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Demonstrators take to the highway (Davis to Sacramento 9-mile march) About 200 people, mostly UC Davis students, marched nine miles from the Chiles Drive exit off of Interstate- 80 on Monday, joining about 4,000 demonstrators in Sacramento in protest of tough immigration bills being debated in Congress....
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 12:51pm PDT
Eighth Grader Commits Suicide After Being Threatened With Jail Time for Organizing Walkout An eighth grader in California killed himself two weeks ago after being threatened by a school official for participating in the student immigrant rights walkouts. Anthony Soltero, 14, died after he shot himself in the head on March 30th. We speak with the attorney representing Soltero's mother....
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 9:34am PDT
Immigrant Rights Protests Rock the Country In an unprecedented wave of protests, as many as two million people took to the streets Monday in more than 100 cities and towns around the country to march for immigrant rights. We hear some of the speakers at the largest rallies in New York and Washington and we speak with some of the demonstrators about why they are taking to the streets....
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 9:31am PDT
Local 588’s Flawed Merger Election Process The Loveall Family Union (588) has a new name with the same familiar faces, UFCW 8 Golden State. Now with the successful merger with Fresno’s Local 1288, the Loveall clan has added 5,100 new dues payors to help support their lifestyle of the rich and famous....
Posted: Sun, Apr 9, 2006 9:23pm PDT
SPENDING PENSION FUNDS - BAD IDEA State Treasurer Phil Angelides wants to spend the retirement income of working class people to repair the state’s infrastructure, however Stewart Alexander, the Peace and Freedom Party Candidate for California Lieutenant Governor, says it’s a bad idea....
Posted: Sun, Apr 9, 2006 7:48am PDT
First Casualty of Student Walk Outs! Eighth grader Anthony Soltero shot himself through the head on Thursday, March 30, after the assistant principal at De Anza Middle School told him that he was going to prison for three years because of his involvement as an organizer of the April 28 school walk-outs to protest the anti-immigrant legislation in Washington. The vice principal also forbade Anthony from attending graduation activities and threatened to fine his mother for Anthonys truancy and participation in the student protests...
Posted: Sat, Apr 8, 2006 12:26pm PDT
An Alternative to Endless War and Perpetual Poverty 
Todd Chretien is a Green Party candidate running for the U.S. Senate against Dianne Feinstein. This article is reposted from CounterPunch where it was introduced by the statement: "What the Pentagon Budget Could Buy You."...
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 7:01pm PDT
UFCW Members Vote 85% for Merger in Record Turnout UFCW Members Vote 85% for Merger in Record Turnout; Mandate Sends Message of Unity in First Step Toward Negotiations
Vote Creates UFCW 8-Golden State
UFCW 588-Northern California and UFCW 1288-Central California Combine to Form Union’s Largest Affiliate in Western U.S....
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 4:58pm PDT
Heritage Tree Preservation Act is now making it's way through the California Legislature 
SB 1799, The Heritage Tree Preservation Act is now making it's way through the California Legislature!
Please help us pass this historic legislation!...
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 7:35am PDT
LGBT Community Wins Big in the Legislature This Week April 5, 2006
ASSEMBLY HOUSING COMMITTEE STRENGTHENS STATE NONDISCRIMINATION LAWS WITH PASSAGE OF ASSEMBLYMEMBER LAIRD’S CIVIL RIGHTS HOUSING ACT OF 2006...
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 10:33pm PDT
Lodi terror case weakens in court LODI, Calif. - The FBI's discovery last summer of an alleged al-Qaida cell among the Pakistani immigrants in this sleepy farm town sent a shiver through California's heartland....
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 7:38pm PDT
Stewart Alexander Speaks On Immigration The immigration debates have been politically timed, not to establish policy that will benefit America in dealing with a complex matter, but only to influence the votes for the 2006 elections....
Posted: Tue, Apr 4, 2006 6:35pm PDT
EBAA Reveals Cruelty in the Rabbit Meat Industry 
From February 2006 to April 2006, East Bay Animal Advocates
documented conditions at Cloverdale Rabbit Company, California's
second largest commercial rabbit meat slaughterhouse....
Posted: Tue, Apr 4, 2006 11:15am PDT
Kubby Denied Early Release Medical-marijuana activist Steve Kubby has accused Placer
County sheriff's officials with violating their own standards in
blocking his planned early release from jail....
Posted: Mon, Apr 3, 2006 11:26pm PDT
TAKE ACTION FOR EDUCATION, HOUSING AND FAMILY EQUALITY This week is a critical one for equality. We need your help in supporting two
Equality California-sponsored bills and defeating a third bill that EQCA is
opposing....
Posted: Mon, Apr 3, 2006 8:51pm PDT
Immigration Reform, Big Business, NAFTA and the Impact on the African American Workforce On Capitol Hill, the debate over immigration reform is heating up in Congress as protests for immigrant rights continue across the country. We speak with labor journalist David Bacon and University of Maryland professor Ron Walters....
Posted: Mon, Apr 3, 2006 8:19pm PDT
CELEBRATING SEVEN YEARS OF PESTICIDE POLICY REFORM Los Angeles Unified Shares Secret of Success...
Posted: Mon, Apr 3, 2006 6:54pm PDT
Our Oil and Other Tales: Nuestro Petroleo-Review Trying to Understand what is wrong with Anrchists - Our Oil - So Sad aWaste of Money and Skills- The policies implemented under the Chavez administration have been inclusive by promoting the rights of the marginalized Indigenous and African communities, something that has never been done before in Venezuela. One of the most amazing new social policies is the literacy campaign. Brought to fruition through the collaboration of thousands of Venezuelans, illiteracy has been eradicated in less tha...
Posted: Sat, Apr 1, 2006 1:34pm PST
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