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textV.P. Candidate Alexander: Fed Rescue Plan a Temporary Fix by Stewart A. Alexander
Vice Presidential Candidate Stewart A. Alexander, says the $700 billion rescue plan is only a temporary fix for an economy with many fractures. “The root cause of the U.S. economic crisis is the system, capitalism; and every 75 years a new bailout plan becomes necessary.”...
Posted: Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:22am PDT
imageBlack Farmers Breakfast Forum ~ California Black Farmers co-host D.C. Celebration
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by Khubaka, Michael Harris
California Black Farmers celebrate in our nation's capitol gains from the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008, Farm Bill. 20,000 - 30,000 Black Leaders and friends from across the nation will attend various events in and around the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, September 24-27, 2008. The State of Black California Report, sponsored by Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, identified poor diet related health outcomes. Black Agriculture has key solutions to close that gap. With the vi...
Posted: Sat, Sep 20, 2008 9:57am PDT
textPress Release: ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVORS FROM HIROSHIMA, JAPAN SPEAK TO UC REGENTS by Steve
Two survivors of the US atomic bombing from Hiroshima, Japan spoke yesterday to the University of California Board of Regents, who manage the nations two premiere nuclear weapons laboratories at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore. The survivors, known in Japanese as hibakusha, spoke at the UC Irvine campus during the Regent’s meeting public comment period to speak of their experiences surviving the atomic bomb, and of their friends and family members who did not survive the attack, with the of...
Posted: Fri, Sep 19, 2008 3:58pm PDT
textFIGHT THE WALL STREET ADDICTION FRAUD AND “RESCUE” TRAP! TIME FOR REAL SOCIALIST CHANGE by Doug Cupertino
The new Paulsen-Bernanke package to “rescue” Wall Street will only puff the speculative bubble and trap the working people’s money in it. It hopes to keep the addiction, greed and gluttony for speculative profits going. It’s time to beat down Wall Street capitalism! Time to put working people’s welfare first! Time for real, socialist change....
Posted: Thu, Sep 18, 2008 9:06pm PDT
imageCalifornia Proposition 7: Taking the Green out of Renewable Energy
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by reader
California's Proposition 7 might be borne of the best intentions to address the crisis of global warming and climate change. Unfortunately it applies the centralized model of the fossil-fuel economy to the emerging renewable energy economy, threatening to rob California of the many benefits offered by the distributed model of renewable energy development. At the dawn of the distributed energy revolution, the Proposition is a mandate to build massive infrastructure -- infrastructure that will...
Posted: Wed, Sep 17, 2008 6:44pm PDT
textDisabled Seniors Threatened by "Thousand Trails/Naco" RV Park by RV Park Resident
Many Disabled Senior Citizens spent their retirement nest eggs on private RV Park membership contracts that the company is now in serious breach of, & actively persecuting & harassing elders who are suffering from major health problems....
Posted: Tue, Sep 16, 2008 6:03pm PDT
textGandhi Peace Brigade/ Jes, Leslie and Martha go to the DNC by Jes Richardson
The three of us decided to join CodePink at the Democratic National Convention. This is our story....
Posted: Mon, Sep 15, 2008 3:41pm PDT
imageGovernment Report on WTC Building #7 Defies Laws of Physics
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by Dan Bacher
Independent architects and structural engineers have submitted evidence of controlled demolition, disputing NIST’s theory of 9/11 building collapses as "contrary to all historical, visual and physical evidence."...
Posted: Tue, Sep 9, 2008 1:59pm PDT
textThe Criminal Corruption and Cruelty to People And Animals of Gov Sarah Palin by ARC
Palin got 616 votes in a town of 4635 before she was elevated to the governor's chair by British Petroleum, war profiteers, vote fraud, and trophy seeking hunters in helicopters. Palin cancelled a wind farm and put a one half billion dollar subsidy for big oil in the budget of the state. She supports the man who was bombing women in a lightbulb factory when he was shot down in his 27th rain of fire on the people of Vietnam, whose independence had been guaranteed by Franklin Roosevelt....
Posted: Sat, Sep 6, 2008 6:31am PDT
imageThe Downey Toxic Hell Hole: Injured Workers, Liability & The Business Of Stewart Lichtner
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by Steve Zeltzer
One of the first privatized government toxic dump site in Downey, California has now led to the serious injuries of hundreds of movie workers and Kaiser workers. The site developed by toxic site developer Stuart Lichter has also sued injured workers and their advocates to silence them going public about this highly toxic military dump site in Southern California...
Posted: Wed, Sep 3, 2008 9:37pm PDT
imageAppeal to California Attorney General to investigate Los Angeles animal control
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by Animal Friend
Local citizen appeals to the California Attorney General's Office to investigate Los Angeles County Animal Care & Control. Director of Animal Control Marcia Mayeda has been involved in obstruction of justice in connection with an investigation by the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency. She instructed employees to destroy certain communications related to the case....
