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Stop Shopping -- Start Living! 
San Francisco - "Buy Nothing Day," a fun filled, raucous, flamboyant, loud, and colorful anti-shopping parade with musical instruments, banners, drums, gave a sense of what downtown could look like if people retook control of their lives and stopped shopping and started living! (November 24, 2000)...
Posted: Fri, Nov 24, 2000 5:21pm PST
buy nothing day pic#1 
view of reclaim the streets protest on "buy nothing day" november 24, 2000....
Posted: Fri, Nov 24, 2000 5:18pm PST
Killed for Vanity 
San Francisco - Protesters took over Union Square in opposition of the vicious fur trade on "Fur-Free Friday." (November 24, 2000)...
Posted: Fri, Nov 24, 2000 5:17pm PST
Fur -- No Skin Off <i>Your</i> Back. 
San Francisco - Animal activists and members of In Defense of Animals (IDA) took their anti-fur message to the streets to educate the public about the millions of fur-bearing animals who are trapped, poisoned, beaten, drowned, gassed, strangled, and electrocuted to produce pelts for fur products. (November 24, 2000)...
Posted: Fri, Nov 24, 2000 5:15pm PST
Elections Protest: Shopping is disrupted 
Protesters, forced on the sidewalk by a wall of motorcycle cops, pushed and shoved their way past comatose shoppers and tourists....
Posted: Sat, Nov 18, 2000 7:39pm PST
Elections Protest: Protesters regroup at Union Square 
After a tame march around the block, the protest ended at Union Square....
Posted: Sat, Nov 18, 2000 7:37pm PST
Elections Protest: Cops on Bikes 
The march route was changed after an "organizer" was told by a cop to change it. After this organizer gave the cops all the protest/march plans, these motorcycle cops came out to make sure it stayed on the sidewalk....
Posted: Sat, Nov 18, 2000 7:33pm PST
Elections Protest: Crowd begs the question of Amerikkkan democracy 
"If every vote counts, count every vote." Electoral activists begin to realize that the sacred ballot prevents social change instead of creating it....
Posted: Sat, Nov 18, 2000 7:25pm PST
Elections Protest: Right-wing counterprotesters 
Women were called "whores on drugs" and men were called "whining faggots" by the right-wing contingent that showed up at the 11/18 elections protest....
Posted: Sat, Nov 18, 2000 7:21pm PST
Elections Protest: Cops Hassle Extreme Right-Wing Protesters 
After one of the "organizers" struck a deal with the cops on where and when the march would be, he requested that the right-wing counterprotesters be removed by the police....
Posted: Sat, Nov 18, 2000 7:17pm PST
Elections Protest: More Speakers on Open Mike 
Speakers talked about the illegalization of protest in Seattle, ballot fraud stories, abolishing the electoral college and continuing to fight for direct democracy....
Posted: Sat, Nov 18, 2000 7:13pm PST
Graves at the O22 Protest Against Police Violence 
Gravestones at the O22 protests, a symbol of lives lost to an out-of-control police force....
Posted: Mon, Oct 30, 2000 12:39pm PST
Family Marches on O22 Against Police Terror 
Images from the O22 protest in San Francisco....
Posted: Mon, Oct 30, 2000 12:33pm PST
District Attorney Presses Charges Against Two Free Speech Activists Arrested During NAB Convention Protest District Attorney Presses Charges Against Two Free Speech Activists Arrested During NAB Convention Protest at Clear Channel Communications; Activists’ Attorneys Also Face Charges. Clear Channel station KYLD "Doghouse" DJs who tried to instigate a fight with protestors include Joseph (Big Joe) Lopez who faces charges in San Mateo County for another provocative on-air incident...
Posted: Thu, Sep 28, 2000 5:13pm PDT
Statement of SPJ Northern California Chapter on the Sept. 22 expulsion of journalists from NAB convention in San Francisco SPJ statement on NAB expulsion of journalists...
Posted: Wed, Sep 27, 2000 5:29pm PDT
Low income journalists of color seize media access 
Low income journalists of color seize media access at the National Association of Broadcasters...
Posted: Tue, Sep 26, 2000 7:54pm PDT
Ron Wyden Questioned on Media Issues (video/x-pn-realvideo 10.2MB) Labor video activists Steve Zeltzer and Bill Sparks managed to get inside the Congressional Breakfast at the NAB Convention and question Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) about media democracy issues. 5 minutes....
Posted: Sun, Sep 24, 2000 8:23pm PDT
SF Bay Guardian reporter ejected from NAB conference A Bay Guardian reporter was forcibly ejected from the National Association of Broadcasters Convention in San Francisco two days after the paper published a front-page news package critical of the NAB....
Posted: Fri, Sep 22, 2000 10:16pm PDT
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