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Utilities’ nuclear power plants threaten millions 
It’s painfully obvious that nuclear power is harmful and dangerous. France has had 12 nuclear accidents between 1969 and 2012. Japan has had 12 since 1978. There were 46 nuclear accidents in the United States between 1955 and 2011.
Photo: The Diablo Nuclear Power Plant, just 600 yards east of the Shoreline Fault, and less than two and a half miles from the Hosgri Fault....
Posted: Sat, Aug 25, 2012 12:18am PDT
Seat Filling for the Stars: Sitting Pretty or Slave Labor? I went undercover at a televised show called “Teachers Rock,” which was to be broadcast from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. I'd applied to be a seat filler with hopes of learning how this highly unusual profession works. Could this be the key to unemployment? Could filling seats fill bank accounts? It turned out the answer was no because the salary is zero....
Posted: Thu, Aug 23, 2012 5:12pm PDT
San Onofre Layoffs: Latest Sign of Nuke Plant’s Demise Layoffs at the San Onofre nuclear power plant in Southern California are another indication of the demise of this nuke plant....
Posted: Tue, Aug 21, 2012 6:47pm PDT
Domestic Workers March August 21 Interview on kpfa (audio/x-wav 235.6MB) oOmestic Workers March August 21 Interview on kpfa...
Posted: Sun, Aug 19, 2012 10:17pm PDT
Prop 37 Solution to Walmart's Untested, Unlabeled, Toxin Spliced Corn The article details Walmart's decision to mass market Monsanto's Bt Toxin corn. A toxin that acts as a pesticide INSIDE the corn that disintegrates the stomach linings of insects. No long-term studies have been done on how it may effect people and no labeling is currently required - as California's Prop 37 would if passed. Many scientists disagree with Monsanto and Walmart's claim the product is safe....
Posted: Fri, Aug 17, 2012 1:01pm PDT
CA Injured Workers Without a Voice in WC Deal-AFL-CIO Tops Cut Deal With Insurance Crooks 
California AFL-CIO legislative director Angie Wei And AFL-CIO head Art Pulaski are working secretly with the California workers comp insurance crooks to cut benefits for California's injured workers. The secret meetings and anti-labor deal has been blasted by Voters Injured At Work...
Posted: Fri, Aug 17, 2012 11:35am PDT
Anonymous Operation TrapWire 
This weekend, it was disclosed by WikiLeaks the details about a system known as "TrapWire" that uses facial recognition and other techniques including high-end artificial intelligence to track and monitor individuals using countless different closed-circuit cameras operated by cities and other institutions, including private businesses. This program also monitors all social media on the internet. The software is billed as a method by which to prevent terrorism, but can of course also be used ...
Posted: Sun, Aug 12, 2012 3:13pm PDT
When Will Coke and Pepsi remove the carcinogenic caramel color? Coke and Pepsi have promised to remove carcinogenic caramel color after the state of California added it to a list of carcinogens, but so far many cans still contain it....
Posted: Thu, Aug 9, 2012 1:23pm PDT
U.S. Socialist Stewart Alexander Leaves the PFP I have met many wonderful and dedicated activists throughout my experience with the Peace and Freedom Party, and hope to maintain many of those friendships in the upcoming years.
While my position with regard to this past weekend's PFP Convention may be unpopular, I feel obliged to express the motivation behind my resignation. My commitment to the Peace and Freedom Party extends as far as the Party's commitment to socialism....
Posted: Wed, Aug 8, 2012 7:52am PDT
The Undemocratic Democratic Party of the State of California How the California Democratic Party endorsed one of the worst bait and switch ballot measures in the history of California: Proposition 35, using another undemocratic process....
Posted: Wed, Aug 8, 2012 1:47am PDT
Corrupt CPUC Chair Peevy And Utility Controlled Commission Delays Full Probe Of NUKE Plant 
Corrupt California PUC Chair Michael Peevey and the utility controlled commission are refusing to do a full investigation of the San Onofre NUKE plant outage and leak causing the shutdown. Peevey appointed by former governor Gray Davis was an executive of Southern California Edison and is still taking money from them while on the commission that is supposed to regulate these utilities....
Posted: Fri, Aug 3, 2012 6:16am PDT
Protests Continue in Anaheim Over Police Killings 
ANAHEIM - July 29th 2012 was a sunny Sunday in Anaheim that brought over 250 protesters from all over California to demand justice for the series of recent officer involved shootings in Anaheim, during the last week and a half alone, two of which were fatal....
Posted: Wed, Aug 1, 2012 9:03pm PDT
Visual History of Anaheim Protests, Police Attacks & Militarization Anaheim police shot and killed on July 21st and again July 22nd. The people have been standing up to resist these police murders. As the people have stood up, protesting in the streets and within the local police station itself, police have used projectile weapons on peaceful protesters. Some protesters responded by breaking windows in the area and setting trash cans ablaze. Now police have taken a full-on siege mentality, erecting barricades around their police station and donning military ...
Posted: Mon, Jul 30, 2012 1:38pm PDT
Labeling Genetically Engineered Foods: Whose Side Are You On? 
Proposition 37 ~ This November, California voters will have an opportunity to vote on a simple, yet important ballot initiative called Prop 37 –
the California Right to Know Act. If approved, it would require food sold in California supermarkets be clearly labeled if it has been genetically engineered....
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2012 11:19am PDT
Anonymous Operation Anaheim 
In Anaheim, California police shot protesters and bystanders including kids who did nothing wrong. We, Anonymous - are calling yet again to the citizens of the United States of America and the world to rise up in unison and defeat a government which does not value its citizens lives nor their freedoms. The safety of your families, your homes, and your future generations is in danger. The fate of the USA is in your hands. Do you wish to be oppressed further, or do you wish to obtain freedom an...
Posted: Thu, Jul 26, 2012 4:36pm PDT
Nuclear Dread On Both Sides Of The Pacific Nuclear problems are still growing on both sides of the Pacific, at Fukushima and San Onofre....
Posted: Sat, Jul 14, 2012 9:35pm PDT
State Repeats Unsuccessful, Dangerous Beetle Spray Without Informing Public . . . the almost complete lack of public notice prior to this year’s beetle spray is in direct contradiction to CDFA’s assertions that the agency goes “above and beyond” in public engagement and that there is plenty of opportunity for public input before a treatment is carried out. In this case, the public did not have an opportunity to weigh in until after the spray had begun. Moreover, CDFA is under no obligation to change anything about its treatment no matter what the public says....
Posted: Thu, Jul 5, 2012 12:37pm PDT
Socialist Party Candidate Alexander Calls Obamacare Another Corporate Giveaway Obama’s policy was based on the original sin of allowing the pharmaceutical companies off the hook. He then followed this up by pledging public funds to subsidize junk healthcare plans, coercing Americans into purchasing these plans and silencing the voices of single-payer healthcare advocates. Obamacare is not healthcare reform; it is just another corporate giveaway by the Obama administration....
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2012 10:10am PDT
Save Mart Workers Attacked by UFCW’s “Person of the Year”! This past week Save Mart/Lucky workers were devastatingly ATTACKED by UFCW's Person of the Year...
Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2012 11:08am PDT
Socialist Presidential Candidate Stewart Alexander Condemns Coup in Paraguay “The impeachment of President Lugo was a coup carried out by Conservative forces in the Congress against the will of the people of Paraguay,”...
Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2012 10:28am PDT
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