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Cal Student Activists are Threatened and Detained in UCB Administration Building Students with the Sweat-Free Campaign were threatened and detained by UC police after entering a UC Berkeley Administration building (California Hall) to deliver a letter to Chancellor Birgeneau. This event is the latest in an escelating series of actions by Students Organizing for Justice in the Americas to pressure the UC into ending the sourcing of collegiate apparel from sweatshops....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 3:56pm PST
Northern California Ethnic Media Hit the Classrooms BERKELEY, Ca.– On March 11 representatives of more than 35 ethnic media outlets from Northern California switched roles as purveyors of news and educators to become students for a day, soaking up information on hot news topics and new multimedia and business techniques....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 6:21am PST
Oakland DEA Busts Pot Candy Factory They said the items were sold to marijuana clubs and via
internet. Thirteen people were arrested, including the ringleaders.
KPIX called it the DEA's "biggest bust yet" in this district....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 12:17am PST
Oakland DEA activity Medical marijuana patient activist Angel
Raich was arrested today at the Oakland federal building while
protesting the DEA's raid on Riverside County patient Gary Silva. Meanwhile, a few blocks away, the DEA was raiding a marijuana
grow facility at 1740 Telegraph Ave....
Posted: Thu, Mar 16, 2006 10:11pm PST
More info on Angel Raich's arrest by a federal agent I was arrested for "Non-Conformity with Verbal directions of a police
officer."...
Posted: Thu, Mar 16, 2006 10:08pm PST
Nimbin Australia Nim Fm community radio declares solidarity with BLR (audio/mpeg 274.5KB) Check out our audio declaration of support for BLR at:...
Posted: Thu, Mar 16, 2006 5:12pm PST
INTL PEACEMAKER Receives Major Award, Leads Local Workshops International Peacemaker Marshall Rosenberg is receiving a Bridge of Peace Award from the Global Village Foundation in Los Angeles just before he arrives in the Bay Area next week.
Presenting the award to Dr. Rosenberg will be Michael Nagler, founder of the Peace and Conflict Studies Center at UC Berkeley.
Following the award ceremony, Marshall Rosenberg will make a rare visit to the San Francisco Bay Area to present workshops open to the general public, March 28th through April 2nd....
Posted: Wed, Mar 15, 2006 7:48pm PST
The Oakland General Strike Of 1946: A KPFA Radio Show (audio/mpeg 26.0MB) This radio show from the Pacifica Radio Archives was on the Oakland General Strike of 1946 and
was broadcast on 11/29/76 on the 30th anniversary of the strike.
56.50 min 26 MB...
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2006 10:36am PST
Sweatfree Berkeley Coalition Meeting on Tuesday Tuesday, March 14th
3:30 - 5:30 PM
Greenlining Institute
1918 University Ave, 2nd floor.(between MLK St and Milvia)...
Posted: Mon, Mar 13, 2006 11:49pm PST
3/11 David Rovics w/ Attila the Stockbroker, Ryan Harvey and Folk This! A ROCKIN' BENEFIT CONCERT FOR COMMON GROUND COLLECTIVE IN NEW ORLEANS!...
Posted: Fri, Mar 10, 2006 11:31pm PST
Berkeley Honda Strike Support Schedul 
ALL EVENTS ARE AT THE CORNER OF PARKER AND SHATTUCK between Ashby and Dwight in downtown Berkeley....
Posted: Fri, Mar 10, 2006 10:53pm PST
Rachel Corrie Memorial Third Annual Rachel Corrie Memorial
w/ Dolores Huerta, Todd Chretien, Kiilu Nyasha...
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 7:00PM
MALONGA CASQUELOURD CENTER
1428 ALICE @ 14th, OAKLAND (12th St BART)
Donation: $10-20, no one turned away...
Posted: Fri, Mar 10, 2006 10:52am PST
Berkeley International Women's Day March in Solidarity with Struggle of Iranian Women 
On the occassion of March 8 International Women's Day, a rally and March was held in Berkeley in solidarity with a 4-day march in Europe organized by the Campaign for the Abolition of All Misogynist, Gender-Based Legislation & Islamic Punitive Laws in Iran. The call for the European march begins: "If you are against death by stoning! If you are against forced veiling! If you are against the prosecution and imprisonment of women! If you are against lashing a woman’s body! If you are aga...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 10:06pm PST
3/9 Oakland Meet/Video Screening On Epidemic Of Union Busting&How To Fight It Locked out Boilermakers Bob Glenn and Paul Sturgeon and other fired workes will discuss their
struggles for justice on the job. There will also be a screening of "Lockout 484" and
"Solidarity Has No Borders, The Journey of the Neptune Jade"...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 7:44pm PST
Berkley Liberation Radio FCC comes a knockin (yet again) Interview with Gerald Smith of Berkley Liberation Radio 104fm about their FCC visit on 02-21-06 also some of the history of BLR spawned from the infamous Free Radio Berkley...
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 3:05pm PST
Latin America's Shift to the Left: An Update from Brazil Andreia Borges Ferreira, of Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST), comes to La Peña representing the MST’s Education Sector, responsible for the political education of MST members throughout the country....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 12:47pm PST
Berkeley Honda Strikers Need YOU ! Thursday 4:30-6pm
Saturday 1-2:30pm.
Parker and Shattuck in Berkeley...
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 12:28pm PST
Anti-labor terrorists attack striking hospital workers at Eden Hospital The latest attack on labor picketlines occurred at Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, CA last week. Last fall, there were goons paid by California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco to attack hospital workers, mostly women, on the picketline. These anti-labor thugs are terrorists, and that is who the terrorists always are: Anti-labor, warmongering, racist, anti-women, anti-abortion, anti-gay thugs, and the politicians and captialist class who pay them. Terrorism is by definition a...
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 6:32am PST
Port Protest City Hall Rally When: 4 p.m., Tuesday, March 7.
Where: Oakland City Hall, Frank H. Ogawa Plaza....
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 9:11pm PST
Berkeley City Council should respect will of voters and implement 'free' elections Green Party candidate for Secretary of State, Dr. Forrest Hill, will participate in a rally calling on the Berkeley City Council to respect the will of the voters and implement IRV. The rally will be held on TUESDAY (March 7) at 6:30 p.m. in front of Old City Hall (2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way)....
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 4:14pm PST
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