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Code Pink ALERT: Tonight, Resolution to Bring CA Nat. Guard Home, Alameda City Council! Our city council will be considering our resolution to bring home our guard — and more!...
Posted: Tue, Feb 7, 2006 7:04am PST
SUPPORT LABOR COUNCIL ACTIONS 
Continue the broad support for Berkeley Honda machinists!!
VALENTINE'S DAY ACTION @ COMCAST-OAKLAND!!...
Posted: Mon, Feb 6, 2006 9:29pm PST
2/9 Oakland Speak-Out For Injured Workers At CA State Hearings On Thursday Feb 9 at the Oakland State Building at 9:30 AM injured workers will speak-out about
the attack on them as a result of the deregulation of workers' comp. Tens of thousands of
workers have been unable to receive medical care for their injuries and some have committed
suicide as well as losing their homes and families....
Posted: Mon, Feb 6, 2006 11:18am PST
Inside the California Egg Industry: An Undercover Investigation (video/quicktime 20.3MB) Ninety-five percent of all eggs in this country are produced by hens in cramped and unhealthy battery cages, in dark and rank warehouses holding up to 125,000 birds each. A significant share of the nation's eggs come from California's Central Valley.
East Bay Animal Advocates has produced a 6 minute documentary from undercover footage shot in such warehouses. Footage includes shocking conditions at egg facilities in Sonoma, Santa Clara, Merced and San Diego counties. After a screenin...
Posted: Sat, Feb 4, 2006 11:13pm PST
KATRINA ACTION ON FEMA TUESDAY Action Alert
For Tuesday, February 7th, Noon to 1:00pm
Corner of Broadway & 11th Street in Oakland...
Posted: Sat, Feb 4, 2006 8:40pm PST
EL ENEMIGO COMUN premiers in the Bay Area "el enemigo común" scratches beneath the surface of neoliberalism, at some of the its most hidden atrocities in recent North American history. The film documents instances of paramilitary activity against indigenous communities in Oaxaca, Mexico from 2002 through 2005 while including scenes from an international human rights movement in 2003, in Miami against the Free Trade Area of the America's, and in Cancun against the World Trade Organization. The three locations in isolation expose the d...
Posted: Sat, Feb 4, 2006 7:58pm PST
Muslim coalition marches through West Oakland to rally at Frank Ogawa On a chilly Saturday morning, dozens of concerned Muslims from throughout the Bay Area assembled at Defremery – aka Lil Bobby Hutton – Park in West Oakland, despite inevitable rainfall, to address the issue of Muslim-owned liquor stores in poor neighborhoods....
Posted: Fri, Feb 3, 2006 7:33am PST
2/2 and 2/4: Berkeley Honda Rallies with Special Guests When: Th., 2/2 4:30-6:00 SEIU 790 (ongoing Thursday sponsors)
Sat., 2/4 1-2:30 UC Berkeley Labor Coalition
Where: Parker & Shattuck...
Posted: Thu, Feb 2, 2006 12:42am PST
Feb 25: Rally for Immigrant Rights/ Manifestacion Pro Inmigrante Saturday, February 25, 2006 12PM – 3PM
Fruitvale District in Oakland...
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 11:26pm PST
ACLU of Northern California Seeks Pentagon Files on Peace Groups ACLU OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA SEEKS PENTAGON FILES ON PEACE GROUPS
ACLU Launches Nationwide Effort to Uncover Details of Pentagon Domestic Spying Program...
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 6:13pm PST
Law Suit: Housing Authority Abuses Citizenship Question [Note: By the time this story reaches it's reading audience during the month of February, please be aware that an Injunction has just been filed in Federal Court in an effort to stop the Oakland Housing Authority from violating Federal Law.]...
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 1:52am PST
Oakland Schools to Continue Hiring Scabs 
The Oakland Unified School District ended it's scab hiring at the Airport Hilton, but has resumed it at district offices at 314 E. 10th Street in Huerta Hall. These will continue through Saturday, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. All are encouraged to go there to let the educational bureaucrats know what the Bay Area working class thinks about hiring scabs in our community....
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 12:04am PST
New Orleans Revival - benefit for hurricane katrina survivors 
Benefit for hurricane katrina survivors.
Starts 6:30pm at Oakland Metro, 201 Broadway, Oakland...
Posted: Tue, Jan 31, 2006 4:31am PST
2006 Bay Area Green Party Candidates This upcoming election in California will have many important Green Party candidates running for office, a number of whom are from and representing the Bay Area. Here are some of the current candidates and their websites:...
Posted: Sat, Jan 28, 2006 6:33pm PST
1/28 Naked Souls Artists Alliance 4-Year Anniversary Party 
01.28.2006 @ The Oakland Noodle Factory
1255 26th Street @Union Street, Oakland
$10-20 Sliding Scale, $5 under 18...
Posted: Fri, Jan 27, 2006 10:41pm PST
Berkeley Honda Rallies This Week: W Th Sat When: Wed., 7:30-9 AM Special Rally! Sponsored by SEIU 790
City of Berkeley & other public employees
Th., 4:30-6 PM
Sat., 1-2:30 PM Sponsored by Democratic Socialists of America...
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 10:05pm PST
Oakland Teachers Will Lose Oakland Teachers will loose unless.......they put money and benefits aside for the moment...and focus on the main need...to replace Ward with someone or group they can actually negotiate with...
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 1:29pm PST
March Against Oakland Liquor Stores - January 28, 2006 Well over 80% of the 350 liquor stores in Oakland are owned or operatedby Muslims. This march and rally is a mobilization ofour community to send a strong message that we areoutraged by the destructive and misrepresentativeactions of our coreligionists and that wejoin allies from other groups in the struggle tocreate healthy and enriching neighborhoods. It is onestep of many that are being and will be taken toaffect a long-term and lasting redress of this issue.Organized and endorsed by a Coa...
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 12:45pm PST
Educators demand a fair contract and protest Randolph Ward's intimidation tactics 
More than 100 people turned out on short notice to demand a fair contract and to protest Randolph Ward's intimidation tactics. That night AFSME President Morris Tatum announced that his members have pledged that they will support OEA picket lines in the event of a forced strike....
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 10:55pm PST
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