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Activists arrested for civil disobedience at mayor's office
As the Coalition on Homelessness' rally was finishing up, 11 of us casually walked into Mayor Gavin Newsom's office, sat down, locked arms, and began chanting......
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 7:07pm PDT
West Coast Medics Gathering
Calling all Street Medics to a West Coast Gathering of Medics in Portland, OR May 28-30....
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 5:24pm PDT
New Shadow Commission Will Form to Urge State to CURB prison use
“We are encouraged by the Governor's willingness to study prison closures, but if he truly wants ‘action, action, action,' he is going to have to hear from more than the people who built and are invested in this $5.3 billion prison system,' says Sitara Nieves Kapoor of CURB....
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 11:00am PDT
Can the People Who Built California Prisons Be Trusted to Close them?
Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB),
a broad based coalition of 38 organizations, seeks to CURB prison spending by reducing the number of people in prison and the number of prisons in the state....
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 10:55am PDT
New RNC Organizing List Dedicated to DA Framework
New RNC Organizing List to Discuss Possibilities of Direct Action and to Create a Direct Action Framework...
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 10:13am PDT
Pictures Of Police Arresting Protester Near The End Of SF May Day March
Police grabbed a woman out of the crowd, and threw her on the sidewalk near the end of the "out of the cubicles and into the streets" May Day march. Here are some pictures of the police who took part in the arrest....
Posted: Sat, May 1, 2004 7:21pm PDT
Savagely Stupid
...As I was listening to him go on and on about what a huge and growing influence of "liberalism", I thought to myself, what f*ing planet is this jerk living on?...
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 3:49pm PDT
Candlelight Vigil for Durrell Feaster & Deon Whitfield: Oakland. Part 3 (video/quicktime 22.7MB)
Nancy Nadell, Jenny Milarin, and Rev. Richard Rubio-Bowley spoke. Sharon Henderson sang "Hold On" and Siaira Harris sang "Amazing Grace." Five minute QT movie. 23MB....
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 2:52pm PDT
The Nazis once bowed to a public protest
We have more power than we ever seem to realize. This is a story from the Nazi era -- of a protest that saved 2000 lives....
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 2:46pm PDT
Candlelight Vigil for Durrell Feaster & Deon Whitfield: Oakland. Part 2 (video/quicktime 18.8MB)
Karey Saeliew, Lateefah Simon, Will Roy, Lourdes, Darryl Stewart, Dorsey Nunn, and Tshaka Barrows spoke. Four minute QT movie. 19MB....
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 2:21pm PDT
Candlelight Vigil for Durrell Feaster & Deon Whitfield: Oakland. Part 1 (video/quicktime 19.8MB)
Shut down the California Youth Authority! Venus Rodriguez, Allen Feaster, and Minister Louis Muhammed spoke. Four minute QT movie. 20MB....
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 1:44pm PDT
Program for Education not Incarceration Teach-in - Speak-out TOMORROW!
EDUCATION NOT INCARCERATION
TEACH IN / SPEAK OUT
SATURDAY MAY 1, 2004
10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Oakland Tech High School
4351 Broadway near 45th Street
Near Macarthur BART and Bus Route 51...
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 8:33am PDT
Talking Back to Chomsky
It strikes me that it is not at all obvious what we should do, and that by implying that it is, we risk making people feel stupid, when in fact they are quite right to ask the question, "What should I do?"...
Posted: Thu, Apr 29, 2004 2:12pm PDT
Greens call for independent 9/11 probe led by family members
The commission's focus was damage control, not discovery of the truth."...
Posted: Thu, Apr 29, 2004 12:26pm PDT
US general suspended over Iraq prison abuse (video/x-pn-realvideo-meta 0.1KB)
The general in charge of the US-run prison system in Iraq has been suspended and put under investigation over the alleged abuse of Iraqi detainees by US soldiers.
A senior US military spokesman says Brigadier General Janis Karpinski was suspended from her duties in late January after six US soldiers were indicted for mistreating prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
Gen Karpinski and another six officers are under administrative investigation that could result in letters of reprimand.
The...
Posted: Thu, Apr 29, 2004 7:43am PDT
Oakland Pictures: Candlelight Vigil in Memory of 2 Youths Killed by CYA Guards 4/28/04
In Memory of Durrell Feaster and Deon Whitfield....
Posted: Thu, Apr 29, 2004 5:03am PDT
Patriot Act Enhancement Provides Death Penalty For Any
Patriot Act Enhancement Provides Death Penalty For AnyFederal Crime Punishable By Over One Year In Jail
http://www.infowars.com/print/ps/patriotact_deathpenalty.htm...
Posted: Wed, Apr 28, 2004 1:51pm PDT
Candlelight Vigil tonight for young lives stolen by the CYA
Today is the 100th day since the tragic deaths of Durrell Feaster, 18, and Deon Whitfield, 17. On January 19, authorities found Durrell and Deon hanged in the cell they shared in the California Youth Authority's Stockton facility....
Posted: Wed, Apr 28, 2004 10:13am PDT