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Dear Senator Boxer, Thanks for standing up for the election challenge, it took a lot of courage to do that, I hope you have more where that came from. I've read that you are gearing up to battle Condi's appointment- if you really want to ask her tough questions, I have a gift for you. This audio excerpt of a speech Condi gave 6 months after 9/11: http://la.indymedia.org/uploads/condi-terrible_accident.mp3 After seeing the first plane hit, Condoleeza's "first thought was, what a te...

Sacramento - This weekend in Sacramento, Ford electric vehicle (EV) drivers, climate protection advocates, healthcare professionals, solar energy experts and human rights and peace activists will begin an 'EV vigil' to protest Ford Motor Company's confiscation and destruction of its all-electric, zero-emission Ranger pickup trucks. Inspired by civil rights sit-ins and powered by a 5,000-watt mobile solar array, citizens for clean cars are prepared to buckle-in for an extended 'car sit' over ...

On Saturday, February 5th, at 9:30am, car loads of LGBT activists from San Jose, San Francisco, Sacramento, Santa Cruz and Reno will roll into Napa for a fun-filled day of precinct-walking and phone banking on behalf of Chris Edwards. Chris is a local business owner, a longtime Democratic activist and civic leader, the co-chairperson of the Napa Valley Gay Lesbian Political Caucus...

Democratic US Senator Dianne Feinstein adores fascist Republican Condoleezza Rice so much that she will introduce her at the confirmation hearings on 1/18/05 before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in her effort to become Secretary of State, proving again that there is not a dime's worth of difference between the capitalist Democrats and the capitalist Republicans....

Beardslee's clemency hearing is tomorrow (Friday, Jan. 14th) in Sacramento. Time and place at the end of the movie. Three-minute QT movie. 14MB....

Those of us in California are familiar with the amusing but misleading 'Happy Cows' advertisements from the California Milk Producers Advisory Board. The theme of the cartoon-style campaign is "Good cheese comes from happy cows. Happy cows come from California." It shows cows on rolling green hills, chatting happily to each other about the California good life. The campaign, though light-hearted, is clearly taking advantage of the increasing public concern for animal welfare, using ...

In Iraq the liberators were torturers. Resistance groups call for a global front against American terror. "We didn't cross the oceans to occupy Great Britain or the US and we weren't responsible for September 11.."...

t's beginning to appear that THE MOST DIRECT ROUTE to peace in the Middle East is to end our fossil fuel addiction: The US invaded Afghanistan so that Unocal could build a natural gas pipeline; the US invaded Iraq so that Chevron could get their oil--so that the multi-trillion-dollar oil and natural gas industries can keep going, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of human lives and hundreds of thousands of species and ecosystems, just for starters! DIRECT ACTIONS to conserve, "g...

Tune into KPFA at 94.1 FM (or at www.kpfa.org) from 8:08-8:28am, Pacific time, Wednesday and Friday or listen to archives of the whole weeks worth of shows on KPFA's website....

They train guys to kill, send them out to kill, lie to them, fuck over them, cut their benefits, then send them back to do additional round of kill-or-be-killed and meanwhile they apparently expect these guys to behave like model citizen robots....