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RIP Jane Weirick
Jane was a tireless and dedicated worker for the cause of cannabis
reform....
Posted: Tue, Oct 25, 2005 4:03pm PDT
Yee Helps Labor Fight Prop. 75
Assemblyman Yee Leads Bay Area Effort, Providing Needed Resources to Combat Arnold's Unfair Target on Working Families...
Posted: Tue, Oct 25, 2005 2:35pm PDT
Death Warrant Signed for Crips Co-Founder (Stanley "Tookie" Williams)
A judge signed a death warrant Monday for Stanley "Tookie" Williams, co-founder of the notorious Crips gang, rejecting his attorneys' request for a delay in the execution date to give them more time to seek clemency from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger....
Posted: Mon, Oct 24, 2005 11:51pm PDT
10/29 CA State Wide Programming On Labor And The Elections
KPFK in Los Angeles and KFPA in Northern California will be broadcasting statewide on Saturday
October 29, 2005 between 10:00 AM and 12:00 noon on the issues facing working people in the
upcoming November 8, 2005 election. There will be interviews and call-ins statewide....
Posted: Mon, Oct 24, 2005 11:20pm PDT
'Evening of' Vigils to Mark 2,000 US Troop Fatalities in Iraq
On the evening of 2,000th military fatality in Iraq
"End the Occupation Now" Vigils
Wednesday, November 2 at 6:00 PM
"Day of the Dead" Anti-War Contingent...
Posted: Mon, Oct 24, 2005 11:11pm PDT
10/23-11/8 Phone Banks & Precinct Walks to Defeat Arnold's Props 73-78
It is barricades time to defeat Nazi Schwarzenegger's propositions on the California ballot, Props 73 through 78. We need you now, whether or not you are a voter, and regardless of age, to make phone calls and walk precincts 7 days a week, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m....
Posted: Sat, Oct 22, 2005 6:08pm PDT
Millionaires for Prop 75
Despite claims by its proponents that Prop. 75 is a “paycheck protection” measure, the millionaires who are funding the initiative have no interest in protecting paychecks, wages, health care or collective bargaining rights. Their agenda is to protect their own business interests and roll back the protections workers have won through unions....
Posted: Sat, Oct 22, 2005 12:01pm PDT
Homophobes slow petitions; more news
links, incl.: fight to preserve choice; late-nite health services needed by Q men; same-sex marriage bill must wait until 2007; etc.
Please VOTE on 8 Nov. 2005 (or earlier by absentee ballot)....
Posted: Fri, Oct 21, 2005 9:19pm PDT
George Bush Visits the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California (audio/mpeg 4.5MB)
Among the people gathered to protest Bush, was Tim, John and Aaron, three members of Iraq Veterans Against the War. I had the chance to speak with Tim, John and Aaron as well as David, Sue and Rachel. Listen to the interviews to hear all of them call for an end to the War in Iraq, and much more.
The first interview is with Tim, John and Aaron of Iraq Veterans Against the War. (9:47 minutes)...
Posted: Fri, Oct 21, 2005 8:58pm PDT
Join California Safe Schools & Promote Health & Safety
www.calisafe.org...
Posted: Fri, Oct 21, 2005 8:00pm PDT
DRCNet/Perry Fund LA Event, 11/7
Scholarships for Students Denied Federal Financial Aid Because
of Drug Convictions, Memorializing a Hero of 9/11 and Champion
of Civil Liberties...
Posted: Fri, Oct 21, 2005 7:06pm PDT
10/21: ASA Weekly Alert
*1) October 22nd, El Dorado: AAMC Meeting
2) October 22nd, San Francisco: Phone Banking for HHS Action
3) October 23rd, Los Angeles: LA ASA Meeting
4) October 23rd, San Francisco: Art Party & Phone Banking for HHS Action
5) October 24th, Fresno: Court Support for Dustin Costa
**6) October 24th, Fresno: Court Support for Joe Fortt
7) October 24th, San Francisco: SF ID Card Program Community Meeting
8) October 25th, San Francisco: Board of Supervisors to Vote on
Dispensing Regulations
...
Posted: Fri, Oct 21, 2005 5:36pm PDT
ASA Weekly Alert from 10/14
**7) October 23rd, Los Angeles: LA ASA Meeting
8) October 24th, Fresno: Court Support for Dustin Costa
**9) October 24th, Fresno: Court Support for Joe Fortt*
*10) October 25th, San Diego, Santa Ana, LA & Santa Barbara: Get on the
Bus!*
*11) October 26th, San Francisco: Time's Up: Demand HHS Reclassify
Marijuana Now!...
Posted: Thu, Oct 20, 2005 7:53pm PDT
Redistricting: California Special Election Prop 77 Analysis
PROPOSITION 77 – REDISTRICTING. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT...
Posted: Thu, Oct 20, 2005 4:12pm PDT
Attack on Schools: California Special Election Prop 76 Analysis
Prop 76 would end the guarantees of minimum school funding for K-14 provided by Prop 98, and allow the Governor to declare a state of financial emergency. That declaration would allow him to amend the state budget as he saw fit It would limit state spending increases to a set percentage, and would authorize a massive reallocation of funding for education that is now guaranteed whenever the General Fund is in surplus....
Posted: Thu, Oct 20, 2005 3:41pm PDT
Attack On Unions: California Special Election Prop 75 Analysis
PROP 75 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEE UNION DUES. REQUIRED EMPLOYEE CONSENT FOR POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS. INITIATIVE STATUTE...
Posted: Thu, Oct 20, 2005 3:39pm PDT
California Special Election Proposition Analysis
The California Special Election slated for November 2005 is the most audacious, gargantuan display of corporate wealth deployed to win an "election" the state has ever seen; it is arguably the worst behemoth of greed and glut that any state has ever seen. The shameless spending by corporations that will benefit from the public’s approval of their ballot measures makes Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger look like Jabba the Hut....
Posted: Thu, Oct 20, 2005 3:35pm PDT
SWARM the Minutemen - Phone Jam NOW!
The Minutemen are really ramping up their media campaign, including a major rally in Sacramento to promote their California Border Patrol initiative, an attempt to further militarize the border and our communities at the cost of more people's lives. Recently, they testified before congress ( http://www.dakotavoice.com/200510/20051018_6.html ) to ask that congres declare a state of emergency along the entire border. Clearly, they want more policing of our lives and communities, they want unre...
Posted: Thu, Oct 20, 2005 10:39am PDT
"Confronting Katrina: Race, Class and Disaster in American Society"
Stanford University will offer a one-unit class, ``Confronting Katrina: Race, Class and Disaster in American Society,`` Larry Bobo, professor of sociology, has announced. The class, offered by the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), will be open to the public free of charge....
Posted: Wed, Oct 19, 2005 10:39pm PDT