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Workers from the local Lanesplitter Pizza Pub walked off their shifts Monday night to protest the working conditions and poor food quality of the company; customers walked out in support....
Posted: Tue, Apr 16, 2013 9:28am PDT
Reportedly, the top public relations official for the Port of Oakland has spent thousands of dollars on phony websites apparently meant to confuse the port's perceived political enemies -- ILWU and Occupy Oakland....
Posted: Sun, Apr 14, 2013 1:56pm PDT
Press release and accompanying info from the Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition.
Video is approximately five minutes long. Please see www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/03/26/18734271.php to view the video....
Posted: Thu, Apr 11, 2013 4:12pm PDT
J.R. Valrey blew the whistle at KPFA and was suspended for 60 days. Here is a transcript of what he said on February 6, 2013....
Posted: Tue, Apr 9, 2013 7:10pm PDT
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Posted: Mon, Apr 8, 2013 4:51pm PDT
The Rashomon Project is an online toolkit for creating multi-perspective video chronologies to help activist groups better document events, anonymize participants, and share demonstrations in new ways....
Posted: Fri, Apr 5, 2013 11:58pm PDT
People's Park must adapt to survive. A non-idealistic, non-revolutionary mob squatting the Park with no community minded goal is not a movement. The soil of People's Park is littered with the toxic casteoffs of the cigarette industry, with butts discarded in vegetables beds. Queerphobic violence in the Park has been on the up-rise, with several incidences just this year in which queer individuals have been assaulted, or threatened with assault (https://www.google.com/search?q=%22IMPORTANT+...
Posted: Sun, Mar 31, 2013 3:54pm PDT
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?...
Posted: Mon, Mar 25, 2013 10:00pm PDT
"Save KPFA" operative and KPFA host is doing a forum on "Going To Iran"...
Posted: Tue, Mar 19, 2013 1:56pm PDT
We are pleased to introduce a new video from Salmon Water Now.
Truth and Justice: Stop the Delta Tunnels! (4:20) simplifies the reasons why building massive tunnels to move the Sacramento river away from the Delta is a bad idea.
The video points out a few key facts, left out of the BDCP documents recently released, that tunnel proponents would prefer not be mentioned. And finally, the video encourages viewers to learn more about the tunnels and become a super hero in support of a h...
Posted: Tue, Mar 19, 2013 5:32am PDT
The Sunday KPFA News, 3/17/13, announced that the listeners should participate in deciding programming at KPFA by participating in some program council. This many decade listener has an urgent request: Give Framed Attorney Lynne Stewart's demand for compassionate release the same saturation coverage that KPFA gave to the worthless Catholic Church last week, which Catholic Church coverage should never have been heard on KPFA. While you are waiting, sign the petition for compassionate releas...
Posted: Sun, Mar 17, 2013 6:40pm PDT
Report back on the "Anti-Capitalist Rally & March Against Police Repression" friday night in Oakland....
Posted: Sat, Mar 16, 2013 1:22am PDT
For those following the on going saga within UFCW Local 5 and you thought it couldn’t get any worse -Think again!
While Local 5 members wait for the SECOND Mail Ballot Deadline for Local 5's "Ordered" Do-Over Officer's Election scheduled for 12:00 Noon on Friday, March 22, 2013, it "appears" that Ron Lind, his Regime and the UFCW I.U. "may" be running scared?...
Posted: Fri, Mar 15, 2013 11:09am PDT
PLEASE SPREAD WIDELY: Today, Comrade Ghetto Prophet (GP), Co-Chair of the ONYX Organizing Committee was arrested at his home by the California Highway Patrol. The pigs claim he is in violation of his parole. The problem with that is, GP has been OFF OF PAROLE SINCE AUGUST OF 2012. And at no point since August has the state called him, sent him mail or shown up at his door to let him know he failed to report (WHICH ACCORDING TO THE PAROLE OFFICE IS MANDATORY AND COMMON PRACTICE BEFORE AN ARRES...
Posted: Thu, Mar 7, 2013 4:29pm PST
The fact that anti-war activists went home as soon as Obama took office and are still at home in 2013 reveals to Iraq and Afghanistan that the war on their country wasn't motivating protests against Bush because people opposed the war but because people on the democratic left oppose anything and everything that is not the Democratic Parties idea. That and liberal democrats care a lot more about the presidents domestic policy than the policies affecting people oversea's forgetting that foreign...
Posted: Sun, Mar 3, 2013 9:45pm PST
Paranoia (Anonymous) has recently released "320mb of internal reports and and emails assembled for Bank of America by a sub-contractor named TEKSystems". One of the files released is a keyword list used for intelligence gathering. In the keyword list of subjects and events is the phrase: "Berkeley Marine Corps Recruiting Center controversy"....
Posted: Fri, Mar 1, 2013 10:25pm PST
Locally in Berkeley, Eleanor Walden of the Berkeley Gray Panthers said; "On Feb. 27, at their regular monthly meeting the Gray Panthers distributed postcards addressed to Sen. Diane Feinstein, asking her to stop the massive impending budget cuts scheduled to take effect in March. There were about 40 people at the meeting, many of whom signed and mailed the postcards that very same day."...
Posted: Fri, Mar 1, 2013 7:03pm PST
A six part series on policing in Oakland....
Posted: Thu, Feb 28, 2013 7:27pm PST