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Outta here in '05? <br>If Bush is re-elected, some Americans may leave the country.
A growing number of people have gone beyond the Election 2004 water-cooler talk -- “Well, there’s always Canada!” – to make specific plans to leave the country. Though a mass exodus after November third remains unlikely, these potential expats represent a trend of people who see “American values” as a depreciating currency....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 6:29pm PDT
Fresno broadcaster Pappas Telecasting donates $325,000 in free air time to GOP committees
One of the state's biggest broadcasters has given 13 Republican county committees $325,000 worth of free air time to promote candidates on its radio and television stations that serve communities from Sacramento to San Diego.
Pappas Telecasting Cos., which calls itself the largest privately held broadcast firm in the nation, made the donations earlier this month. While it is unclear how much of the time has actually been taken, Democrats complain the offer unfairly benefits GOP candidates ...
Posted: Tue, Oct 26, 2004 8:47am PDT
CA 3-Strikes Initiative: Prop 66 -- The Keenan Story
Sam Clauder, the Political Director of the "Yes On 66" Committee and the
original author and proponent of the initiative to amend California's
three-strikes law, today revealed previously unknown facts about the
criminal case that resulted in funding the initiative and causing two
bereaved mothers to campaign against the proposition....
Posted: Tue, Oct 26, 2004 12:23am PDT
Radical Reference: Your Election Resource
Got election questions? We can help....
Posted: Sun, Oct 24, 2004 8:36pm PDT
Schwarzenegger Lies About Prop. 66 - 3 Strikes Amendment Prop.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger lies about Proposition 66 when he says 'violent prisoners will get out of prison and roam the streets.'...
Posted: Fri, Oct 22, 2004 10:32am PDT
Stop the Wall Tour coming to the Bay Area!
See a full scale model of the Wall and learn about what you can do to pressure Israel to comply with international law and tear down the wall!...
Posted: Fri, Oct 22, 2004 1:00am PDT
Prop 64 Will Stop Public from Protecting Against Pesticide Drift
Prop 64 Will Stop Public from Protecting Against Pesticide Drift; 'Public Health Warning: No On 64' Say Public Health Advocates...
Posted: Fri, Oct 22, 2004 12:31am PDT
Marsha Feinland, candidate for US Senate on broadcast tv.
To their credit, local fox affiliates (2 & 36) create, "meet the candidates". Marsha Feinland gets 5 minutes on broadcast tv to say why she should represent California in the US Senate....
Posted: Thu, Oct 21, 2004 7:08pm PDT
Labor Strife in Northern California on KDVS Davis 90.3 FM, Friday, 10/22, 5pm to 6pm
Labor strife involving locked out hotel workers in San Francisco and UC service workers in Berkeley, Davis and throughout the UC system will be featured on the KDVS Davis 90.3 FM public affairs program "Speaking in Tongues" tomorrow, Friday, 10/22, from 5pm to 6pm...
Posted: Thu, Oct 21, 2004 4:50pm PDT
Bay Area Readers Speak Out Against Chronicle's Endorsement of Misleading 'Open Primaries'
They know that campaigns with the most money almost always win, and they know that their corporate backers have the most money to give. They know that Prop. 62 virtually guarantees that only their fat cat-backed candidates will be elected and that no grassroots challengers may ever again appear on the ballot....
Posted: Thu, Oct 21, 2004 11:54am PDT
"thetruthaboutiraq" - They try to cover it up!
Steven Moore tries a cover- up, but he is incapable to achieve his intention...
Posted: Thu, Oct 21, 2004 6:43am PDT
KPFA: Closed Door General Manager Hire Continues
NEW statement from Mike Alcalay, Lincoln Bergman, Jeffrey Blankfort, Riva Enteen, Maria Gilardin, Bill Mandel, Henry Norr, Les Radke...
Posted: Wed, Oct 20, 2004 7:54am PDT
Anti Bush song
Please spread the word about my new anti-bush song! Listen to the lyrics and rally the anti-bush supporters.....http://www.blockpartyrecords.com/antibush.htm...
Posted: Tue, Oct 19, 2004 4:05pm PDT
I Need Cooperation
I need cooperation to get back to California, and I need a place to go to when I get there. Thank you....
Posted: Tue, Oct 19, 2004 10:25am PDT
Anti-gay groups get into Calif. marriage suit
On Friday, Judge Richard Kramer of the California Superior Court
in San Francisco agreed to let two conservative groups revive
their lawsuit against San Francisco, effectively allowing the
organizations to keep making the case that same-sex couples
should not be allowed to wed....
Posted: Tue, Oct 19, 2004 12:27am PDT
CFL Alert: More U.S. double standards in the Middle East
The current rhetoric coming out of Washington is demanding that Syria end its "occupation" of Lebanon. However, not a single word is being said about the decades-long illegal and immoral occupation of the Palestinian people....
Posted: Mon, Oct 18, 2004 11:00am PDT
Medical Marijuana Prisoners Seek New Federal Trial, Bail
Hollywood Actor One of Three Alleging Entrapment by San Francisco
Police...
Posted: Mon, Oct 18, 2004 9:08am PDT
List of people killed by law enforcement in Northern California
This is a list that the Stolen Lives Project in the Bay Area has compiled of people who were killed by police or other law enforcement in Northern California, from 2001-2004. I left some names out because I was unable to find more details about their deaths,a nd I am sure that there are others who have been killed. Please email me if you know of other people who were killed, or if you have corrections about any of these entries. We are also seeking longer entries that will go into the next...
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 2:09pm PDT