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SF and Oakland Demos: "Pelican Bay Brothers: We Hear You, We're With You!" More than 70 people gathered at the California State Building in San Francisco on July 1 to support and stand in solidarity with the hunger strike in Pelican Bay Prison....
Posted: Tue, Jul 5, 2011 6:21pm PDT
KPFA Records 6.5% Increase in Listener Support YTD Recently released financial statements confirm a listener support increase for KPFA-FM of 6.5% or $133,000 more in listener pledges year-to-date than in the same 8 month period (October to May) 12 months ago....
Posted: Sat, Jul 2, 2011 12:13pm PDT
7/1/11 6 p.m. KPFA evening news provides pro-Zionist story on Freedom Flotilla For the second night in a row, this time at 6:20 p.m. instead of 6:50 p.m., on July 1, 2011, the KPFA evening news provided a pro-Zionist summary on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, an outrage to the subscribers to KPFA and a waste of a precious resource....
Posted: Sat, Jul 2, 2011 2:29am PDT
Oakland City Council Closes Internal Affairs to the Public! On Thursday, June 30, the Oakland City Council decided to close Internal Affairs to residents' complaints against police, and consolidate the intake of those complaints at the Citizens' Police Review Board (CPRB) in fiscal year 2012-2013. This is a decisive victory for PUEBLO as it marks the culmination of a five year campaign that emanated from its 2005 Survey of Oakland Residents' Experiences with Police and the Filing of Complaints. That study showed that 54% of Oakland residents didn't kn...
Posted: Fri, Jul 1, 2011 5:22pm PDT
Tell CBS Outdoor to Remove Racist Billboards in Oakland Ask Jeff McCuen of CBS Outdoor to remove the racist billboards from our community. As we have seen from recent media coverage, they are linked to a right-wing national campaign to completely eliminate a woman’s right to choose – and of course, starting with women of color....
Posted: Wed, Jun 29, 2011 8:14am PDT
Union leaders join Oakland City Council members and wage war on workers and the poor. The present climate does not allow the Labor hierarchy the pretense of fighting back anymore as they are forced by their worship of the market to collaborate more openly than ever in the attacks on the working class. Their two choices in this instance are defeat willingly or in the hands of the arbitrator. Mobilizing their members can only lead to chaos....
Posted: Tue, Jun 28, 2011 7:22pm PDT
Vallejoan Open Letter to California Tribal Governments
Re: Support for Patwin Tribal Governments' Sovereign Right to Protect Ancestral Lands At Glen Cove...
Posted: Sun, Jun 26, 2011 12:59am PDT
Books, Banks & Pigs- videos & report on Anticut 2 Last Friday, we marched on downtown banks behind a bloc of book shields in an anti-capitalist defense of the Oakland libraries. Tensions were high throughout the afternoon and the action quickly escalated into a showdown with police that took many off guard....
Posted: Fri, Jun 24, 2011 4:10pm PDT
Anarchist General Assembly in Oakland! Call for content. This is a call for content for the first of a series of regional anarchist general assemblies. The assembly will be held in Oakland on July 16th....
Posted: Wed, Jun 22, 2011 5:06pm PDT
SaveKPFA and the TRUTH Are Seldom on the Same Page, Another Example!! What does it say about an organization, SaveKPFA, that needs to distort reality so often and so much to support its cause? To me it says that they have the same morality as Karl Rove and the Corporate/Pentagon owners that control the overwhelming majority of our media and thus what people think about. If they try to win by lies and distortions how will they function if they are running KPFA and/or Pacifica. SaveKPFA/Concerned Listeners recent efforts in collusion with the JUC between 2005-20...
Posted: Mon, Jun 20, 2011 3:26pm PDT
Poverty industry flourishes as budget cuts shred the safety net AARP double-crosses the elderly and the poor as the poverty industry flourishes, and SSI disability recipients in Oakland are hammered with a another round of vicious budget cuts by the Democrats and Republicans!...
Posted: Sun, Jun 19, 2011 11:54pm PDT
Breaking news reports from Anticut 2 in Oakland Friday Jun 17th, 2011 4:16 PM : Anticut 2 paid a visit to Citibank and Wells Fargo, now at Clay and 14th in Oakland. Police tackled and arrested 2-3 people on 14th St...
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2011 6:34pm PDT
Frank Moore Performance & Video Retrospective A retrospective of the works of the world- known performance artist Frank Moore has just been launched on VIMEO. Although Moore started doing art in the late sixties, this retrospective covers his performance, video, and music works from the late seventies to the present, giving an overview of this controversial artist.
Ongoing at:
http://vimeo.com/channels/frankmoore...
Posted: Tue, Jun 14, 2011 7:39pm PDT
From Chechnya to California: Responses to Killer Cops I read this article on BBC, and couldn't help but think of events in California. As a flyer I saw on the street said, "Let Mehserle Out So He Gets What He Deserves."...
Posted: Mon, Jun 13, 2011 4:14pm PDT
Oakland Protests release of Killer Cop Video: June 12th, 2011. The citizens of Oakland and surrounding communities come out to show their opposition to the release of the Yohannes Mehserle, the cop who killed Oscar Grant on January 1st, 2009....
Posted: Mon, Jun 13, 2011 2:49pm PDT
10 Points to Consider on the Release of Johannes Mehserle 10 Points that show a systemic pattern of protection for police in shootings....
Posted: Sat, Jun 11, 2011 1:16pm PDT
Alameda Residents Plan Raymond Zack Memorial Wade-Out Residents to demonstrate how easily authorities could have saved Raymond Zack on Memorial Day....
Posted: Sat, Jun 11, 2011 11:39am PDT
East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation salaries rise as poverty increases Oakland's low-income renters take a beating after non profit developer borrows millions of dollars to renovate the buildings they reside in, placing the poor deeply into debt! Meanwhile, the developer has been increasing the salaries of the top staff in the non profit housing organization, placing the poor into even further debt!...
Posted: Sat, Jun 11, 2011 12:04am PDT
Andronicos, the police state and abuse of the mental health system On June 08t at the Andronicos Market on University and Acton in Berkeley, I was detained by the police and then attempted to be sent to a psychiatric hospital after I tried, and was denied by Andronicos management, to make a complaint with the store for falsely being accused of shoplifting at Andronicos....
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2011 3:55pm PDT
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