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Ask Your Assemblymember to Support 3 Key LGBT Rights Bills and Oppose the Pete Knight Memo
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
"Bloody Monday" World Can't Wait Rally against Alito
"Bloody Monday" World Can't Wait Rally against Alito...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 8:49pm PST
Where Have All the Protests Gone? Sacramento!
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
1/16- Upcoming Events
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
Peace Fresno Denounces Government Sponsored Spying
Peace Fresno Press Conference - Monday, January 9, 2006...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 2:57pm PST
Did Costa Mesa Police Chief John Hensley target a civil rights activist?
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
Former San Quentin prison warden opposes the execution (on 1/17) of Clarence Ray Allen
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
Where Have All the Protests Gone? Sacramento!
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
Events with Lucius Walker this Week
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
HSUS APPLAUDS GREENLAND FOR ENDING ALL IMPORTS OF CANADIAN SEALSKINS
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
Support Action to Protect Medicine Lake
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
ASA CA Weekly Alert
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
Official Report: CYA to Blame for Recent Death
The Inspector General just
released a report confirming what youth and families have known all along: Joseph
Maldonado didn't have to die -- Chad's prison guards failed to save his life....
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 5:21pm PST
Anti-Abortion Ads in BART?!?
Surely you've noticed by now; these ads were prominent on each of ten train cars at 3 p.m. in downtown San Francisco today....
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 3:21pm PST
Call Joe Nation TODAY--Bring home our National Guard from Iraq!
Can you take 30 seconds to call Assemblyman Joe Nation's office today and ask him to
support State Assembly Resolution AJR36, to bring our CA National Guard from Iraq?
It would really help our grassroots campaign....
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 2:13pm PST
Call for Volunteers - Stop San Diego from Suing the State over Prop 215!
On Tuesday, January 10th, activists in San Diego will be protesting
before the board meets and testifying at the meeting. We are calling on
Bay Area activists to volunteer at ASA's Oakland office on Monday to help mobilize
patients and advocates in San Diego....
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 1:07pm PST
1/12: Press Conference/Rally to Stop The Execution of Clarence Ray Allen
Press Conference/Rally to Stop The Execution of Clarence Ray Allen
Thursday, January 12, 2006 4:00 PM
The California State Building
Van Ness and McAllister
San Francisco, CA 94102...
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 1:47am PST
Industrial Hemp To Receive Hearing in California Assembly next Tues
NORML is pleased to announce that Assembly Bill
1147, an act to legalize the licensed cultivation
of industrial hemp, will receive a committee
hearing and vote this coming Tuesday....
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 11:09pm PST