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textCA Alert: Help Steve Kubby by NORML
We are writing today to ask for your help in the case of Steve Kubby, a medical cannabis patient who has been living with his family in Canada for the past five years. Mr. Kubby was convicted in 1999 of misdemeanor drug possession (for possessing minute quantities of mescaline and psilocin) stemming from a marijuana raid on his Placer County, California home....
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 10:07pm PST
textDPF Updates by Death Penalty Focus
On January 10, 2006, the California Assembly Public Safety Committee voted 4-2-1 to support the "California Moratorium on Executions Act" (AB1121) (Leno, Goldberg, Hancock, and Dymally voted to support the bill, Cohn abstained and Spitzer and LaSuer voted against the bill)...
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 10:05pm PST
textFilibuster or Bush: Feinstein Must Stop Alito by Todd Chretien
Sen. Feinstein must declare her intention now to lead a filibuster against Alito. Simply voting against him is an empty gesture....
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 3:02pm PST
text Schwarzenegger had no motorbike licence, he admits after crash by some people are above the law
Arnold Schwarzenegger did not have the proper licence to drive a motorcycle when he crashed at the weekend, Los Angeles police have said....
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 10:27am PST
textHelp Free Theresa Cruz by John Reimann
Imprisoned for 15 years for the non-fatal shooting of her ex-husband, Theresa Cruz is finally up for parole! She's not a media star, just a regular working-class woman who needs your help. This is a case we could win! Please write the governor....
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 6:56am PST
text AB 1121 Moratorium on Executions Hearing tomorrow by via list
Location: State Capitol Room 126 9:00 am A press conference will be held at 12:00 noon in Governor's Press room #1190...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 11:10pm PST
textAsk Your Assemblymember to Support 3 Key LGBT Rights Bills and Oppose the Pete Knight Memo by EQCA
Ask Your Assemblymember to Support Three Key EQCA LGBT Rights Bills and Oppose the Pete Knight Memorial Act!...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 9:41pm PST
image"Bloody Monday" World Can't Wait Rally against Alito
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by e.
"Bloody Monday" World Can't Wait Rally against Alito...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 8:49pm PST
textWhere Have All the Protests Gone? Sacramento! by Stephen Pearcy
It's hard to believe it, but there's not one single anti-war rally scheduled in the Bay Area for this entire upcoming, 3-day weekend. However, we're having a big one in Sacramento this Saturday. So if you think it's worth a 1.5 hour drive to help stop the war and to get Bush impeached, then come on over!...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 8:31pm PST
text1/16- Upcoming Events by Death Penalty Focus
Thursday, January 19, 2006 THE SF BAY AREA PREMIERE OF AFTER INNOCENCE A Benefit for the Life After Exoneration Program and Death Penalty Focus...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 5:02pm PST
imagePeace Fresno Denounces Government Sponsored Spying
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by Mike Rhodes
Peace Fresno Press Conference - Monday, January 9, 2006...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 2:57pm PST
imageDid Costa Mesa Police Chief John Hensley target a civil rights activist?
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by Duane J. Roberts
In the picture below, taken from video footage shot by a Minuteman supporter at the Tuesday, January 3, 2006 meeting of the Costa Mesa City Council, Police Chief John Hensley is ordering his men to arrest Coyotl Tezcalipoca for allegedly disrupting a public meeting. The only problem, however, is that a few moments before he made this order, Mayor Allan Mansoor declared twice over the microphones that the meeting was in recess. Did Hensley order his men to make an illegal arrest?...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 1:30pm PST
textFormer San Quentin prison warden opposes the execution (on 1/17) of Clarence Ray Allen by Dan Vasquez
Allen's capital crimes were repugnant, but they bear little on the assessment of the threat he poses. They occurred long ago and under very different circumstances.... It will be particularly difficult for the execution of Allen to be accomplished in a dignified way.... Must we insist on dragging a dying man out of the hospital just so we can inject the chemicals that will kill him a little bit sooner? ...sparing Allen from execution would be an act of decency, compassion and justice....
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 11:54am PST
textWhere Have All the Protests Gone? Sacramento! by Stephen Pearcy
It's hard to believe it, but there's not one single anti-war rally scheduled in the Bay Area for this entire upcoming, 3-day weekend. However, we're having a big one in Sacramento this Saturday. So if you think it's worth a 1.5 hour drive to help stop the war and to get Bush impeached, then come on over!...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 10:47am PST
textEvents with Lucius Walker this Week by ANSWER via same person as always
Mon. Jan. 9, 7pm An Evening with Reverend Lucius Walker, Jr. 522 Valencia, 3rd Floor, San Francisco...
Posted: Sun, Jan 8, 2006 10:05pm PST
textPicking on the Heirs of Cesar Chavez: A Ripe Story by Marc Cooper
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Posted: Sun, Jan 8, 2006 9:30pm PST
imageHSUS APPLAUDS GREENLAND FOR ENDING ALL IMPORTS OF CANADIAN SEALSKINS
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by The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS
WASHINGTON (January 6, 2005) - The Humane Society of the United States and its international arm Humane Society International/Canada today congratulated the Greenland government for choosing to eliminate all purchases of Canadian sealskins through its sealskin trader and tannery, Great Greenland. The decision, announced today to the Greenland and Danish media, will be a significant move forward in the campaign to end Canada’s cruel commercial seal hunt....
Posted: Sun, Jan 8, 2006 3:20pm PST
imageSupport Action to Protect Medicine Lake
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by Morning Star Gali
Protest at Calpine against Power Plant Proposed at Sacred Medicine Lake near Mt. Shasta Pit River Indian Tribe members to be joined by community and environmental justice groups in protest and cultural gathering at Calpine corporate offices Friday, January 27, 2006, high noon Calpine Headquarters, 50 W. San Fernando Street in San Jose...
Posted: Sat, Jan 7, 2006 5:33pm PST
imageRECALL ARNOLD CAMPAIGN NOW IN FULL SWING!!!!!!
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Posted: Sat, Jan 7, 2006 9:51am PST
textASA CA Weekly Alert by Americans for Safe Access
It's a new year, and there's still a LOT going on in the medical marijuana community. Between meetings, hearings and protests, there are opportunities to support medical marijuana throughout all regions of California. It's time to make our voices heard!...
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 7:17pm PST
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