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Support Oakland Educators Strike THURSDAY The Oakland Education Association will be going on a one-day
strike this Thursday April 20. A letter of support from
Education Not Incarceration is below. Here are
four ways we suggest you can help......
Posted: Sun, Apr 16, 2006 5:47pm PDT
"Green Scare" Prisoner Letter Writing Cafe Political prisoners represent the heart of the movement for social
justice and the struggle for earth and animal liberation. They are the
ones bearing the brunt of this struggles' resistance. With the recent
federal indictments, grand juries and convictions we must come
together in solidarity and support these and other political prisoners....
Posted: Fri, Apr 14, 2006 6:17pm PDT
Animal Activists ask Andronico's to show compassion this Easter Contact:
Christine Morrissey of East Bay Animal Advocates
925-487-4419
christine@eastbayanimaladvocates.org...
Posted: Fri, Apr 14, 2006 12:28pm PDT
Oak to 9th -- Undemocratic planning Here in Oakland we have a city Planning Commission that politely hears what community members have to say. So it looks really democratic. The problem is that at the end of a hearing the Commissioners generally dismiss everything that's been said by the community, and just give the developer's plans a rubber stamp. Sometimes, on the other hand, the planners dispense with the façade of formalities and just do what they want to do without the inconvenience of a public hearing....
Posted: Wed, Apr 12, 2006 7:51pm PDT
Dismantle OUR terror! Good Friday Vigil at Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab:
April 14, 2006
Vasco & Patterson Pass Road in Livermore, Ca.
Opening Music 6:45 a.m.
Procession to the gate & Acts of Witness...
Posted: Wed, Apr 12, 2006 11:14am PDT
United Students Against Sweatshops Sit In Crowd of 200 gather at UCB to support a" sweat-free UC". Condeming the University's use of sweat shop labor in the production of collegiate apparel, and promoting United Students Against Sweatshops' (USAS) designated supplier program (DSP), students staged a "Naked Truth" rally and sit in that resulted in 18 arrests and more verbal volley from University administration...
Posted: Wed, Apr 12, 2006 1:07am PDT
Protest the BPD Heroin Scandal - Wed. Apr 12th 181 Drug Evidence Envelopes Tampered With - Junkie Cops - Demand Accountability...
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 8:13pm PDT
Anti-sweatshop activists arrested at UC Berkeley EIGHTEEN University of California at Berkeley students were arrested this afternoon for peacefully demonstrating in support of a Sweat Free UC!
Please don't forget to call the administration RIGHT NOW and express your outrage at their actions and your support for the adoption of the Designated Suppliers Program.
Robert Dynes President of the University of California Phone number: 510-987-9074 Fax number: 510-987-9086 Email: Robert.dynes@ucop.edu
Chancellor Robert Birgeneau at UC Berk...
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 3:59pm PDT
Oakland Immigrant Rights March at City Hall 
as seen from the 11th floor of Oakland City Hall...
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2006 10:42pm PDT
UC Berkeley Students Walkout in Support of Student Rights UC Berkeley Students, joined by high school students, walked out of classes today demanding amnesty and civil rights for immigrants in a joint protest with Palestinian solidarity groups commemorating the Deir Yassin massacre....
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2006 10:07pm PDT
Thousands Join Oakland March for Immigrant Justice 
Oakland, California (April 10, 2006) – Nearly five thousand people marched and rallied this morning in Oakland for immigrant rights. What began as a relatively small group at 100th avenue this morning, swelled to thousands as clusters of immigrant workers, families, youth, and supporters awaited the march all along International Boulevard. The eight mile march ended with a rally outside the Oakland Federal Building. This was only one of hundreds of actions today being held under the “National...
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2006 4:48pm PDT
Berkeley: National Day of Action to Defend Immigrant Rights No Anti-Immigrant Jim Crow Laws!
Full and Equal Rights for All Immigrants!
12 noon - Rally at UC-Berkeley's Sproul Plaza (near Bancroft + Telegraph)
1pm - March through Berkeley...
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2006 7:40am PDT
Rally to Honor Student Walkout Leader Driven to Suicide By Our Education System Rally to Honor the Student Walkout Leader Driven to
Suicide By Our Education System and to Demand an
Education System that Works for All Youth...
Posted: Sun, Apr 9, 2006 3:42pm PDT
West Contra Costa School District may grant diplomas to all who earn them Thousands complete high school but are denied diploma due to exit exam...
Posted: Sat, Apr 8, 2006 10:38am PDT
From Warrior to Writer: Chernoh M. Bah's Journey 
Former child soldier Chernoh Alpha M. Bah will speak in the SF Bay Area April 9-11....
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 5:33pm PDT
What Was Left Untold We mark the three year anniversary of the violent attack by the OPD at the Oakland Docks with the absence of any public disclosure regarding the events that led up to the firing of "non-lethal" projectiles at non-violent political activists and union workers....
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 10:43am PDT
Protesting Yoo In Berkeley A small but committed group in Berkeley targets the notorious law professor who gave Bush the justification to torture detainees...
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 7:34pm PDT
Tonight: Talk and video on workers in Venezuela The Long Haul's Sunday café night will feature a presentation on Venezuelan workers by Berlin-based journalist and videographer Dario Azzellini. The evening will begin, as is the Long Haul custom, with dinner at about 7:30 pm. The program will begin around 8....
Posted: Sun, Apr 2, 2006 4:33am PDT
THUR APRIL 6th 7pm "SIR, NO SIR!" Celebrate Soldiers Resistance from Vietnam to Iraq! In the 1960s, thousands of American GIs rebelled against the Vietnam War, changing the course of U.S. history and society. No film has ever told their story... until now....
Posted: Sat, Apr 1, 2006 4:03am PST
Six more arraigned in DEA raid on Oakland medical marijuana edible producers Six defendants appeared in U.S. District Court in Oakland today, arraigned on charges stemming from DEA raids on March 16, 2006, at multiple medical marijuana edible facilities located in Oakland and Emeryville, CA....
Posted: Fri, Mar 31, 2006 1:24pm PST
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