthouse, 5th and I Streets
Our very last chance to save civil rights for people with disabilities. If we lose this Supreme Court appeal,
we will be officially and legally the Inferior Americans, not entitled to the opportunities of this country....
Posted: Fri, Jan 9, 2004 9:25pm PST
1/31-2/1 California Biodiesel Consumers' Conference
Towards sustainable biodiesel for passenger car and small
business B100 consumers in California...
Posted: Thu, Jan 8, 2004 8:33am PST
Sherman Austin Benefit
Please come to the Bay Area benefit for Sherman Austin, the imprisoned African American webmaster and activist....
Posted: Fri, Dec 5, 2003 6:11am PST
Protestors block the stairs inside the Capitol
Sacramento - Protestors block the stairs inside the Capitol as Medea Benjamin of Global Exchange calls for the abolition of the Electoral College....
Posted: Wed, Dec 20, 2000 8:08pm PST
Medea Benjamin of Global Exchange
Sacramento - Medea Benjamin of Global Exchange calls for an end to the Electoral College outside the Capitol Building....
Posted: Wed, Dec 20, 2000 8:07pm PST
Signs of many protestors cited blatant racist tactics in Florida
Sacramento - The signs of many protestors cited the blatant racist tactics that many African-Americans faced at the polls in Florida and also other parts of the nation....
Posted: Wed, Dec 20, 2000 8:06pm PST
Alli Starr leads a crowd of 200 in chants
Sacramento - Alli Starr of Global Exchange leads a crowd of 200 in chants calling for the abolition of the Electoral College....
Posted: Wed, Dec 20, 2000 8:04pm PST
Citizens' Groups call for an end to Racial Discrimination at the Polls
Sacramento -- Ted Frazier, a member of the Executive Committee of the NAACP, speaks at a rally on the Capitol Steps about the injustices faced by African-Americans on Election Day....
Posted: Wed, Dec 20, 2000 7:27pm PST
Citizens Protest at Capitol as Electors Cast Their Ballots
Citizens' Groups Gathered to Demand the Abolition of the Electoral College, Clean Money Elections, and an End to Racial Discrimination at the Polls...
Posted: Wed, Dec 20, 2000 7:04pm PST
Let the Electoral College Know We Want Democracy Now!
Entire families will be traveling to Sacramento and the capitols of all 50 states this coming Monday to rally against the concept of a private Presidential Election by a select group of people who are supposedly wiser than the general citizenry. For more than 200 years, no issue has been more heavily debated by Congress (and even the founders of this country) than the very existence of the "Electoral College." (Photo and Caption by David Hanks/Global Exchange)...
Posted: Fri, Dec 15, 2000 10:42pm PST