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Peaceful Protester Describes What It Was Like To Be Arrested 
Bay Area protester Jes Richardson describes his recent arrest in Washington D.C. where he joined many others to protest the war.
Last Sunday, between 100 and 200 people were arrested. Cindy Sheehan was there, declaring ""It's time to lay our bodies on the line and say we've had enough."...
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 9:45am PDT
Lennar BVHP LLC and very high metal readings emiting from Parcel A It has been some months now that I have taken it upon myself to do some through investigative reporting and this involves getting full proof data that can stand the test in court of air, water, and soil samples. We must show the court that Lennar BVHP LLC has with intent poisoned our community. We have the proof but the City and County of San Francisco and Mayor Gavin Newsom is not helping. The local, State, and Federal agencies are sleeping and even though we have informed them about the adv...
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 9:45am PDT
2007 Northern California Socialist Conference Registration in Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley campus....
Event Date: Sat, Nov 3, 2007 10:00am PDT
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 9:14am PDT
SF Mime Troupe in Santa Cruz- need your... HELP!!! The San Francisco Mime Troupe needs your help!
SATURDAY SEPT 22:
11:00-12:30pm---- 6 to 8 Volunteers needed (Note: only one volunteer helped in 2005) :(
10:00pm-8.00am---- 2 or more volunteers with at least one Mime Troupe member
SUNDAY, SEPT. 23
8:00-10:00am---- 2-4 Volunteers (could include the folks that spend the night)
4.30-6:00 pm---- 6-8 Volunteers needed...
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 9:11am PDT
Why Won't the U.S. Leave Iraq? 
Spanish Speaking Citizens' Foundation, 1470 Fruitvale Blvd. (near International Blvd.), Oakland...
Event Date: Sat, Oct 6, 2007 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 9:04am PDT
Raging Grannies Book Signing Bookshop Santa Cruz
1520 Pacific Ave. Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Tue, Oct 2, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 8:31am PDT
2nd Annual Reentry Summit working together to Support San Franciscans after Incarceration The 2nd Annual Reentry Summit: Working together to Support San Franciscans after Incarceration, was held at the San Francisco State University - September 19, 2007 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. It was well attended and the highlight of this Summit - was the key note speaker Luis J. Rodriguez, author of Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. He got a standing ovation and spoke from the heart. The man loves poetry and poets are the soul of any civilization....
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 7:20am PDT
Media, Democrats silent on police attack on University of Florida student Thursday, September 20, 2007 :Two days after Andrew Meyer, a 21-year-old journalism student at the University of Florida, was assaulted by campus police and given an electric shock for asking critical questions of Massachusetts senator and 2004 Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry at a public forum, the US media has largely dropped the story....
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 7:11am PDT
Contradictions mount in US and world economy in wake of Fed rate cut Thursday, September 20, 2007 :While a half-percentage-point cut in the federal funds rate sent Wall Street soaring Tuesday, and had a lesser but still positive impact on stock trading Wednesday, there is growing evidence that the move by the Federal Reserve Board can have only a short-term effect, and that the unraveling of financial markets under the impact of the home mortgage collapse will continue....
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 7:11am PDT
Britain: Government attempts to stem banking crisis Thursday, September 20, 2007 :The Labour government’s pledge to guarantee savings at the Northern Rock building society has been forced on it by a massive public display of no-confidence in Britain’s banking sector. Strenuous government and media attempts to insist that Northern Rock was a liquidity problem due to a bad business model and not a systemic crisis—and that the bank remained solvent—fell on deaf ears, as customers continued to queue up to close their accounts and bank shares took ...
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 7:10am PDT
Washington's proxy war inside Kurdish Iran Thursday, September 20, 2007 :A string of articles have appeared in the US press over the past week reporting on the Iranian shelling of border areas inside the Kurdish north of Iraq since August. One American journalist after another has trekked to the Qandil mountains to interview guerrillas belonging to the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK) and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), and describe first hand the resulting devastation to crops, livestock and impoverished villages....
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 7:10am PDT
Musharraf regime seeks to stave off collapse Thursday, September 20, 2007 :A lawyer representing Pakistan’s US-backed military ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, told the country’s Supreme Court Tuesday that “if” Musharraf is elected to a second term as president, he will resign as chief of the armed forces before taking the oath of office. Opponents of the regime were quick to condemn Musharraf’s pledge as a ruse aimed at subverting the country’s constitution and the democratic will of the Pakistani people....
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 7:09am PDT
Parliamentary elections in Greece Conservatives gain at expense of PASOK Thursday, September 20, 2007 :The ruling conservative New Democracy (ND), led by Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, was re-elected with a slight majority in the Greek parliamentary elections held on Sunday. The party won 41.8 percent of the vote, 4 percent less than in 2004. According to a recently introduced law, the party with the biggest share of the vote automatically receives an additional 40 mandates, which means that ND can maintain its parliamentary majority with 152 of 300 seats, desp...
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 7:09am PDT
Taiwan's UN bid increases friction with China Thursday, September 20, 2007 :Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian has again raised the political temperature across the Taiwan Strait with China by launching a provocative campaign for a seat in the United Nations. His ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) held a rally of 100,000 people on Sunday in its southern stronghold of Kaohsiung to support the demand....
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 7:09am PDT
Australia: Bipartisan political praise for police violence at APEC summit Thursday, September 20, 2007 :Last week Labor state Premier Morris Iemma and Liberal Prime Minister John Howard jointly hosted an event to thank some of the 4,000 state and federal police and 1,500 military personnel involved in the extraordinary police-state crackdown during the September 7-9 APEC summit in Sydney. In the face of widespread public concern about the level of police violence, both politicians hailed the police mobilisation....
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 7:09am PDT
France: Communist Party mayor calls police on the homeless Thursday, September 20, 2007 :In the early morning hours of September 6 in the Aubervilliers municipality in north Paris, CRS riot police brutally evicted more than 80 homeless families from a public square in the Maladrerie district where they had pitched their tents opposite a local school. Aubervilliers, a municipality of 63,000 inhabitants, is run by the French Communist Party (PCF) and its Socialist Party (PS) and Green Party allies....
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 7:08am PDT
Women's Health Clinic Under Attack Before Opening Thursday, September 20, 2007 : Opponents of abortion and birth control have vowed to prevent the opening of a new state-of-the-art Planned Parenthood clinic in Aurora, Ill., 35 miles outside Chicago. The 22,000 square foot clinic was scheduled to open Sept....
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 7:08am PDT
Republicans vote Down Webb Plan for Troops; Al-Maliki Accuses Blackwater From a Thursday, September 20, 2007 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 7:08am PDT
Stop the Sale of Women: Combat Trafficking in the U.S. Thursday, September 20, 2007 : Trade, a new feature film starring Kevin Kline, tells the story of a 13-year-old girl who is kidnapped by sex traffickers from her home in Mexico City and the brother who works desperately to find her....
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 7:08am PDT
Washington is sending mixed signals on nuclear agreements Thursday, September 20, 2007 : By abandoning many of the nuclear arms agreements negotiated in the last 50 years, the United States has been sending mixed signals to North Korea, Iran, and other nations with the technical knowledge to create nuclear weapons. Currently proposed agreements with India compound this quagmire and further undermine the global pact....
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 7:07am PDT
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