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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
Middle School Students in Oakland Walkout
This morning dozens of middle school students in east Oakland organized a walkout to protest H.R. 4437...
Posted: Thu, Mar 30, 2006 5:55pm PST
Oil Addiction Anonymous Meeting
Admitting you have a problem is always the first step in breaking an addiction. Luckily, President Bush has taken that first step by admitting to the nation that America is addicted to oil. Join us for a Bay area discussion on Breaking our Addiction to Oil. For more information, go to: www.jumpstartford.com...
Posted: Thu, Mar 30, 2006 2:01pm PST
Oakland Students Join Mexico to SF March for Peace
Oakland, California (March 27, 2006) - Fernando Suarez del Solar, father of one of the first US soldiers killed in the Iraq war, and Iraq War military resisters Pablo Paredes and Camilo Mejia lead their “coalition of the willing” into the last day of their 241 mile march for peace that started on March 12 in Tijuana, Mexico....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 9:41pm PST
Tuesday--City Council on Oak to 9th
The Oakland City Council will hold a public hearing on the Oak to Ninth project Tuesday, March 28th at 6:30 p.m....
Posted: Tue, Mar 28, 2006 2:06pm PST