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Labor held its own rally at Dolores Park during the 9/24 San Francisco anti-war Rally. Harry Brill represents the Berkeley Honda dealership strikers. Michael Eisenscher speaks on behalf of Labor Against the War. formed after a 2003 AFL-CIO vote to oppose the war in Iraq, the first formal labor resolution directly opposing U.S. government war policy. (8 minutes)...
Posted: Tue, Sep 27, 2005 8:04pm PDT
Audio from the first half hour of the 9/24 anti-war rally at Jefferson Park after a reported 50,000 person March. Speakers include Calvin Gibson and Alicia from ANSWER; Henry Clark of the West County Toxics coalition; a Free Palestine Alliance Representative; and a muslim activist reporting on conditions in the Sudan, calling for impeachement of Bush. (25 minutes)...
Posted: Tue, Sep 27, 2005 6:52pm PDT
The UCSB DisGuide is a radical resource to connect students and activists on and off campus....
Posted: Tue, Sep 27, 2005 7:06am PDT
Jen from Richmond Indymedia was in San Diego in early August to document resistance to border vigilantes and returned this month to witness the failure of the Friends of the Border Patrol at the hands of grassroots mobilizing. Jen was a guest on Free Radio Santa Cruz's Indynewswire show on September 26 to discuss the recent demonstration that took place in the California border town of Calexico. (13:45 / 6.3 MB)...
Posted: Mon, Sep 26, 2005 9:36pm PDT
As part of our campaign to close California's most notorious youth prison -- Chad -- we have declared today and tomorrow (9/26 & 9/27) to be statewide "Call Arnold" Days! We need everyone to call Governor Schwarzenegger and tell him to close the Chad youth prison immediately. Then -- we need you to get 10 of your friends to call him too! It will take no more than 10 minutes -- please join the action!...
Posted: Mon, Sep 26, 2005 10:37am PDT
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Front gate of Vandenberg Air Force Base, at the Intersection of Hwy 1 and Casamila-Lompoc Rd. (six miles north of Lompoc on Highway 1 in Santa Barbara County, CA)...
Posted: Sat, Sep 24, 2005 3:22pm PDT
"There's a rudderless quality that is making [people] nervous."...
Posted: Sat, Sep 24, 2005 2:04pm PDT
Animal Place, a 60-acre sanctuary for farmed animals in Vacaville, seeks a resident farm hand to assist with all aspects of animal care at the sanctuary....
Posted: Sat, Sep 24, 2005 12:21pm PDT
' The client was offered the opportunity to exchange shares of Advanced Micro Devices for Endovasc shares before the release of the alleged bad news, but was told that he would have to wire almost $7,000.00 U.S. to Union Bank of California that would be forward to an account at FBME Limited in Nicosia, Cyprus to complete the transaction.
This is a completely fraudulent scheme ....'
- from belladorgroup.com,of Kuala Lumpur and Dubai,who may themselves have perpetrated the scheme....
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 10:12am PDT
Did your First Night celebration go belly-up? And you weren't looking forward to the usual boring city-sponsored New Year's Eve fare anyway. A trend is afoot. Let's do our own parade. A Last Night celebration. We reclaim our streets and usher in the new year with our own celebration....
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 11:54pm PDT
"Kids go to school to learn, not to die"
Nicholas Baker...
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 8:31pm PDT
Jason Fishbain has dropped his civil suit against the CHP for pulling him
over because he had an air freshner on his rear-view mirror....
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 5:01pm PDT
A state Court of Appeal on Wednesday reversed a murder
conviction against a Mead Valley woman whose 3-month-old son died after
ingesting methamphetamine-laced breast milk....
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 4:59pm PDT
The phone number for the Governor's office in Sacramento has just been changed...
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 12:42pm PDT
reflections on the protests of needless deaths in Calexico, CA...
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 9:29am PDT
Fight Government Repression!
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Hands Off Assatta Shakur!
Hands Off Lynne Stewart!...
Posted: Wed, Sep 21, 2005 9:24pm PDT
Over 4 decades ago,in September 1972, with U.S. support, Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law in the Philippines and killed thousands of Filipino women, peasants, workers, Moros, Igorots, and others. Never again will Filipinos allow imperialist and comprador brutality to prevail. Let us remember those who fell in the night--woman activist Liliosa Hilao, tortured and murdered by the military; Jallores and Tagamolila, New People's Army combatants, and many others--who continue to inspire the ...
Posted: Wed, Sep 21, 2005 8:08pm PDT
A Nevada City man arrested recently on suspicion of growing marijuana for
sale said Tuesday the county needs clear rules for people to follow when
growing for medical purposes....
Posted: Wed, Sep 21, 2005 10:58am PDT