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Information and Bay Area events for the upcoming Int'l Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners. Nov 28-Dec 3, 2005...

On Thursday, students from every UC and many local schools converged at UC Berkeley to fight for the right to an education. The UC Regents had voted Wednesday to raise student fees yet again (the Regents have raised fees 72% for undergrads in the past 3 years), while simultaneously giving lucrative pay raises to top administrators. Students won a victory Wednesday by saving some degree of financial aid (the Regents had wanted to cut even more than Congress just did with the largest cuts to fi...

Getting around the Bay Area on public transit after midnight, when BART stops running, is about to get a lot easier for late-night revelers and folks who work off-hours....

Not in Our Name joined CODEPINK this afternoon at the Oakland Militiary Recruiting Station for a fake bake sale and street theater to protest the war, military recruiting, and to support Army National Guard SPC Katherine Jashinski who is currently speaking out against the war....

On Wednesday evening, five candlelight vigils were held all over the state of California "for all the youth inside [the California Youth Authority] and all the youth we've lost" in the system. One of the largest was rumored to be the vigil in Oakland, a few photos from which are below. From a Books Not Bars announcement: "We're going to light the way to a new system, to show California's leaders transformation is both necessary and possible. Thousands of people across the st...

An action initiated by the National Youth and Student Peace Coalition, Not Your Solider Day was observed around the country today on college and high school campuses. It was a day taken to counter-recruit students and show them what really happens when you enlist in the military. The day also helps show them alternatives to going into the military and gives them information on how to resist a draft....

Join us on 12/6 for Workers Rights are Human Rights March Hearing...

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"The lead author, John Yoo, a conservative law professor and expert on international law who was at the time deputy assistant attorney general in the office, also crafted a series of related memos—including one putting a highly restrictive interpretation on an international torture convention—that became the legal framework for many of the Bush administration’s post-9/11 policies. Yoo also coauthored another OLC memo entitled “Possible Habeas Jurisdiction Over Aliens Held in Guantanamo B...

A candlelight vigil will be held tonight at 5 pm in honor of Patrick Gaston who died at the hands of Oakland Police Thursday evening. Please join members of the family and the local community to speak out against police violence and call for justice....