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Bay Area Grocery Workers fight for Americas Healthcare
September 11, 2004, we are going to see a major class conflict take place with at least 30,000 grocery workers on the one side and Safeway, Albertsons and other major corporations on the other. Will the conflict result with a major defeat of the workers like what happened in Southern California?...
Posted: Sun, Apr 18, 2004 4:56pm PDT
4/17 on, Remaining Book Tour Dates for Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman, host of the national daily radio/TV program Democracy Now!
is on a national tour to mark the launch of her first book,
"The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War
Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them" (co-written with her brother,
journalist David Goodman.) The tour includes fundraisers for Pacifica
radio stations and affiliates that carry Democracy Now!...
Posted: Sat, Apr 17, 2004 1:55pm PDT
Labor Study Is Alone Under Gov.'s Budget Ax
Of the hundreds of research institutes in California's public university system, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has targeted just one for elimination: a think tank dedicated to organized labor....
Posted: Sat, Apr 17, 2004 11:54am PDT
Dorsey Nunn commits to the BOOKS NOT BARS campaign to abolish CYA (video/quicktime 15.1MB)
Nunn, a founder of All of Us Or None, questions whether the California Youth Authority did anything at all positive for his nephew in the ten years the State of California held him.
Four minute QT movie. 15MB....
Posted: Fri, Apr 16, 2004 10:04am PDT
Sac: Guerrilla Media in Action Tour
The Guerrilla Media in Action Tour
is coming your way!
We'll be in Sacramento Tuesday, April 20th
Location: SEIU Hall, 1911 F St. (wheelchair accessible)
Time: 6 pm ***watch for updates on Bay area shows, too**...
Posted: Thu, Apr 15, 2004 6:27pm PDT
Transnational Corporations Cut, Kill, and Export in Olancho, Honduras (audio/mpeg 5.1MB)
Honduran community activist Gilberto Flores and Jenni Petullo of Rights Action spoke about the history and current political situation in Honduras on April 13 in Santa Cruz, California.
Privatization of public services, the building of mega-dams, deforestation, and harmful mining practices, as well as human rights abuses are among the challenges facing Honduran communities. Flores and Petullo discussed how these problems fit within the context of corporate globalization, international financ...
Posted: Thu, Apr 15, 2004 2:19am PDT
SF APOC Conference
1st Ever SF BAY Anarchist People of Color Convergence...
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2004 5:35pm PDT
Critical Resistance; Breaking it Down (audio/mpeg 6.5MB)
Critical Resistance's 'National Field Organizer' spoke with people in Santa Cruz that are working to start a local chapter....
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2004 4:09pm PDT
Anti-Gay Amendment Less Popular Among Conservatives Than Believed
Pushing an anti-gay agenda may be less successful for Republicans than they had imagined. A new poll of white evangelical Christians shows that nearly half of the nation's fundamentalists do not support amending the US Constitution to ban same-sex marriage....
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2004 10:48am PDT
4/28 Stop the Tragedies, Stop the Abuse Statewide Vigils
On Wednesday April 28, people up and down California will be coming together in a statewide candlelight vigil to remember Durrell Feaster and Deon Whitfield. On January 19, Durrell,18, and Deon,17, were found hanged in the cell they shared in the California Youth Authority (CYA), the state's youth prison system....
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2004 9:53am PDT
Indybay Print Collective Forming
The Indybay Print Collective is re-forming and needs help and volunteers....
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2004 1:08pm PDT
San Jose-San Francisco Bay Area
Can Indybay just simply accept that the SF Bay is no longer so....It has been renamed the San Jose-San Francisco Bay Area....
Posted: Mon, Apr 12, 2004 7:51pm PDT
"TAX us? Then MARRY us!" 33 Cities Join Tax Day Protests for Equal Marriage Rights
33 cities will be demonstrating for equal marriage rights at post offices around the country on Tax Day, Thursday, April 15th. The protests will highlight the fact that marriage is a civil contract issued by the government which should be available to all consenting adults,...
Posted: Sun, Apr 11, 2004 9:08pm PDT
Statewide Tax-Day Marriage Protests
Please join us along with other voices across the country on April 15,
to demand an end to marriage discrimination: NO TAXATION WITH DISCRIMINATION!...
Posted: Sat, Apr 10, 2004 1:35pm PDT
Redemption on FX this Sunday
Redemption, the made for TV movie about Stan "Tookie" Williams is
premiering on FX, Sunday, April 11 at 8:00 p.m. We have organized two
group showings of the movie, one in San Francisco and one in Berkeley....
Posted: Sat, Apr 10, 2004 11:23am PDT
Jeff Adachi spoke at the BOOKS NOT BARS demonstration in San Francisco on April 6th (video/quicktime 16.8MB)
Adachi, SF Public Defender, has a team now visiting all 50 SF youth in the CYA; soon they will file papers asking the court to order the youth sent back here. Four minute QT movie. 17MB....
Posted: Fri, Apr 9, 2004 9:52am PDT
Allen Feaster spoke at the BOOKS NOT BARS demonstration in San Francisco on April 6th (video/quicktime 14.0MB)
Mr. Feaster's son, Durrell, will be memorialized at candlelight vigils on April 28th throughout California. In January, Durrell, 18, and Deon Whitfield, 17, were found hanged in the cell they shared in the California Youth Authority.
http://www.ellabakercenter.org/page.php?pageid=36&contentid=103
Three+ minute QT movie. 14MB....
Posted: Fri, Apr 9, 2004 7:46am PDT
4/20+4/28: Call for Action at the Supreme Court - About People's Rights
Call for Action at the Supreme Court - Can the Rights of People
Simply Disappear by Presidential Order...
Posted: Thu, Apr 8, 2004 9:59pm PDT