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Leather community debates trans exclusion at upcoming contest Resurrected where the San Francisco-born International Drummer
contest left off, the LeatherSIR/Leatherboy will hold a regional
feeder contest in San Francisco in July. The contest has a worldwide
policy requiring its competitors to be "born male," thus excluding
transgender men from competing....
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 9:52pm PST
Historic Victory for Clean Elections Bill Bill passes out of Assembly Appropriations Committee, to be heard by full
Assembly next week...
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 9:12pm PST
Jesse, King and the Business of Black Leadership Unfair to Jesse Jackson or not, the claim in a new Martin Luther King Jr. biography that King saw Jackson as an opportunist resonates because of the flashy leadership style and middle-class myopia of today's civil rights leaders....
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 6:35pm PST
Angel Raich's Hearing in Ninth Circuit is on March 27 in Pasadena the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals set a
hearing date in my case for March 27th, at the Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals in Pasadena, Hearing Room 3. For some reason we are not having a
hearing in San Francisco....
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 11:50pm PST
The Fresno Peace and Social Justice calendar 
A calendar of events in the Fresno area....
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 9:08pm PST
25 Years of Rent Control in SF, Berkeley & other Cal cities As the new year begins, a significant 25th anniversary event---directly impacting hundreds of thousands of Bay Area renters----was observed during 2005's final months: the passage, in 1980, of San Francisco's and Berkeley's respective Rent Stabilization and Good Cause Eviction ordinances, commonly known as rent control. Both cities' ordinances became effective from 1979 to 1981....
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 7:48pm PST
Lessons from a Criminal Complaint What follows are my observations on the criminal complaint, case number 206-MJ-0021, filed by the FBI in the case of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA V. ERIC McDAVID, LAUREN WEINER, and ZACHARY JENSON. I believe my observations my be salient to many dissidents engaged in legal protest activities. They may be salient to others as well....
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 6:41pm PST
Alumni group is paying students to help ID profs who express "radical" political views The Bruin Alumni Association is concerned about professors who speak against President Bush, the military and multinational corporations when they rightfully should be praising them without reservation, under penalty of law.
Linda Chavez, of recent Catholic League infamy here on Indybay (http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/01/1795416.php), is again mixed up with right-wing bullies....
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 1:37pm PST
Safe Schools Legislation Advances in the Legislature! ACTION ALERT: Help pass AB 606!...
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 11:36am PST
World Ag Expo ~ USDA Assistant for Civil Rights and California Black Farmers "Mr. Vernon Parker, Assistant Secretary of USDA, provided our nation service beyond the call of duty in an almost impossible situation," states Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association, California President, CEO, Michael Harris....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 8:14pm PST
Fresno Debates Video Surveillance 
This article was printed in The Fresno Bee on Tuesday, January 17. It is in response to the Fresno Police Departments plan to vastly increase video surveillance in this community....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 5:12pm PST
Friends of Tookie Facing Charges On December 8, 2005, these men (including my uncle) were taken from their cells by guards in riot gear and told that they were going to be questioned and investigated under the charges that they were conspiring to incite a riot and harm guards following the execution of Tookie...
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 3:23pm PST
Kern County, CA school agrees to stop teaching 'intelligent design' Teacher Sharon Lemburg, the wife of an Assembly of God minister, defended the course she designed: "I believe this is the class that the Lord wanted me to teach." Apparently, she didn't design it intelligently enough to fool the parents of that school district who want their children to get a real education....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 10:46am PST
California governor denies clemency: 76-year-old dies by lethal injection California death row inmate Clarence Ray Allen was put to death just after midnight Tuesday at San Quentin State Prison. His execution by lethal injection went ahead after Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger denied his clemency bid. He was the 14th person put to death in California since the death penalty was reinstated in 1977, and the second person to be executed in little more than a month....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 7:54am PST
Dedicating Ourselves to Equality Through Community Each month in 2006, Equality California will highlight a value and ask you to join us in taking action that will help our efforts to add to our rights and protections....
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 10:02pm PST
Live San Quentin Protest Now Live right now. Windows media player required...
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 8:55pm PST
To End Death Penalty: Vote for Anti-Death Penalty Candidates & Parties If you are serious about ending the death penalty, you have to vote for candidates of the socialist Peace & Freedom Party or the Green Party as those are the 2 anti-death penalty parties. Democrat Atty Gen Lockyer enthusiastically joins Republican Schwarzenegger in murdering human beings with our tax dollars, and is supported by pro-death penalty Senators Boxer and Feinstein, all Democratic candidates for President, the Democrats sitting on the US Supreme Court (Breyer dissented this time on...
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 6:42pm PST
NEXT STEPS ON AB 583 -- CLEAN MONEY/FAIR ELECTIONS On Tuesday, January 10, the Assembly Elections Committee voted 4-3 to pass AB 583, the Clean Money bill, to the Appropriations Committee. The Appropriations Committee vote may come as early as Wednesday, January 18! If the bill passes, it will go to an Assembly floor vote the following week. In order for AB 583 to remain viable, it must pass out of the Assembly to the Senate by the end of this month....
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 6:34pm PST
Elderly Convict's Clemency Plea Rejected by Supreme Court The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from a 76-year-old convicted killer who argued that he was too old and feeble to be executed....
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 6:06pm PST
Execution Tonight! Please attend one of these very important events today, Monday, January 16th, to show your opposition to the scheduled execution of Clarence Ray Allen....
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 4:18pm PST
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