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Power celebrate 10 years of vision, leadership and change and do it with style
POWER is one organization that has made a huge difference in the lives of those that need genuine help most in San Francisco. Immigrants, sweat shop workers, women in dire need, residents with issues linked to huge Corporations, faulty policies that need to be negated and changed - POWER has done it all - and in doing it brought empowerment in the lives of thousands. Today, at St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco - POWER, shared their love and in doing so united many diverse people and org...
Posted: Sat, Sep 15, 2007 11:37pm PDT
9/11 Explains the Impotence Of The Anti-war Movement
With judicious logic, Paul Craig Roberts explains in this essay why the anti-war/peace movement has had virtually no impact....
Posted: Sat, Sep 15, 2007 11:03pm PDT
An alternative mexican independence day celebration/ Grito de independecia alternativo
Dolores Park in the Mission
Corner of Dolores and 18th
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Parque Dolores
Dolores st. esquina con 18th...
Event Date: Sun, Sep 16, 2007 10:30am PDT
Posted: Sat, Sep 15, 2007 11:00pm PDT
Russian, U.S. experts to consider joint use of Gabala radar Tuesday
MOSCOW, September 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russian and U.S. experts accompanied by Azerbaijani officials will visit Tuesday the Gabala radar in Azerbaijan to consider the use of the radar for monitoring, a senior Russian military official said Saturday....
Posted: Sat, Sep 15, 2007 9:55pm PDT
BREAKING: Greenspan Fingers Bush-Clinton Crime Family in Secret Grand Jury
It can now be reported that former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has testified in a secret National Security Court in Virginia that both the Bush and Clinton Crime Syndicate misused the Federal Reserve system for their own personal financial and political gain.
Further, Greenspan now believes that the current Federal Reserve under Chairman Ben Bernanke is being threatened and blackmailed to lower interest rates, which would place the world banking system in chaos as monetary and cu...
Posted: Sat, Sep 15, 2007 9:43pm PDT
Prudential Laundry Worker Strike Photos (Milpitas)
For background information, see UNITE-HERE's campaign website:
http://www.serviceworkersrising.org/prudential/
"Hundreds of Prudential Overall Supply are on strike at multiple company facilities. Workers are striking to protest alleged unfair labor practices at Prudential where they have been striving to improve working conditions since June 2007."...
Posted: Sat, Sep 15, 2007 5:45pm PDT
Maratón por la libertad: Magdalena García Durán y el caso Atenco
La lucha se acelera por la libertad de la indígena mazahua Magdalena García Durán, reconocida por Amnistía Internacional como presa de conciencia, y todos los y las presos políticos detenidos en San SAlvador Atenco el 3 y 4 de mayo de 2006....
Posted: Sat, Sep 15, 2007 4:36pm PDT
Marathon to Free Magdalena García Durán and Atenco Prisoners
Things are moving faster in the struggle to free the Mazahua indigenous rights leader Magdalena García Duran, recognized by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience, and all the political prisoners arrested in San Salvador Atenco in central Mexico on May 3 and 4, 2006....
Posted: Sat, Sep 15, 2007 4:32pm PDT
Buyback recyclers' support key to Curbside recyclers IWW shops' solidarity wins demands
By Fellow Worker Bruce Valde....
Posted: Sat, Sep 15, 2007 3:55pm PDT
Two toxic stacks by the Old Mint on 5th and Market - thousands shop and now a Mint Plaza.
Millions have gone by the old Mint and now by it will be a Mint Plaza. Thousands shop every day by 5th and Market and millions of vehicle ply on this very heavy traffic route. The Mint Plaza will be ready this fall. But look very carefully and you will see stacks on the background - spewing toxic particulates day and night. So, we have a nice Mint Plaza and children and people gathering while all the time the area is polluted. Go figure....
Posted: Sat, Sep 15, 2007 2:35pm PDT
Sat. and Sun. 'E-Waste Weekend' planned @ Marin fairgrounds
san rafael...
Event Date: Sun, Sep 16, 2007 8:00am PDT
Posted: Sat, Sep 15, 2007 2:03pm PDT
Sat. and Sun. 'E-Waste Weekend' planned @ Marin fairgrounds
san rafael...
Event Date: Sat, Sep 15, 2007 8:00am PDT
Posted: Sat, Sep 15, 2007 2:03pm PDT
Thank you! You gave CA hemp a vote!
AB 684, the CA Industrial Hemp Farming Act,
Passed the Senate & Assembly! September 12, 2007 — Thank you for
responding to Vote Hemp's
recent emergency CA Action Alert....
Posted: Sat, Sep 15, 2007 12:02pm PDT
Prudential Laundry Workers Go On Strike
Scores of Prudential Overall Supply employees walked off the job this week at facilities in Milpitas and Vista, California. The workers left in protest of alleged unfair labor practices at their employer, and were joined by community and labor supporters on the picket line....
Posted: Sat, Sep 15, 2007 12:00pm PDT
Unpublished Letter to Sentinel Editors.
Here's a letter in response to Sentinel's "How we see it" statements about 9-11, which the editors chose not to publish:...
Posted: Sat, Sep 15, 2007 11:48am PDT
Che Guevara Vive!
COC
522 Valencia St. 3rd floor Auditorium, San Francisco
Between 16th-17th, one block from BART...
Event Date: Sat, Oct 6, 2007 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Sep 15, 2007 11:42am PDT
Laurel Park Neighborhood Meeting
301 Center Street
Louden Nelson Community Center...
Event Date: Thu, Sep 27, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Sep 15, 2007 11:30am PDT
Verge band concert>COM's Cinema League sponsored fundraiser<
College of Marin http://www.marin.cc.ca.us/...
Event Date: Sat, Sep 15, 2007 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Sep 15, 2007 9:51am PDT
At the U.S. Border, the Desert Takes a Rising Toll
SASABE, Ariz. — “I can’t breathe,” Felicitas Martínez Barradas gasped to her cousin as they stumbled across the border in 100-degree heat. “The sun is killing me.”...
Posted: Sat, Sep 15, 2007 9:41am PDT
Palestinian Diaspora: With or against collaboration?
Friday, September 14, 2007 :In the past few months, Palestinians in the Diaspora have watched with horror the latest developments in their homeland. There has been a flurry of articles about what to do, but overall there is a feeling that they are helpless to affect the situation on the ground. What has been missing is an understanding that Palestinians in the Diaspora must undertake a clear assessment of their own situation if they are to have any impact at all....
Posted: Sat, Sep 15, 2007 9:38am PDT