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Trafficked Korean womyn deserve feminist help
Apparently these South Korean women were lured to U$A by traffickers who promised regular jobs, then forced them into sexwork. Will feds treat them as victims, or not?...
Posted: Sun, Jul 3, 2005 7:10am PDT
INJURED WORKER TELLS HIS STORY
Public Access Cable in the San Francisco and
Sacramento Area, 'Injured on the Job' will be introducing Larry Nign, an injured worker, to expose reckless disregard on behalf of the California State Fund. Special introduction by Mr. David G.Sweigart, CISSP in a phone interview addresses the issues of Federal HIPPA Violations and an ongoing investigation by the Department of Justice....
Posted: Fri, Jul 1, 2005 1:15pm PDT
Green Party Calls for Probe of National Guard
Greens second call for immediate probe
of California National Guard after emails
disclose spying on anti-war groups at Capitol...
Posted: Thu, Jun 30, 2005 7:25pm PDT
Kucinich: New Urgency to bipartisan efforts to pass "Homeward Bound"
Last night’s nationally televised speech by the President made it clear we are in Iraq for time indefinite...Withdrawal from Iraq has never been in the Administration’s plans - not when the war was being planned, nor during its execution. The occupation in "sovereign" Iraq will continue unless we stop it. We are building several permanent military bases in Iraq. "We will stay in Iraq as long as we are needed, and not a day longer," the President said last night. When the A...
Posted: Thu, Jun 30, 2005 7:50am PDT
PETA's request to Long Beach aquarium to take fish off menu
DawnWatch: BBC's The World covers PETA's request to aquarium to take fish off menu. Also NY Times 6/29/05 and LA Times 6/28/05...
Posted: Wed, Jun 29, 2005 5:36pm PDT
Turmoil Again at KPFA After Six Years of Peace
KPFA General Manager Roy Campanella II, on the job for a little more than half a year, is blamed for ignoring allegations of harassment. He’s even accused of harassing and demeaning women at the station and attempting to intimidate those who would report the abuse, charges he forcefully denies....
Posted: Tue, Jun 28, 2005 11:40am PDT
CA Atty General Legal Opinion on MMJ
Slipping under many of our radar screens, California Attorney General Bill
Lockyer issued a legal opinion on Thursday, June 23 regarding medical marijuana....
Posted: Tue, Jun 28, 2005 7:55am PDT
7/6 Immigrants Will Confront Governor over Licences and Minutemen! Join us!
ON JULY 6, IMMIGRANTS WILL CONFRONT GOVERNOR AND STATE LEGISLATORS OVER
DRIVERS LICENSES AND THE MINUTEMENT !! PLEASE JOIN US IN SACRAMENTO !...
Posted: Tue, Jun 28, 2005 7:53am PDT
CA National Guard Sets Up State Intelligence Unit
"Guard officials say the new unit, established last year, will not violate long-standing rules barring the military from gathering information on American citizens."...
Posted: Mon, Jun 27, 2005 8:33pm PDT
Flag.blackened.net and Infoshop.org back online
Infoshop (http://www.infoshop.org), Flag (http://flag.blackened.net), and related websites and email lists were recently offline for several weeks. During this time we set up a new server at a co-location facility....
Posted: Mon, Jun 27, 2005 10:49am PDT
Attend Hearing on Tuesday to help kangaroos & make calls!
**Note Senator Migden from SF, Marin and Sonoma County is on the committee and needs to hear from you!!**...
Posted: Sun, Jun 26, 2005 2:16pm PDT
Cal workers kick a lot of Arnie butt in Sacramento
Nurses, firefighters, teachers and other union workers in California told Governor Schwarzenegger that California is not for sale....
Posted: Sun, Jun 26, 2005 9:50am PDT
Civil rights groups contest FBI on Lodi arrests
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights have filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to get records related to the arrest of five Lodi, Calif., men on terrorism charges....
Posted: Sun, Jun 26, 2005 5:14am PDT
State Fair Animal Welfare Policies - 6/25/05 Update
Some hopeful news from CalExpo re their animal welfare policies. A final vote on our proposals for changes in the Fair's "2005 Animal Welfare Handbook" (available on-line at www.calexpo.com) has been postponed until the Fair Board's July 22 meeting....
Posted: Sat, Jun 25, 2005 10:53pm PDT
Arnold can run but he can't hide
Protesters follow the Gubernator everywhere he goes. HIs onscreen persona belies his real life bullying, cowardly nature....
Posted: Fri, Jun 24, 2005 1:08pm PDT
Cumann na Saoirse Náisíunta re-launches website
Cumann na Saoirse Náisíunta re-launches website...
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 12:46pm PDT
A Brief Chronicle of the Chronicle
In less than a week of recklessness reporting, the Bay Area media has destroyed a humble Pakistani family and three other men. The carnage was unbelievable. In a frenzy race for the ratings, the media descended to Lodi, a small town south of Sacramento, in search of the "terrorist cell" they learned about in a federal criminal complaint.
Everybody took at face value the veracity of an FBI affidavit and the most imaginative headlines started to come out of the editor's brains. The...
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 12:01pm PDT
FRSC: Interview with Michael Cardenas; Community Activist from San Diego (audio/mpeg 10.9MB)
On June 23, Michael Cardenas spoke with Matt and Bradley live on Free Radio Santa Cruz. Michael is one of the more than 12 people in San Diego that have received grand jury subpoenas. (23:53 minutes / 10.9 MB)...
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 1:10am PDT