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Funds needed for Cau Tran and Rudy Cardenas Memorial in San Jose
Funds are needed for the 7/17 memorial for Cau Tran and Rudy Cardenas...
Posted: Sat, Jul 3, 2004 10:11am PDT
Tell Judge to Have Open Grand Jury About Death of Rudy Cardenas
The grand jury was originally going to be open, but then the DA announced that it would be closed. The people of San Jose are demanding that it be open so the world can know what is happening to the law enforcement officers who killed Rudy Cardenas in a case of "mistaken identity"...
Posted: Sat, Jul 3, 2004 10:06am 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
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
Stop Immigration Raids: ICE/INS Headquarters: San Francisco. Part 2: Ivy Lee (video/quicktime 15.3MB)
Ivy Lee, staff attorney at API Legal Outreach, is translated by Renee Saucedo. Four minute QT movie. 15MB....
Posted: Tue, Jun 29, 2004 8:22pm PDT
BART, An Overpriced Nazi Babysitter
a personal account of being fucked by BART...
Posted: Tue, Jun 29, 2004 11:07am PDT
March Against INS Intimidation
The campaign begins with a five-day march that begins Tuesday, June 29, at 8 AM at the King City Park (take the Canal St exit and go right on Division St). On Tuesday evening marchers will rally at Patriot Park in Greenfield after marching through the town. Marches and rallies will follow each day, moving north to Soledad, Gonzalez, Chualar and arriving in Salinas on Saturday. A similar campaign will move through towns to the north of Salinas during the following week, arriving again in ...
Posted: Tue, Jun 29, 2004 8:32am PDT
Stop Immigration Raids: ICE/INS Headquarters: San Francisco. Part 1 (video/quicktime 23.3MB)
La Raza Centro Legal, the
Alliance of South Asians Taking Action, SRO Families United, St. Peter's Housing and others June 23rd. Six minute QT movie. 23MB....
Posted: Tue, Jun 29, 2004 5:13am PDT
Revenue Machine
Berkeley reinvents the speed-trap to apply to pedestrians....
Posted: Tue, Jun 29, 2004 1:10am PDT
Yadira Speaks About the June 29 - July 3 Pilgrimage Supporting Immigrants and Farm Workers (audio/mpeg 5.0MB)
Yadira and I spoke on Monday night, June 28, about the upcoming Pilgrimage Supporting Immigrants and Farm Workers. (22 minutes)...
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 11:07pm PDT
6/24 - More Pics from Candlelight Vigil in Support of the Cuevas Family
The Cuevas family is set to be deported on Wednesday, June 30th, if Barbara Boxer decides not to take action and stop their deportation. Thus far Boxers' offices only response has been for her director of constituent services to threaten Support Committee members and allies with arrest by the federal police....
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 5:16am PDT
6/16 Rally at Boxer's Office to Demand that she Stops the Deportation of the Cuevas Family
Our demands:
- Sen. Boxer sponsor private bill for the Cuevas family to stop deportation
- Pass the Dream Act
- Pass Comprehensive Immigration and Homeland Security Legislations...
Posted: Sun, Jun 27, 2004 11:51am PDT
The Golden Years of Activists Snatched Away by Police & Policies
There has been a terrible trend on how police and politicians’ policies treat our activists who are elderly! During the so called good times of the 90’s in the San Francisco Bay area gentrification hit and many elders were kicked out of their homes under the San Francisco Ellis Act i.e. Grace Wells....
Posted: Fri, Jun 25, 2004 4:49pm PDT
Chronicle story about Immigration Raid Press Conference
Thanks to kick-ass media work by the coalition of immigrant rights groups who put it on, we got a good write-up in the usually-hostile Chronicle. --Jeff G...
Posted: Fri, Jun 25, 2004 4:28pm PDT
Attorney General Agrees to Investigate Undercover Surveillance of Peace Fresno
Attorney General Bill Lockyer has agreed to conduct an investigation into the undercover surveillance of Peace Fresno, a community organization that was infiltrated by a member of the Fresno County Sheriff Department’s Anti-Terrorism unit in 2003....
Posted: Fri, Jun 25, 2004 3:20pm PDT
The People Demand an Independent Police Auditor
The struggle for an Independent Police Auditor in Fresno...
Posted: Wed, Jun 23, 2004 10:23pm PDT
IMPORANT City Council Hearing - Demand Funding for Prevention not Police
Tuesday, June 29th, 6PM, City Council Chambers
Demand that the City of Oakland fund violence prevention programs, not more police and prisons!...
Posted: Wed, Jun 23, 2004 7:51pm PDT