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Film Screening and Benefit for the Immigrant Worker Freedom Rides - This Friday - Oakland! This Friday evening - there will be a benefit for the Immigrant Worker Freedom Rides - at the AK Press warehouse in Oakland. Including a film screening of The Gatekeeper, and a panel discussion by Freedom Riders themselves....
Posted: Tue, May 18, 2004 5:04pm PDT
Bay Area Leftist Lounge pt. 2 
Part 2 of pictures from last weekend's Leftist Lounge. It was the first one in the Bay Area, following the tradition set forth by the Boston Leftist Lounge (http://www.leftistlounge.com/). This first event was a benefit for Project X, of Oakland. 200 people came out. It was bangin'....
Posted: Tue, May 18, 2004 2:29pm PDT
Leftist Lounge Bay Area pt. 1 
Pictures from last weekend's Leftist Lounge. It was the first one in the Bay Area, following the tradition set forth by the Boston Leftist Lounge (http://www.leftistlounge.com/). This first event was a benefit for Project X, of Oakland. 200 people came out. It was bangin'....
Posted: Tue, May 18, 2004 2:24pm PDT
Section 8 Housing Voucher Programs In Crisis Housing Activists Urge Everyone To Call Their Member Of Congress To Insist That HUD Must Withdraw It's New Voucher Policy That Cuts Funding For The Section 8 Housing Voucher Programs And Puts Thousands At Risk Of Homelessness! Capital Switchboard; 1-888-818-6641....
Posted: Tue, May 18, 2004 5:50am PDT
Day 8: Fast 4 Education's last day in Oakland Today - Tuesday, May 18 - Will be the fasters' last day in Oakland, so whoever can show up today should try to stop by sometime during the day, or at the nightly candle light vigil at 8pm. Last night's event("Put the State on Trial") was very successful in Richmond....
Posted: Tue, May 18, 2004 1:11am PDT
UFW letter of support to Fasters and March 4 Education folks... Letter of support written by the current United Farm Worker's president Arturo S. Rodríguez to "March 4 Education" and those Fasting for Education. Copies of this letter were sent to the State Superintendent of Public Education and the Governator, and read to the community at the nightly vigil the day after Dolores Huerta visited....
Posted: Tue, May 18, 2004 12:25am PDT
5/21: We Are Everywhere and reportback- David Martinez and Jo Wildings This Just In: We Are Everywhere tour joined by San Francisco based filmmaker David Martinez and British activist Jo Wildings! Recently returned from Iraq where they were kidnapped by the resistance and then released unharmed, they will present video and stories from their experiences.
May 21 - Long Haul...
Posted: Mon, May 17, 2004 2:58pm PDT
5/17 Richmond 6pm: Put the State on Trial - Still Seperate, Still Unequal Schools OAKLAND/RICHMOND
(510) 452-2728
Mock Trial and Rally, 6-8pm at Richmond High School, 1250 - 23rd Street, Richmond, 94804
Members of a fast for education will also be participating....
Posted: Mon, May 17, 2004 1:08am PDT
Concord Truckers Protest About 100 independent truck drivers formed a picket line in Concord on
Friday evening, where they beseeched local trucking companies to increase
rates and improve working conditions....
Posted: Mon, May 17, 2004 12:19am PDT
"Fed Up" Screens as Reclaim the Commons Fundraiser East Bay Green Bloc presents -
A Fundraiser for Reclaim the Commons at the Long Haul (3124 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley)
TONIGHT, Sunday May 16th, (sorry for the short notice!), 7pm....
Posted: Sun, May 16, 2004 12:34pm PDT
Haiti Solidarity March and Rally Haiti Solidarity March and Rally
Tuesday, May 18, 4pm
14th and Broadway in Oakland...
Posted: Sun, May 16, 2004 12:27pm PDT
A View from the Bay Bridge Civil Liberties Victory in Oakland Courts: All Charges Dropped Against Port Anti-War Protesters; Longshoremen Plan Mass March on Washington...
Posted: Sun, May 16, 2004 10:40am PDT
[gangbox] TROQUEROS REVOLT.... TROQUEROS REVOLT....can the California port truckers wildcat strike lead to the reunionization of the freight industry???...
Posted: Sat, May 15, 2004 5:44pm PDT
PROTEST DEATH PENALTY AT BOXER FUNDRAISER PROTEST THE DEATH PENALTY, A MAJOR HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION, AT BOXER FUNDRAISER IN BERKELEY...
Posted: Sat, May 15, 2004 12:49pm PDT
6/2: GMO-Free Alameda County We are announcing the newly formed organization, GMO Free Alameda County-
GMO Free Alameda County is a community group dedicated to keeping
genetically modified crops (GMOs) out of Alameda County’s ecosystems and
food supply.
Our goal is to pass legislation banning the development of GMO crops in
Alameda County....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 11:26pm PDT
Fast 4 Education Rally on Saturday from 12-6pm 
Performers and Musicians confirmed for the rally thus far include - Jen Ro, Kiwi, Duce Eclipse, Jason Mateo. Ride from X-felons, Kaira Espinoza, Abbye, and many more. If you are a local artist or poet feel free to stop by and share some words, art, or a piece to celebrate the resistance of the fasters and the community to the State of California's misplaced spending priorities....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 7:23pm PDT
Cabbies Win NLRB Union Ruling “It’s a struggle just to make it,” said Zadran, who suffers from an irregular heartbeat and confesses that cab driving expenses have kept him from taking a vacation in the past seven years. “But I didn’t have no choice. If I didn’t work my kids will be on the streets. The moment I heard [the drivers got a union] I was so happy.”...
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 4:29pm PDT
For 8 days in May, Truckers closed the Port of Oakland For eight days in May, the Port of Oakland was virtually shut down by truckers striking for better conditions. The same port had been closed down by antiwar protesters just three weeks before, so a small contingent of us from Direct Action to Stop the War (DASW) joined them as a community support group and reported their struggle on Indymedia....
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 8:31pm PDT
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