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Update on Flag and Infoshop.org
The server hosting Infoshop.org, Flag.blackened.net, and related websites and email lists has been offline since Monday, June 6....
Posted: Mon, Jun 13, 2005 8:02pm PDT
PRESS RELEASE NO. 8 (VOTING REFORM)
An Announcement of the Honest Voting Act of 2005 Initiative Petition Drive...
Posted: Mon, Jun 13, 2005 6:55pm PDT
Union Members Attacked by Governator
In a shocking report this Sunday, the Los Angeles Times revealed
that Governor Schwarzenegger's top advisors announced a strategy
to create a "phenomenon of anger" against union members....
Posted: Mon, Jun 13, 2005 10:37am PDT
On Forum Now! - The Role of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Worth listening to and calling in . . . they started off talking about Moyers and his speech . . ....
Posted: Fri, Jun 10, 2005 10:41am PDT
Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping at the Guerilla Drive-In (video/quicktime 35.7MB)
On June 2, 2005, Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping made a special appearance at the Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In....
Posted: Fri, Jun 10, 2005 1:01am PDT
Oh ! Lord, I'm stuck in Lodi again.
Rode in on the Greyhound, I'll be walking out if I go.
I was just passing through, must be seven months or more.
Ran out of time and money, looks like they took my friends.
Oh ! Lord, I'm stuck in Lodi again....
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 10:32pm PDT
KPFA News screws up again!
KPFA's 4 pm News headlines today, read by Max Pringle, began with another example of how KPFA News is often as bad as, if more subtle than, NPR and other ruling-class media in its reinforcement of government propaganda. Here's the transcript and my brief commentary....
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 7:21pm PDT
KPFA Board Meeting LIVE
In conjunction with indybay.org, we will once again attempt to bring you a live KPFA Board meeting, this Saturday from Berkeley's Freight and Salvage...
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 6:32pm PDT
Tent U Santa Cruz: a chance to win in the face of repression
Activist networks in the U.S. and around the world were buzzing on the morning of April 19 with the news that 19 people were brutally arrested the night before at Tent University Santa Cruz. Tent U, an experiment in "liberated education," has captured the interest of thousands of students while creating fright and paranoia among UC administrators who, in the words of one well-connected UCSC faculty member, are afraid that "the torch-carrying hordes are coming to raze UCSC to th...
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 6:20pm PDT
Hyatt West Hollywood Workers on Strike Demand Hotels Return Healthcare Money
Hundreds of workers at the Hyatt West Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles went on strike today for two weeks in protest of the hotel’s refusal to return the thousands of dollars in healthcare co-pays the hotel collected from the workers over a period of eight months after their contract expired in April....
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 10:41am PDT
ASA: Campaign Update
Despite a disappointing ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court earlier
this week, medical marijuana advocacy marches on....
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 10:47pm PDT
Round Two Begins in the Tree-sitter Lawsuit Against Pacific Lumber
Activists fortify case that Maxxam climbers acted as cops...
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 9:50pm PDT
Animals and Us: Impossible to maintain moral blindness to the way we treat them
DawnWatch: New Scientist huge spread "Animals and Us" 6/4/05-6/10/05...
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 5:53pm PDT
ON-AIR DEBATE WED 6/8: JEFFREY BLANKFORT: The Role of the Pro-Israel Lobby in US Politics
Anti-Zionist Jewish-American veteran photo-journalist, radio journalist, political essayist, and anti-war and human rights activist, JEFFREY BLANKFORT will debate University of San Francisco (USF) Prof. Stephen Zunes TONIGHT, Wed, 7:pm PT, on KPFA-FM (94.1 or listen at kpfa.org), in Berkeley, CA, regarding the role of the pro-Israel lobby in U.S. politics and related issues....
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 3:12pm PDT
Sacramento Gets It - Kids & Teachers Are Not Lab Rats !
Author Assemblymember Cindy Montanez (D., 39th District), stands up for the health of kids, teachers, and school employees with AB 405...
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 1:35am PDT
Court Declares Schwarzenegger Violated Law in Attack on RN-to-Patient Ratios
In a final judgment issued today, Superior Court Judge Judy Hersher ruled that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger acted illegally in seeking to overturn key portions of the state’s landmark law requiring safe registered nurse-to-patient hospital ratios....
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 6:04pm PDT