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'discipline' for breaking protester's arm in March
There is no word yet what will occur due to the broken arm and hand of reporter Mark and protester Noah. This woman's case was less widely reported on indymedia, so any extra information would be useful....
Posted: Mon, May 17, 2004 4:10pm PDT
5/19 Reclaim the Commons Press Conference
***Press Conference***
--Wednesday, May 19, 11am, Moscone Center (South), Howard btw 3th & 4th, San Francisco—...
Posted: Mon, May 17, 2004 2:34pm PDT
New College CESA Events List, May 18 - 22
-- Tue May 18th, 6:30 pm - Bringing Home ‘Bad News’: 2004 Bay Area NGO-Media Dialogue
-- Wed May 19th, 7:00 pm - Alix Olson at New College!
-- Thu May 20th, 7:00 pm - March for Women's Lives Report Back
-- Sat May 22nd, 6:30 pm - We are Everywhere Tour and David Martinez...
Posted: Mon, May 17, 2004 10:06am PDT
Alt Bay to Breakers
Anti-war, anti-bush, union, and creative signs and costumes from the 2004 Bay to Breakers. (Brought to us by the good people at Albertsons.)...
Posted: Sun, May 16, 2004 10:00pm PDT
Immigrant HIV Assistance Program Forced to Close Its Doors
CARE Doesn't Care For Latinos: Health And Legal Assistance Programs Cut....
Posted: Sun, May 16, 2004 12:48pm PDT
International Q.U.E.S.T.I.O.N.
A year ago at an anti-war protest, a friend and I, reacting to what we saw as the disgusting authoritarian behavior of the ANSWER coalition, made up a new organization (well, not really; at the time it was merely a joke) that we called International QUESTION - Quickly Uniting Extreme Statist Tyrants In Our Name....
Posted: Sat, May 15, 2004 6:22pm PDT
Protest the cut of the "In Defense of Prostitute Women’s Safety Project"
Your help is urgently needed to protest the cut of the In Defense of Prostitute Women’s Safety Project by Department on the Status of Women
BREAKING NEWS: Thanks to an outpouring of support from the community*, we won an agreement that the Commission on the Status of Women would hold a meeting on Thursday, May 20th at 4:00 at City Hall, Room 408 to examine the cutting of our grant!! Thanks to all of you who came out and supported the Project at the April 28th Commission Meeting! We w...
Posted: Sat, May 15, 2004 3:44pm PDT
District 9: Steve Zeltzer, A Voice for Working People
Saturday, 1PM Bernal Heights....Come to the Campaign Kick Off for Steve Zeltzer, Supervisor for District 9!...
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 10:01am PDT
5/18 Rally the Vote
Arianna Huffington and MoveOn.org's Joan Blades speak at "Rally the Vote," an event to promote the women's vote by encouraging women to register to vote and to take part in the upcoming presidential election....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 9:20am PDT
5/16: Turning Remembrance into Action (AIDS Vigil)
The candlelight procession leaves the intersection of Market and Castro Streets at 8:00 p.m. and is followed by a short program of speeches, music, performance art and remembrances in Civic Center. Castro and Market Sts., San Francisco....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 9:18am PDT
5/14, 10am Press Conference about INS Raids
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Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 6:58pm PDT
First Trans/Intersex/ Genderqueer Week
Since gender/sex variant folks tend to make up the last few letters of the LGBTIGQ acronym, it is only fitting that this First Annual TIG Week should take place during the last week of May, thus ushering in Queer Pride Month 2004!...
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 2:55pm PDT
Activists protest at Salvadoran Consulates in New York and San Francisco (photos)
Activists protest at Salvadoran Consulates in New York and San Francisco to demand freedom for jailed health care union leaders
STISSS union marches in El Salvador against privatization of health care and repression of workers...
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 2:13pm PDT
Protesters Demonstrate At Consulate: Stop the Crackdown on Labor in El Salvador!
EMBARGO UNTIL 9am Thursday, May 13th
Media Advisory
Event: Activists to demonstrate in front of the Salvadoran consulates in
New York City and San Francisco Demand the immediate release of jailed
Salvadoran union leaders and the end of police repression against workers in
El Salvador
Date: Thursday May 13, 12 PM (EST)
Place: El Salvador Consulates:
46 Park Ave. New York, NY
870 Market Street San Francisco, CA...
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 10:21am PDT
The People's Republic art exhibit
Inspired by “The Rise of the Fortress Continent,” a Naomi Klein article published in The Nation, Rupert Jenkins and Natasha Garcia-Lomas collected works of art from 5 nations exploring the effects of often-exploitive free trade agreements on laborers and their indigenous cultures....
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 1:14am PDT
Gap Report Finds Many Problems With Manufacturing Sites in its Social Responsibility Repor
San Francisco-based clothing giant Gap Inc. issued an evaluation of its 3,000 worldwide manufacturing sites Wednesday, finding many problems in workers' pay and conditions but also describing progress....
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 11:04pm PDT
You can Register Now for Reclaim the Commons Teach-in 4
registration form for the Reclaim the Commons teach-in is now online.
Featured speakers include Vandana Shiva, Anuradha Mittal, Ignacio
Chapela, Starhawk, Van Jones (Ella Baker Center for Human Rights),
Annamaria Loya (La Raza Centro Legal), Andrew Kimbrell (Center for Food
Safety), Clarence Thomas (ILWU), and guests from Mexico, Brazil, the
UK, Australia and many other places!...
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 7:54pm PDT
SFSU Students Rally to "Save the CSU"
San Francisco State University students walk out on classes to demonstrate outrage at state-wide spending cuts in education....
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 6:55pm PDT
Protest REI's ties to Sweatshop Labor!
Wednesday, May 12, at 11pm, there will be a community picket out in front of the San Francisco REI office. REI is refusing to pay a measly $27,000 owed its factory workers as well as refusing to disclose its records....
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 12:50am PDT