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Photos: SF Hotel Strike
Photos from the Local 2 hotel workers strike....
Posted: Wed, Sep 29, 2004 7:53pm PDT
Local 2 Strike
Approximately 1,400 hotel workers in San Francisco went on a 2-week strike this morning, September 29, 2004, against four major hotels in the fight for a fair contract....
Posted: Wed, Sep 29, 2004 6:49pm PDT
SF Meeting "Remilitarization of Japan, Repression & The US"
Join a delegation of activists and workers from Japan who will report on the growing repression in Japan and the use of "terrorism" to eliminate democatic rights and to change the constitution to remilitarize Japan....
Posted: Wed, Sep 29, 2004 4:20pm PDT
10/7-9, SF Bicycle Film Festival
The Bicycle Film Festival celebrates the bicycle, embracing
all varied aspects of bicycling to advocate practical use as
transportation. To do this we merged the worlds of Film, Art,
Performance and Urban Lifestyle....
Posted: Wed, Sep 29, 2004 9:11am PDT
2 week strike called at 4 SF hotels
Hotel workers have called a two-week strike at 4 San Francisco Hotels....
Posted: Wed, Sep 29, 2004 5:00am PDT
Marriage Equality Express Kick-off Party
Saturday, the October 2nd, 2004
from 6pm until 9pm in the
CEREMONIAL ROOM of the LGBT CENTER of San Francisco....
Posted: Wed, Sep 29, 2004 1:16am PDT
10/1, Speak Out Against Racism And Discrimination, Stand Up For Inclusion
A coalition of primarily LGBT
organizations have come together to plan an October 1 demonstration to
raise awareness about racism and other forms of discrimination within
the San Francisco LGBT community. The theme is "Speak Out Against
Racism
And Discrimination, Stand Up For Inclusion."...
Posted: Tue, Sep 28, 2004 11:37pm PDT
QT movie of March 19th civil disobedience action at Bechtel, San Francisco (video/quicktime 4.3MB)
This is Part 1: One-minute QT movie. 4.3MB.
Part 2 is down below in the first comment....
Posted: Tue, Sep 28, 2004 8:28am PDT
Fri Oct 1 in SF - Sonia Shah speaks on Oil in the Age of Depletion
Friday, October 1 at 7 pm - Sonia Shah, author and independent journalist, will speak on, "Oil in the Age of Depletion: A Renewed Assault on Human Rights and the Environment" at New College, 777 Valencia Street, SF.,...
Posted: Mon, Sep 27, 2004 9:53pm PDT
PIX: Folsom St Fair, vol 2
Glimpses of the Folsom Street Fair, Sunday Sept26, 2004....
Posted: Mon, Sep 27, 2004 11:52am PDT
PIX: Folsom St Fair, vol 1
Glimpses of the Folsom Street Fair, Sunday Sept 26, 2004....
Posted: Mon, Sep 27, 2004 11:44am PDT
Folsom Fair (report by queer nudist participants)
Link to SUN's report on Folsom (plus Gay Area calendar)...
Posted: Mon, Sep 27, 2004 7:48am PDT
Declare your Independence (video/quicktime 13.1MB)
This is a video for a city ballot measure we wrote and had hoped to get on the ballot in November, turns out getting 10,000 signatures is no small feat. Let me know what you think....
Posted: Mon, Sep 27, 2004 1:58am PDT
A musical message of peace from PeaceFest (audio/mpeg 2.0MB)
A musical message of peace from PeaceFest, a free festival at Speedway Meadows in Golden Gate Park Saturday 9/25, from the Global Peace Foundation...
Posted: Sun, Sep 26, 2004 7:39pm PDT
Shanti Commemorates 30 Years of Care and Support Provided to the Bay Area
Overview of upcoming event/fundraiser for Shanti, a Bay Area non-profit that has provided care and support for those afflicted with life threatening illnesses for three decades....
Posted: Fri, Sep 24, 2004 12:14pm PDT
are YOU the KKKutest of the Castro?
Join Gay Shame for a late entry into the
Cutest of the Castro
beauty pageant...
Posted: Fri, Sep 24, 2004 12:01pm PDT
9/25 Socialist Candidates Speak Out
The socialist party on California's ballot, Peace & Freedom Party, will have a candidate forum on September 25, 2004 at 7 p.m. at the Center for Political Education, 522 Valencia, San Francisco (1 block from 16th St BART)....
Posted: Fri, Sep 24, 2004 4:51am PDT
Charles Schwab And Other SF Moneyed Interests Whose Donations Will Decide This Election
interesting (red are donations to Republicans and blue are donations to Democrats)...
Posted: Thu, Sep 23, 2004 11:05pm PDT
Fri 9/24 SF Critical Mass 5:30PM
Friday September 24th, 2004
Gather at 5:30pm at Justin Herman Plaza (Embarcadero BART)
Ride begins at 6pm...
Posted: Thu, Sep 23, 2004 8:13pm PDT
9/23 and 10/8: Screening and Protest, Books not Bars
Tomorrow night, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH and the GOETHE-INSTITUT will host a special
screening of JUVIES, a provocative new film that looks at the collapse of America's
juvenile justice system. Get an inside look at a system that demonizes young people
instead of protecting and rehabilitating them.
and:
* * * FRIDAY, OCT. 8: CYA PROTEST IN L.A. * * *...
Posted: Wed, Sep 22, 2004 2:19pm PDT