Posted: Sun, Aug 31, 2008 5:51pm PDT
imageHomeland Security's Reign of Terror
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by Rocky Neptun
Bleeding, sobbing hysterically, she watches as her father is beaten to the ground, hand-cuffed and shoved through the front-door. Her mother, screaming, crying, struggling, is tackled by big men, drug by her hair, she fights to get near her horror stricken daughter.......... Downtown Press Conference blasts ICE's Gestapo tactics and plans to arrest a half-million people!...
Posted: Tue, Aug 26, 2008 10:06pm PDT
imageHistoric Filipino Town Festival-A Success
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by Echo Park Community Coalition (EPCC
The Historic Filipinotown Festival Committee held an assessment last August 18, 2008 at SIPA Social Hall and positively assessed the Aug 2. Historic Filipinotown Festival. Festival organizers, volunteers, vendors and participants came into a conclusion after the honest to goodness assessment that the festival was a success. It was attended by more than 5,000 people. It was confirmed by giving a raffle bracelet to each person who attended the festival. The one day-Festival started with mor...
Posted: Tue, Aug 26, 2008 2:49pm PDT
textVP Candidate Alexander wants $300 Billion for Automakers by Stewart A. Alexander
The Big Three U.S. automakers recently announced plans to seek $25 billion in federal loans that will help bailout the struggling automobile industry as declining sales continues to rack up record losses on a battered industry. Vice Presidential Candidate for Socialist Party USA, Stewart A. Alexander, says “much more is needed or nothing.” Stewart Alexander is convinced that $25 billion will only provide a temporary fix....
Posted: Tue, Aug 26, 2008 6:22am PDT
imageStern SEIU Corruption Crisis Spills Into Political Races In S. California
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by repost
Andy Stern's hand picked "leader" of a 160,000 member local in California may have been illegally funneling union dues into political races in Los Angeles. Tyrone Freeman, Stern's appointed president of the Home Care Workers Local has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on his wife and relatives and is now being charged of raising dues to make illegal contributions for electioneering in LA races....
Posted: Fri, Aug 22, 2008 12:34am PDT
imageUFWA Leaders "Begs Gov. On Their Knees While They Kill Workers In The Fields"
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by Al Rojas
While farmworkers are dying due to inadequate health and safety protection because of cutbacks at Ca-OSHA, the UFWA leadership if begging the governor to do something. This is the same governor who has eliminated all doctors at Ca-OSHA...
Posted: Thu, Aug 21, 2008 11:36am PDT
textMcCain, Obama agree on fall "debates" by repost
The two candidates of the corrupt corporate duopoly have agreed to shut out Ralph Nader, Bob Barr, and Cynthia McKinney from their "debates," proving they have no interest in democracy or 'change' and are in collusion to uphold the status quo. Obama will continue to move to the right unless challenged by more progressive candidates like Nader and McKinney. He is afraid to debate them and be exposed as a sell-out....
Posted: Thu, Aug 21, 2008 8:44am PDT
imageSEIU Stern's Operative Tyrone Freeman steps down as head of CA 160,000 ULTCW SEIU chapter
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by repost
SEIU Pres Andy Stern's handpicked corrupt political operative Tyrone Freeman has been forced to resign as head of the the SEIU ULTCW 160,000 member local. Stern has also been involved in a 6 year cover-up of charges of corruption by Freeman in an Atlanta local that Stern put him in charge of. The next question is when members will start demanding that the Stern gang also resign for their scams, nepotism and destruction of the work of the SEIU members....
Posted: Thu, Aug 21, 2008 6:45am PDT
imageTijuana: Empire's Slum?
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by Rocky Neptun
The outlook is bleak for Tijuana; it is controlled by corporate interests not its people. The corrupt political system, the U.S. dominated economy, the lack of strong unions or effective civic organizations makes fundamental change near impossible. Yet, deep within the Mexican chest, beats the heart of a potential liberationist; a potential Flores Magon....
Posted: Wed, Aug 20, 2008 8:06am PDT
imageClimate Change Impacts Socially Disadvantaged Communities More than Bull Sh*t
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by Khubaka, Michael Harris
Throughout California, historic "Black Communities" face environmental challenges. Pastor Jones, Oak Park United Methodist Church, Oak Park Historic District need our support to challenge the status quo. California participation in the U.S. Commission to Engage African-Americans on Climate Change could use quantifiable support from Senator Pat Wiggins to demonstrate her change of heart toward the care and concern about a segment of California citizens....
Posted: Fri, Aug 15, 2008 7:18am PDT
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