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Emergency Levi Strauss Anti-Sweatshop Action
Emergency Levi Strauss anti-sweatshop protest....
Posted: Thu, Aug 5, 2004 9:32pm PDT
SF: 8/11 Protest North Beach Evictions
Protest Wave of North Beach Evictions By
North Beach Partners, LLC
Real Estate Investment Company Evicting Dozens of Long-Time
North Beach Tenants in 6 Buildings!
Wednesday, August 11, 424 Francisco (at Powell) 4:30 PM...
Posted: Thu, Aug 5, 2004 7:18pm PDT
San Francisco hotel workers fight for contract
Workers stand up to hotel corporations, call march and rally on August 13....
Posted: Thu, Aug 5, 2004 4:41pm PDT
Youth tells City Hall: Make BofA pay its taxes! (video/quicktime 16.0MB)
San Francisco Assessment Appeals Board considers lowering Bank of America taxes $4.6 million! The Common Cents Coalition testifies in opposition. August 3, 2004. Four minute QuickTime movie. 16MB. (Part 2 is down below: click on "Latest Comments....")...
Posted: Thu, Aug 5, 2004 3:09pm PDT
2 Hip Hop Events in SF this week: Thurs Tribute to Run DMC, Sun Free Show in GG Park
2 Hip Hop events happening in SF this week....
Posted: Thu, Aug 5, 2004 9:30am PDT
Sign up now for tables or workshops for SF Zine Fest
The SF ZIne Fest is coming up on September 4-5, and there's still some table space available for local DIY publishers. Also, the organizing collective is still accepting proposals for workshops relating to independent publishing....
Posted: Thu, Aug 5, 2004 9:28am PDT
Next in line - Article in SFBG about Grocery Worker Struggle for Healthcare and Wages
The southern California labor struggle that forced a long grocery strike is coming to the Bay Area this fall...
Posted: Thu, Aug 5, 2004 8:39am PDT
Urgent! Support Haitian Sweatshop Workers TODAY!
EMERGENCY LEVI STRAUSS BULLHORN ACTION! -- Thursday, Aug. 5th -- at Levi's HQ: 1155 Battery, San Francisco -- at 1PM!...
Posted: Thu, Aug 5, 2004 3:01am PDT
D10 Recall - Arntz Delays Certification of Signatures (video/quicktime 6.8MB)
Why won’t Elections director put District 10 recall on Nov. 2 ballot? Special election would cost hundreds of thousands and disenfranchise voters...
Posted: Thu, Aug 5, 2004 1:47am PDT
Maxwell the Supervisor that does nothing for her Community
Maxwell has not seemed to notice that there is an out of control murder rate in her district. The prevalence of drug dealers because there are no other jobs available, (30% unemployment rate) despite all the millions being spent by a whole raft of public agencies not to mention private operations....
Posted: Wed, Aug 4, 2004 11:57pm PDT
8/25 in SF: World Environment Day 2005 planning meeting
August 25, 2004
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
San Francisco Main Public Library
100 Larkin Street at Grove
Latino-Hispanic Community Meeting Room (located on the Library's lower
level. Enter 30 Grove Street, proceed downstairs)....
Posted: Wed, Aug 4, 2004 9:24am PDT
Non-Citizen Voting Rights Campaign Launch (video/quicktime 7.6MB)
Historic and Unprecedented Coalition to Launch Campaign to
Allow Immigrant Parents to Vote in School Board Elections...
Posted: Tue, Aug 3, 2004 6:49pm PDT
the Fourth Annual EFF Freedom Fest at LinuxWorld
The Electronic Frontier Foundation presents Freedom Fest...
Posted: Tue, Aug 3, 2004 4:59pm PDT
SF Jewish Activist Arrives After Refusal from Israel
Come to SFO for a press conference welcoming Jamie Spector back from her 13 days in detention in Israel....
Posted: Tue, Aug 3, 2004 9:39am PDT
Common Cents Coalition Emergency Action to Make BofA Pay
$4.6 million could save young people's lives!...
Posted: Tue, Aug 3, 2004 1:07am PDT
California Highway Patrol Capitulates
Faced with a potential lawsuit for illegally revoking IMC press credentials, California Highway Patrol (CHP) capitulates, provides press credentials to SF Bay Area Independent Media Center journalists and photographers....
Posted: Mon, Aug 2, 2004 10:33pm PDT
Recall Press Release
The Civil Grand Jury, in a report last month, traced District 10’s dire problems to 60 years of neglect by City Hall. Will City Hall fail us again?...
Posted: Mon, Aug 2, 2004 9:28pm PDT
RANKED CHOICE VOTING (RCV) COMES TO SAN FRANCISCO
We are also setting up a Speakers Bureau of people who are willing to go to
community groups and give a short 10 minute presentation about IRV in
San Francisco. If you aren't sure you are prepared well enough to do
that, don't worry -- the talk will be scripted, with each part cued by
visual flash cards. You just have to follow along with the script! And
we will have a speakers training, and give you materials. So it will be
easy for anyone who already feels comfortable in front of an...
Posted: Mon, Aug 2, 2004 10:44am PDT
SF demands end to ICE raids in the city - Marisol Ocampo (video/quicktime 16.4MB)
Marisol Ocampo speaks on "Immigration & Globalization" in front of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Francisco July 27th. (I missed the first minute of her speech.) Six minute QT movie. 16MB....
Posted: Sun, Aug 1, 2004 6:20pm PDT
SF Janitor’s Decert Battle Threatens SEIU Stern’s Game Plan
Thousands of San Francisco janitors met in San Francisco to discuss the possible decertification of SEIU 1877. Hundreds of janitors are angry at the failure to represent them and a forced merger....
Posted: Sun, Aug 1, 2004 4:35pm PDT