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TONIGHT! ECR reports on Iraq and immigrant driver's licenses on KALX! Enemy Combatant Radio does a segment on KALX 90.7FM every other Sunday in Berkeley at 5:30pm. You can also hear the segment posted later to the site....
Posted: Sun, May 9, 2004 12:57am PDT
5/15 - A Taste of Change - Fundraiser Brunch for People's Grocery 
Join Us in Celebrating our Success and in Envisioning New Possibilities for West Oakland
* Find inspiration in a powerful and fun presentation on the accomplishments and exciting new directions for People's Grocery. * Enjoy a delicious meal made from farm fresh local ingredients cooked by leading local chefs....
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 5:35pm PDT
Community Support Needed to Hunger Strike for Education The March 4 Education will be beginning a hunger strike in Oakland on Monday. They need us to be there at Frank Ogawa Plaza at the Oakland City Hall (14th and Broadway) beginning at 5PM on Monday in big numbers with legal observers. They are asking to camp there, but there is no such permit for this space, so they need our support and protection to negotiate using this space....
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 7:17am PDT
Oakland Trucker Strike May Be Over... After taking off for the afternoon, I returned tonight around 8:30pm to find a few dozen workers still talking about the strike and what to do next. Essentially the strike was broken up this afternoon when the Port of Oakland went to court to obtain an injunction "against the continuing unlawful disruption of transportation in the harbor area"....
Posted: Fri, May 7, 2004 9:51pm PDT
Update: Port authorities give strikers order to leave Today at around 1pm Port Authorities tried to give strikers legal papers to force them to leave Port property(aka the APL main gate where they are picketing)....
Posted: Fri, May 7, 2004 2:03pm PDT
Hunger Strike for Education Begins Monday Itinerary
Thursday-Sunday Prep for Fast
Sunday (May 9th)
Sunday 2:30p.m. Prep Meeting at Opportunity West 3720 Barrett Ave. Richmond, CA. 94806
6:00p.m. Drop off supplies at March 4 Education Ally Office (Downtown Oakland)
11:00p.m. Fasters arrive at March 4 Education Ally Office (Downtown Oakland)
Monday (May 10th)
6:30a.m. Fasters arrive at Frank Ogawa Plaza-set up camp, begin fast
12:00p.m. Press Conference on 12th hour of fast-Present Demands
5:00p.m. Community Rally
8:00p...
Posted: Fri, May 7, 2004 12:15pm PDT
Monday: Hearing re Violence Prevention vs. More Cops in Oakland Oakland City Council
VIOLENCE PREVENTION SPECIAL PUBLIC HEARING
Monday, May 10
4:00 PM-8:30 PM
Oakland City Hall, Council Chambers...
Posted: Fri, May 7, 2004 12:03pm PDT
5/7 Update: Oakland Truckers Strike Not Over Yet, Solidarity Needed After about 3 hours of negotiations at the Port of
Oakland building tonight on 530 Water St, it became
apparent that a large number of trucking companies
were still not willing to offer the truckers what they
have been asking for since the strike began...
Posted: Fri, May 7, 2004 12:43am PDT
UCB Faculty Votes to Resist Patriot Act The UC Berkeley Academic Senate voted Thursday to urge the University to take all possible steps to avoid compliance with the Patriot Act, and to assist in the defense of faculty members who have Patriot Act cases brought against them....
Posted: Thu, May 6, 2004 8:37pm PDT
Independent Truckers Strike! Part 4 
Strike continues despite media reports that state otherwise....
Posted: Thu, May 6, 2004 1:14pm PDT
Port of Oakland Press Release Claiming Trucker Reached an Agreement with the Port 
This is the press release that folks over at the Port of Oakland sent out without even allowing the workers to decide whether or not they agreed to the supposed agreement or not....
Posted: Thu, May 6, 2004 10:11am PDT
Police, Port Authorities, and Companies Attempt to Force Strikers Back To Work 
Pictures and a reportback on the role that the Port of Oakland authorities, the Police, and the Oakland Tribune played in the strike today, Wednesday May 5th. A more extensive report will be written later in the week....
Posted: Thu, May 6, 2004 6:44am PDT
DASW Labor Solidarity Working Group Call to Rally Today 5/6 at 4pm 
CALL to SUPPORT STRIKING INDEPENDENT TRUCKERS
RALLY/PICKET/RAISE FISTS - THURSDAY May 6th, 4 pm
Port of Oakland Commission Offices, 530 Water St., Jack London Square
(Striking Truckers Representatives will be negotiatiing with the companies starting at 5pm inside 530 Water St.)...
Posted: Thu, May 6, 2004 4:10am PDT
Teamster's Informational Flyers for Oakland Truck Driver Strike 
2 informational flyers handed out by the Teamsters today at the APL gate. One is about the profits that the steamships are making, and one is about the profits the oil companies have been making....
Posted: Thu, May 6, 2004 3:50am PDT
Truckers' strike continues; community support needed The truckers' strike is still going, despite an inaccurate report announcing that truckers would return to work Wednesday....
Posted: Thu, May 6, 2004 3:42am PDT
Independent Truckers Strike! Part 3 
Independent truckers carry their strike into the fourth day!...
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 8:34pm PDT
Call for Solidarity Meeting at APL Gate, Oakland Docks at 6pm Whether that means talking to other folks you know and encouraging them to visit the strikers at the Oakland Docks, calling that friends of yours who works for the corporate media, or even just forwarding this call to action to your friends....
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 1:29am PDT
Tuesday Night @ the Oakland Docks 
Tues night at the Oakland docks...scab trucks came in, and left later by police escort , while the truckers who hold the contracts watch on the sidelines and protest loudly at the scandal before their eyes....
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 12:53am PDT
URGENT: Support striking truck drivers in Oakland! Call for demonstration of community support...
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 11:24pm PDT
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