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It would be great to get some Measure Z questions or "planning on
changing the 4 dispensary limit" questions in the mix....
Posted: Sun, Feb 27, 2005 11:19pm PST
*Please sign & circulate*...
Posted: Sun, Feb 27, 2005 1:24pm PST
East Bay Animal Advocates sponsored a vegetarian feed-in at the KFC at 470 Lake Park Avenue, right by the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland. Outside the fast food restaurant, volunteers served vegetarian 'turkey' to passers-by and distributed pamphlets with information on the inhumane treatment of factory-farmed animals....
Posted: Sat, Feb 26, 2005 9:23pm PST
JOB MARCH ON CITY HALL
EMPLOYMENT FOR FORMER PRISONERS – NOT SCAPEGOATING!
Wednesday, March 2, 11am
Oakland City Hall (12th and Broadway)...
Posted: Fri, Feb 25, 2005 5:58pm PST
Friday, March 18th – 7 PM - FREE
The Abolition of White Democracy
A night with author and activist Joel Olson, offering a new way of understanding the tortured relationship between race and democracy in the United States....
Posted: Fri, Feb 25, 2005 3:02pm PST
Thursday, March 3rd – 7 PM
Against the Empire: A Night of Radical Folk Legends
Featuring Robb Johnson, David Rovics, and Folk This! performing their greatest hits.
$7...
Posted: Fri, Feb 25, 2005 2:54pm PST
John Judge, renowned political researcher and theorist, will be speaking here on 9/11, addressing the findings of the 9/11 Commission and many things you want to know but are not sure how to ask. He will address the deceit that the Bush administration uses to make huge war profits and rob domestic institutions, like social security, in order to finance a permanent war economy. John warns us that the events of 9/11 have been used as a pretext for the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and have...
Posted: Thu, Feb 24, 2005 7:51pm PST
The National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness is very excited to announce our 3rd Annual West Coast Summit, the elite training ground for students working on the West Coast to end hunger and homelessness....
Posted: Thu, Feb 24, 2005 5:59pm PST
6pm at North Gate Library, (Hearst @ Euclid Aves.), Berkeley. Free....
Posted: Thu, Feb 24, 2005 10:47am PST
Attention: Adult Education in Oakland Under Attack! Protest Wednesday, February 22nd
4PM at the Oakland School Board Meeting; 1025 Second Avenue....
Posted: Wed, Feb 23, 2005 9:54am PST
Date: March 9th, 2005
Time: 6:00 to 8:00 pm
$30 donation requested not required
(no one turned away for lack of funds)
Guadalajara Restaurant
1001 Fruitvale Avenue
Oakland, CA 94601
RSVP: 510-437-1554...
Posted: Tue, Feb 22, 2005 5:44pm PST
There will be a community solidarity picket in front of Oaks Theater in Berkeley on Friday evening, February 25 to oppose the brutal practices of the Metropolitan Theater Corp., which recently took-over the Oaks Theater in Berkeley....
Posted: Tue, Feb 22, 2005 12:37am PST
Black Women's Video and Discussion Series
Each and Every Thursday in March
that's March 3rd | 10th | 17th | 24th | 31st...
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 2:54pm PST
First the governor proposed a rule change that could eliminate lunch breaks for California workers. Now, if a new report about the University of California is correct, it seems lunchroom workers themselves are paid so little at UC campuses that many of them qualify for nine public subsidies for the poor, including food stamps and public housing....
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 8:35am PST
Attention: Adult Education in Oakland Under Attack! Protest Wednesday, 4PM at the Oakland School Board Meeting; Town Hall Meeting to Defend Public Education in Oakland, Tuesday, March 8th...
Posted: Sun, Feb 20, 2005 4:28pm PST
This Tuesday, February 22, is a CRUCIAL day in the fight against the City's plan to reverse the almost decade long pesticide ban in Oakland....
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 4:15pm PST
Pickets will continue at the Oaks from Friday through Sunday until an agreement has been reached with the new owners of the Oaks. Updates will be posted to Indybay, and thanks to the Daily Planet for covering stuff like this in the community.
Picture below taken by upton sinclair on Tuesday 2/22, unfortunately the picket was about the half the size that it usually is....
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2005 11:32pm PST
Out of the stampede of recently-former CIA agents publishing books and writing articles to explain away the 'intelligence failures' that supposedly led to 9/11 comes Melissa Boyle Mahle, speaking at Cody's Books on Thursday the 24th....
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2005 11:21pm PST
Benefit Dinner, Video Screening, and Discussion Sunday, February 20, 6:30PM Long Haul Infoshop (3124 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA) $3-5 sliding scale...
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2005 8:15am PST

