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textNew Laws go into effect by Producer of Tranny Talk
New laws go into effect....
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2006 11:41am PST
textGang Killings Close to Home by New America Media (reposted)
It happened without any fanfare, weeks ago in Pomona. A young Latino boy, popular among kids of his age and a student at the Pomona Alternative School, attended a party with some friends. An overtone of hostility began to replace the enjoyment of the early evening, and the group of boys left to go home. They were followed. Expletives were shouted, followed by fists. Gunshots sounded and Bobby Guerrero fell, mortally wounded. The shooter was a member of an established gang, though nobody was a...
Posted: Mon, Jan 2, 2006 9:30am PST
textPolice Infiltrate Peaceful Parade Organizers by Rico
Undercover Officers Spying on Grassroots Santa Cruz New Year's Parade Meetings...
Posted: Sun, Jan 1, 2006 2:02am PST
textConversations with Indian American: My California Vacation by CounterPunch (reposted)
Ethnic diversity is nothing new in California, although the state that denies its own history discovers its immigrants every decade. There has never been a decade in the state's history when its elites have not startled its population with a panic over its immigrants. Mexicans know this intimately, but so do Asians, and so do Central Americans. California might have an Austrian governor, but he is certainly not an immigrant. To be an immigrant today is to be of color; that's categorical....
Posted: Sat, Dec 31, 2005 9:40am PST
imageFresno Peace and Social Justice calendar
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by Mike Rhodes
Calendar items from the Peace and Social Justice calendar in Fresno, California...
Posted: Sat, Dec 31, 2005 8:49am PST
text2/17-19: California Transgender Leadership Summit- Register Now by via TLC
A Gathering of Transgender Persons and Allies February 17-19, 2006 (Presidents Day Weekend) University of Southern California...
Posted: Fri, Dec 30, 2005 4:19pm PST
textAction ALERT: Crucial actions January VOTE for National Guard return! by CODEPINK Bay Area
As you are preparing to make your New Year's Resolutions, PLEASE consider starting out the New Year devoting, during the whole month of January, as much of your time, energy, resources as possible in order to ensure the successful culmination of our Campaign to Bring Home Our California National Guard!...
Posted: Fri, Dec 30, 2005 12:56pm PST
text16-year-old girls sue hate-school by Impeach Cheney First
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Posted: Fri, Dec 30, 2005 7:33am PST
textWorld Social Forum: A call to Bay Area delegates by calling
Calling Bay Area activists/delegates to world social forum, Venezuela...
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 1:12pm PST
textQ gen-gap; SJ fag-haters; Cal hate prop in Nov. '06 ?; more by Impeach Cheney First
.... news links -- incl. Brokeback buzz and debate, SF gay Buddhist monk, alt-cinema saved by SF alt-college, getting yr book out, etc....
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 8:49am PST
textThe funeral of Tookie Williams, cofounder of the Crips by Bay Times (reposted)
Stanley Tookie Williams, one of the founders of the Crips, was murdered by way of the death penalty's lethal injection, by the state of California, under the governance of Arnold Schwarzenegger, on Dec. 13 '05, at San Quentin Concentration Camp on the shore of San Francisco Bay. He had been convicted of multiple murders on no evidence but the testimony of a police informant, who was given a more lenient sentence after he lied to convict Tookie Williams....
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 8:00am PST
textCalifornia Democratic Party works to prop up Schwarzenegger administration by wsws (reposted)
In the aftermath of November’s California Special Election, the Democratic Party is acting as a critical prop for the beleaguered administration of Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Democrats responded to Schwarzenegger’s political debacle in the Special Election, in which all of his favored ballot initiatives were defeated, by calling for a new spirit of bipartisanship. The governor responded by appointing a prominent Democrat as his new chief of staff....
Posted: Wed, Dec 28, 2005 7:36am PST
text Cal hate may wait until Oh Eight? by TBL
A "ballot fight isn't likely until 2008, says one of California's rival anti-queer leaders. [AP story is copyright ©2005 by Associated Press.]...
Posted: Tue, Dec 27, 2005 9:41pm PST
text'Sausage King' Found Dead In Death Row Cell by ktvurepost
The self-proclaimed "sausage king" Stuart Alexander died Tuesday morning in San Quentin State Prison while on death row for killing three meat inspectors....
Posted: Tue, Dec 27, 2005 9:01pm PST
textSutter Health Investigated for Abusing Nonprofit Status by Sutter Corporate Watch
State Assembly Committee Chair Criticizes Sutter at Hearing on Hospital and Non Profit Status...
Posted: Tue, Dec 27, 2005 7:58pm PST
textSchwarzenegger name removed from Austrian Stadium In Protest Over Tookie by BBC (reposted)
Officials in Arnold Schwarzenegger's Austrian hometown of Graz have removed his name from a football stadium in an ongoing row over the US death penalty....
Posted: Mon, Dec 26, 2005 8:16am PST
imageCodePink, Raging Grannies, Quakers under Surveillance
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by Ruth Robertson
California peace groups including CodePink, Raging Grannies, War Resisters League, Quakers. Food Not Bombs and more have been under government surveillance. See photos by Jackie Thomason and links here, and the full text of Dec 21 press release from ACLU California affiliates seeking information about government spying....
Posted: Sun, Dec 25, 2005 1:35pm PST
textSAVE Choctaw Clarence Ray Allen from the Governator ! by Idriss Stelley Foundation
Clarence Ray Allen, a Choctaw Indian, will turn 76 years old on Jan. 16, 2006, the day before the state intends to execute him on January 19, in San Quentin. A few months ago, Mr. Allen "flatlined" (died) from a heart attack... and was resuscitated by the medical staff, so that he can be properly executed in January 06! San Quentin Correctional Facility has issued a statement that Mr. Allen, although wheelchair bound, will have to walk 15 feet to the death gurney, because the death ...
Posted: Sat, Dec 24, 2005 11:29pm PST
textMinutemen now hunting immigrants in MEXICO!! by Rachel
Racist immigrant hunters are now organizing to search for immigrants while they are still in Mexico!...
Posted: Sat, Dec 24, 2005 3:57pm PST
text49er City - the last frontier and blatant corruption by Francisco Da Costa
The Southeast Sector is the last frontier in San Francisco. Candlestick Park and the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard is being vied by corrupt developers like Lennar BVHP LLC and the cronies working for Mayor Gavin Newsom - Jesse Blout, Dwayne Jones, Michael Cohen, Marcia Rosen - none of them live in San Francisco. They for sure make their money in San Francisco. Thousands of units will be built on toxic sites mostly landfill and prone to liquefaction....
Posted: Sat, Dec 24, 2005 11:24am PST
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