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KFC Bay Area PETA Campaign 
KFC Bay Area PETA Campaign
Hello everyone,
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has a campaign website called KentuckyFriedCruelty.com asking KFC to eliminate the worst abuses that chickens suffer in the factory farms and slaughterhouses of its suppliers. These abuses include live scalding, life-long crippling, and painful debeaking....
Posted: Fri, Nov 4, 2005 2:41pm PST
Join the O2 Collective For a Relief Trip to New Orleans! 
The Oxygen Collective is organizing a trip in our biodiesel bus for the first three weeks of December to bring supplies and volunteers to offer direct aid and relief work for people in the New Orleans area. We will be joining with an inspiring grassroots effort spearheaded by the Common Ground Collective (http://www.commongroundrelief.org) in the Algiers Neighborhood, where one of the O2's founding members, Kerul Dyer, is working as their unofficial Director of Operations....
Posted: Fri, Nov 4, 2005 2:06pm PST
11/20: TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE Press conference to be held in LA on 11/16...
Posted: Fri, Nov 4, 2005 1:22pm PST
Scrap the "Secret" Ballot - Return to Open Voting Secrecy rarely does anyone any good. And secrecy in voting is particularly senseless. It has produced a series of disastrous, if not unintended consequences. Due to its anonymity and non-transparency, the secret ballot has made vote fraud easier not harder, particularly for those in a position of power, such as election officials and voting machine technicians....
Posted: Fri, Nov 4, 2005 9:11am PST
Million Solar Roofs - ACTION ALERT 
California's Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is set to vote on the creation of the largest solar program in the United States....
Posted: Fri, Nov 4, 2005 7:18am PST
Why Parents Should Give a Damn: Prop. 76 May Mean Less Money for California Schools New America Media, Q & A, Carolyn Goosen and Daffodil Altan, Nov 03, 2005...
Posted: Thu, Nov 3, 2005 10:55pm PST
Native Black Californians and enslaved Black Californians completely disenfranchised Proceedings of the California Colored Convention of 1855 document a struggle against racial discrimination by early California pioneers. We celebrate that struggle and hold a community rally which will include a special message urging Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to grant clemency to Stanley Williams....
Posted: Thu, Nov 3, 2005 2:29pm PST
Mayor Villaraigosa and the Truth about Cats and Dogs If Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa fails to honor his promise to fire Mr. Stuckey and to hire a compassionate and experienced General Manager who can implement a no-kill plan and reform the department, he may find that the animal community is politically-speaking, more bite than bark....
Posted: Thu, Nov 3, 2005 11:14am PST
11/30 Day of Action for Tookie Williams; CEDP Conference We are calling November 30th as a Day of Action for Stan Tookie Williams.
This will probably fall shortly before his clemency hearing....
Posted: Wed, Nov 2, 2005 7:50pm PST
Death Penalty Focus Action Items & Events Stanley Tookie Williams "Teach-In Week" for Teachers, Youth Organizers, and Youth Ministries
November 14th - 21st...
Posted: Wed, Nov 2, 2005 7:43pm PST
Stop the Execution of Stanley Tookie Williams! As you may know, Stanley Tookie Williams has been sentenced by the state to die on December 13th at San Quentin. Stanley Tookie Williams has been nominated several times for Nobel Prizes in Peace & Literature -- for his anti-violence, anti-gang work and nearly a dozen intervention books about gang life. Letters of clemency may be the only thing that can save Mr. Williams' life....
Posted: Wed, Nov 2, 2005 6:55pm PST
Judgment Day for the Governator 
The backlash started a year ago when members of the California Nurses Association (CNA) protested Schwarzenegger at a speech he was giving supposedly to honor women's rights. The nurses were angry that he had just signed an executive order overturning a new state law designed to reduce nurse-to-patient ratios and raise the standard of patient care.
Faced with the CNA challenge, Arnold yelled out that the nurses were "a special interest who don't like me because I am always kicking the...
Posted: Wed, Nov 2, 2005 1:45pm PST
MoveOn.org Launches Campaign Connecting Schwarzenegger to Bush MoveOn.org announced plans to jump into the statewide special election yesterday, unveiling a television ad they will air for the next five days in major cities throughout the state. The online advocacy group partnered with Democracy for America and the Courage Campaign, a new coalition devoted to organizing progressives throughout California, to produce and pay for the ad. The campaign represents an anomaly for the traditionally nation-based Moveon.org, an effort founder Wes Boyd says their ...
Posted: Wed, Nov 2, 2005 6:57am PST
The California Union Paycheck Initiative and the political tasks facing the working class 
Vote “no” on Proposition 75! Break with the Democrats! For the political independence of the working class!...
Posted: Wed, Nov 2, 2005 6:57am PST
Foxx Wants a B-Day Present for 'Tookie' Williams is an acclaimed author who has been mentioned as a
candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize. He's also a convicted murderer
who is set to be executed on Foxx's birthday after 24 years on death
row....
Posted: Tue, Nov 1, 2005 11:45pm PST
march on nov 2 in sacramento we are rescheduling the march in sacramento on nov. 2...
Posted: Tue, Nov 1, 2005 4:34pm PST
Editorial submitted to NY Times about the illustrious Rep. Richard Pomba (Rep-CA) I sent this editorial from the NY Times to various Central Valley newspapers, but no one saw fit to reprint it. Maybe you will have more nerve....
Posted: Tue, Nov 1, 2005 1:07pm PST
If you're going to Sacramento Nov. 2, watch out... Sabotage at World Can't Wait Rally on Nov 2!!!...
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 6:00pm PST
Must Tookie Be Executed? Article on the upcoming execution of Tookie Williams, written by Political Prisoner Kalima Aswad....
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 11:44am PST
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