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An Open Letter to the Hip Hop Community on Immigration
Below is a speech I gave in Watsonville, CA on April 17th 2006. I was invited to come down and speak by the Watsonville Brown Berets. Fred Hampton Jr. of the P.O.C.C. and Immortal Technique also represented HARD that day....
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 6:43pm PDT
Wireless World: 'Black hole' of convergence
Capitalists sucking our money out of the black hole of technology....
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 5:32pm PDT
Poll Workers Needed for June Election
Poll Workers Needed for June 2006 Election...
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 1:43pm PDT
WAJE Hands Over 6,000 Petition Signatures (audio/mpeg 2.2MB)
Photos & Audio (3 min 12 sec) of Nora Hochman and Victor Medina from the Working Alliance for a Just Economy (WAJE) as the group turned over thousands of signatures at City Hall to be verified in the ballot initiative process. If enough signatures qualify, the minimum wage hike will go before the voters in November....
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 11:37pm PDT
Immortal Technique at Youth and Power 2006 (video/quicktime 7.6MB)
On April 17th, 2006, the Watsonville Brown Berets held the 6th annual Youth and Power. The theme was "Brown and Black Pride" and the event, held on a Monday night, brought together more than thousand people from 'Los Atzlan' to the Bay Area.
Below are nine (9) video segments of Immortal Technique speaking and performing at the 6th annual Youth and Power event organized by the Watsonville Brown Berets. Total time of all nice video segments is about 38 minutes.
In the first vid...
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 11:07pm PDT
Heads Spin at Youth and Power 2006
On April 17th, 2006, the Watsonville Brown Berets held the 6th annual Youth and Power. The theme was "Brown and Black Pride" and the event, held on a Monday night, brought together more than thousand people from 'Los Atzlan' to the Bay Area....
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 10:01pm PDT
RIP Earth Day: Who are we fooling with this Earth Day stuff anyway? Oh, right, the kids.
Friends,
We wanted to send this excellent new article around that discusses Jeff's case. It appears in the latest edition of the Hartford Advocate.
Also, please don't forget to check out the resources we now have available for organizing an event for the Weekend of Resistance Against the Green Scare. Please help us spread the word about this important event!
http://www.freefreenow.org/june2006.htm
Thank you for all your support!
-Friends of Jeff Free Luers...
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 6:43pm PDT
Seaside votes TONIGHT on Dispensary Moratorium (4/20)
Sorry for the late notice, but we just got word that the city of
Seaside, CA is voting tonight on whether to adopt a 45-day moratorium
against permitting any dispensaries in the city....
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 4:24pm PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 4/21/06 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia....
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 3:43pm PDT
The War on Terror: A Credible Threat (4/24)
Teach-in at University of California, Santa Cruz
April 24, 2006, 10am-7pm
The Quarry...
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 1:34am PDT
Sustainability Lectures @ UCSC
The Education for Sustainable Living Program is host its 3rd season of incredible lectures! Please come join us @ UCSC. All lectures are free!...
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 8:36pm PDT
Students Against War member, Mara, on the University Grapevine KZSC Talk Show (audio/mpeg 33.6MB)
This is an interview from Wedneday April 19 2006 in which Mara talks about recent SAW events and answers questions about what has been going in the anti-war community at UCSC....
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 8:14pm PDT
The 5th Annual May Day Labor Film Festival "Reel Work"
The 5th annual Reel Work May Day Labor Film Festival is jam packed this year with sixteen different events starting Thursday April 20, and ending May 1st, International Workers' Day. This year's festival includes the regional premier screening of Sir! No Sir! a film about rank-and-file GI resistance to the Vietnam War as well as Meeting Face to Face, a film partially funded by Reel Work which depicts the historic nationwide visit of Iraqi labor union leaders to the US in 2005. Highlights o...
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 5:07pm PDT
UCSC Student Assembly Resolution against UC Managed Nuclear Weapons Labs
In addition to counter-recruitment, SAW is engaged in a number of ongoing campaigns, one of which is having our university system end their management of the Los Alamos and Lawrence National Laboratories -- which between them are responsible for the research and development of every single nuclear weapon in the US stockpile. Considering that the Bush administration reportedly refuses to take the nuclear option off the table for a possible conflict with Iran, this campaign is as timely as it h...
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 4:48pm PDT
Far-Right Threats Fail to Distract from Santa Cruz Protest Successes
Students Insist Counter-Recruitment Actions are Key to Ending the War
SANTA CRUZ, CA - Students Against War’s April 11th counter-recruitment protest at UC Santa Cruz was a small but concrete step towards ending the illegal and immoral occupation of Iraq. It also demonstrated that violent and discriminatory employers are not welcome on our campus. Last Tuesday’s victory, which saw Army and National Guard recruiters flee in the face of a determined but peaceful protest of 150 students, facul...
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 4:45pm PDT
Pentagon confirms it spied on gay groups
The Department of Defense released documents confirming that the U.S. government conducted surveillance on gay groups, the military advocacy group Servicemembers Legal Defense Network announced Tuesday....
Posted: Tue, Apr 18, 2006 10:33pm PDT
100 Years Ago Today: San Francisco Earthquake 04-18-06 (audio/mpeg 18.4MB)
Operation Ear Infection Segment: 100 Years Ago Today: San Fransisco Earthquake 04-18-06 music and audio...
Posted: Tue, Apr 18, 2006 1:32pm PDT
Youth And Power Was A Success
Our 6th anual Youth And Power event was a great success, it attracted youth from Watsonville, San Jose, Salinas, Santa Cruz, Aptos, the Bay area, as well as L.A. and other locations....
Posted: Tue, Apr 18, 2006 12:46pm PDT
Supreme Court Justice Fernando Vegas @ MIIS
Venezuelan supreme court justice Fernando Vegas spoke at the Irvine Auditorium at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Vegas spoke of the current situation in Venezuela, as well as some history, and relatively new constitution drafted....
Posted: Tue, Apr 18, 2006 12:29pm PDT
Georgia Governor Exploratory Paul Douglas Hale (I); His Dingo Found Shot.
Georgia Governor Exploratory Paul Douglas Hale (I), discovered his Dingo had been shot.
Hale's Dingo, Baby, an Australian Blue Heeler, had been inflicted with a shotgun blast, to her left front chest....
Posted: Tue, Apr 18, 2006 12:12pm PDT