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Thursday, October 30, 2008 : A little over ten years ago, the San Francisco School Board stopped allowing the local Boy Scouts to use free meeting space in the schools because it had a stated policy of discrimination against our LGBT community. Two years ago, the School Board voted to phase out JROTC, the military recruitment program that targets students as young as 14....

.... The Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) was created 90 years ago, at the height of the hysteria of World War I, when President Woodrow Wilson needed troops for the “war to end all wars.” The program was reauthorized in 1964 by President Lyndon Johnson, who needed troops for yet another doomed military adventure, this time in the jungles of Vietnam. Today, under the reign of yet another wartime President, JROTC’s operational budget has more than doubled....

Booth Auditorium 2778 Bancroft Way University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA...

Norman Finkelstein's talk in Berkeley on Feb 13, 2008* generated much controversy because of his arrogant dismissal of the moral cause for a secular *re-unified* state in Palestine, and his support for Western imperialism's apartheid 2-state "solution" and an 85% territorial fait accompli for Israel. This time, 8 months later, Finkelstein arrogantly tells the oppressed, the Palestinian people, that they and their human rights supporters shouldn't even mention -- let alone criticize, condemn o...

San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Avenue SF, CA 94132 HSS Building (First building at the top of campus) Room 154...

SAN FRANCSICO (October 14, 2008) - Vietnam War resisters were joined by Gulf War and Iraq War resisters to commemorate the anniversary of the “Presidio 27 Mutiny,” a 1968 protest and sit-in conducted by imprisoned Vietnam War resisters....

George Cadman interviews Antonia Juhasz about her new book, The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry and What We Must Do To Stop It....

Bailout the Filipino Veterans, Not the Corrupt Capitalists! No Justice, No Peace! On Friday, October 10, in Los Angeles and San Francisco,hundreds of Filipino American students, youth and veterans with their allies from AJLPP, ANSWER-LA, PCORE, SIPA,SEIU, LAANE and other groups held their rallies in front of the Federal Building in the two cities for Filipino veterans rights....

On October 12, 2008, traditional Columbus Genocide Day, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m., the Navy’s Blue Death and the Canadian Snowbirds terrorized San Francisco, with the Blue Death criss-crossing the City from San Francisco General Hospital to the Bay, flying over St. Francis Hospital repeatedly, and low enough to read the words on the bottom “US Navy."...

On October 11, 2008, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m., the Navy’s Blue Death and the Canadian Snowbirds terrorized San Francisco, with the Blue Death flying so low in Screaming Four Formation that you could read “US Navy” with the naked eye while standing on the sidewalk on the bottom of the death machines overhead, flying very low over St. Francis Hospital and the entire Northeast sector over and over again....