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Seven San Francisco activists from the squatted social center called the SF Commune, were brutally attacked by police and arrested Thursday evening after being invited into the SF State University dorms by students there. One individual was tazed and another was reportedly shoved into a paddy wagon where police continued to viciously beat him. This happened less than 36 hours after the campus visitors were violently evicted from the SF Commune by riot-clad SWAT police on Wednesday morning. ...

The SF Commune, a community center and social space for organizers in the Ocean View district of the city, was raided early this morning, Wednesday, May 15th, 2013. Over twenty people were evicted from their home and social center and four arrested as SWAT team and SFPD moved into the before abandoned building to push people to the curb and maintain homelessness in the city. Tonight, the SF Commune and all in solidarity with direct action to alleviate the housing crisis and homelessness w...

Summary: On Monday, university police raided the all-volunteer farm at the Gill Tract. Four people were arrested. One of them was Brooke Marino, a geography student from UC Berkeley, who was standing on a public sidewalk outside the property. As seen in the vdieo footage, Marino was being nonviolent. Police, however, put her in a "pain compliance hold" and carried her by her neck across the street. Civil Rights attorney Dan Siegel witnessed this, and says the police broke the law by bypas...

Four people are arrested today attempting to plant and then defend a community farm in Albany, CA on a piece of land owned and planned to be paved over and developed by the University of California at Berkeley. Many farmers express they want a peaceful and voluntary shift towards all people taking care of each other, and also that destruction of food will not be tolerated. RISE UP...

The Southern part of the Gill Tract is in danger of being zoned differently than the northern part, Whole Foods dropped their bid, there has been an ongoing community battle for the proper usage of this farmland. It is the last of the A1 type land [agriculture,] in the east bay. The community at large would like to see the farm drop GMO and corporate sponsorship, and not sell the land to commercial real estate developers. Rather than grow GMO fava, corn and let the land waste with wild mustar...

Meet up at Albany City Hall, 1000 San Pablo Ave!...

Legalize the Right of the Poor to Sleep! For Human and Environmental Needs, Not Profit!...

knowing put pressure on the establishment (oppressor or Beast) to try to come up with an excuse to kick us out of Public Places such as Oscar Grant Plaza, Snow Park or in front of the Federal Reserve ( Market street, SF). The question is Poverty a Crime?, Why cannot we occupy the The Oakland Occupy movement where is it and what has happened to it?...

Oscar Grant Plaza (14th & Broadway)...

Audio from: Radio Autonomía Collective Presents: “De diáspora, colonia, melanina, y otras rimas: Race Relations in Latin America & Counter-hegemonic Cultural Production” Dialogue, Spoken Word Presentation, Q&A with: Bocafloja (poet & hip-hop artist from Mexico City) and Jorge González (researcher & activist on Afromexican politics) MARCH 14, 2013 at The Holdout, Oakland MORE INFO: http://www.emancipassion.com/...