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46 Groups Air Concerns Over Calaveras Dam Project in Alameda Creek Over 70 people showed up for the final public hearing on December 14 in Sunol on the Calaveras Dam project. Forty-six Bay Area conservation groups signed on to the Alameda Creek Alliance's letter on the project. More detailed comments will be submitted on Friday, December 18. Below is the press release from Jeff Miller....
Posted: Thu, Dec 17, 2009 4:44pm PST
As pot clubs proliferate, San Jose mayor warns they remain illegal Medicinal marijuana dispensaries have sprouted like weeds in San Jose since a city councilman proposed regulations to permit and tax them....
Posted: Sun, Dec 13, 2009 4:43pm PST
Gilroy Pot Dispensary Owner Cited Twice MediLeaf Clinic Opened Without City Permission...
Posted: Sun, Dec 13, 2009 4:39pm PST
San Jose, the Sacrificial Guinea Pig of Law Enforcement Research How A Newly Formed Academic Consortium Contracted With the City of San Jose May Prove More Hindrance Than Help in Building Back Community and Police Trust...
Posted: Tue, Dec 1, 2009 7:33pm PST
“God is Great, Merciful, Vengeful, bla bla bla…” When we surrender our unique human ability to reason by choosing to blindly believe rather than rationally THINK, we risk becoming inhumanely unreasonable and in too many cases, kill for god, country, and party. God may be great, bla bla bla.... However, our human ability to reason certainly is great, if we but use it....
Posted: Fri, Nov 13, 2009 6:12pm PST
San Jose-based Goodjoe fights poverty this holiday, one t-shirt at a time Goodjoe partners with Sacred Heart Community Service to launch its “Design for a Greater Good” T-shirt design contest...
Posted: Mon, Nov 9, 2009 2:24pm PST
Politics of Water Splits Environmental Organizations Restore the Delta is bringing an article of interest to your attention, this piece by Wes Rolley from the California Greening blog: http://cagreening.blogspot.com/2009/11/politics-of-water-splits-environmental.html....
Posted: Tue, Nov 3, 2009 3:51pm PST
San Jose Police Beating Stirs Distrust and Resentment On Oct. 24, the San Jose Mercury News released the video of a San Jose State math major getting beaten and tased by the San Jose Police Department in his home on Sept. 3, 2009. Police were called to the scene after 20-year-old Phuong Ho allegedly wielded a knife during an altercation with his roommate....
Posted: Fri, Oct 30, 2009 6:41am PDT
San Jose's Proud Legacy of Struggle for Chicano Rights
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Chicano Movement when Mexicans in the United States realized that individual pleas for justice from the nation's social institutions were for the most part disregarded, denied, or actually resulted in greater repression by blaming victims for the abuse they endured.
In San Jose, Mexican parents and teachers at Roosevelt Jr. High School, after surreptitiously collecting dozens of wooden paddles used to hit students, staged a walkout in protest of s...
Posted: Fri, Oct 2, 2009 6:29pm PDT
AETA4 face higher sentence than racist cross burners Article from Will Potter of Green is the New Red, focusing on the AETA4 cases, the government's misuse of funds and bastardization of the word "terrorist." The actual article provides links with more information on the asterisked cases....
Posted: Wed, Sep 30, 2009 1:55pm PDT
This Time It’s Chicago-Once Again–Cops Murder Unarmed Black Youth “I looked up the block and there was a truck and an arm was out the window with a big gun and it was firing. I took off running.... because that’s what you do. Bullets have no name on them.”
An eyewitness to the shooting of Corey Harris....
Posted: Mon, Sep 28, 2009 6:31am PDT
Battle Lines Are Drawn Over Peripheral Canal The battle lines are clearly being drawn between corporate environmentalists who are collaborating with the Governor and Legislature to destroy the California Delta by building a peripheral canal and the true defenders of fish and the environment - grassroots environmentalists, commercial fishermen, recreational anglers, California Indian Tribes and Delta farmers....
Posted: Tue, Aug 25, 2009 7:44am PDT
What if Henry Louis Gates Were Not an Acclaimed Professor? Throughout the course of his process, which started with a jammed door to his own home, Dr. Gates would have interacted with all many aspects of the criminal justice system, and would have felt betrayed by all of them....
Posted: Wed, Jul 29, 2009 7:38pm PDT
Rights Attorneys challenge unconstitutionally vague law Oral arguments on the motion to dismiss the AETA4 case were heard today....
Posted: Mon, Jul 13, 2009 11:42pm PDT
AETA4 solidarity. Oral arguments to overturn Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act Come out on Monday morning to hear oral arguments on the motion to dismiss the Animal Enterprise Terrorism by Matthew Strugar of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Stay for a press conference and AETA4 support demonstration...
Posted: Sat, Jul 11, 2009 4:36pm PDT
Support the AETA4 in court 7/10 & 7/13! Upcoming court solidarity for the AETA4...
Posted: Wed, Jul 8, 2009 3:29pm PDT
(VIDEO) Hondurans spread "Tele-Golpe" through internet to defeat media siege Translation of Spanish to English of an article that appeared in www.aporrea.org about the Honduran youth efforts to break the media siege. Includes links to videos filmed by protesters using cell phones....
Posted: Mon, Jul 6, 2009 7:15pm PDT
Four Face Federal Prison for Passing Out Leaflets and Chalking Slogans For more information on the AETA4, visit www.aeta4.org
In addition, we need everyone to attend court in solidarity at the next AETA4 court date. There will also be a press conference outside the courthouse
That's July 13, 9AM in Courtroom 6 (Fourth Floor) at:
San Jose Federal Courthouse
280 S. 1st ST.
San Jose, CA
Please dress conservatively if attending court...
Posted: Sun, Jul 5, 2009 12:45pm PDT
Upcoming AETA4 Court Dates Upcoming appearances for the AETA4. Please attend court in solidarity and dress conservatively....
Posted: Thu, Jul 2, 2009 4:28pm PDT
When Cops Attack Online Originally From New America Media
Sunday, June 28, 2009 :When a police union recently used blogs and the YouTube to attack someone they deemed a troublemaker, Silicon Valley was abuzz. But should they resort to new media to settle community level disputes, wonders Raj Jayadev, director of Silicon Valley De-Bug....
Posted: Mon, Jun 29, 2009 6:57am PDT
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