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Whistleblower charged w/ 3 felonies for exposing Diebold's crimes A whistleblower in Los Angeles is in legal trouble and needs our help. Stephen Heller is alleged to have exposed documents in Jan. & Feb. 2004 which provided smoking gun evidence that Diebold was using illegal, uncertified software in California voting machines. ...
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 11:28am PST
Governor Losing Conservative Appeal Recent poll ratings are improving for Governor Schwarzenegger but conservatives don't appear to be sold on the governor to lead California for another four years....
Posted: Sun, Mar 5, 2006 9:48pm PST
Kubby Re-Sentencing Denied Judge Cosgrove made a surprising ruling in Placer County Court today,
denying a re-sentencing request that supporters had hoped would mark a
turn towards victory for defendant and medical marijuana patient Steve
Kubby.
Next court date 3/14...
Posted: Sun, Mar 5, 2006 8:36pm PST
Berkeley Liberation Radio challenges Illegal Broadcasting notice BLR talks back to Bush!!!...
Posted: Sun, Mar 5, 2006 7:38pm PST
HELP STOP RACIST REDEVELOPMENT Join our black Brothers and Sisters from Bayview-Hunters Point as they rally to demand answers from the Redevelopment Agency and City Planning. Help prevent a repeat of the destruction of the Fillmore and displacement and relocation of residents....
Posted: Sun, Mar 5, 2006 5:35pm PST
Can Oscar Marry Oscar? Same-Sex Couples Suing for California Equal Marriage Rights Ask Academy
Awards Recipients to Come Out in Support When They Receive Their Oscars...
Posted: Sun, Mar 5, 2006 11:24am PST
Business Unionism: An Anomaly In Action Written by Bill Pearson Saturday, 04 March 2006
Several months ago in an email I received from a blogger friend, I was chastised for using the term biz unionism too often on a Website we both visited. His contention was the phrase was trite and overused. He claimed to simply apply a tag like this wasn't helpful to rebuilding or defining what was wrong with organized labor....
Posted: Sat, Mar 4, 2006 9:45pm PST
ACLU Brought In As Ghandian Tactics Bring Whiff of Victory in College Exclusion Case Arjuna Ahimsananda has fasted, picketed and complained to the Office of Civil Rights against Santa Barbara City College which excluded him "on trumped up charges fabricated from whole cloth" after he complained about some college policies and penned an article critical of censorhsip in higher education. Today he filed a formal compaling with the California ACLU....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 9:05pm PST
STOP EXPERIMENTAL WEATHER MODIFICATION STOP EXPERIMENTAL WEATHER MODIFICATION
U.S. Senate Bill 517 and U.S. House Bill 2995, a bill that would allow experimental weather modification by artificial methods....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 7:31pm PST
Compromise Reached on California Textbook Controversy About Hinduism SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Following an impassioned, emotionally charged meeting here Feb. 27 at the California Department of Education, where hundreds of Indian Americans presented their views in front of a Board of Education subcommittee, the five-member panel unanimously voted to recommend adoption of staff recommendations for edits and corrections proposed by the Hindu Education Foundation and Austin, Texas-based Vedic Foundation for its sixth-grade textbooks....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 5:39pm PST
Northern Cali fishing to be shut down due to devested Klamath run 
Northern California and Southern Oregon fishermen and tribes are shocked to find out that most likely there will be no local salmon season due to record low runs on the Klamath. This will also effect the three largest tribes in Californias substance. Currently there are activities to Save the Klamath Salmon and Un-Dam the Klamath happening all over the west coast and many opper...
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 3:33pm PST
Candidate Filing Deadline is March 10 Last day to file for offices on the June 6, 2006 ballot is 5 p.m., Friday, March 10. If the incumbent does not file, the deadline is extended to 5 p.m., Wednesday, March 15....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 12:39pm PST
The Murtha Resolution -- Imperialism in Another Form The Murtha Resolution, which "progressive" Democrats urge you to support, is not genuinely an anti-war resolution, but rather simply calls for continued war in another form....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 4:22pm PST
EARTH MATTERS RADIO - Interview with Att'y. Ben Rosenfeld on Rod Coronado's arrest (audio/mpeg 12.6MB) Earth Matters - Environmental news for "Flashpoints" on KPFA radio. San Francisco civil rights attorney Ben Rosenfeld talks about the recent arrest of Rod Coronado, the FBI witch hunt of environmental activists, and what we can do about it. mp3 audio, 13:47 minutes...
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 6:06pm PST
Senator Feinstein to Co-Sponsor DREAM Act U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) announced Thursday that she is co-sponsoring the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, which would provide an opportunity for permanent resident status to undocumented high school students who wish to attend college or serve in the military....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 6:54am PST
Send a message of peace to the world on Sunday March 12th! Be a part of the image: Sunday, March 12th, 2pm to 4pm. Arlington West Memorial
(Santa Monica Beach, just north of the pier.) Sign up below & let us know that
you'll be in the image on March 12th....
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 11:31pm PST
Sen Feinstein's War Profiteering We have two proud death penalty, anti-Palestinian, capitalist, millionaire US Senators from California, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein. Feinstein is currently up for re-election and she has no Republican opponent. Instead, she has Marsha Feinland of the Peace & Freedom Party and Todd Chretien of the Green Party challenging her. Feinland received 243,000 votes when she challenged Boxer in 2004. This article explains why you should vote for one of the peace candidates, Feinland or Chret...
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 5:29am PST
Special BCA E-Alert for California 1. NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: Take Action on the Precautionary Principle in Berkeley;
Empowering Women of Color Conference, March 4, Berkeley; Activist Meeting, March 30,
San Francisco; Labyrinth Walk, April 29, Oakland
2. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: Community Meeting on Health Care, March 4, Los Angeles;
International Women's Day, March 4, Los Angeles
3. STATE-WIDE: Support Universal Health Care in California; Contribute to Breast
Cancer Research in California...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 10:31pm PST
Peter Camejo Joins CA Governor's Race 
This isn't a great article, but no surprise coming from Sacramento. Peter is an excellent candidate....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 2:44pm PST
Two dead, 100 injured in Los Angeles County jail riots On Saturday, February 4, racial riots broke out in Los Angeles County jails between black and Latino inmates. The rioting continued for more than two weeks, involving thousands of prisoners at several different facilities. More than a hundred have been injured, many critically, and two inmates are dead....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 7:06am PST
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