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Ciudad Juarez mass murders get international spotlight as giant puppets start SF weekend
Meanwhile, local
demonstrations will begin Friday at 4pm at the Mexican Consulate in San Francisco,
where Giant Puppets of Grieving Mothers carrying rag-doll dead children will mourn
the victims and demand an end to the slaughter....
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 3:16pm PST
Pictures: Madeleine Albright In Berkeley
On Wednesday February 11th, Madeleine Albright spoke at Cody's Books in Berkeley. Several people protested outside and one person inside was briefly detained with a pie, but most of the crowd seemed to be supportive of Albright and asked her relatively nonpolitical questions. One person did ask a question related to civilian deaths resulting from the US bombing of Sudan, and Albright responded that few civilians were killed and then added that all efforts were taken to avoid such deaths duri...
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 3:11pm PST
San Francisco mayor wants city to issue gay marriage licenses
Newly elected San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom said Tuesday he wants the city to be able to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples....
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 3:10pm PST
Dance For Change: Save Women's Lives Event 2/27
Join Planned Parenthood for a benefit to support the March for Women's Lives in Washington D.C....
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 2:46pm PST
Bush crushes Free Speech in Canada
President of the US gets Canadian Prime minister to shut Toronto radio show down, www.cloakanddagger.ca alleges....
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 2:44pm PST
Order tickets by 2/13 for Stephen Funk Dinner
You are invited to join former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and others welcome home war resister Stephen Funk at a dinner to benefit International A.N.S.W.E.R. on 2/22...
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 2:28pm PST
11Feb - Pictures from Safeway rally at Pac Stock Exchange
Approx. 500 folks gathered outside the Pacific Stock Exchange demanding shareholders to drop their stock with Safeway and in solidarity with the striking SoCal grocery workers.
Didn't get a chance to get too many photos. Here's what I got:...
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 1:58pm PST
SF A-Zone: Organize a Self-Managed Homeless Center for Radicals
Join with radikal squatters and other homeless people to organize a space managed by consensus and anarchist principles of self-organization...
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 12:54pm PST
Oxygen Collective Tour coming to Your City?
Read below to find out more about the O2 Collective's April Fire & Forests Roadshow and how you can get us to your school or town....
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 12:50pm PST
Haiti Foreign Press Liason Update 2/11
1. Congressman Gregory W. Meeks Calls on Powell for Haiti Solution 2. Crisis in Haiti, (Washington Post EDITORIAL), February 11, 2004 3. Haiti Erupts (New York Times EDITORIAL), , February 11, 2004 4. Haiti grapples with violence... (Miami Herald EDITORIAL) February 11, 2004...
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 10:55am PST
Petition to Encourage Discussion and Debate at NYU
Tell your friends, classes, parents, family, friends......
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 10:49am PST
Oakland Community Fights Racist School Closures
Oakland Schools Already in Crisis Now Face Closures of 6 Schools...
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 10:38am PST
Execution of Kevin Cooper Halted!
Hundreds Protest at the Gates of San Quentin as the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issues a stay of execution for Kevin Cooper...
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 10:14am PST
The Humboldt County DA Recall - A Corporate Affair
Maxxam seeks to set the standard in Humboldt County politics - work in the interest of Corporate Timber or be recalled....
Posted: Tue, Feb 10, 2004 11:20pm PST
Petroleum corporations buy out altern NRG
Petroleum corporations prepare for oil collapse by investing in other forms of alternative energy such as natural gas and solar photovoltiacs.....
Posted: Tue, Feb 10, 2004 11:17pm PST
Join the Safeway Picketlines in Berkeley, Weds and Fridays
Weekly picketlines to support current picketlines put up by southern Cali grocery workers and expand the picket lines to stores not yet covered. Word is that more unions and community groups should be expanding the lines soon, but for now you can plug into the following times or just stop by an already established line where strikers are and offer your support....
Posted: Tue, Feb 10, 2004 7:48pm PST
Women Under Occupation: From Palestine To Iraq- A Report by Kate Raphael
Bay Area activist Kate Raphael will speak on February 27 about her work in
Palestine, and the recent women's delegation to Iraq....
Posted: Tue, Feb 10, 2004 5:02pm PST
SF events 2.10
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Posted: Tue, Feb 10, 2004 3:49pm PST
Action 2/11 @ 12pm: From Wall St. to SF, Safeway Stock is Going Down!
Please join labor and community in saying to Safeway investors:
We will continue to fight Safeway until there is a fair contract for Grocery Workers!
Wednesday, February 11, 2004
12 noon @ the Pacific Stock Exchange
115 Sansome St. (at Bush), San Francisco...
Posted: Tue, Feb 10, 2004 1:34pm PST
The Oakland 25: Solidarity Rally: February 6, 2004. (video/quicktime 24.5MB)
Speakers at the rally tell what happened on the Oakland docks April 7, 2003. Six minute QuickTime movie. 25MB....
Posted: Tue, Feb 10, 2004 11:45am PST